[fv]

I just put my latest project online, rendered in Maxwell, and modeled in Sketchup apart from the furniture in the rooms that was modeled in Modo.
http://homepage.mac.com/fillieverhoeven/ABHW/index.html
EDIT images can be seen at http://www.3dfv.nl click on VISUALISATIE

The new plugin is a pleasure to use and proves to be very reliable. The first project on the gallery was modeled using many types of symbols including many that had different color variations asigned to the same symbol, rotated, mirrored and so on.

I post these images and dare not to post them in the Gallery index.
This is because my usual practice of doing archviz is done under rather unrealistic time constraints. Most of the work could be done much better but considering the contracts we have not much more than a week usually, including modeling, rendering and editing, and most likely some designwork to be done as well. We rarely get a full set of design drawings to work from. And there is no budget for a bit of renderfarm time..
Francois

[Richard]

Francois

Stunning work again mate! It's funny we get so wrapped up with photoreal that when I viewed your images of this and other projects on your slides the ones that really grabbed me were the stunning clean SU? exported elevations of your previous project.

There is still something nice about good clean and well proportioned NPR images! Hey not to say these last to your gallery are exactly that too but just being nostalgic!

[fv]

Tx Richard,
We still use SU exported images a lot. Any image is actually just a form of communication. Sometimes its far better not to communicate to much and keep it simple and effective. The way kids like cartoons. We grown ups often still like those best.

I really like to render in Maxwell for about 20 minutes and then paint in PS lines and colors. I usually get more interesting work done in less than hours compared to all the days of hassle getting it photorealistic. We did another competition and I will show those inages later on. After the project I photoshopped one the renders with SU lines and some PSfilters and all agreed that was the best image.

One of the projects, the interior of a small auditorium in wood is done on a laptop with the first version of Maxwell and me with just a month or so experience with SU. I don't have that enthusiasm anymore ...

[Richard]

Funny you know I started with SU years ago and the first images I produced with it then are still some of my favourites! And I hadn't even opened PS! Even the community then went wow and all I had done to make the difference was change the sun / shadow ratios higher to 80/20, this then became the adopted default and when I got invited to the test team! Strange but everything was a bit wishy washy then (not saying lighter isn't often better)! Man years ago!

[Half Life]

I really love the "woody" renders -- the glass spiral trees are really a nice touch and the metal items really stand out... simple but elegant.

I'm always amazed at this type of stuff because my background isn't architectural and I'm pretty much an outside observer when it comes to that... I'm trying to get some ideas for a some samples scenes I want to have in my Sketchup to Maxwell series and looking at these gives me inspiration for the types of things I might try.

Best,
Jason.

[fv]

I had to take out the first project. It will be put back in at a later date.
Tx for nice comments. We have a lot more to add. I just added some vectorworks drawings we did recently as well, with a touch of SU/MXM here and there .
Francois

PS, the new SU update seems a nice one. Hope there are no conflicts with the current plugin.