Rendering resources

[Blair LeJeune]

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Drawing-Landscape-Architecture-Representation/dp/0470403977/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359138238&sr=8-2&keywords=brad+cantrell

heres the book we use in school. it teaches everything from setting up line-work  quick perspectives, to diagrams. i love it and it has made my workflow much faster and efficient, while still getting my point across. 

[Jim Anderson]

Thanks for the reply.  I have actually bought that book in the past and didn’t care for it, so I returned it.  It may have been a little advanced for me at the time.  I will give it another look,

Jim

[Andres F. Pineda]

Hey Jim,

A wonderful resource while I was learning at school was:

http://www.alexhogrefe.com/tutorials/  here you will find a little bit of everything (Effects, Styles)

More specifically on your topic:

http://www.alexhogrefe.com/site-plan-tutorial/

The plan shown here was made in 3d, the post-production work was done in Photoshop so you can take some tips and ideas to begin working on your own style:

http://instatuts.com/featured/creating-a-detailed-master-plan-rende…

 

As far as CAD Blocks:

http://cben.net/

http://www.cadblocksfree.com/

http://www.cadcorner.ca/cadblocks/archblocks.php

 

Here are some additional plan rendering Web Resources that you could find useful:

Texture maps:

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

http://www.imagecels.com/

http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/index.php

http://www.3dmd.net/gallery/index.php?cat=2

http://www.californiapictures.com/rockstock.html

http://www.animax.it/# 

http://www.cgsd.com/texture/sample.html

http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.html

http://textures.forrest.cz/

 

Aerial Photograhy:

http://www.terraserver.com/

Kite Aerial Photography:

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/

Hope this helps a bit.

-Andres

 

[Jim Anderson]

Andres,

You gave me a lot of great resources.  Thanks a lot.  I appreciate the time you took to put this together,

Thanks again,

Jim

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