CADS 3D Christmas Animation
Check out the Christmas animation that we put together for parent company C A Design Services… You can also find “The making of the CADS Christmas Card” here… enjoy! Merry...
read morePhotography 101 & 3D Visualisation – F-Number Aperture.
The F-number on a camera lens relates to the aperture size. The larger the F-number the smaller the aperture is, this means less light is taken in to the camera. See the two images below, both have the same settings for Shutter speed, ISO and White balance, but very different F-numbers. F-number 4.0 F-number 16 The F– number 16 photograph is underexposed as the smaller aperture did not let in enough light. If we wanted to keep the aperture size at 16, but have the photo...
read morePhotography 101 & 3D Visualisation
We are beginning a series of blog posts which will be about photography with explanations of camera settings /techniques and how to apply these real world camera settings into your 3D visualisations and videos. So hopefully as well as improving rendering you may get better holiday snaps too! Understanding the various camera settings will enable you to create more photo-realistic renderings. The best 3dD artists have a good grasp of the inner workings of a camera and the various settings...
read moreArchitecture – Sky Garden House
SKY GARDEN HOUSE I’ve seen quite a few grass roofs now but none of them have worked quite as well as a project I saw recently by Guz Architects. The house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighbouring buildings are built close to the sides of each house. That is what makes it even more remarkable. With these pressing restrictions they have managed to integrate the house into the surroundings while...
read moreRevit – Creating an undulating ground for visualisations
Creating accurate ground surfaces for use in 3D visualisation projects can be an absolute nightmare. We often have to create these from a .dwg file with only a few spot heights. I don’t need to tell you that creating anything accurate from that amount of data is nearly impossible. Whilst exploring and using Revit within a 3D visualisation work-flow we stumbled across the ‘Toposurface’ tool from within the ‘Massing & Site’ tab on the ribbon. With this tool you can create a ground...
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