Architectural Rendering

Project goals and communication are the first steps for your architectural rendering. Our project coordinator will discuss the needs and also the limitations (such as time or budget) that help decide the best course of action for your project. Sometimes we can offer unique ideas for conveying the ideas your architectural renderings or animations need to show.

Based on these discussions we would provide you with a detailed proposal with review dates, delivery date and clearly defined deliverables.

Here’s where you come in. We can create whatever you design from anything you give us, but the more detail you provide, the faster your architectural rendering will be completed. We have created beautiful architectural animations from anything from napkin sketches of buildings to fully modeled CAD designs - both 2D and 3D. Often clients also provide reference samples - a previous architectural design element they want to include, an architectural rendering that has the lighting they prefer, an image from a magazine with a preferred style of flooring, etc. In any case, between clear communication and reference imagery we can arrive at the end product that serves your needs.

If you haven’t settled down on the fine details yet, that’s okay! Our animators have a keen eye for composition and interior decorating, and can create a space to fit any tone or theme.

The magic starts! Our team starts virtually "building" your architectural rendering. At this phase we are not concerned with lighting or coloration, just getting the model's shape and dimension accurately built. Once your architectural visualization and the surrounding area is constructed, we can discuss how everything fits together, and ensure accuracy.

All of the materials, such as paint, wallpaper, stucco, flooring, wood grains, fabrics, etc. are applied and lighting is set up. If your architectural rendering requires accurate sunlight, we can set the date and time of day accurately so that the sun streams in the windows or shadows the land exactly as it would in the real world.

Exterior architectural renderings often require detailed landscaping and we maintain a large library of common decorative plants, from potted plants and flowers to shrubs and trees.

Interior architectural renderings often require all kinds of environmental props, from book-stuffed bookshelves to sofas, beds and tables. Trinity maintains a large stock library of detailed and realistic 3D models so that you can choose from among hundreds of stock furniture and art if you don't need a specific model created by us for your interior design.

If your final deliverable includes an animation, this is the stage where the movement and orientation of the camera is set up. People and vehicles in your architectural animation can be animated so that they are active in the area seen by the camera. Doors can be animated to open and close as the camera travels through.

We always provide architectural rendering clients who request an animation with an evaluation package that includes full animatics (preview movies) and full renders from every second or two of the finished animation so that both movement and appearance can be judged and adjusted over the entire length of the animation.

At the end of your visualization project, you will have ample opportunity to review and apply changes to the rendering. Both major and minor revision passes are always included in our architectural rendering services, and the project coordinator will work closely with you to include all needed edits.

After the last review phase, the finished visualization is rendered (crunched out by computers) and delivered to you in the format you choose. Trinity Animation maintains an in house computer array so that cost and turnaround time is not dependent on outside firms.

Trinity can produce large format still images suitable for posters or print/web projects from your animation. Any moment from your architectural animation can be computed at high resolution to be used for all your marketing needs.