One of the amazing advantages of creating great renderings using tools like Sketchup and Lumion is the possibility of using real-world elements in your projects, to make them more realistic in the final images and more suggestive to your client. Give your clients a real sense of features you suggest like using real pergola structures…
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How do I organize my projects, step-by-step.
So this is my actual project step-by-step in a project, I just wanted to share this to clarify that renderings do not substitute any step. They had an important step; this is an essential element that, together with the storytelling of your design is going to sell your project to your client. So let me…
Changing seasons in the garden
Giving a sense of seasonality to your project can be important specially if your project is flower rich. Showing your client a more tamed, in terms of colours, of your project can be helpful to make sure he knows what to do expect in the off season, wich by the way can as beautiful as…
Giving a sense of scale to your renderings
It’s really important when you think about renderings, not only the angles of your images, but use 5 to 7 images to give a sense of scale. So the easiest way to achieve this is to use people in your renderings. I use 3d silhouettes black with transparency at 45 % but you can use…
The importance of georeferencing
So why is it important to geographical locate your model there for your rendering images as well? The sun position is different in the UK from Australia or South Africa, so it affects the light and it’s impact on your garden. In the images I give as an example of different locations and timezones all…
So how long does it actually takes to produce a rendering image?
Once you’ve finish your project in sketchup, which by the way is the most important part in terms of measurements and fundamental to get it right, you upload your model to lumion. It’s here the real fun begins and why you ask? Because modeling in lumion is like you are in a game environment, you…
Use apps and software like Dropbox to better communicate with your client
We all know that gardening and garden design is a very hands on job, the contact with the plants and materials as well as the personal contact with the client is very important. But when developing the project is becoming more and more important not only to speed the process up but to make it…
The choice is yours
Our course is coming along, this small video is just to show that are a lot of different styles to choose and more importantly to customise. You can record your style so in the future you can used it again in another project. Soon I’m going to share how I organize my work from concept…
Great renderings need great materials
Did you know that to get great images for your projects you need great materials!! So how to get them? It’s really important when choosing the materials to be as close as possible to the real ones, the ones that are available in the market and that you going to suggest to your client. Materials…
Creating your clients Dream Garden
Can better renderings change the way you work and communicate with your client? I belive so, specially if your sketching skills are not great our maybe your portfolio is not quite ready. Maybe you want to create a different style for your design practice, good quality renderings can communicate this message, of course that you…
Sounds and context
Think about using sounds to create an atmosphere to the garden, or maybe if it’s an urban space traffic noise may be used to create a more realistic garden. Sounds can be located in the exact spots they originate in the real world so you can realize how it would feel in the garden in the back…
Rendering and animations
If you already doing your projects in Revit our Sketchup there is no reason not to go that extra mile and up your game. With animations and renderings that are accurate geographically so you can show your client the garden in diferent times of the day or the year for example.
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! My name is Catarina, I’m a garden designer and I’m Portuguese. I’m a graduate of the Greenwich University in the UK, I’ve my one studio as well as being chief editor of the Portuguese magazine Tudo Sobre Jardins. I love gardens and design, materials plants and of course outdoor decoration:-), but early on it…
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