is realistic renderings necessary in an Academic portfolio?

[Guest zainakh]

Hello,

I have this issue that I suck in renderings and I need to pack my school projects now in a portfolio, I have a bout 2 weeks.. all the projects are ready but renderings not... I don't know how to use basic rendering plugins like V-ray and it seems that learning it takes time.. does the fact of not having realistic 3D renderings undervalue my project quality or the portfolio quality in all?

 

please advise me.. I have good quality projects but really bad renderings..

Edited December 27, 2015 by zainakh

[Francisco Penaloza]

What type of portfolio are we talking about??

if is Architectural, you can go a long way using hand sketches or hand made renderings. you could also do a combo of sketchup hand painted, or elevations painted/ colored in photoshop. or everything in Photoshop. You don't need to do V-Ray, Maxwell, Corona or any render engine to express your design intent. Even nice layout elevation could do.

 

If you are preparing a portfolio as graphic artist, well.... yes you need to have nice images ;P

[RyderSK]

I understand that by "Academic" you mean bulk of your school work, but portfolio design follows the receiver, so it should be tailored to specifics of place you will be applying to with it. I presume you mean architectural offices.

 

By all means, arch studios aren't looking at visuals as deciding factor but they do like to use novices as helping force and good visuals might refer you from endless drafting of toilets to creating some internal imagery instead :- ) It's also always plus. But hardly necessity.

 

Quality of visuals also isn't judged by its 'realism', definitely not on architectural soil.

 

You can present your school projects in clean and attractive way without any kind of rendered visuals just fine. Since you successfully finished school I presume you already know how to do that.

[nicolacandussi]

I know your 2 weeks are up but just in case you're still looking for a plugin that's easy to use, you can try out Ambient Occlusion for Sketchup. It's easy to use and makes renders quickly.

 

Hope you got what you needed.

Edited August 4, 2016 by nicolacandussi