For the luxury Levara Resort in Grenada, Herrick and the Visualhouse team needed to create eighteen photorealistic exterior images, with complete modeling and rendering, in just five days:

“We made great use of mental ray on Levara,” says Herrick. “We created the still imagery and the subsequent animation in 3ds Max with mental ray. We wouldn’t have been able to do this project without that combination. Batch rendering is a critical part of our workflow, and we were able to net render over 1000 frames overnight in a structured manner. It worked out really, really well.”

“For large projects, companies will typically create their models in AutoCAD software, and then send it through to us in DWG format. We’ll apply all of our textures, lighting, and so on. The great part is that, if they come back and want changes, we don’t have to panic at all. We just use the File Link system to reupload the project. That is fantastic. On top of that, the 3ds Max toolset is just brilliant, not least because you weld vertices together with ease. The Spline tools are second-to-none.

Visualhouse

Busy architectural visualization studio, Visualhouse, with offices in London and Shanghai uses Autodesk 3ds Max for projects around the world.

“We use 3ds Max intensely and constantly. It’s the industry standard for 3D, and it is also the best. It is the only tool for Visualhouse.”
- Robert Herrick, Owner and Founder, Visualhouse, London