Architectural Renderings?
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- tkmeister0
you got to find a software that's easy. Maybe Rhino is a good start and relatively cheap. But think about what you want to do and how far you want to go. Each software has its own strengths and weaknesses. Also, if you are going to do this professionally, you need to learn the software that's popular, like 3Dmax is very popular within architecture industry where as a movie/motion studio uses Maya or C4D more.
3D software is a bit more harder to learn than photoshop. I used to do a lot of archi modeling and rendering. Perfecting rendering and knowing all the ins&outs out of software takes time and practice. Learning how to do 3D modeling is a easy part, it's the rendering techniques that take a lot of time to master.
- imnotadesigner0
Sketchup!
boom!
- formed0
We use 3D Studio with VRay
Occasionally Form-Z for design work.
Clients send us anything from Revit files to SketchUp files but rarely are they any use for quality renderings.
FYI - to get pro quality renderings will take a very long time. tkmeister has some good points - figure out what you want 3D for.
3D Studio, at 3500 + 800 for VRay ain't for the faint of heart. We use it due to the compatibility in the arch viz world. If it weren't for that we'd switch platforms to something like C4D or Modo.