A new tool for creating high-quality visualizations and movies of architectural models comes from ‘Lumion’. It imports models from tools like Autodesk and Sketchup and allows you to merge them with a massive content library of trees, people, and random objects, then render it all with realistic water, lighting, and sky effects.
“With Lumion we want to allow everyone to create awesome 3D visualizations, movies and presentations”, says Ferry Marcellis, CEO and founder of Act-3D. “Our goal behind creating this software is to offer the fastest workflow possible. We want to make people being able to apply advanced effects and technology without having to worry about all the background details. Moreover, waiting for ages to render images and movies now belongs to the past.”
I don’t see any details on the rendering engine, but the demonstration videos they show are impressive. They have a limited demo available with a small portion of their library and a disabled save, but the full version is only 750 €.
Lumion Nature demo from Lumion on Vimeo.
