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Originally Posted by Wizened Variations
I stand corrected. Yup, it is. So the cute little road in Front is 15th. Need to get Ryan to duplicate the background in a shot. It is difficult to get the Speer viaduct to move north of the Elitch tower doing the google ground level thing. Looks like the background, in part, was pieced together from https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hampto...76c789662b43633:0xa5377c871b971e36?hl=en The moutains in the background match.
Regardless, considering the available tools, a shoddy piece of work. |
As someone who has produced these kind of renders before and will no doubt produce more in the future I always find these kind of comments hilarious.
This may not be the universal truth across all architecture offices and clientele but speaking from my own experience a lot of these renders are produced rather quickly usually on short notice. The clients usually opt not to pay for the added costs of professional rendering services unless they intend to use the images foir marketing. Consequently the job of producing renders is often handed to the guy with the lowest billing rate, least other responsibilities, and most computer skills, in other words a recent college grad. The goal is to show the building, you know that thing that the architect is actually responsible for. Streets, cars, trees, people etc are somewhat periphery to that goal and are really only there to serve as basic grounding so that the building is not a floating object in space.
These renders do sometimes make their way to a public forum where the scrutiny falls on these objects. It is a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario. "Why are there ghost people?" So you use real people and the question becomes "Why do the people not represent the exact socio/racial/economic class that I(not the client, BTW) think they should?"
Same with cars, try as I might there are not a lot of stock models of beater '93 Toyota Corolla's floating about. What ends up in the renders are the kinds of cars that people care enough about to spend time modeling, you know nice ones.
Buses and trees and foreground buildings tend to block the view of the building that you are trying to show the client, so they often get removed, minimized or ghosted out.
In the end though this probably comes down to architects as a profession doing a poor job of communicating to the public what it is that they actually do. Design, yes, but also, administration, project management, coordinator of all of the professional services(engineers, landscape, interiors, contractors, clients) required to produce a builkding, etc. In other words architects are very adept at Photoshop, but it is not really our job.
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