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 | 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 | Nov 9, 2014 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
One of the very first tutorials I created for this site described a workflow that generated a night scene only using Photoshop. That tutorial used a very simple base image exported right out of Sketchup. The workflow is easy to implement and is especially...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 26, 2014 | Fundamentals, Project 02 Cultural Center |
Architecture visualization is notorious for producing complex and messy PSD files. Sometimes, it’s the little things that can make a big difference and in my opinion, layer management is one of those little things that many people don’t put enough...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 22, 2014 | Fundamentals |
Architecture visualization can consume a lot of resources and time if you’re not careful. With the tediousness of Photoshop and renderings calculating through the night, spending more that 20 minutes searching Google images for a specific texture or image...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 16, 2014 | Fundamentals |
Adding trees to a perspective can be a daunting task, especially if there are a lot of them. Often what happens is the same tree gets copied over and over again. Everyone does it. It saves a ton of time compared to spending time cutting out several trees that...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 3, 2013 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 3 |
I put some more time into project portfolio upgrade continuing to develop the visitor center pages. The above sheets are a first pass at the layout and will serve as an introduction to the design and concept. Since the relationship to the landscape is...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 24, 2013 | Fundamentals |
Not everyone has the capabilities to render huge models with a ton of lights. I am one of those people where more times than not I have to manually add light to my illustrations because I don’t have the computing power. At first, this method can seem...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 21, 2012 | Fundamentals |
I have posted in the past on how to create interior elevations/sections by only using Photoshop, but I never posted on exterior elevations. The workflow that I use for exterior elevations really isn’t much different than the workflow that I use for...
