Here’s a simple illustration showing Draka’s cables wrapped around the earth. The cable ends are from our library of modelled cables we’re gradually building, allowing us to shoot the cables from any angle and giving us the freedom that would cost much more using photography. The earth images are courtesy of NASA and the space image is professionally cobbled together from photographs from the Hubble telescope, bless them one and all 
Another impossible perspective illustration was completed for our end client Draka. Our library of computer-generated cable models is proving useful, we keep using them and saving our client money in the process by doing away with photography, and at the same time giving them more freedom with the composition - it’s a win-win situation! This time around we even went the route of computer-generated people too. In fact, we’re not real either - we’re just the figment of our own, rather pink and fluffy candy floss imaginations. Who said that? I know you’re out there - come on, show yourselves! <eep>
You know how it is - your air source heat pumps are in Germany, you need them in the UK for a photoshoot, you need to find a couple of locations that really show them off to their best, and all this in a couple of weeks. You can fly them in, send your scout out to hassle the local estate agents, grab that photographer, set both shots up at either end of the country, pray the weather is decent on that day and get the shot (ah - did we mention it was autumn?).
Or you can turn to albino igil and we’ll make it all for you in a week without leaving the hutch.
We like a simple life - perhaps that should be our new tag line
A different take on a well-known theme
We’ve done a fair few brochures for developers, who come to us for our mix of graphic design and 3D visualisation skills. This client wanted something a bit different from the usual CGI offering of ‘building by day’ or ‘building by night’.
Playing on the fact that the major selling point for this development is its proximity to the transportation network, we chose to show this network in a striking way.
First came the aerial photography of the site. Then, as most of it was stil dirt and the roundabout was unfinished, we had to rebuild the landscape on computer. We then used satellite photographs of the area to trace over and reproduce the road network in our 3D software which we then used to throw thousands of little tiny lights down the various roads (yes, we do have god-like power when it comes to our little 3D world). We then turned the day shot into night (there we go again), and montaged the light streaks into the shot. A bit of graphic design to hold it all in place and there we have a very untypical brochure that will stand out on the shelves.
Lovely
They’re like little dolls’ houses, with teeny tiny designer furniture. Our client asked for floorplans fully furnished with furniture of their choice and specified decoration.
We’ve no idea where this building is, but being totally internet-based we have the infrastructure in place to ensure this kind of project goes smoothly. We’ve never met the developer, we’ve never been to Brazil, we’ve never met the architect, all communication was carried out remotely and every aspect carried out from our studio (apart from the photography of course!).
Call us hermit anti-socials if you like but we’re happy and warm in the hutch
These are a mix of finished visuals and studies.
As promised, here’s a very low resolution version of the Tortuga Beach and Spa Resort animation completed a few months ago. Audio was provided by Sounding Post and the title animation by Finishing Post - everything else is ours The final animation was rendered to D1 PAL Widescreen for TV playback and 1024 x 576 square pixel for computer playback.
We were fortunate enough to land a planning application image for a new commercial development in Ashby de la Zouch, Derbyshire. We handled on-site photography after discussion on camera angles with the architect and used our real-lens technology in our 3D software to match the computer lens with the physical camera lens - lens distortion is all then accounted for. Luckily the sun decided to shine…for a very short while. Perhaps we’d just witnessed summer!
It seems it’s the season for planning applications and we managed to complete another set of visuals for this proposed development in Belper, Derbyshire. With this project we took the architect’s SketchUp files and used the geometry as the base for our work. This saved us time, and therefore the client money - which made them very happy. We like happy clients
