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Kitchen – New Zealand

April 14, 2009

Hello! Its awesome to see you again. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks, again, for visiting!After quite a long hiatus, I was recently asked by my brother to develop some pilot 3D visuals for a kitchen design job. This was more to exhibit the strengths of visuals with regards to time, [...]

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Google Releases SketchUp 7

November 21, 2008

Google released the next version of its incredibly popular and 3D modelling software, SketchUp. Its an application that lets you draw 3D models of anything that catches your fancy… objects, furniture, your room, your house, your school or university. Absolutely anything. And ever since it first came in, the most appealing aspect of the software [...]

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Blog Status Updates

June 8, 2008

As some of you might have noticed, updates to the blog have been spotty at best. This is because over the last couple of weeks I’ve been setting up my 3D visualization site, Morph8 Studios. And its really not a task for the faint of heart… The site is now live and I shall greatly [...]

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Finally…

April 16, 2008

… my ancient quest for a photo-realistic render brings some heart warming results. I spent some time last week to spruce up my folio pieces. I used the Linfox Head Office SketchUp models as a starting point and exported them to 3D Studio Max as a 3DS format file. And spent quite a while cleaning [...]

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SketchUp Photomodelling

March 30, 2008

Generating quick proposals for architectural or interior projects from contextual photographs have almost always been a very intricate and challenging aspect of the 3D modelling realm. The prevalent tools currently for this are ImageModeller by Realviz and PhotoModeller by Eos Systems. And more often than not the emphasis is on reference point matching and calibrating [...]

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Leopard And My Workflow

March 29, 2008

Having worked on Tiger for a relatively very short time, Leopard has been a terrific experience. Certain aspects of the workflow were never even considered by me prior to OS X. Backup, Application Launching and the Dock are some of the major alterations to my past habits. Plenty of old applications have been trashed and [...]

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“Was lost, am now…

June 17, 2007

…100 meters to your destination on the left”. Or so says Mr Ken on my TomTom Go 710 in-car navigator. Recently finalized on my choice after going through three devices in three weeks! My main requirements were an efficient navigational aid to supplement our newfound mobility and a decent hands-free phone answering capability. We went [...]

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Resume

May 13, 2007

Benson John Architecture & Planning Professional Australia Current Designer & Visualizer at DesignPhase Australia Past Designer at Ian Lyell Designs Proprietor at A + B Projects Faculty at National Institute of Fashion Design Associate Designer at A + B Architects & Interior Designers Designer at Dexter Perriera Architects (Sole Proprietorship) Design Apprentice at Divyesh Desai [...]

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"Get inside your picture"

May 2, 2007

Recently came across an application, I believe, that has fantastic potential. Its called fotowhoosh, and its currently in alpha version. Developed by Freewebs, it claims to redifine the boundaries of a conventional 2 dimensional image and lets the user see the depth with-in and around the image. The company mentions that the application has been [...]

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Show me who you are

March 24, 2007

Read my VisualDNAâ„¢ Get your own VisualDNAâ„¢ A very neat and fairly accurate personality analyzer. Simply answer a few questions with the images that you feel best suit it; and the software then analyzes your personality to prepare a neat report & the above seen widget. Give it a go guys… Imagini VisualDNA [Thanks Amit} [...]

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SketchUp sketcher

March 17, 2007

I’ve just initiated a work colleague to Google SketchUp recently. And he’s hooked. It is addictive. By me, its the most fabulous thing to happen to architectural and interior design visualization. Bringing back the joy of sketching virtually a 3D geometry, further clarifying the construction, finish and joinery details for the project. A recent render [...]

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Gandhigiri… huh?!

January 18, 2007

YouTube has undoubtedly been a godsend for many aspiring comedians, musicians, dancers, film-makers, singers and so many more. Who can forget Russell Peters and his phenomenal rise rise to the top of his game. He came recently to Australia and his shows were instant hits. 10,000 tickets sold in two days without any advertising.! He [...]