how often do you render artsy for clients?

[SgWRX]

see attached. how often are you rendering images like this for clients? i can see doing it in "design" phase. but in the end switching to a more realistic look. is that your experience as well.

Edited April 13, 2017 by SgWRX

[Justin Hunt]

it comes up from time to time, although I must say that slapping a few photoshop filters or running the render through photosketcher and calling it artsy is not a good solution. It might be fine for quick concept design phase stuff but if its for marketing then you have to pay a bit more attention to your craft. Just ask the likes of Scott Baumberger or Ernest Burden how easy it is to produce beautiful NPR images. I am sure you have read this article http://www.cgarchitect.com/2001/12/interview-with-ernest-burden-iii-of-oreally-inc, it sums it up pretty nicely

[Chris MacDonald]

We are forever doing loose/sketchy stuff in the initial stages of design, everything from basic sketchup exports/fotosketcher to hand drawing over traces and so on, but ultimately when it comes to marketing images they are always photoreal.

[SgWRX]

this is in line with my thoughts then. that a sketchy look is most useful in the design iterations, but a "final" deliverable is better as a photoreal. i'm finding the sketchy look often takes a bit of time especially when there are tons of changes. i think if i were to render out a mass as it's own layer then i could move other layers around in photoshop (ppl, foliage) to save time. you know, do all the extra stuff in PS. thanks.

 

edit: justin yeah that's a great article, i read that a LONG time ago and had completely forgot about! that was back the day!