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How can a 3D model be transformed into a work of art? Is it the illumination, the camera settings, the props, or the composition that bring a project to life and transforms it from a flat image into an inspiring representation of your architectural project?  \nWhether you are a new AutoCAD ® or Revit ® user or a production professional looking for a new angle on your projects, this lecture will immerse you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities available in the Autodesk Building Design Suite.  \nBy learning basic principles of architectural photography, and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you will gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.  \nLearning Objectives  \n• Identify the qualities of great interior and exterior architectural renderings  \n• Implement best practices for setting up lighting, camera settings, materials and composition  \n• Acquire knowledge of visualization resources for architectural projects  \n• Get inspired with a gallery of architectural rendering examples  \nAbout the Speaker:  \nLeo Casado is an architect, with more than 15 years of Autodesk® software experience, and currently working as a Sr. Web Marketing Manager for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, Leo worked as an architectural designer and CAD manager in the US and Latin America. He has also taught several CAD classes at the Boston Architectural College.  \n[leo.casado@autodesk.com](leo.casado@autodesk.com)  \nIntroduction  \nArchitectural renderings can be much more than 3D representations of your AutoCAD or Revit projects; they are communication tools that give you the opportunity to help clients understand an architectural project before it is built.  \n“I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”  \n—Johnny Depp  \nb. 1963, American actor  \nBut for clients to be truly inspired by a rendering, you must approach your images at a personal level, so the results are not just “cool,” but meaningful. This can only be achieved by not only knowing the architectural project itself, but also understanding the vision of how your client sees herself using the architectural space.  \nThe best visualization ideas come from the imagination of your clients, and your job is to illustrate these stories into renderings. But how do you know what stories to tell? You just have to ask questions. Not only questions about square footage, location or number of rooms, but personal questions! If you are rendering a single-family home, ask your client “do you like to cook?” or “how do you spend your free time at home?” or “show me your favorite piece of furniture.” This will give you dozens of ideas for 3D images, and it will also inform you how to best focus your time and production resources.  \nArchitectural renderings are not much different that photographs, and once you know what story you want to tell, you can adopt many of the techniques used in architectural photography to improve the quality of your work, regardless of the software application that you are using, or project budget. If you know what you want to communicate, and you have purpose behind the decision of what techniques you use, you will produce work that will impress and delight the most demanding clients.  \n1. Cameras  \nLenses Focal Length  \nCamera lenses have a field of view determined by the focal length, which is measured in millimeters from the middle of the lens to the camera sensor or film. In AutoCAD or 3ds Max, there are no physical properties of lenses, instead, there are simulated parameters designed to produce results like in real photography.  \nLenses of 50mm are usually considered to have a normal field of view, as they are close as the human eye field of view. The ones that are l","cbCaigM90s87vsvR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigM90s87vsvR","pdf",3450575,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Learning Objectives\n# 1. 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