This is really not one of my best works but I'm especially proud of this one. It's an exterior perspective of an office building we were designing in the architectural firm where I'm working at.If you're also an architect and have worked for an architectural firm for some time, you would understand that some projects can be slow-paced and with a very loose time-frame, while others require you to finish the work as fast as your mind can produce a thought. Well this project is of the latter type.
The deadline was at noon the next day and I was given the task of producing the 3d rendering for one of the options for the final look of the building. Although the plans were already complete, the elevations and details are yet to be done. I had to wait until 12 midnight for one of my bosses to finish the design and elevations of the said building. In all fairness to my boss, he meticulously did the elevations in Autocad so that no area is left undone and it would be easier for me to produce the said rendering.
When he finally passed me the Autocad drawings of the elevations, I asked permission if I could just do it at home since I'll be the only one left in the office that midnight if I stayed and I would be able to finish the work faster in my computer at home.
I got home around 1:00 am, and I started work with the perspective using 3ds Max and Autocad. I tried my best to stay awake the whole time I was working with the perspective.
Modeling the building was the most gruelling part of this production since I was already very tired and there were so much to be modeled. Finally, at 8 am, after 7 hours of working and giving my best effort not to fall asleep, I did hit the render button for the final rendering. I did get some rest while the rendering in 3ds Max was in progress. I woke up one hour later and did a fast post production work of the rendering in Photoshop. The post production was composed of adding the trees, the background, the cars and some fast corrections here and there. I finished 10 minutes later, took a bath, dressed up and off to the office for printing.
I got to the office around 10:30 am and met my boss there to check my work. He did asked for some corrections here and there and while they were all easy fixes, it still took me an hour to finally finish the perspective.
Printing was finally done and the copies were finally sent to our clients just on time.
Although the post-production was not that clean, the cars look fake and the background a little off, we found out, after a couple of days, that our clients finally chose an option among two that we submitted and the one that I did was picked.
And that is why I'm proud of this work that I did, even with all the sacrifices and the punishment I undertook. Nothing beats the feeling, as an architect, that all your hard work did not go to waste and you managed to satisfy your clients at the end.
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