HELP... you are too good for me

[Anonymous]

hi there,
this is not a specific question but sth in general that i need to know. im a member at this forum for some years maybe but im active only the last one. all i see is renders of a great quality, things that i would never imagine that archicad could do. and here i wonder: i think that my work progress has stopped. since i learnt how to render i think that ive not evolved much. i attach my last render (and my best of all ive made) and i need some advice. advice about anything. from shadows materials lights everything. it is rendered in archicad LW engine. its not an interior view (i say this because your interiors impresed me the most) but....---->>>

[Anonymous]

this is the render

[Anonymous]

and then i see renders like this and i wonder!!!! i know that i need to experiment with the materials and the lights, and i modify some materials in photoshop to get the texture i need. but where do you find those furniture and those different textures?
any help appreciated
i hope im not writing too many tiring things

[Anonymous]

or this kitchen
(ok im stopping) i hope that these people dont mind that i used their renders. they are too good thats why im using them. i care more about the furniture and objects at this moment because i know that with the materials i have to try more.

[Richard Morrison]

Well, there are a couple of things that would immediately help your renderings:

1) Make sure that the SCALE of the materials is correct. For example, the roof tiles look tiny, the paving looks huge, and the grass looks like paint.

2) Pay attention to the construction details. For example, the building is nicely modeled, but it looks like the roof was made similar to a cardboard model. The roof would have a gutter or enlarged fascia, at least, which would help it look more like a real building.

Lighting is important, but others can help you with that more than I can. You've obviously learned the modeling side of Archicad pretty well, and you should feel like you are making good progress. What you've done is better than a lot of firms do. Excellent rendering takes a LOT of time and attention to details.

[Anonymous]

all these are very encouraging. thank you very much. 🙂

[Anonymous]

I think what Richard said is a big part of it. Get more detail in your model. I often use the ridge tile object for tile roofs. Another thing to note on the path, is the rectilinear texture used on the path does not work well with the curved path. The GDL object depository has some textures you can download that were part of Archicad 7 special edition. There are a lot of bad ones there, but also a few you might want to use.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
and then i see renders like this

Those illustrations are certainly not ArchiCAD Lightworks (I think I saw them in this forum as a reference to C4D's power) and are certainly not 'quick renderings'.

The tutorials from the guy that made the beautiful series with the bay-window and transparent cocoon hanging seat
http://www.dermattin.com/tutorials.html
are very good for getting a sense of what goes into one of those.

'Quick rendering' (AC engine rendering, Artlantis) has improved very significantly in the last few years. And so has high quality illustration. They have both jumped forward and the distance between them remains.

[Anonymous]

thanks guys!

[Anonymous]

WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
but where do you find those furniture and those different textures?

Some general advice you already received.
One more: As a beginner, always position your camera and the place you are looking at the same height, so that all the vertical lines run parallel. This will improve your renderings to no end.

I would recommend (oh no,not again...) Art.lantis R or Studio. It is much easier to learn and handle than LW in AC,and produces better results with less efforts, mainly because it has radiosity and fresnel glass, which makes your surfaces look more real.

As for furniture and textures, you have enormous resources at your fingertips (via internet), but my all time favorite and main provider is www.formfonts.com . It will cost you about €9 per month, unlimited downloads.