My first renderings ever... in PhotoView 360
PhotoView 360 was made available for download today, August 12th, and, of course, I had to go and try it out. I must tell you, never before today had I attempted to render anything, but I’m really amazed at how fast and easy it is to use, and how great the results that can be achieved, even by a complete novice, such as me. It was as simple as choosing a material, a scenario, and that’s it, in less than a minute, I had my first rendering ready.
Of course, more experienced users can make it as complicated as needed, by modifying the properties of the materials and environment, but I’m just a newbie, so I was glad with my small achievement… at least for now.
These are some of the renderings I made using PhotoView 360. This is a little practice piece I had.
The soup ladle from Matt Lombard’s new book. Hope that Matt doesn’t mind that I borrowed his model to practice rendering, but it was the only one I could think of that was readily available and had some interesting shapes, without being too complicated. All I had was too boxy.
And this is another boxy piece that I “made” out of wood, just for fun. I like the way it looks around the fillets.
What do you think? Not so bad for a first timer!
Although the beta still crashes a lot and I wish for more variety of materials and colors, as well as some improvement when it comes to changing the view orientation, I really like PhotoView 360. I like it because it’s easy. However, after this first experiment in rendering, I feel even more like buying Rob Rodriguez’s book and learning how to do rendering properly.
Aha! I think Ricky Jordan just put up another post about PhotoView 360 with videos and all the trimmings. Don’t miss any of it! If you still don't have PhotoView 360, go download it today from the Downloads area at the Customer Portal. And don't forget to check out Ricky Jordan's and Rob Rodriguez's blogs, because they'll have a lot to say about it. This is really good stuff!
Those a great, Gabi. I really like the wood piece as well.
I cannot wait until I get my hands on '09.
Posted by: Jeff Mirisola | August 13, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Nice Job Gabi!
I didn't know that this was your first time rendering. The models look GREAT!
Ricky Jordan
http://www.rickyjordan.com
Posted by: Ricky Jordan | August 13, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Thanks, Ricky! Yeah, I had been avoiding PhotoWorks because it looked really complicated, so I left that to the more artistic ones. PhotoView makes me feel like I can do it too, but I still want to learn how to do it properly. I wish they come up with some documentation and tutorials soon. The environments and options to modify properties still confuse me a bit, but then reading your last article I realized it may have something to do with the location of my "floor". That's a great article, BTW!
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 13, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Thanks, Jeff! Yes, this SW2009 is full of all kinds of goodies! But well, you know, I'm in love with SW, so it will never cease to amaze me.
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 13, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Absolutely Fantastical. Great Job, Gabi, you are an inspiration to the rest of us. I might even give it a try now. :) Terrific stuff.
Posted by: Richie | August 13, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Gabi,
I'm downloading 360 now and am really excited to try it out. Hopefully I can get something to look as good as the ones posted.
The shots look great, I do wonder if maybe you need to move on from referring to yourself as a "novice" from all the tutorials and models you've posted it seems like you skill set is beyond a lot of users.
Posted by: Chris M | August 13, 2008 at 06:26 PM
Thank you, Chris! That is really encouraging for me! Have fun with PV360, but I warn you, it's highly addictive. You won't want to stop!
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 13, 2008 at 07:25 PM
yea, when i use photoworks, i feel like the pc guy from the mac/windows commercials. way too complicated. these shots look better than things ive spent hours on with photoworks!! lol, righton
Posted by: dfrolka | August 13, 2008 at 07:50 PM
Does it works with SD2008? It seems to be really easy to use.
Regards!
Posted by: Julian | August 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM
It is really easy to use! Unfortunately, it seems you need to have the latest SW2009 installed for it to work. I don't understand why, because you don't even need to have SW2009 open when working with PV360, and you certainly can render files from previous SW versions, but apparently it won't even work unless you have the latest SW2009 (pre release 1) installed in the computer.
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM