3DS Max Renderings

Podium Renderings

sketch up model walk through

a place to dine 3d model

Creating an advert

So our latest project was to design an advert for our recent table designs. I tried to keep mine simple and their are a few things that went wrong but ultimately I ilke it, keeps the table the main attraction and I think it ties into my concept of balance.

Urban Pathway

Made to recreate an image of an urban pathway I naturally went with a Tube Station. All the people adverts on the walls and round edges really appealed to me. Ultimately I am happy with the end result, the colors are abit flat but the perspective is still seen thanks to the figures getting smaller. I chose to leave light relfections absent as they just did not look very good and tended to just look like blocky blobs on the ceilings and floors.

Scene of Discourse

I was given two words, Frustration and patina and I had to create an image that reflected those things and here you can see my result.. I think its pretty neat, but then again perhaps I've just been staring at it to long.

Time to complete 4-6 Hours

Victorian Pattern

Below is my attempt to recreate a Victorian wallpaper pattern based on urban elements. So what finer choice for a victorian creation than Paris.



My Original Pattern



and my resulting creation

Response to Computers in Design

Today the computer is gaining a bigger foothold in our everyday lives. Therefore its importance to design is becoming increased as well. To the point that even our own curriculum includes courses devoted to the use of computers to aid our work and our ability to design. However this increased dependence on technology to aid us in design is not necessarily a bad thing. It is just the new tool of choice. Architecture utilized many tools in its long history and the computer is simply another edition. Another resource to turn to when work needs to be done.
However that does not mean that it should be relied on solely as it is becoming. More recently design has turned to the computer to “make it work” allowing for designs of insurmountable impossibility to suddenly be solved through the use of a computer to find the points of error and correct them. Architects like Frank Gehry, whose work would likely never be seen as possible if it were not for a computers aid.
The design community is at a point where it is time to realize that a computer is a tool, not a magic button that can fix any problem, because a magic button that solves structural issues does not solve space problems, awkward walkways and crowded spaces. The time is appropriate to evaluate technologies place in design but not to let it over step its bounds.