WIP Lake Home

[vpii]

Posting some wip, front is close to done and I am working on the back as far as landscaping goes. Ps I know my bloom is very hot I am trying to dial it in. Final will be a qtvr 360

[Wade]

Nice work nice home. :)

[MooseDog]

excellent model.

sorta preferred the first image overall. only crit would be to suggest that the foreground yellow flowers be less obvious/saturated. takes the eye away from the excellent house render. ocngrats.

[ingo]

Nice house you have there. Modelling and texturing is great, but you should work on the lighting. In the first picture move the sun so that its shining at the entrance, and make it brighter with a bit darker shadows, because otherwise your image looks flat. At the second picture delete your backround picture, it doesn't fit the perspective, you need a backround with some higher hills, or only the sky. Otherwise nice moody pictures.

[Exception]

Nice work in progress, i like the texturing and the lighting... but what a godawfull ugly house... *shivers*

[vpii]

Thanks for your comments everyone. With my digital camera this summer I took alot of fench line pictures for foreground elements. Here is another fench example.

[Exception]

But... Imean, how'd... uhmwm...
where... what...(scratched his head....)..Urghh... HOW...
are houses like these still being designed?
*disbelief*

It must be impossible.. its like time went back 150 years and people still lived in swamps, and the slavemaster would live in his stone mansion like this...

Still awesome renders... Perhaps the grass is a bit too saturated... what parts of that image are rendered and what not? Its hard to see (which is a good job!)

[vpii]

On both images from the top of the fench down is a forground photo. It is amazing of the wealth of the people that build these homes compared to the bridge I live under.

[ddho1981]

I think Exception is responding to the "style" of the houses . . . from an architectural standpoint it is amazing that people are still fixated on things of the past and do not look to the future (or even the present in cases such as these) to maximize the quality of spaces/architecture. nor do they consider possibilities of innovation or expression through personalizing their own homes. it's an irritation of mine too to see architecture that is merely an imitation of something that was genuine at one point in time... but i digress... still beautiful images in terms of rendering/compositing.

[vpii]

Alot of the architects that I work with have there style or method they do on all there homes, so much now I can put myself in there mindset and almost design there projects in there style and come up with somthing similar. After you have done about alot of illustrations for a paticular designer it starts rubbing off. Thats why Its nice to work on a wide range of architectural styles to learn and get better and not be one dementional

[ravantra]

I like your rendering a lot. As far as "style" most people have no imagination and will live in what the builders marketing department says you should live in....in other words whats HOT.....Here are some NEW homes being built in my area Chicago....one word WHY? and Ugly......

[vpii]

I really like some of the architecture you see in Innsbruck and Bravian type lodges. You never see anything like that here in the US. I work with one architect that is very into Italian/Tuskan region type architecture, he goes there to get ideas or mimic styles he sees there.

[Exception]

What happened to giants like Mies van der Rohe and Richard Neutra in the states? Those houses are being bought and leveled to build these things on. theres a video on the web somewhere where a bulldozer runs into a Neutra house. Oh so terribly painfull!

Not that it all needs to be modernist, but at least some sort of progression would be imaginable...

[ravantra]

I agree ....anything but what we have now. Chicago is an area with both Wright and Mies architecture.....not just commercial work but homes as well. It's a shame this is the best we can do. Some of the homes in my area have turned their "backs" to the main street so all you see is the backyard fence....although the rear sometimes look better than the front.......hopeless

[ddho1981]

I wouldn't go so far as saying it's the best we can do. The problem lies (i think) primarily in the client base who are fine with the status quo. But then, the architectural community should be willing to reach out more to the public and expose them to possibilities. But as it stands, the guys with the money are asking for either the cheapest/fastest solution, or regressing to the styles of yore. Our culture (U.S.) seems to be one dependant on adopting the traditions of the past rather than embracing the potential of the present. Look at the new mustang for example . . .

[ravantra]

ddho1981
I agree we can do better.....I just find it frustrating to see mediocre architecture when all that is required is a little thought in design and not necessarily a bigger pocketbook. I see this lack in imagination in car design (like you mentioned). A few years back I remember seeing there was little difference between a Lexus and a Taurus in appear. Both where very generic looking and non-descript.

In housing most of my clients are AFRAID to be different......They worry about resale value, what the neighbors think, their personal image (I have arrived, looook at me).....etc......

OK I feel better ...... end of rant.....Thanks

[vpii]

It's not just that but in alot of million and over nieghbor hoods have local city design review boards and they have to ok every home being built there. So architects that want to be very creative/inovative get there plans shot down because all the homes need to blend and fit a pre determined look. the only way to build inovative is spot build on land that has not been bought already by a developer, and most good land alot of the time is already taken.

[MooseDog]

ravantra; trust me, it's not just chicagoland that is the victim of such "architecture" and developments. here on the east coast, builders like toll brothers or hovnanian (sp?) are doing the same thing. with the same "view of the golf course" developments. a friend of mine wanted to build a small, attractive house for his small, attractive family ;) and had to go through EIGHT architects to find someone who would NOT do such a castle!! the developers pay the bills, and everyone follows suit. in their defense, they know their market. doesn't make things less objectionable.

even more objectionable tho, is the destruction of a "sense of place" that such building and development engenders. chk this out:

http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=722

pretty cool stuff from an old dead white guy ;)

apologies to vpii for going o.t. :D good luck with the client

[vpii]

no apologies needed for o.t, there was no topic. Its cool to hear other peoples experiences and views around the world in there market.