ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING STYLE GUIDE

This guide serves to cover what you need to know about the different architectural rendering styles, environments and effects I offer. Most people know if they like a render, but have a hard time identifying what it is they want. These elements are usually rendering styles, color palette, camera effects and angles, lighting and photo editing effects. This guide will help you understand the different components, styles, and techniques that go into a fantastic rendering, and how you can best take advantage of them for your specific project.

Styles, Environments and Effects

    • Photorealistic

    • Interior

    • Bright Day Time

    • Dusk

    • Dawn

    • Night

    • Snow

    • Bad Weather

    • Overcast

    • Color Sketch

    • Watercolor

    • Oil Painting

    • Sketchup Renders

    • Plain

      • Grass or surface of choice, with clouds

    • Design Showcase

      • White or plain colored background.

    • Open Street Map

      • Import buildings, elevation data, roads, water, green spaces and transit infrastructure as simple 3D shapes.

      • Add a whole suburb or city area to your visualization.

      • This feature may not always be accurate. It is only provided to give an idea of a project in its real environment. For a more realistic visual, it is better to work with models from scratch, while using this feature as a template.

    • Beach

    • Mountain Range

    • Forest

    • Desert

    • Tropical

    • Suburban

    • Winter

    • Downtown

    • Residential

    • Animated Phasing

    • Mass Move

    • Advanced Move

    • Animate Light Colors

    • Time Warp

    • Orthographic View

    • 2-Point Perspective

    • 360 Panorama

    • Depth of Field

    • Photo-Matching

    • Handheld Camera

    • Film Age

    • Exposure

    • Motion Blur

    • Lens Flare

    • Chromatic Abberations

    • Fish Eye

    • Tilt Shift

    • Three Quarter Street Level

    • Aerial/Drone View

    • Plan View

    • Street Level (Elevation)

    • Section

    • 3D Floor Plan (Isometric)

    • Cutaway (3D View showing interior without exterior walls)

    • Shadow Analysis (Plan view studying angles of sun in relation to building/project)

    • Sun Angles

    • God Rays

    • Sun Study

    • Volumetric Sunlight

    • Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

    • Real Skies

    • Sky and Clouds

    • Contrails

    • Volume Clouds

    • Horizon Cloud

    • Moon

    • Snow/Fog

    • Wind

    • Precipitation

    • Outlines

    • Oil Painting

    • Watercolor

    • Color Correction

    • Pastel Sketch

    • Sketch

    • Sharpen

    • Painting

    • Vignette

    • Noise

    • Bloom

    • Analog Color Lab

    • Manga

    • Styrofoam

    • Selective Saturation

    • Bleach

    • Cartoon

    • Material Highlight

    • Blueprint

    • AI Artist Styles

    • Shadow

    • Reflection

    • Side by Side 3D Stereo

    • Print Poster Enhancer

    • Sky Light

    • HyperLight

    • Near Clip Plane

    • Global Illumination