creat a rendering that looks like a water color?

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,
i have a client that wouldl like me to do some schematic renderings and really like the look of water color or a hand marker rendering. Is this possible with ArchiCAD, lightworks, Artlantis? If so can some one give me some setting so i can test this out. i have posted an example of the style they wanted...really in a time crunch on this one.

[Anonymous]

rob2218 wrote:
Paranesi is fine and dandy but....the whole point is "not" to have to use another 3D software to make it look like a sketch............hence the use with Adobe Photochop...

I have no clue how to operate Photochop...but all I do is copy/paste one image on top of another one, use the opacity settings and Voala......

I love what the Paranesi software can do but.......you can accomplish almost the same with Photochop.

still i mean i respect the way all the masters are using Photoshop... but piranesi ? its another sense... even dealing with the tools... is really lovely... some times i even use it to enrich photo realistic renders "Artlantis" to add trees with big numbers " like a general perspective of site" and adding people with large numbers because Piranesi will read the depth of the picture.. so people and trees will be adjusted to right size automatically and even ua can get shadows...

for sure in addition to all the techniques for non photo realistic..

i don't know.. but i like it

[Karl Ottenstein]

For speed and productivity, it of course always pays to use the right tools.

What constitutes the 'right tools', given learning curves, depends on how often one does the things that require those tools.

There is a common subset of things that Photoshop and Piranesi can both do, but that subset is pretty small and not really related to the point of either product. (And...Piranesi is not a substitute for Photoshop: I agree with Dwight that every AC user must have Photoshop [Elements] and at least modest skills there.)

For photorealistic images from LW in AC or Artlantis or wherever, you can outrageously quicly punch the image up with entourage in Piranesi faster than in any other application IMHO because of two simple facts about Piranesi: (1) it allows any image (or 3D object) to be a cutout that casts shadows and (2) cutouts are placed to scale anywhere in the scene visually and quickly, including ducking them behind the model. You just cannot do that in Photoshop without tedious masking and manual scaling and transformation. In Piranesi, you can quicly populate a scene with trees, shrubs, signage, people, vehicles, etc.

I would never take the time to place such entourage in ArchiCAD itself as billboards or even in Photoshop.

Many things are not worth modeling - for example, ornate plaster mouldings in interiors. How would you display these in an ArchiCAD rendering? You would have to tediously create a material for each wall that had the moulding - unique to that wall height - that includes the photoimage of the moulding, etc. In Piranesi, you just paint the image of the moulding at the desired location, to scale and following perspective - all masking, scaling, etc is automatic.

For non-photorealism, I agree with Dwight, and have said so: many (most?) of the images in the Piranesi gallery are unappealing to me as 'art'. But, this is a reflection of the artistic abilities of the user, not the software. With a pressure sensitive tablet (Wacom), and some artistic ability, Piranesi has a huge set of tools to offer the image specialist.

Just a few more 'pro Piranesi' thoughts. 😉

Karl

[Anonymous]

Karl, was thinking,
Is it possible to use the method of Overlying LW+Sketch Rendering and some Opacity adjustment, with Piranesi?
Thanks,
Joseph