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Customer story: John Bates Associates #3
Case study - Stevenson Park Community Center
In the case of the Stevenson Park Community Center, the City of Carson needed a rendering of a community center we designed for them, in order to address some responses by the neighboring community. We were given the task on a Friday, and having researched the actual landscaping and coordinated with the city's landscape architect, we were able to turn around three full-size, presentation-quality renderings by Tuesday of the next week. This included the creation of a virtual model of the building in AutoCAD Architectural Desktop.
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This is the starting point as rendered by Architectural Desktop. It is important to make sure the initial epix file is at high resolution, in order to keep the detailing throughout the image. I start with an image of about 3000x1500 pixels.
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We then used a standard image editing tool to mask out pieces of a photograph of the existing site, and merge those in as Piranesi cutouts.
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Here we have added more scenery using Piranesi. We also decided that there were too many cars in the original photograph, so we masked them out and replaced them with a few Piranesi cars.
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To get to this final result from the previous image the key steps were:
1. Use a 'captured texture' fill to generate the reflections in the road surface.
2. Re-render.
3. Apply a white fill over the image.
4. Use the painter tool (with the new multiple raster brush) to restore the image behind the fill.
5. Apply the edge tool, using both material and depth settings.
6. Apply a 'wobble image' filter (see Piranesi Tutorial 5)
7. Apply the 'blur' filter to soften the image
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The quick turnaround time that we can get with Piranesi has pushed us to use Piranesi
in more applications, and we now use it in the design development phases of our projects.
We now explore several design options by setting up the best views of a building in our
modeling program and with the new cutout manager introduced with Piranesi 3, we can
import the entourage (trees, cars, people, etc.) with the click of a button, without
having to re-create any work. We get great renderings without breaking our budget.
John Bates Associates
Web: www.johnbatesassociates.com
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