Tomorrow Challenge 2018 – the School of Architecture

The main idea was to expose Corten steel panels and the curvature of the corners and elevations. I’m going to show the steel elevation in different lighting conditions and contrast warm orange elements lit by the sun with the cold surrounding after rain.
I have explored nearly twenty camera angles as potential compositions. Despite the shot from underground atrium was very attractive it allows showing only part or rear corner. Other shots from the land steps give very interesting first plane – lowering steps and low wall but the building, the main character looks too small. It’s the reason why I chose the camera angle from the front.

My interpretation of Tham & Videgård´s School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

To summarise, my process consisted of a brief analysis including defining the story, mood, composition, lighting and camera angle. Hand in hand with this comes an inspirational/ research phase, followed by creating the basic set up in Max. Once I have my 4 building stones in place; brief (including story, mood etc), camera angle, lighting and materials/colours my refining phase starts. I enjoy this the most, a part from creating the story. Props and some more refining follow this and then final render and post. Through out this process I do a lot of low res tests, but mainly I use the interactive. I do some minor final post but that usually don’t take more than 15 min as I like to have most work done in 3D and just tweaking in Photoshop..

Though out the project I’ve posted a few posts prior to this explaining more in detail and last thing I mentioned there was that I started the final process a bit early as I always like a buffer.. The final process went smooth and I then had time to spend on putting my final pdf submission together, I’ve never used tinypng or JPEGmini before but I it was very smooth.

Read more about my process, brief analysis and what happened on the way creating this image in my final PDF submission. Its been fun! Thanks