I grabbed some of my favorite diagrams developed for my thesis project from a few years back. They actually have been living in this site under the “about me” section, but you have to dig a little to get to them. I wanted to post them because they were really simple to make but received a lot of good feedback during pinups. It seemed in thesis that I spent 95% of my time thinking and researching, and 5% actually producing. When pinups did roll around, I wanted to avoid having bare or unfinished looking diagrams. One way I avoided this was to always have a digital model in flux (usually Sketchup), especially one with all of the surrounding site buildings massed out. With this, I was able to generate sections, plans, and perspectives to quickly Photoshop over for decent looking diagrams. The other way I found to give diagrams the appearance that more work went into them then actually did was by overlaying aerial maps. In fact, the first thing I did when starting a new project was to piece together high res maps from Google Earth just for this reason and maybe some research haha.
The first diagram takes a basic Sketchup model rendered in Kerkythea as a clay model, and overlays it on top of a desaturated aerial image of the site. Then some color was Photoshopped on top. You can see that the aerial doesn’t line up perfectly but that didn’t really mater to me at the time. I also didn’t take time to remove the parking lot over my design. It took a few minutes to render in Kerkythea, and then an hour or so Photoshopping everything together.
For the next diagram, I quickly massed out some ideas on top of my existing Sketchup model I already had going and exported the sections. In Photoshop, I darkened the section cut and stretched large words over the cut to hide the lack of detail in the model. The color overlays also help to hide the “Sketchup” look.
最后一张分析图的制作过程让我很高兴。我使用了Grasshopper,并且在我进行大地分析的时候生成了大量的 3D 模型。我想在展板上创造一些受欢迎的流程图,所以我用模型生成了一些Kerkythea基础渲染。因为分析图里有所有的几何图形和信息,我没有添加颜色并希望分析图能够简洁。每一个渲染图花费了几分钟的时间,完成了所有步骤花费了几个小时。大部分时间花在了打开不同的模型并导出的过程。
I’m happy with how this last diagram turned out. I had been playing around with Grasshopper and had generated a ton of 3D models while studying site forces. I wanted to create some process diagrams for a pinup, so I took the models and produced some Kerkythea clay renderings. Because of all of the geometry and information in the diagrams, I avoided adding color in hope of simplifying things. Each rendering took a couple of minutes and everything was finished in a few hours. Most of the time was spent opening the different models and exporting.