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Photo-Perfect™ radiosity rendered 3D architectural animations

To this day it appears to us that 3D radiosity rendered animations are considered out of reach to all other architectural 3D rendering companies. This technique yields superior 3D animated results – the same Photo-Perfect result from the stills. We lead this way through extensive research and investment in hardware.

True 3D landscaping in architectural scenes

Ever seen a 3D landscaped area where the trees rotate around in front of you? Looks weird, doesn't it? We have even seen some where the trees spin around so much you would think they are on roller skates! This is from the technique of placing photographs of plants on flat faces that rotate about so they are always looking at you. It's like having a cardboard cutout of a person with someone behind it turning it so it's always looking at you. You know that you could never be fooled by it, so why would you use an architectural rendering company that tries to use this technique on your buyers?

The reason they do this is because they don't have the ability or resources to process the trees if they were a true 3D object. We do. In fact we create all foreground landscaping branch by branch, leaf by leaf. And we don't skimp on them - we "go to town". It requires skill and technology to make these trees, shrubs and ground cover, but it's worth it.

Render farm

We saw the need for raw "CPU horsepower" many years ago. It is a simple fact that top quality architectural virtual reality 3D rendered artwork needs extensive computing power to enable a timely delivery to the client. That is why we have a "render farm", which is a cluster of computers linked to form a "super computer".

Render farms are not new in the 3D CGI field, but within 3D architectural rendering companies they are still scarce or limited. This is because still images may take only half a day to render, so based on the work an artist can prepare, still images may only need 2 computers running to keep up with the workload. Archiform 3D's visualization quality requires more power per artist due to the 3D radiosity animation requirements.

Currently we run at 33 CPUs per 3D artist, a ratio that we consider unmatched by any other company in this field. We don't contract out to other companies for our render power and all our hardware is kept in-house, dedicated purely to Archiform 3D architectural visualization and animation work.

Price and Build by the architectural scene vs by the picture

Every other architectural rendering company that we can find in this industry prices by the picture. On the face of it you may be getting what you need, but think harder and look further into your real estate marketing needs. Is just one architectural rendering going to be enough, or would it be much better to have a few pictures?

We have always looked at our work as architectural scene building, and priced it as such. This means that in our normal rates you get MANY 3D renderings and images, not just one, the upgrade price to a fully animated architectural presentation is not excessive and we never charge for additional high resolution stills pulled from the animations. The workflow is different and the benefits are far superior to pricing and creating by the picture. Clients see this as a significant advantage in our visualization services and we are now actively showing it's benefits.

3D rendered plan furniture and vector scalable architectural plans

The hardest item to get for doing architectural colored floor plans is furniture. In fact it's so hard some companies avoid it. Considering our massive library of 3D furniture we decided to extend it's abilities and created a version of our virtual reality furniture library just for floor plans. Now you can have the same quality 3D furniture on the sales plan as you have in the virtual reality images. We also implemented vector scalable artwork, so the artwork we give you can be enlarged to almost any size you need.

Historical architectural visualization innovations

We created photomontage, panoramic photographs, and 3D animations so long ago now we forget when we started. We were producing animations in the early 1990s whereas some companies are now claiming animation as the latest and greatest new technique.

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