Finally rendered: Kuwait competition, blast from the past project.

I finally finished updating the Sketchup model that had been converted from 3D AutoCad, and got through rendering, following some added touches to the interior.  To create the bokeh effect, I popped some of the renders into Photoshop and applied a lens blur to a gradient mask.

Lots of work...made me wonder if it would have been easier to simply rebuild from the 2D cad files instead. Still, I've had my eye on redoing this in Sketchup for a very long time because I knew that it would come out spectacular.

Kuwait competition -- another project reworked.

Here's another blast from the past project that I worked on.  Some 12 years ago, this was built in 3D in AutoCad, then rendered via 3DS Max.  I'm still working on fixing the model up after importing it into Sketchup (there is a lot of work to be done!), but it's definitely going to be worth it.

I didn't do the design; I gave my input on the design to the head designer, though, and it reflects a lot of my personal style.

Here's a peek into where it stands right now.  When it's all done, I'll show the updated model.

Blast from the past: Wash. County Museum

I've been going through past projects, converting some 3D CAD files to Sketchup files, and putting in some extra work into adding flourishes, rerendering them and adding some extra stuff with Photoshop.  Back in the day, I relied on AutoCAD's built-in Max, and before then, the stand-alone Max to render.  Things are a lot easier and better now.

Here's one project that got the once-over treatment: Washington County Museum.  

When I first started working on this, it had been modestly designed.  In fact, it was ugly.

The project was never completed in the way it was intended because of a lack of fundraising to cover the total cost of the work, so the highlight of the project was axed.  Had they waited to start the work until they'd gotten enough funding, it would have had a spectacular entrance area and retail sales space, giving the museum a leg up for future growth.

Oh well.

Designing houses.

Something I'd love to do, is design houses.  Something I love doing right now, is finding properties online, grabbing their contours from Google Earth via Sketchup Pro, then modelling ideas.

This one, just completed.  After modelling, I exported and rendered it, then added some flourishes via Photoshop.  Took all of about 4 hours.  Obviously designing for a client with a program takes a lot longer, and this is just a facade exercise.

It also serves as a break from doing the stuff that I'm supposed to be doing, namely, re-building the ol portfolio and getting it sent out to the printer.