A couple months ago, one of my architects showed me their latest plug-in which creates a rendered model. Not a single rendering but the entire model – you can actually walk around the darn thing.
Not only that, the rendering process only took a couple minutes.
They made a point of clicking render in my presence and a few conversation points later, I was walking around in a rendered model.
Not your flat planes of color that you seein your typical BIM 3D view, a rendered model with lights and everything.
Obviously, it wasn’t as polished as a professional single shot pretty drawing rendering. But damn!
One of my first projects in the profession was to work on a small quad-plex complex renovation for an architectural illustrator Phil Ishimaru. I remember some gorgeous watercolors on his office walls.
It still boggles my mind, how far we’ve gone in this short career of mine. I stepped right into this career as the world was changing, from graphite on vellum hand drafting to walking around in VR.
