Ambient occlusion is one of the latest updates from the SketchUp team, an essential tool for those how use SketchUp to create their final 3D imagery to showcase their design ideas to their clients . Check out the difference between using just the shadows tool vs using shadow+occlusion in this simple example: It maybe subtle…
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Really exciting news for Twinmotion landscapers and gardeners!!
What’s New in 2024.1.1 Twinmotion edition??? 62 Growable trees, growable setting is an amazing Twinmotion feature that enables you to showcase the tree species in tree different stages of their growth, young, adult and mature a dream tool for any garden designer or landscaper using this software. Check out the official release note below: “New…
🌳🏡✨ Investing in your Plant Library, Building a Lush Digital World 🎨👩💻🌿
Plants shown in the renderings are Echium, Malva and Euphorbia from @maxtree_cgi bundle 115 We all know the magic a beautifully designed garden can bring to a property, and in the world of #LandscapeArchitecture and #GardenDesign, the tools we choose to bring our vision to life are paramount. 💫 As professionals of the great outdoors,…
When to use Vegetation Paint in Twinmotion 2020!
The Vegetation Paint tool that can be found in the Context menu in Twinmotion 2020 it´s an amazing way to create an interesting background for your Twinmotion renderings. Check out the renderings at the end of the video! 🖥Online courses here: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/ #gardendesigntools #lumionforgardens #twinmotionforgardens I’m preparing for a Live Stream on Lumion PRO 10.5…
From 2D to 3D Garden Demonstration!
Are you currently working in 2D, plans or hand drawings? Are you curious about how your project would look in 3D? I’m going to pick up a 2D project and transform it into a 3D rendering animation, are you interested? Send a jpg image from your project to our email, if you are interested, gardendesign.professionals@gmail.com. …
Next week’s a Planting Design challenge 💡
Normally 3D renderings can be challenging regarding the vegetation library available for garden designer’s and landscapers. To demonstrate that it’s possible with some tricks to have not only a sense of the vegetation you want to propose in your design but to recreate a more naturalistic imagery I decided to give myself a challenge! A…
How to Start 3D Modelling if you a Garden Designer!
So you want to start exploring the 3D world but don’t know where to start? This video is for you, it’s really important to don’t compromise your design ideas when you explore the 3D world of modelling and rendering, make sure you stay true to your design concept. If you need help regarding 3D modelling…
5 Suggestions to stay productive for Garden Designers
Working from home for some garden designers working freelance is already a reality. For others a challenge that needs to overcome. Adapting to new ways of working may be a challenge right now but at the same its an opportunity to improve and learn useful and productive skills that any other way you wouldn’t have…
Creating immersive presentations for your design ideas
Working remotely and having to present your design ideas to your client can be a challenge if you normally have a more tradicional working method. Programs like SketchUp, Lumion or Twinmotion can help you to create a more immersive experience to share with your clients without you having to be directly beside him for him…
Twinmotion 2020 is Live! Check out some renderings and first impressions video!
The growth setting is definitely one of my favourite features from the Twinmotion 2020. I would like to see more plants in the library but it looks promising. Check out this renderings: In this video, I give you my first impressions on Twinmotion 2020, check out the renderings I’ve done at the end of…
Is Fine Detail Nature a game changer in Lumion PRO 10?
It’s fine detail nature a game changer for garden designers and landscape architects? In the beginning, I didn’t think so but now? I changed my mind. This is one of the cases that you really need to render your images first to really appreciate the results and the subtlety of the light quality and natural…
Comparing Vegetation Twinmotion vs Lumion PRO 10
In this video, I’m doing a quick comparison of the vegetation available in Twinmotion with the one in Lumion PRO 10. Take into consideration that the first software is free the latter is a 3000 euros software. All courses are 50% OFF until the end of the month of February 2020! https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/collections . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garden_design_tools/…
Lumion PRO 10 Demo from a SketchUp model
Last week I’ve chosen the Lumion Demo winner, the landscape architect Sara Peternel from @sara.peternel_landscapedesign. So this is her SketchUp model that I transformed using Lumion Pro 10 tools. My objective with this small demo it’s to really show what Lumion can do specially for gardens. The vegetation possibilities together with the light specs in…
Talking about plants inside Lumion PRO 10
In this video, I talk about plants inside Lumion, more specifically Lumion PRO 10, and why this is the main reason Lumion is such a great tool for garden designers and landscape architects. Check out our SketchUp Warehouse collections here: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/manage/bcb4be24-22d6-492b-88eb-95971f48886c?nav=collections&sortBy=createTime%20DESC, you can easily add plants to your Lumion library. Create and save planting combinations…
Software options for garden designers and landscape architects, my opinion!
What’s the best software available for garden designers and landscape architects? Have you have tried to google garden design software? Try and tell me what comes up, pretty bad hmmm? Specially ig you type Garden Design a lot of the options are for amateur gardeners and not a professional software that are going to help…
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