3D visuals

[Fran Hollywood]

Seen some impressive stuff done on Sketchup by Google. Program is free possibly aimed at architect/designers but I use it to create 3D images from 2D cad drawings.

Very intuitive and lots of on-line tutorials.

It might not be the match of some photo realistic 3D images some software can produce but it works at my level.

[Dave Harrison]

Hey Fran, I haven’t seen google sketchup before, it looks interesting thanks for the post 🙂
Before I started up on my own, we used to model with 3d Studio Max. 3DS Max can produce photo realistic visuals, however it is complicated to use and prohibitively expensive. Producing good 3D visuals is a time consuming process, and one which people in other industries charge good money for.

I’d be interested to know how many others produce 3d graphics at the quoting stage. My customers are lucky if they get anything other than a basic illustrator layout until I’ve seen the money 🙂

[Guy Burt-Davies]

Jon,

When we produce visuals for clients we tend to use Illustrator, CorelDraw and PhotoShop – we can produce 3D visuals in AutoCAD but find the other programs work just as well.

Guy

[John Childs]

quote Dave Harrison:

My customers are lucky if they get anything other than a basic illustrator layout until I’ve seen the money 🙂

:yes1:

Spot on. 😀

[Jonathan Hord]

I use cinema 4d, have done for about 6 years, I’ve also dabbled with xsi, maya and 3ds max but you cant compete with speed when using cinema 4d (made by Maxon).

Thats just my opinion but for quick visuals, great rendering times and very reasonable pricing you cant go wrong. Its compatiable with Photoshop, After effects and Ilustrator so you can bounce between the programs without having to import the material and then re-align again.

It a winner for me. If you need a quote for visuals let me know

Cheers

Joph 🙂

[Simon Strom]

I have some Industrial Design friends that use Rhinoceros (or commonly called Rhino / Rhino 3D). It’s not free and is only for Windows at the moment.
http://www.rhino3d.com/

(although I do believe they are working on a Mac version).
http://community.irhino3d.com/

You could also try Blender which is free and open source.
http://www.blender.org/

All the other suggestions are good too. I just wanted to give two more options in that category.

[Jon Marshall]

The stuff I’ve seen wasn’t particularly photo realistic. it looked more like the hand drawn style that you see architects produce, but obviously with a computer aided element to it as it incorporated logos etc.

[Jonathan Hord]

Are you talkng about google sketch up or the software we just mentioned?

:lol1:

[Owen Lees]

To do Exhibition Stand stuff we model the stands in 3D Max and render out the views.

Oo