Visual Research Artifacts

Balloons and render ghosts This article was originally published in Domus 966 / February 2013   The London-based architectural visualisation studio Picture Plane creates images that go beyond photorealistic representation and create painterly images that convey something of the intangible.  Above: a housing development in South London, designed by John Smart Architects I n a series of images of a proposed South London housing development by John Smart Architects , Majer first constructs the base buildings in 3ds Max and inks them with physically accurate material maps and lighting effects drawn from a range of libraries. There are libraries of trees, and people, too, with which to populate the surroundings and the street. But the rendered model is then moved into Photoshop, and the texture of the final image is taken from classic English landscape painting: the colour palette and the clouds in the sky are based on the paintings of George Stubbs; a cyclist s...