A Tiny House

Back in November I applied to a job at an architectural rendering firm and was turned down because I didn't have anything in my portfolio to show that I was capable of photoreal renders of architecture and nature. That was discouraging to me at the time and so I set out to prove that I could. I choose to model a tiny house because of the scale of the building, while Ford Field would be an amazingly fun and awesome thing to model, I wanted a project that I could model in its entirety in a relatively short time. That, and my fiancee is in love with tiny houses so I wanted to make her one of her own.

Here are some images showing my work as I went along:

I started with a floorplan that I found online and went ahead and modeled the tiny house itself with nothing inside.

Once I had the building I then went through the process of modeling out the objects and furnature inside the house according to how I thought it should look.

The next step was to start creating and applying materials to the geometry of the house.

This is the first test render with mental ray. I was trying to get the light to come through the glass cups on the chandelier.

With some tweaking I was able to make it look much better.

Then I went on to finish converting the materials to mental ray materials and fine tuned the settings to what I wanted.

The first couch was actually two chairs, I combined them to make the most out of the tiny space.

Once I was happy with the inside I moved on to the outside. This is the first test render of the grass I put down.

Here I have made quite a bit of progress on the outside, but I wasn't yet happy with how the background had turned out so I went back to the drawing board.

In this image I put up a white fence and made a forest out of 2d renders from different angles of the foreground trees. After this I whipped up some rose bushes and climbing ivy on the house and became very happy with the final result that you see on the main page of my portfolio.