CompuServe Messages

Jerome: /_______________________From your message________________________\\ What I'm trying to say is that few people seriously involved in 3DS are using it in the design PROCESS, or as a tool to THEMSELVES create a work that is an end unto itself. __________________________________________________________________ I thought that might be what you were saying but I wasn't sure. FWIW, this isn't true for me nor for most of the architects I know who have used 3DS. Could be that I live and work in an atypical environment, Princeton, N.J. (Factoid: Princeton per capita has more architects than any town in the U.S.) I just spent 3 weeks putting together a bunch of stills and a long animation for a design competition, the primary method of presentation was 3DS renderings and the best design feedback during the process was seeing these images. I find out tomorrow if the entry was a winner. Anyway, I don't see my approach as being too unique amongst my competitors and peers. After a presentation I gave at a New Jersey AIA meeting last month I fielded many questions from other architects who are currently using 3D as a design tool or are about to embark on this path. /_______________________From your message________________________\\ If such work is outsourced, then the people doing the animation aren't designing the architecture, they're designing the animation for another's architecture (which is an art in itself, don't get me worng). __________________________________________________________________ Even in this scenario there is a feedback/response cycle which IMO still makes the 3D work a design tool, but certainly not as immediate of a method as DIY. /_______________________From your message________________________\\ If the animation is done in-house after the fact, then the animation wasn't an end in itself, or intgral with the design process. __________________________________________________________________ I haven't been at this that long but I have never had the luxury of animating anything after the design process was finished. Everything I have animated has undergone some change to the architecture after the animation has been presented to the client. This puts all of my animation work somewhere in the design process be it at concept or design development. /_______________________From your message________________________\\ My point was also that few people use the computer as a tool to create the architectural work in the first place, often it's an animator doing thier thing on another's artwork in the case of architecture. Their are, of course those that do, but they seem rare. __________________________________________________________________ I definitely have to disagree as I am sitting here scratching my head trying to think of even one architectural firm nearby that doesn't use CADD. I'm sure there are a few firms which don't exploit their 3D capabilities, I've been trying to bring my firm along this learning curve. I'd have to say from my perspective the opposite view is true, that most architects are using the computer as a tool in the design process. Somewhere between the extreme of my viewpoint and yours probably lies the truth of this matter. Bob