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I present my entry for the 2005 Architectural Visualization Competition Challenge #3.

The competition is hosted by CGArchitect.com (Jeff Mottle, President and Founder). For more information, please register, log in and see the following for the competition site: http://www.cgarchitect.com/challenge/2005challenge/

The work in progress for this scene can be viewed at the following location:

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10459

Design, Modeling*, Texturing, Photography Source, and Lighting by Tyrone Marshall.

Software: Cinema 4D, Maxwell Render, and MatadorLight.

* The spider glass model attachments by Gustavo Benites via Evermotion.org www.evermotion.org.

* Spider glass attachments are connected via cylinder rod, and supported on both ends by another cylinder and plate detail. The cylinder rod, and cylinder connector and plate are my design.

* Metropoly 3D Architecture Human Models by Axyz-design www.axyz-design.com.

* All other modeling by Tyrone Marshall.

Comments and Criticism are welcome, thankyou!

very nice render tyrone! cognratulations for qualifying in the third round!
hope to see you in the fourth..
I love the lighting in this one. A bit grainy but still loving the render!

I purchased maxwell a few weeks ago. I wish i had the opportunity to use it in the challenges. oh well, maybe next year.

Keep up the good work!

true beauty! congratulations tyrone...
i liked the structure and materials. good luck!

Wonderful work ! but I believe IMHO that the perspective of the buldings outside is a little odd. Godd luck in the contest !

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voltaire_ira wrote:very nice render tyrone! cognratulations for qualifying in the third round!
hope to see you in the fourth..
I love the lighting in this one. A bit grainy but still loving the render!

I purchased maxwell a few weeks ago. I wish i had the opportunity to use it in the challenges. oh well, maybe next year.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks John,

I do hope I make it to the fourth round, I have some surprises in mind for how to do this one in the time we have.

I wanted the lighting to be more like the what I had in the wip section. The glass kind of weakened the "light streaming" in effect. I think I will add a emitter for some stronger sunlight to stream in from above!

I plan to do more with this one so I can submit it to Ballistic Publishing.

Thanks for comments. I think next year is going to be unbelievable because people now have an idea of what to expect from the challenges.

Hope to see you as well next year!

falconking wrote: Wonderful work ! but I believe IMHO that the perspective of the buldings outside is a little odd. Godd luck in the contest !

Thanks TOM for the comments!

Falconking, I had a time with getting the compositing to work because this one is really a hard one to integrate because it was not done with this particular background image in mind during the scene setup.

I may rework it somewhat when I re-render this one with the Maxwell Render Beta!

8etty wrote:are the spiders attached to those long long rods under the glassfloor? if so they are way too thin..also try to get a copy of nicolas grimshaw&partners little square booklet showing their work...they made a lot of glass structures

http://www.grimshaw-architects.com/home.html


EDIT: maybe i was wrong (no coffee yet) it's hard to see in your image..but if the spyders sit on pylons and those ar fixed on the floor underneeth it's okay..but then agai..what are thos long long rods for? thex would bend alone cuz of their weight..

Hello Betty,

I had hoped that by using the rod size that I have, I could avoid using little vertical supports for the spiders. The rod is held in tension on the ends and secured a the step wall and again by a smaller plate on the sloping ends. I have not see spiders used in this manner, so I will definitely work on making it lighter and structurally sound as I want you to read the sloping floor more than the glass plane above. The glass plane above is merely so that we can walk above the slope.

Thanks for your comments and the lookup about Nicolas Grimshaw and Partners!

Lovely image mate. I must admit I've never used a planar fitting for a floor as it's much cheaper to use back to back aluminium angle and glazing tape.

I admire you for trying maxwell in the competition and its a shame you didnt make the next round.