This final project was a very intensive and time consuming piece of work. During the creation of this third project I used many materials and techniques. Through the use of Autodesk Viz I attempted to bring the warm, rustic feel to my structure that I had imagined. From the beaten wood floor to the exterior wood panels I tried to recreate everything I had in my imagination. The roof was not my first choice; however, the metal roofing that I had imagined did not flow with my design as I had planned. The shelves are a light wooden texture, but failed to convey their detail in the walkthrough.

As far as the lighting goes I used Omni lights to illuminate my building in key spaces. The glass wall curving around the stairs helped in lighting most of the upstairs and some of the downstairs’ sitting area. The camera was created through the use of the walkthrough assistant, allowing me to focus where my viewer would look and what features they would notice. I feel that it achieved most of what I wanted to accomplish and see.

Autodesk Viz was overall a simple program to use for what was asked in this project. The only problem that arose during my assignment was the rendering time. At first I picked ray tracer which gave me a very good image and movie. Nonetheless, after sixteen hours of rendering the walkthrough and only about a third of the way through I decided to cancel and choose a simpler rendering option.

When beginning this project I examined the way my building should be used and the flow of the occupants in the building. With the use of my analytical image I showed my building being filled with a couple in a business meeting and a young woman reading a book in the library. In the meeting room to the left, the lady is presenting her material on the white board while the on looking male chair sits in the chair directly beside her. Outside of the building I decided to place a young child with the man flying a kite to show that the building was also a relaxing space located on a individual’s land.

I started my image by placing my perspective section view in the center of the drawing space. Next I slid a grassy field under the building and a stormy sky in the background. Then I carefully placed a tree line on the horizon with several cutouts. To emphasize to the viewer that the image was a section view I decided to color the background a deep brown. Next I overlapped the rich brown background with a picture of a dirty, rocky surface. In an attempt to let the color of the background seep through the rocky foreground I lowered the opacity percentage. To continue with the emphasizing of the section view I intricately placed root cutouts to show the roots growing from the grassy field.

In my opinion I feel that the Adobe Photoshop programmers did an excellent job on each of the imaging applications. I am comfortable with most of the image applications and believe that all of them are fairly easy to use and as basic as allowable.