SOLUTION
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Producing an artist’s impression for your creative concept can take effort, time and (if the illustrator is not an in-house resource) money too. These are all areas which are frequently not in abundance in a typical pitch scenario. All too often deadlines loom, illustrators are in short supply, and costs are racking up. Piranesi is the solution - in a matter of minutes you can convert your 3D plain rendered to a stunning, persuasive artist's impression. Quickly, simply and cheaply. Whichever 3D modeller you’re using, the likelihood is that there’s a means to directly or indirectly export to an EPix file, Piranesi’s specific image format. Once in Piranesi, follow a simple step-by-step process to creating highly powerful Non-Photorealistic (NPR) visualizations. Thanks to David Walker of DeJong Design Associates for supplying sample step-by-step images from a recent project (click the images for a larger view): |
STEP 1
You import a 3D image from a modeling package or rendering application. Alternatively you can transfer an image as a DXF file or 3DS file into the Vedute viewer (which is supplied with Piranesi) to create your starter image.
STEP 2
You begin work by painting effects, treatments, backgrounds and details onto this image. What’s clever about Piranesi is that it knows what every pixel is doing – what plane it is on, whether it is in the distance or foreground, and so on. So the experience is truly like painting in 3D.
STEP 3
Now you’ve done the basic work you can begin to bring your image to life. You can decide what visual genre you are adopting – watercolour, for example – and start to use artistic effects to emphasize particular features. If you do something you like in a particular way, you can save the tool options as an ‘style’ to use as a short cut in future projects.