Haris Piplas

I thought I would contribute some different digital and hand techniques I’ve experimented with over the last few semesters as an undergrad. Before I returned to school for Landscape Architecture I enrolled in a 12 month cad drafting course and read all the landscape graphics books I could get my hands on, which still seem sort of…[Read more]

Does anybody have any suggestions or examples for rendering a master plan in a desert environment? I’m trying to finish up my capstone project so I can graduate and I’ve run into a little snag. I go to school in the south so drawing a rocky barren landscape with clusters of cactus is a first.

what is the best size of image so that it does not distort, I noticed that many of the images, including mine are being stretched into a tall and “squeezed” format, are these do to i9mage size or my computer settings?

thought I would add a few images, I work mostly digital but started with ADs, Prismacolors, and pencil, Am loving Corel Sketchpad, Corel PainterXI, and Photoshop, base work is done in AutoCad, Sketchup, Sketchpad, or scanned original, rendered on Wacom Cintiq in combination of Painter and Photoshop…

Great to see examples of everyone’s work!

I won’t post the five pictures because they are really large but the season change in these is really good.

http://www.evermotion.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=74441

I like the onyx trees.

my bad.
http://www.jamesshaw.co.nz/blog/?p=138

what blog…

I found this blog from a guy at squintopera. I haven’t looked at it much yet but
it seems pretty good.

I also like in the tutorial how he applied aging to the building concrete.

This is a pretty sweet plugin, much better than messing around with cutout maps

no i havent. that is money.

Has anybody used the Ivy Generator for max? It is really good. plus it is free. This guy used it on the side of the building.

My favourite is the last one and I think the inclusion of text makes it especially interesting

second one is definitively a favourite. love the light in the courtyard.

I make my sketch in Sketchup but render is very problem for me…I mean that I ‘m finding a program but no crack for several day…this makes me crazy…please give me a trick…

they’re all “pretty good” though…

second one from the top is straight cash…

im not sure about artlantis. i have heard good things and bad things… do you have access to any other software? maxwell or 3ds? if not i can ask around, maybe do a google image search or somethin?

Vray’s global illumination and hdr lighting is the best. I never really liked mentalray