Vector Avatar

Presenting the Vector Avatar of our Human Resource Personnel. Created by one of Lazymask graphic artist. Who ever made this vector work, I hope he would give me the favor of doing my photo something like this coz I'm not that good in vectorizing photos. (wink)

Blog Header by chilly

I think I made this blog header 3 months ago, I forgot to post it here. Well anyway, this is just a simple header with a very minimal design. I did a quick clipping path here with the two vector images, others are just plain Photoshop brushes.

Photography Design

This is a good inspiration for graphic designs and photography. Taken from a photo expert Ram Martinez. He has some amazing images combining photography and graphic designs, I like it.

Design by chilly

I made this two design way back last year, and I'm sharing this to you. This is actually a blog signature of mine when I was still very active with forums. The graphic media is for my other blog and the second one is for my old blog that I deleted coz I don't like it anymore. (lol)

Image Manipulation

Image Manipulation done by my friend Julievive. This photo was actually composed of 5 pictures combined together to achieve this one. If you want to know more about image manipulation you can go to Lazymask.

Photography by chilly

Do you believe that I personally photograph myself in this photo? Yeah really I did. As I was looking at some awesome photographs over the net, I was amazed with one particular photo and I thought I could also make the same effect and honestly I find it good, though I only use my camera phone in taking this photo. (wink)

Vector Lady

A vector artwork done in photoshop. If you want to know how to do vector in photoshop check out Lazymask Vector Tutorial for detailed instructions. I only show the finished image here.

Perpective of a 3D (architectural) Rendering

What is 3D Rendering?

3D rendering or photo-real rendering is a nomenclature of producing an image based on three-dimensional data stored within a computer. 3D rendering can be designed to be abstract or as realistic as painting or photograph. Unlike photography, however, everything is imaginary and scenes need to be created. 3D Rendering requires a lot of work usually boundless amount of creative control over what may appear in the scene and how it is graphically presented to achieve good results. Before it could be done you first need to do the Modeling or Animating process. It is said to be “real time” because the computer makes the rendering without delay time, at each movement or modification of the 3D model.

The rendering and shading technology was first started during 1960's by venerable designer William Fetter who was attempting to devise a new process in order to maximize the efficiency of the layout inside an airplane cockpits. Over the years on the road of realism goes, 3D rendering was re-develop to increase complexity of the scene. It was called other names such as “Gouraud Shading Model”, “Phong Rendering and later on “Ray Tracing” name by their developers until it was named “3D Rendering”. I personally like the euphony of the word 3D rendering compared to the other names it was called.

The latest technology for photo realistic renderings wade beyond basic ray tracing, through the stimulation of technology, faster computers and a new birth of talents photo realistic 3D rendering has been ubiquitously used among artist.

Why 3D architectural rendering is a niche nowadays?

3D allows you to stimulate your creative horizons with movement, depth and animation. Over the years companies realize how to debouch the power of 3D visualization adds tremendous value to their presentations and other marketing campaigns, resulting to high volumes of sales for their products and services. It is important to heighten the awareness of what 3d can do for a business's growth. In 3d architectural you can easily presents your project/product in a turpitude or more appealing form then gives you an edge over old mediums. 3D photo real renderings play major role in real estate sales. Potential clients repose on the final product, so in order to sell you project its bes to present it realistically through 3d architectural rendering, animation or walkthroughs.

Qualities Of A Good 3D Architectural Rendering?

3D Rendering is a great way to display your products or ideas and deliver visual concepts ostentatiously to your potential clients so it's important to know how to achieve good rendering. Your ideas are translated in 3D to create Photo-Perfect 3D images. The 3D rendering artist must control all aspects of the scene such as Texture, Lighting, Transparency, Getting the right Angle, Detailed Model, and balance of Entourage in order to create a perfect result.

