The Making of a Residential Tower
The following images are test renders of the last project I was fortunate enough to have been commissioned to do. It’s a proposal for a residential tower in Pasig.
It starts off as the general massing of the building.
Ideas kept flowing about the podium of the project, so that came afterwards.
As the facade design was still under development by the principal architects of the firm, I proceeded to complete the auxiliary part of the scene, mainly the road network and the surrounding structures, which I opted to be fictional instead of realistically copying the existing surrounding structures.
As you can see, the previous surrounding buildings really looked like crap, so I had to think of other means of populating the scene. Low-poly 3D models of buildings are all over the internet so I helped myself with some of them.
By this time, some ideas for the look of the building have surfaced already, minus the roof.
Then I added more auxiliary elements like the trees and more buildings, as well as a conceptual design for the roof deck canopy. Notice that in this picture, the sun is coming from South-East.
I changed the direction of the sun to East and a little North for more interesting shadow play.
Added more elements, mostly cars. The podium facade was revised and the roof structure was removed pending ideas from architects. An initial facade design was suggested, having faux-balconies and ledges.
The massing was changed as the final inputs of the principal architects came. They added a few floors, which resulted in the slight change of camera placement. They also wanted curtain walls for certain parts of the building like the corner units and then gradually enveloping the entire floor of the penthouse units. The final roof design also came. Notice also that the amenities was also finished.
Proper exposure of the photo was done in Photoshop.
I added the famous Soft-light filter glow effect and blurred the background using a Vray Zdepth pass.
I used Autocad 2010, 3D Studio Max 2009 with Vray, and Photoshop CS3.
Hope you liked it!