China Villa Rendering

by | Apr 22, 2011 | Break Down | 13 comments

I have just finished a few architectural renderings this past week for a really exciting villa design located in China. I started out the illustration as a daytime scene, but decided to take advantage of all the glass and go with a dusk scene. I put a ton of post-processing time into this image. You can see from the kerkythea rendered image below that not much was left untouched. I spent about 2 hours setting up the model and rendering in Kerkythea. Then another 4 or 5 hours in Photoshop. Half my time was spent looking for materials and images online. Usually, I go with a blue color overlay for this time of day. However, with the amount of concrete and glass, I was afraid the villa would come off feeling like a cold office building. A simple sky and lots of red and yellow color overlays were used to warm up the scene.

 

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Above- Sketchup image export

 

 

 

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Above- Quick Kerkythea rendering used as the base image in post processing

 

 

 

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13 Comments

  1. zhao on April 22, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    it is amazing!!
    do you have the animation about this project?
    I hope to learn the detail of that process.
    thank you.

  2. ariden on April 23, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    good

  3. Julien on April 23, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    Dude, that looks fucking amazing!
    Please make a couple of tutorials of both the modeling in sketchup and the post-work in photoshop. Please…

    Big thumbs up!

    Julien

  4. Alex Hogrefe on April 25, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Thanks for the compliments. There are some videos covering other topics that I want to publish before I get to this project, so it may be a while.

  5. Inigo on April 25, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Good job Alex!! I am following your blog since 2 months and I am really learning a lot of things.

    Where do you find the images online? Are there any special website where I can find pictures of building, interior…?

    Regards from Spain.

  6. ll on April 26, 2011 at 12:34 am

    very good!!
    I love you blog

  7. eN on April 26, 2011 at 2:03 am

    i love you alex. and i'm not gay. 🙂

  8. coco on April 26, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    THANKS

    you have some think to ZAHA HADID

    tuto please…………..

    GOOD WORK

  9. Omar_c on May 3, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Dude you rock. post a tut?

  10. Karifala on May 3, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    I have been following your website for quite sometime. This is one of the best works I've seen on here. Could you educate the rest of us by doing a tutorial on how to achieve a result similar to this? Your works are amazing and thank you for the awesome tutorials.

  11. Sho1 on August 21, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    Beautiful Rendering…the wood flooring in the foreground is Stunning, I love what your doing for the architecture community and showing your masterful techniques. Thanks

  12. Mubeen on October 12, 2011 at 10:48 am

    Alex: I was referred to your site and to see your work. In all honesty, great work! Hope to see more!

  13. mr.tu on December 9, 2011 at 7:04 am

    2 hours for setting, 5 hours for post-processing, really work hard, but it is completely deserved. congratulations and good health, Alex!