#Architectural Animation?
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Bruce
I'm familiar w/ the "natural renderings" you're speaking of.
When The Dallas version of Wzmh was hitting hard here, Habib took me
on a tour of their "rendering gallery". How in H*ll did they keep the
originals and only give copies to owners? McCall,
Connally…..talent to the extreme but available to you for Quantos
Dineros and locally! China town for models!
Fear that they expected that of me was eased when he pointed out
that getting the point across in projects this large was a layered
process where I fit somewhere in the middle.
Before I became illustrator I was the design architect member of a
sales team for a schools architect. My employer (this is the
alchoholic one) bought a twin engine Beechcraft, hired a pilot and we
competed against large firms for schools in small or no-town Texas!
Landing in crop-duster fields and presenting to people who could really
benefit from our services MADE me see that life goes on without the presence of
KPF, SOM, HOK,HKS….FYI, Architecture's a BIG market!
So as Mo said "SPREAD OUT"!!
3d is here! It's making a killing where we aren't!
Creating acceptable presentations using computer will have to be done by
the most fit to create acceptable results. Just as any traditional artist
plans and executes so must the computer artist.
Thanks for some excellent comments. D*mn it gets crowded here at the top
don't it<g>, Gary
>>How in H*ll did they keep the originals and only give copies to
owners?<<
Shh! Don't tell them <g>!
>>Fear that they expected that of me was eased when he pointed out
that getting the point across in projects this large was a layered
process where I fit somewhere in the middle.<<
Computer artist's have an advantage right now in that their work is
new. It's allowing some images to be used because of their novelty,
and I think we've all seen some sub-standard images being used only
because they are <cue the trumpets> COMPUTER RENDERINGS. This
situation is fading fast but it is giving us an oppertunity to
experiment and find what kind of use the computer can be put to.
In my own work here, some of my first images were a little lame (one
partner kept calling him my "cartoons") but because we persevered
we've been able to improve. Now, I feel comfortable with my skill
levels and what I can do and in some presentations, the computer work
does completely replace natural renderings, but not all. On any
project we discuss whether or not it's appropriate to use 3D here or
not and I try to be honest and tell them when I think their needs are
better served by other media. But every project, we try to push the
boundries a little further. By the time the novelty wears off, it's
our job to be producing renderings that we don't have to put the word
"computer" in front of for people to appreciate them.
Bruce Meikle
WZMH Architects