Texture - a method by which you add details, where you specify a color, a level of reflectivity and even a degree of bumpiness to scene. Textures allow 3D models to look significantly more detailed and realistic than they would otherwise. In order to achieve a higher level of realism make sure that the edges match closely to your model, have a larger number of smaller polygons and don't forget to to achieve good accuracy. Textures can also be repeated horizontally and/or vertically across a surface (with our without a degree of rotation), a technique used extensively for modeling surfaces such as brick walls, grass, roads, fences, etc. It can be applied in two ways: either the texture replaces whatever colour is already inherant to the polygon, or the texture colour is blended with the colour and surface properties of the polygon

Lighting - is an important aspect of scene setup in making it look realistic, this is the process where you create lightning sources to your environment, shade, shadows and refections. Lighting effects can contribute greatly to the mood and emotional response effected by a scene and can be a difficult art to master. The visualization of light in space, its effect on model cubature and scenery, is one of the great challenges in architectural rendering. The best bet to gain complete control over your lights is to experiment ,ignore standard practices and investigate exactly how your lighting instruments perform and react. A good lighting means everything in the scene is brightly lit so you can see every details.

Transparency - Transparency and light refraction within a transparent material are the key parameters in order to get a realistic rendering of a material like solid glass. In creating your scene photo realistic put simply, you can see shadows through your elements.

Getting the right Angle – having the right angle is one of the most important factor to consider, you have to make sure the important views are viewable in the scene and should not be distorted.

Detailed Models - Building models, is an extremely labor intensive process, even more so than our 3D models. It requires scrupulous attention to small details in order to achieve perfection. Basically a 3D model is a computer simulated wireframe representation of an object. In creating a good 3d models you need a powerful computer and processor to run most of the software. You can then output your 3D model by rendering it. A process that allows you to create a flat image of the model with texture and lighting added to the model to complete your work.

Balance of Entourage – in order to create a realistic rendering you need to populate your scene with people, cars, landscaping, etc. The trick is to find the right balance of elements, and avoid objects that are too unusual or detailed no matter how appealing may seem.

Last but not the least if your aiming for perfections, create a bit of imperfection to the edges of your scenes such as floor tile, glass, dirt on the street and walls to make it realistic.

What makes a Good Rendering?

* The true measure of good rendering is the ability to accurately and persuasively depicts the client's ideas.

* Good rendering should capture details.

*Each is met with a fresh look, based upon extensive experience with a diversity of media and building types, to create a singular expression for each project.

* Has the benefit of making clear and accurate presentations.

* It should be easy to understand, high impact and quick to inspire architectural renderings which can communicate about a proposed architectural design in the best possible manner.

* Evocative works evolves from an open client-artist dialogue which aims to create visage appearance that faithfully reflect designers' and developers' intentions and aspirations.

*Express the intangible emotional and spiritual qualities architecture can possess.

3D architectural rendering brings new designs to virtual life, allowing you to see everything in it's glory as though it was already built. A renewed interest in humanistic architecture has significantly enhanced the value of architectural rendering as a means of linking concept to reality.

Bigbracket Collection

Someone posted a comment on my other blog, and as I was looking at his personal blog I found a lot of cool graphics. I can't help but put some of his works on my blog too hope he doesn't mind it (wink)

Rotoscoping and Chroma Keying

Now let's touch the other side of design, visual effects stuff. Have you heard about rotoscoping and chroma key? Well if not, then let me share you what's this about...

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

Chroma key is a technique for mixing two images or frames together, in which a color (or a small color range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC[1]), greenscreen, and bluescreen. It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein the presenter appears to be standing in front of a large map, but in the studio it is actually a large blue or green background.

These two techniques is used in movie editing and post production film. Learning the two techniques gives you higher edge from other usual graphic artist. If you wan to know more about visual effects work I personally recommend Lazymovie - visual effects workforce partner, it has been proven and tested that they do quality rotoscoping and chroma key work.

Light and Serenity (Architectural Rendering)

As I was surfing around looking for some tips about good architectural rendering, I was amazed by this wonderful work of art which was title as "Light and Serenity". Nicely done by Daloop (don't know the exact name though) The scene looks fantastic, it 's as if a real photo. I love it :-)

You can check out Daloop's Portfolio @ Highend3d. You can see more 3d works on this website.

