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Drawing and rendering

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Frank Lloyd Wright could explain his projects using his hands to dramatize them. It’s a good exercise to conceptualize ideas in a synthetic way. With simple gestures, the idea has to be understood and these gestures are nothing more than abstract drawings as traces of movement. The word and the image are in the end interpretations of an object, a concept, an idea, for example: if we think of a pencil each one will probably have a different mental image, we would need many words to describe it exactly, instead with an image it seems it’s easier and more accurate. Many people say "An image is worth a thousand words" not in all cases of course, but now it works for me. Even being the view, the meaning that can deceive us the most is probably the clearest. Here we use the phrase "Make me a sketch" Ironizing the little sense that the explanation has had. I have to say that some are better at words because they make you draw scenarios in your mind, others the dra...

Render! Render!

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When somebody asks me, what do you work as? Perhaps in a naive way I respond: well, I do renders, infographics, 3d, you know, I use 3d max, AutoCAD, etc. for it. With friends, I assume they have understood it, but I sense in many cases, people don’t understand at all. A render is an image obtained from computer-made models, whether they are in 3d Max, Maya, Blender, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, even Auto CAD 3d, Revit and other programs that I probably don't even know. I have experience with Autocad 3d, 3d Max, Revit and Sketch Up that I learned in Cuba at university, I suppose because it was free. I’m also curious about Rhinoceros 3D, I would love to learn it, maybe later... In these programs what you do is model. What does this mean? It means to create from an idea, a sketch or a plan, a 3d model; usually with a scale (I love numbers). At first I started working with a fellow designer who in his case cared more about the final image than the creation of the objects themselves...