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上周我简要地发表了一些图，我用这些图片来制作这个特殊项目的渲染页面。我没有单独把上面这些页面发布出来。我认为这周应该将如何达到这一步的分解步骤展示给大家，也就是说，我会演示确定场景、构图等过程。

扩展页面看上去虽然简单，但是页面设计中也经历了许多尝试和错误才达到现在的效果。设计定稿之前还经过了许多次重复工作。在我第一次尝试时，我几乎不能将所有元素结合在一起。更重要的是，即使没有其他想法，我还是不能接受首次尝试的结果。我反复分析，因为这样就会激发创造力。在设计中，我倾向于首先跳进过去的解决方案的圈子里，但是我强迫自己寻求其他的解决办法，摆脱以往的桎梏。

建筑图是很费时间的，所以我很小心，以免制作一些我最后构图中用不到的渲染。因此开始我将选好的潜在的场景放在一起，我觉得这些场景能将故事描述的很清楚。

Last week I briefly posted some images that I had developed for the “rendering” spread of this particular project. I didn’t post the spread itself which is shown above. I thought I would spend this week breaking down how I got to this point. In other words, the process of deciding views, composition, etc.
As simple as the spread may seem, a lot of trial and error went into the design as with all of the spreads seen so far. It’s all about developing many iterations before finalizing the design. I rarely have everything come together on my first try. More importantly, I often don’t accept the first outcome without also experimenting with several other ideas. I do this iterative analysis because it encourages creativity. I tend to jump to past solutions first when designing, but forcing myself to look at multiple other solutions requires me to think more outside of the box.
Architecture illustrations are time consuming so I wanted to be careful not to render something that I ultimately wouldn’t use in the final composition. I therefore started by putting together a selection of potential views that I thought told the story well.

Above, a selection of interior views exported from my Sketchup model/从Sketchup模型中找来的室内场景

Above, a selection of exterior views exported from Sketchup/从Sketchup中找来的外部场景

场景选好后，我开始尝试不同的页面布局。这里有一些重要影响布局设计的重要元素：
1. 层级：什么图是最重要的，怎样使观察者首先看到这些？
2. 首页：我需要多少留白？
3. 对比：图片之间对比太强烈吗或它们之间相互增强吗？
4. 可读性：图片容易理解吗？
5. 和其他页之间的关系：这个页面怎样和项目的其他页面很好地关联？
6. 文本：页面上留有文本的空间吗？如果留了，那么怎样和其他元素协调？
7. 页面的数量：我需要用更多的页面恰当地表达出我的观点吗？

With the views selected, I began testing out different layouts. There were a couple of key factors that influenced the layout design:
1. Hierarchy: What images are the most important and how do I get the viewer to look at those first?
2. Page Coverage: How much white space, if any, do I want to have?
3. Contrast: Do the images compete too much with one another or do they enhance one another?
4. Readability: Is it easy to understand the images?
5. Relationship to other pages: How well will this spread relate to the other spreads of this project?
6. Text: Is there room for text and if so, how will it work with the composition?
7. Number of spreads: Do I need more than one spread to get my point across properly?

我反复查看试图决定是否用超过两个页面表现效果图。最后，我只用了两个页面，看上去有紧凑的感觉，但是和剩余页面非常协调。我并不喜欢有太多页面的作品集，所以我经常用最少的页面来展示我的设计。我也让所有图片都全出血，并且使彼此的间隔缩到最小，用这种方式让页面的颜色饱满。

因为我对页面布局有了一个清晰的计划，我完全知道我需要在什么图上花时间渲染，把什么图要排在后面。这也意味着我制作过程会更流畅，保证图片使用相同的色调和灯光。

I went back and forth multiple times trying to decide whether or not to use more than two pages for the illustrations. Ultimately, I went with a single two page spread which has a denser feel but I think works best with the rest of the pages. I am not a big fan of portfolios with too many pages so I often defaut to designs with the minimum amount that best tells the story. I also went with all full bleed images with minimal separation between them which saturates the pages with color.
Since I had a clear plan for the layout, I knew exactly what images I needed to spend time rendering. Knowing what images were going to be next to one another also meant that I could post process more effectively ensuring that images used similar color tones and lighting.

最后一个页面上会有许多信息，但是通过使用一个简单的网格布局会达到可控方式。我很想知道大家认为哪个页面布局是最好的，是有更多空白的排版？还是有四页用来放渲染图的排版？我曾考虑过做一页白天的渲染图，在对应的位置再做一页夜景的渲染图。

The final result is a spread that has a lot of information, but does it in a controlled manner through the use of a simple grid layout. I’m curious what the consensus is out there as to which layout you think would have worked the best. More white space? Four pages instead of two? I even considered doing a daytime spread and a corresponding night time spread.


下面这些图是所有页面的组织这一步的过程：

Below is the progress of all of the spreads up to this point:

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