Ron Partington of Partington Design used Renderworks to achieve the quality of images required for marketing these chic apartments in Wellington’s Oriental Bay.
Specialising in interiors, the Wellington-based designer worked from a model of the proposed five-storey apartment building and also studied architectural sketches to “Render” photorealistic images of a 4th-floor apartment in the upmarket complex.
Apart from the more expensive penthouse apartment on the top floor, each of the luxurious properties has a $2.4m asking price.
Superbly detailed and textured, the images are just what the client, Stratum Management, wanted for a presentation to market the nine apartments.
Ron has been using Renderworks to design and create finished-looking interiors since August 2009. He found it an easy software program to get started on. “It’s very good,” he says, “in that it’s not overly complicated.”
Renderworks has also been useful for other recent projects - creating interior images of a top-floor apartment for a private client, and to show how the entrance to an old building could look renovated. “We are also about to do a wine cellar,” he adds.
While Ron expects the Renderworks program will develop over time, he considers the version he works with has been very good value for the outlay.
He is currently using Vectorworks 2010 having upgraded from version 2009. He is already a great fan of new features such as associate dimensioning, automatic label and title block updating and snap points on 3d models. “These features have increased my productivity way beyond my expectations” he says.