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This is Ezüstpart Hotel, an abandoned hotel in Hungary, next to lake Balaton. The basic idea was to create moody exterior images with this abandoned building, collecting photo references of this building (also inspired from some photoraphs of Adi Bulboacă), and trying some different lightings. And when I started to put the guys in hazmat suit, the idea grows. If you guys have any comments or critics please let me know.
Cheers!
With a simple format, this field refuge replaced an old shelter that existed in the same location and was the starting point for the new project.
One of our rendering projects, located in Cyprus. It includes several images of office building.
The software used is 3Ds Max plus Corona renderer and Photoshop.
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COURSE OUTLINE:
In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about architectural visualization using real time technology with Unreal Engine (UE4), the most advanced and professional real time tool available to arch viz artists (It’s also free). You will also make use of Data smith, a tool designed to translate your 3d rendering projects into real time (projects can come from 3ds Max, Blender 3D, Revit, SketchUp, etc.) The course will be split into several small sections, with some sections coming later as software and techniques evolve.
Some of you might recognize this house from its appearance in the Netlix show “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes” on his episode about Spain. This project was commisioned by Fina Puigdevall, Chef Of The Restaurant `Les Cols’ and designed by renowned studio RCR arquitectes, of whom I’ve been admiring their work since they won a Pritzker Prize.
I got the opportunity to visualize this house as I was doing an Archviz Master in School-Ing (Spain), under the guidance of Adan Martin and Eduardo Rodriguez. I was asked to pick a project built in an interesting and challenging landscape. I did a bit of research and after lurking over 200 projects I stumbled onto this beauty in the middle of a dreamlike forest. Less than a second took me to decide this was going to be the subject of the exercise.
The Process:
Modeled the geometry in 3dsmax with the help of 2D plans found on the Croquis Magazine.
Topography was built using references from Google Earth and photographs of the area.
For the forest, I used Forest Pack, a very popular scattering plugin for 3ds Max, to distribute the grass and several versions of trees that were previously edited to get the desired albedos variations on the leaves.
The atmosphere was built using VRayEnvironmentFog, an atmospheric effect that allows the simulation of participating media like fog.
Some small tweaks, mainly in terms of contrast, were done in Photoshop, (except for the interior view, where I tried to integrate myself into the frame as if to fantasize with the idea of living there)
That’s mostly it. Hope you enjoyed it.
Cheers!
Gino Giampaolo.
BD Talatona Business Center
