Self Contained Luxury Cabins
CGI
The Falkland Islands Company – Stage One
Albatross
rockhopper
THE BRIEF
THE SOLUTION
THE RESULTS
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Heritage Bar
THE BRIEF
Our client purchased a brand-new ground floor unit in the centre of Newcastle’s developing business area beside the famous St. James’ Park football stadium. They requested visual representation that offered a wider view of the venue, showing both a quality city centre bar to the front of the venue, and to the rear, a more sports-orientated space with food and beverage table service.
THE SOLUTION
We advised a 360 panoramic. This is when we set the CG camera up in such a way to produce a full 360-degree render that can then be manipulated in such a way as to allow the user to see the whole space by navigating around the view from a fixed point.
THE RESULTS
A 360 panoramic is an incredibly useful way to see around your entire space from a fixed point. They require more modelling as everything in the view is visible, but the benefits are that the clients will get a more complete appreciation of the venue not always possible from still images. Another benefit of a 360 panoramic is that they’re extremely straightforward to produce compared to CG animations and V.R, making it a very cost-effective option offering an all-encompassing view.
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Thorpe Thewles Housing Development
THE BRIEF
Thorpe Thewles is a new high-end housing development for which our client needed visual representation to acquire funding and for online marketing.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation.
We suggested still images for this project due to the number of units in the development. Often, we’re asked to produce those images without a full breakdown of every design facet such as landscaping and final material and design decisions to boundaries and fencing. With our experience we’re able to confidently add these missing assets to compliment the scheme without further interaction from our busy clients.
THE RESULTS
Every CGI company needs to be able to produce quick, accurate and effective exterior images for housing developments. At Space VR we pride ourselves in this field, understanding exactly what the client is looking for, and can be relied upon to deliver fantastic images.
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Hadrian’s Coffee and Deli
THE BRIEF
A major development in Birmingham led to the client requesting a CG record of a large modern coffee shop space along with other amenities for the residential apartments attached above.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation and Animations.
For such a large development we recommended still images and a full area animation. Animations can showcase a large amount of space relatively quickly, more than still images, of which it would take a considerable amount to cover the area.
THE RESULTS
For this project we used a new 3D programme called Twinmotion. This is a real-time visualisation tool that allows us to quickly produce high quality images and animations. Traditionally, CG imagery production can be a long process, but Twinmotion has been specially designed to bypass this and give the illustrator more immediate feedback. The still image rendering process is almost instant instead of hours, and animations take only minutes rather than days to output.
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The Purple Peacock
THE BRIEF
THE SOLUTION
THE RESULTS
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RESIDENTIAL HOME
THE BRIEF
Our client needed some CG still images to market their property portfolio online, and in printed brochures advertising panels.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation.
When time is a factor, rendered CG images are often the most cost/time effective choice. Our experience and continuing technological researching allow us to rapidly output such images using trusted and reliable lighting, modelling and texturing techniques. We also have an immense asset library, and fully developed 3D textures. This will massively reduce the time it takes to create these scenes and results in a much more cost-effective product to the client.
THE RESULTS
Images such as these are our ‘main stay’ and something in which we have long extensive experience. We know exactly how to achieve effective, rapidly produced images that explain the story with minimal involvement from our busy clients which they appreciate.
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Dalziel Terrace
THE BRIEF
The client asked us to create imagery for their new exterior garden terrace. We wanted to adopt a warm interior feel when designing the lighting and adapt it to an outdoor social environment that customers saw as an extension of the clients existing interior space.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation.
After consulting with the client, we decided that still CG imagery would best suit their needs in the time available. Next was to establish what time of day we’d set for the illustration. A bright midday sun is more usual, but we wanted to convey more of an evening feel to reflect a relaxed and more mature atmosphere. To achieve warm evening lighting we used a photograph of a sunset to act as a light source to subtly illuminate the scene generally with reds and purples.
This gives a wonderfully soft and atmospheric effect without harsh shadows, fitting the time of day. Details on the tables were picked up with warm point lights located where we thought appropriate.
THE RESULTS
We like to think this computer generated still image has achieved that warmth and cosy feel. Soft general lighting and detail spotlights make a very effective pipeline when creating atmospheric, welcoming hospitality areas.
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Rustica
THE BRIEF
Rustica is a high-end commercial restaurant designed with natural and traditional finishes. The client implemented fully adjustable mood lighting.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation.
We’re often called upon to render the same image but with different ‘time of day’ lighting. The look of a premises can dramatically change from one to the other and it’s vital for the client so see the potential of both. The daytime version was achieved with a simple daylight system, relying on a digital sun, (out of shot), to flood the interior space with natural light, while the evening setup relied more on artificial lighting from low-level table lights and wall lights creating a warm welcoming atmosphere.
THE RESULTS
The two contrasting images starkly display the differences between the two timelines. When a venue is open all day, the lighting needs to be appropriately adjustable as it plays a huge part in creating a friendly space. In this example the daytime image needed convey a bright and airy lunchtime feel, while the evening lighting needed to provide a more intimate and personal atmosphere. This is a relatively easy process in the creation of these CG images, yet extremely important as it can give the client confidence in their designers’ approach.
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Cornhill Castle Lodge
THE BRIEF
This large-scale luxurious hotel and wedding venue underwent a major redesign of the wedding reception room using many intricate mouldings to the ceiling, and heavily detailed accessories to the remainder of the room so we felt it very important to capture that in the CG imagery.
THE SOLUTION
CG Still Images
Still image CGI’s remain such an effective product when attempting to convey grand scale and detail in open spaces that we advised the client to go with this option. They are often more controllable than other options such as animations or 360 renders, which create their own challenges due to the amount of modelling required.
THE RESULTS
Our modelling and lighting programmes are extremely effective. To achieve a bright and airy, yet sophisticated environment we added a lot of special effect post-processing to these images that would’ve been very difficult to achieve in other outputs. In this section, we have a photograph of the venue alongside two CGI’s for comparison.
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Residential living
THE BRIEF
This was an in-house test setup utilising new lighting approaches and texturing techniques in our 3D software.
THE SOLUTION
Still Image Creation and Animations.
To achieve a comprehensive study, we opted for creating still images and CG animations as we thought that would deliver a more complete picture of this internal project. Quite often a VR company will use tried and trusted lighting setups that work well enough with interior residential CGI’s. Daytime lighting, offering a lot of natural internal illumination, and an evening setup requiring most of the internal light to be artificial, created from spotlights, floor lights etc. Alternatively, at Space VR, we always try to find an approach that maybe goes a little further.
For our images and animations, we’ve tried to achieve a little of both in each image. You can clearly see it’s a daytime setting, but cloudy enough outside to also require ceiling spotlights which are introduced with subtlety and balance.
THE RESULTS
We believe the ‘devil is in the detail’, and while this project needed extensive test rendering to achieve the most effective lighting balance, we like to think the time spent on these little differences is not unimportant and ultimately raises our images above our competitors.
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