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Monday, October 15, 2012

3d Architectural Interior Visualization Rendering: Purple Recording Studio with Lighting Effects

**Since creating these renders I have added updated HD images the following post: http://jonathankaplan.blogspot.com/2012/11/purple-recording-studio-in-high.html **

This Weekend I got the Architectural Interior Design bug and I decided to put together a new scene for my portfolio. The last scene I did was a semi-traditional brick condo/ loft living room with some cool day time lighting effects. This time I decided to go with something somewhat different and I created a purple recording studio full of musical instruments and DJ equipment. The lighting on this scene is completely indoor and I experimented a lot with neon/ blackligh techniques within 3ds Max. It is very interesting creating indoor lighting solutions/ designs in rooms where there is no external light. In the past I have always enjoyed putting windows in my scenes so this was a little outside my realm of expertise. Check out the project images below and expect to see high resolution renders within a day or two! I wanted something to post today so these were just some small resolution samples I rendered out.




Created with 3ds Max, Vray, and Photoshop.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Vector Illustration- 80's Style Print Advertisement Tribute: Macintosh Plus

I created this image as a tribute to Apple computers. I started developing this project by doing several vector illustrations of various apple products through the current and past few decades. My goal when starting the illustrations was to create a poster/ graphic detailing a brief history/ evolution of Apple. I have seen similar graphics done before but very few with high quality vector illustrations. Most were just photo collages of images found around Google. While I am in the process of developing that graphic I had the idea to take each individual illustration and make these product tribute advertisements/ posters. The "Macintosh Plus" is the first one I decided to start working on out of the series. This project was a great chance to do something in a 1980's style which I have never tried before and which ended up being a ton of fun. I had a great time researching fonts and graphic/ advertisement styles of the decade. Goes to show you how one project can develop into several different projects. If this ever happens to you go for it! Enjoy and let me know what you think!


Image created with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If you would like to use this image send me an email at jonakap1@gmail.com and I will send you a version without the watermark :)

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

3d Architectural Interior Visualization Renderings: High Resolution Brick Condo with Advanced Lighting Techniques

A few entries ago I posted some interior renders of a condo/ loft living room with white brick textured walls and hard wood floors featuring some advanced lighting techniques/ effects. I revisited the project this week to make some minor changes to the scene and to create some high resolution renderings to improve the overall image and detail quality. I know that unless specified by a client or instructor your natural instinct would be to just leave the default aspect ratio within the 3d software when creating renders. Don't do it! And if you do make sure you go back later and increase the resolution to at least HD 720 (if you have a day to do 1 render at a time bump it up to 4000). If you don't want to post renders that large on your site it is always better to at least create the image in a higher resolution and shrink it down as needed in Photoshop. You will be amazed at the quality difference of the images. This cuts down on blur, speckles, artifacts, and all those annoying little problems that occur when creating 3d renders. Enjoy!






Created with 3ds Max & Menal Ray. All Rights Reserved.


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