New Office Building Design & Artlantis 1.2 Renderings

[Robert Fuchs]

So, what do you guys think about this office building?
Also, do you like the renderings? I really like how the
night rendering turned out. It's my first night shot.

[Robert Fuchs]

Here is a day shot.

[Anonymous]

Looks great! Is it your design? Obviously no worries about solar heat gain in the summer

What sort of render times did these take?

I really like balance of lighting in both shots. Not too dark, not too bright. Does it take a lot of tweaking or does Artlantis get it mostly right first time?

The tree coverage is nicely composed too and blends the building into the scene well.

If I was to be ultra critical, the ground in the night shot looks slightly over-illuminated where you'd expect it to be in shadow. Also there is no shadow under the cars.

I'd be very pleased if it were my first attempt at a night shot

[Dwight]

Your day shot is totally believable. The night shot seems to suffer from the ultramarine sky color. At this time of day, color drains rapidly from the sky.
Have a look at architectural images made just after what they call the "golden hour" when the horizon is still quite bright but the sky is turning dark. This moment in the day gives the feel of night with enough directional light to define the building.

[Anonymous]

Oh man! I like the day shot very realistic! As for the night shot....for your first...pretty good! and brave, I'd lessen the 'purple' on the night render (the cars seem to absorb a lot of it). I have a fear of doing night renders, probably because I haven't done one yet. Keep up the great work!

[Anonymous]

I really like the day render, it's very crisp and clean. Did you add the trees in Art.Lantis? If not which program did you use because they look very impressive.

[Richard Morrison]

The day shot could be improved a couple of ways:
1) The perspective distortion is excessive, causing the building to look like its leaning.
2) The sky is too bland, which gives a washed out appearance to the whole thing.

Fix those, and you'll have a great rendering!

[Dwight]

Fair enough, but i liked the bland sky because it helps carry off the diffused sunlight and general bright cloudiness of the situation.

What? You mean the building isn't tapered at the top?

[Dwight]

Since most of my work is offbeat, I rarely feel that i can offer an image useful to most members. I've been playing with the new Artlantis, especially the neon/glowing effects and boy, is this fun.

Here is a machine for grinding nature into money that uses Artlantis's glowing effects extensively.

[Dwight]

Artlantis Studio 2.0 has a pastel/outlining rendering method. I think it is a little heavy handed so I still revert to the overlay in Photoshop approach to control the strength of the effect.