wk13

      For week thirteen we had to collect all of our project material and create an outline of what our brochure will look like. For this assignment we had to use Adobe InDesign or any kind of similar program. 

Here is what I've created:

I've watched a couple of tutorials for this assignment. Here is one of them:

     This exercice wasn't to difficult in my opinion. But it was rather fun and quite easy. It was also really nice, because we could create our own "design".

wk12

      In this week we are moving back to the vector graphic and back to the 2D world. We have the task to import our .dwg files into a vector editing program and improve them.

In the section view I've made much of the adjustments on the stairs, so it's clearer now. I've also changed the color of the cut surfaces. And I've drawn a simple shape of a tree, so it gives it more "life" and is nicer to look at.

 To the floor plans I've made minor adjustments, like changing the color of the walls so it's much more pleasant to see, than pure black. 

I'we watched a couple of videos about InDesign, and here is one of them:

      With this assignment I didn't have much problems, because I got fairly familiar with Illustrator in the previous weeks. But I have to admit InDesign is totally new to me, so I had fun exploring it and its awesome features.

wk11

     Now that our rendering is finished, we have to place our virtual buildings on the actual site. For this task we had to use Photoshop and create a photomontage that looks as realistic as possible. For that we had to learn how to use some really useful and amazing tools that can really help our final presentation of the project.

     Here I posted five pictures that can represent time frames of my work. How I started and what I've done to achieve the final photomontage.

Because I wasn't able to do a panorama of my site in the second week at DMP, I had to do that now.

Than to get as big as a picture as possible, I filled the empty spaces with content aware tool.

And I have to say I was quite amazed by the result.

Next step was to clear the panorama of some distracting elements and to clean it so that it would be ready for the rendered picture.

When I added the rendered building, I found out that it would need some additional shadows on the west wall, so I started to work on that.

When I finished that, I also wanted to somehow "grow" the grass around the buildings base.

And this is my final result.

Below is a close up of the grass around the base of the building.

For this assignment I've watched some videos how other make their photomontages and what kind of results they get. Here is one of them:

Link

       Even though I didn't like this kind of work as much as I enjoyed modeling and rendering in Cinema, it is essential in any kind of architectural visualization and there for time well spent in my opinion. I really have to admit it got quite frustrating for me at times, because of my inexperience and my amateur approaches, but as it is with all things; practice makes perfect.
And I guess I have to practice some more...

wk10

     For our tenth week we had not one, but two main assignments to complete. First one was the obvious one, moving forward with our project. Now that we've modeled our 3D visualization, applied the materials it's only one more important thing to do. That is to properly light and finally render our work, so we can continue with editing and placing our building on site in later assignments.
     The second part of this week's work was to watch the movie from Gary Hustwit called Helvetica and share our views on that subject and think about the movie.

This is what I've created. When I was exploring all the incredible functions in Cinema 4D, I've stumbled on an unbelievable thing called the hair module. With witch, after numerous hours of tutorials and testing, I managed to create stunning looking grass. So I tried to use it in all of my renders.

Here I tried the first render in the morning "light".

This was the first render where I made the grass, but as it' seen, The grass tips were to bright and the fasad was incorrectly scaled, so I had to fix this. The result was next render below:

In this picture I lowered the camere to the ground and focused the camera on the building itself, so that the grass in front got a bit blurry.

In my work during this week I watched tones of videos and tutorials and here is a link to just one of them:

LINK

     For the conclusion I guess I can only say, that this assignment was really great to explore some more awesome functions and endless possibilites of this program, that can give really stunning and quite incredible results.


Thoughts on Helvetica:

      "Helvetica is one of those rare films in which the exploration of a specific topic leads to expanding horizons of perception." This is a quote I heart recently about the movie, and after watching it I got to admit, I couldn't agree more! Just as it's said in the movie. Helvetica is like the air and is there whether we like it or not. We "average" people don't even realize it. But I am 100% sure, that all of us would immediately know something is missing, if it would just disappear one day.
     But after realizing that one starts to question himself... What does Helvetica really have, what is so unbelievably special about it?! I spend quite some time thinking about it and more I tried to get into some details the more it felt weird. And then I finally figured it out, at least I think I did, it's the simplicity. That's the key. The simplicity makes it so extremely useful and so popular. And that's the dream of every designer I think. To create something so timeless and widely spread. At least that's how I see it.
      But I believe there is someone out there who thinks completely opposite. And that is also one thing I really enjoyed in the movie. To see the story from different people and from totally opposite views. Because it takes the idea of someone and "destroy's" it in a minute. Honestly at first that was disturbing to me. because it mixes your mind and you are totally lost in the middle. But it gives you ability to choose a side objectively and that is something to be honored in todays world, full of forced information.
      So I can't wait to see the other two movies, Objectified and Urbanized from Gary Hustwit.