My personal arch-viz projects created within thousands hours of learning 3D softwares.

These are the best arch-viz personal projects I've created through thousands of hours of self-taught 3d modeling, texturing, and rendering. 

full CGI render of the 3x3 Retreat / Estudio Diagonal

About the architecture:

As one half of Chile-based Estudio Diagonal, engineer Juan Pablo Delgado saw an architectural opportunity in a forest that developers had left “abandoned”. The site, which is tucked away near his parents’ house, has no vehicular access and only a couple walking paths, but its remote and wild feel (and its proximity to existing utility lines) inspired Delgado to buy the land and craft a minimalist, low budget retreat with his partner, architect Sebastian Armijo

(According to the article on dwell)

Remaking the "Meteora 3D render" in Blender Cycles, which was originally rendered with Corona for 3DsMax.

It took me about a week from planning out the specific workflow for it to exporting the final composition and color grading in PTS, although I only truly "dedicatedly" worked full-day on this project during the weekend when I had free time.

I intentionally chose Meteora because it's basically a glass structure - clear thin glass for the vegetation exhibition and diffuse translucent glass for the lights. Glass is basically Cycles' Achilles heels, and to make glass rendered with Cycles looks as close as possible to Corona or V-ray is a challenge I want to take on.

The vegetation exhibition is also a way for me to showcase some of the best quality trees & foliages you can find in any market for Blender.

And lastly, those "simple looking" concrete materials, is actually another challenge for me to replicate them with my texture painting skills inside Mixer.

Elm Hill, Norwich is a historic cobbled lane in Norwich, Norfolk with many buildings dating back to the Tudor period. It is a famous Norwich landmark and features the Briton's Arms coffee house, The Stranger's Club, Pettus House (Elm Hill Collectables),The Tea House (in Wrights Court) and the Dormouse Bookshop.

It has been used as a location for television and film productions, most notably for the 2007 film Stardust[1] and also Netflix's 2020 film Jingle Jangle. And now recreated in this CGI render with Blender and Cycles. 

Japanese street scene based on a comic drawing on Pinterest. 

CGI render of old apartment buildings that exist in real life in Hanoi, Vietnam.