Mastering Lumion 3D

by Ciro Cardoso

Overview

Lumion uses real-time 3D technology to provide immediate visualizations and create images in a fraction of a second without the long hours of rendering. With an outstanding collection of high quality plants, trees, cars, buildings, people, and materials, any complex and challenging task can be handled easily by Lumion. It provides a new level of usability, making every project an immersive experience.

This is a practical guide featuring professional and time-saving techniques along with established production tips for efficiency and swiftness in producing professional architectural visualizations in Lumion. This book will teach and demonstrate the practical applications of Lumion’s features to get you equipped for a real production environment. The initial chapters provide a solid foundation, helping you secure a smooth and efficient workflow by covering the solutions for typical problems when modeling for Lumion and create realistic and proficient terrains of real locations. You will then get the best techniques to create believable materials and populate the 3D world with the optimize Lumion’s models. Special chapters are reserved not only to improve the lighting and reflections in Lumion, but also to take the best from Lumion’s effects. Finally, you will create powerful animations to bring life to any walk-through visualizations and export them as a movie or still images.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783552030
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/28/2014
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ciro Cardoso is a self-taught 3D artist and training author from an architectural background, who started experimenting with creative software and 3D applications back in 2000.

In 2005, he was running his own small multimedia business working on projects as diverse as graphic designing, CAD services, architectural visualization projects , web design, and using Lumion successfully for multi-million dollar projects. His list of personal clients covers countries such as the United Kingdom, Portugal, Netherlands, Angola, and Cape Verde. Besides his work as a 3D artist, he also does voluntary work teaching 3D.

He is quite literate with software in general, with extensive expertise in Maya, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Lumion, Unreal Development Kit, and Bentley Microstation. He is also the author of Getting Started with Lumion and Lumion 3D Cookbook.