Cool Business Card

Everyone in the highly competitive business world are trying to be noticeable in order to bit competition right? Moreover in the graphic design industry where creative juices are flowing. The best way to attract potential clients is to create a one of a kind business card that would leave a lasting impression to someone who receive the card.

Some of the Business Card that captivates me....

Web Design 2.0

A simple web design by one of Lazymask: “Clipping path and Image masking Specialist” web designer Rholzen Umpad. A combination of white and blue with a bit of green is very relaxing to see, clean and fresh look was what he aiming for this layout. This was his first design for web 2.0 though. For more of R holzen’s work here’s his portfolio.


Rholzen or Rj as what we call him, also accept freelance so if anyone interested about his service feel free to email him at ayohagreg@yahoo.com

BiboMedia (Digital Arts Category)

As I was arranging my bookmarked websites I stumble upon BiboMedia a photo directory containing a variety of categories from animations, icon, wallpapers and more so. I was captivated by the digital arts category which has thousands of downloadable photos and its for free of course.

Downloaded photos:

Scrapblog

I found a cool website for those people who loves digital scrapbooking. The good thing about this site is that it offers a lot of templates to choose from and you can also create your own style. It's a 2 and 1 website, combination of a scrapbook and blog. Scrapbooking is one of my favorite past time, I'm having so much fun making my own scrapbook here it is...


If you like to make your own digital scrapbook you can go to Scrapblog and
Enjoy!

Admirable Websites

My next entry is about websites that I find amazing. These are not the usual website that you find everywhere, in a way they inspired me. I'm not sure if it has good coding (seo wise) but I'm only interested about the layout and design.

The Power Of Workplace In Creating An Outstanding Design

One of the big factors in creating an outstanding graphic design is the environment. Your environment plays a very important role in creating your design, in a way that you'll get motivated, inspired and gets you on the mood of working your butt off. I'm really inspired when I saw some wonderful workplace and wish I had that too. I love the ambiance of the below offices.

Creating Design Using Clipping Paths

Clipping path is the most common technique when creating graphic designs. Creating clipping paths are very useful for eliminating the background of an image when exporting the image to a page layout Clipping paths are a vector-based version of a layer mask. They perform the same function as a layer mask, except they contain smooth, hard, edges that do not allow for any shading. Clipping paths work just like a normal path, and thus are excellent for working with clip art and other scalable, vector-based images. To create a clipping path, start by drawing a path on your image with the Pen Tool.

For more tutorials about masking images and other graphic editing techniques feel free to go to Lazymask

Having Fun @ Photofunia

I had the chance to visit PhotoFunia, this is an online photo editor which has a variety of styles. I really enjoy this site, I had so much fun and I also share it to my officemates and friends. We all had our different version of each styles. You too can have your own versions just go to www.photofunia.com

My hubby's fan

My Tarpulin

Me and Bakek's Tarpulin

My billboard

3D Architectural Design At LazyAnimation

LazyAnimation is a Scandinavian 3d studio that specializes in architectural rendering and fly-through animation. We house talented Philippine-based 3d artists that are backed by experienced Scandinavian Management dedicated to deliver quality architectural renderings and fly-through animation at a reasonable cost. Know more about our architectural rendering service and take a look at some of our rendering works as well.

Aside from our architectural rendering service, we are also capable in character modelling and animation, industrial rendering and animation, and logo animation.

Going Abstract

Here's another selection of Inspiring Design from Designflavr. Selectively picked from Designflavr - a new art and design aggregator pulling together a variety of different art forms. Featuring Abstract Designs...

DeviantArt's Design

If you've been working so hard and you can't think about anything creative right now, I would suggest the best place to be inspired. Go to DeviantArt, so many amazing works, just love to keep on coming back to this website. You can also post your work and let others comment it.

Some designs I like:

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First Post Ever

I have created my new blog, which is all about arts and design. I've created this blog for me to share my arts and design stuff. I'll also be featuring websites that I find cool and amazing. So keep on dropping by (wink).