Blog

Notes on drawing, computing and building.

How the tools work, the workflows they fit into, and what we learn making them.

The building rendered photorealistically at dusk, warm light spilling from the lobby
Image generation

From a hand sketch to a dusk render, with the geometry intact

A line sketch carries proportion, openings and structure. Here is how a render pass keeps all three and changes only the light, the materials and the season.

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The plaza render with a marble angel sculpture placed on a plinth beside the entrance
Workflows

Placing an object in a render without redrawing the scene

A sculpture on a plinth, a bench, a tree: inserting one object should not repaint the rest of the image. How an object reference keeps the scene still.

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