2rsi2021 hitps:Ivisualiingarchitecture.comharbor-view-break-down! Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture VISUALIZING 2 ENO eHLU A by Alex Hogrefe Harbor View Break Down by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 7, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 01 Long Wharf, Uncategorized | 19 comments One of the final images that my upcoming Portfolio Vol. 4 was lacking was a view of the Boston harbor for my Long Wharf redevelopment project. This view was crucial because it showed how one of the most important parts of the design, the tiered seating, framed the view of the harbor and what that experience might feel like. Since the base rendering was limited in architectural and geometric detail, the success of the image relied on the entourage and lighting. Below is a quick breakdown of the image: 1. Sketchup Model ana2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture This image was composed in such a way to place emphasis on the view of the harbor with the architecture taking a secondary role. The Sketchup model therefore only consisted of the tiered seating, stone benches and light locations. The context in the distance will be added in Photoshop. 2. V-Ray Rendering The V-Ray base rendering was basic as well showing a simple stone material covering most of the surfaces. | decided to add the grass in Photoshop because | wasn't sure where exactly | wanted it to go. | igured | could iterate different design ideas faster in Photoshop by adjusting the mask vs baking it into the rendering. hitps:Ivisualiingarchitecture.comharbor-view-break-down! ana2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture 3. Context | used photos that I had taken a while ago for the background context. The time of day of these photos was the driving force of the overall tone and lighting of the scene. | actually had to patch several photos together to get the final background seen here. 4. Grass hitps:Ivisualiingarchitecture.comharbor-view-break-down! ana2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture To insert the grass, | first quickly masked in the general locations. The idea was that the grass strips would get less dense as the seating stepped closer the the water. Once | had the location dialed in, I selected a different paint brush shape and roughed up the edges of the mask to get rid of the sharp edges and give more dimension to the vegetation. This idea of roug} be seen in one of my older video tuto updated tutorial on this technique. \g up the edges can is though I think it is time for an 5. Lights hitps:visualizingarchitecture.com/harbar-view-break-down! ana2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture Although | modeled some lights, | ended up painting them in Photoshop so that | could have more control over their placement and density. Once the locations were finalized, | added a glow to the surrounding grass by painting in a simple color overlay. Finally, | added glow to the lights by using a soft paint brush with low opacity. 6. People hitps:Ivisualiingarchitecture.comharbor-view-break-down! sna2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture Entourage is important in defining the scale of the pier and overall atmosphere of the space. Due to the tiered seating, sizing the people properly was difficult. To solve this, | dropped in scale figures into the Sketchup model and exported an image to use as a guide in Photoshop. hitps:Ivisualiingarchitecture.comharbor-view-break-down! ena2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture Color adjustments were minimal. | took the image to a slightly cooler range to match some of the other portfolio pages and added a slight haze in the distance. | didn't want to deviate too far from the original photo colors used in the background photo. hitps:visualizingarchitecture.com/harbar-view-break-down! m42rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture 19 Comments on August 8, 2016 at 3:23 am Amazing! KJ on August 8, 2016 at 3:49 am pretty good! Javed on August 8, 2016 at 538 am Great peace of work. | am also going to present my design ideas. Thanks for the guidance alex. Joana on August 8, 2016 at 745 am You're such an inspiration. Thanks for sharing again this great piece of work. Amazingly done as usual Dare on August 8, 2016 at 1224 pm Nice work process! Joshua Allen Donini on August 8, 2016 at 854 pm Prolific. Looking forward to your updated tut on making the veg-edge organic. I've been utilizing moded versions of the standard “grass” and “maple leaf” brushes as well as a custom oval brush. Are you using normal as the layer blending for your ground cover? I've been using different blending modes (overlay, multiply, etc) and finding that the areas I'm trying to “roughen up” don't blend as smoothly as I'd like, hitps:visualizingarchitecture.com/harbar-view-break-down! ana2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture ruth g.s. on August 18, 2016 at 105] am. Great work as usual but I was wondering where I can find some nice grass textures. Loaei on August 26, 2016 at 1:43 pm From my experience, you can google most of the textures you want and the searching results usually pretty satisfactory. There are various library websites that Alex referred to in a different tutorial and though they are primarily set up for entourage but still you can find a couple of them carry vast choices of textures. Hope this helps. Daniel Crow on August 23, 2016 at 334 pm Im just gonna say, what an inspiring work. Rabbit on August 24, 2016 at 225 am That's amazing, hofmi on August 26, 2016 at 222 am Good Job, simple explanation. Thanks for sharing! Thabet on August 3), 2016 at 3:05 pm. Alex, Would you please show us how did you create the lighting effects of the stone benches. It seems more than just painting to me. Thank you, cutout on December 5, 2016 at 9:45 am Bring life to your amazing renders with these people cutout collections https:/sellfy.com/cutout hitps:visualizingarchitecture.com/harbar-view-break-down! ona2rsi2021 Harbor View Break Down | Visualizing Architecture Colour Switch on December 14, 2017 at 12:23 am Thanks a lot for sharing it, that's truly has added a lot to our knowledge about this topic. Have a more successful day. Run 4 Delia on May 15, 2018 at 814 am Very good, | think | found the knowledge | needed. Tessa on June 6, 2018 at 1130 am Interesting things you describe here. Slither.io Private Server on June 26, 2018 at 1:02 pm Wow. This is some thing very amazing. ludo star on June 26, 2018 at 1:03 pm i need this information for my assignment. Abdias on July 8, 2018 at 518 pm Hello Alex, Im extremely curious as to how you went about the lighting in this project. You said you modeled it in SKP? Did you make a 3-D solid, or did you download a SKP model light fixture? And the process between that step and v-ray. 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