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 | 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...
