Dan Rodgers 3D Artist | Modelling & Visualisation Portfolio
3D artist modelling and visualisation portfolio. Specialising in archiectural visualisations and stylised 3D models
Technology Centre
I have been sorting a few pieces of work out for my final year portfolio and decided that it would be worth taking another look at the exterior image I already have for the Technology Centre project, nothing major as time is pretty tight now. The main changes were; the camera position, the HDRi and work done in Photoshop.
Technology Centre Exterior Visualisation – (click for larger image)
There are quite a few things that need completely redoing in this scene, the grass and vegetation and the stone wall surrounding the plinth have been bugging me quite a bit. But it’s interesting to see how much better you can make an image with a couple of minor changes.
House in Goido Work Space
I’ve needed to make an interior image for a while now and after searching through ArchDaily for some inspiration I came across House in Goido by Fujiwarramuro Architects.
There were a few really nice interior images but in the end I decided to try and recreate the office/work space with a few tweaks. One of which gave me the chance to have a more productive play with Mudbox, which I used for sculpting and texturing the beams. Original photograph by Toshiyuki Yano.
House-in-Goido interior render
Thanks to VizPeople for the use of their free models (chair, tree & rock ornament).
Ericsson’s Ericofon re-rendered
I’ve been getting a few images together for my portfolio recently and ended up re-rendering the Ericsson’s Ericofon that I made nearly a year ago for one of 3dTotal’s speed modelling challenges. The original render was done when I had just switched over to using Vray and there were a few things that didn’t look right.
Here’s the updated render.
Technology Centre – One down, two more to go.
So, I’ve finished the first of the three renders I’ve got planned for this project and I’m pretty happy with how it’s turned out. I may still make a few minor alterations if I get chance, but for now it’s finished 
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Feel free to leave any feedback in the comments.
Technology Centre w.i.p Update
I managed to find some time to work on these visualisations this week, I thought I had pretty much finished modelling and texturing everything for this image but I’ve just realised that I still need to make the sun shades for the ground floor windows 
after that its just a matter of rendering and some playing around in Photoshop.
This is how its looking at the minute.
Technology Centre Visualisations w.i.p
It seems like ages since I have properly updated my blog. I’ve been pretty busy with uni work for the past couple of months and have finally finished my first (of two) final year projects, which means I can spend my free time working on the visualisations.
The project brief was to design a building to house the commercial research branch of the Huddersfield University Engineering School. The building will be mixed use and contain offices, research laboratories and specialist workshop spaces, fast and efficient construction methods are also major requirements.
My final design is a glulam portal frame with Modcell straw bale prefabricated external walls for their extremely good insulation and structural properties. Other technologies that at present in the final design are;
- A natural/solar ventilation ‘chimney’ working with an automatic window system to assist with natural ventilation.
- The design maximises solar gains for both light and heat throughout the year.
- Rain & grey water collection and treating system with large underground storage to help with surface water.
- Bio-fuel boiler with multi-zone underfloor heating system controlled by an intelligent building services monitoring system so all user needs are met.
- 2 PV covered car porches (total 240m²) will supply building with some electrical power and provide free security lighting for the surrounding car park.
- Car porches provide facilities for charging electrical vehicles.
- Ground floor finish made from crushed recycled materials mixed with resin.
- Large draught lobby to minimse heat loss when entering and exiting the building.
- Concrete used to a minimum throughout the project, but when required eco-concrete is used.
I’ll cover the technology more thoroughly when the visualisations are done, but for now here are a couple of progress renders from the weekend. The building was created using ArchiCAD 16 and then 3ds max & Vray were used for the renders.
