by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 27, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
The Cliff retreat spreads are underway. With most of the imagery generated, I had enough content to start thinking about how the pages would be laid out and how the story would be told. As with a lot of my layouts, the styles range quite a bit from spread to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 6, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
I wanted to have some fun with this image and create something that conveyed the scale of this project. Sort of a grand finale image. I have already generated a lot of close-up vignettes, but nothing really showing the project its totality. I chose a view that would...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 12, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
I was finally able to setup some interior scenes for the cliff retreat design. I decided to go black and white with these images to relate back to the black and white exterior images generated a few posts ago. However, the desaturated colors will also help play up the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 24, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
For the past few weeks, I have been producing section illustrations of my cliff retreat design. As is often the case, the final result took a complete detour from what I originally set out to produce. I began the spreads rendering out two large detail perspectives...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 3, 2016 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
In part one, I discussed some quick study vignettes of the cliff retreat design. For part two, I want to go into more depth about how I used a Material ID render channel to speed up my material selections and generate these illustrations in a relatively short...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 13, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
The cliff retreat has been a fun project to design and I find myself constantly jumping back and forth between the macro and micro scales of the design. For the micro scale, the lack of detail in the model can make it difficult to visualize some...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 25, 2015 | Break Down, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
A big part of this design is how the landscape slips under and around the structure. As a way for me to understand the relationship between the landscape and architecture, I put together a few diagrams. The success of this image relies heavily on the textures. The...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 1, 2015 | Fundamentals, Uncategorized |
I have a lot of content on this site and when I redesigned it in 2014, I made an attempt to organize the info so that everything was easy to find. However, I understand that people just starting out may still find this site difficult to navigate and not know where to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 12, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat, Uncategorized |
As I move into the next design, I am thinking about several different site locations. For the past several projects, I have been working with scenes that contained a lot of context architecture or that were set in urban environments. For this next project, I am...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 20, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Uncategorized |
As I near the end of this project, I have started to compile all of the imagery into portfolio spreads. This is the first pass at organizing the illustrations and diagrams to tell the story of the project. As I put this series of spreads together, I am still...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 28, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I have been experimenting with some interior illustrations and wanted to post a breakdown of this image. Determining the view for this shot has been difficult because there is so much going on in the design, and I wanted to find a view that properly captured...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 8, 2015 | Uncategorized |
There has been some beautiful work showing up in the Visualizing Architecture Tumblr gallery lately. Below are some of my favorites. I had trouble narrowing down the selections to just these few, however, these images all have some similar characteristics: 1....
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 19, 2015 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
This week, I have begun piecing together the floor plans of the Train Pavilion Project. When it comes to visualizing floor plans, I have always leaned towards a simple representation. Maybe it is because I have spent so many years working in offices where the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 29, 2015 | Over Time, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I have been playing around with some diagrams for the recent train pavilion design. The architecture diagrams that I create on this site have ranged quite a bit over the years. Lately, I have been gravitating towards a minimal approach for these types of...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 7, 2015 | Fundamentals, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I can’t believe that I have not written a post about skies yet on this blog. In most cases, a sky can make or break an architecture illustration. It’s also something that I see a lot of people overlook or only spend a few minutes on in their renderings....
by Alex Hogrefe | May 17, 2015 | Fundamentals, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
A lot of you have been asking for V-Ray settings and so I am going to spend a little time going over the settings that I used to create the base rendering of the main street perspective in the previous post. I have been using V-Ray for over a year now and I am in...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 3, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
It’s been a while, but I am finally back. I have spent the last several months traveling, giving workshops, settling into a new home, and spending time with family. Needless to say, priorities shifted as they often do and this website unfortunately had to be put...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 21, 2015 | Fundamentals, Uncategorized |
I don’t talk a lot about what inspires me but I have been traveling around the country lately giving some workshops and lectures and that question seems to come up a lot. The fact of the matter is that there is no one place that I go to get inspiration and a lot of...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 2, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Styles / Effects, Uncategorized |
As you have probably noticed, I have not been posting as often as I normally do. Things have been very busy lately, in a good way. Unfortunately, this means that I have not been able to invest as much time as I would have liked to this website. Instead of not...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 7, 2015 | Break Down, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Styles / Effects |
I was in need of some purely right brain thinking so I decided to skip modeling and V-Ray altogether and see what I could turn out with a half baked Sketchup model and some Photoshop. This meant generating a collage style illustration. These types of illustrations are...
