Architectural Visualization
Photoreal renders of buildings, interiors, and master plans. Hero stills, lifestyle interiors, master-plan birds-eye, façade reveals — at 8K, with cinematic lighting and pixel-precise detail.
What this service is
Architectural visualization is the discipline of making a building exist before it is built. We work from your CAD, BIM, or sketch package and rebuild it as a photoreal 3D scene — façade detail, glazing, structural rhythm, vegetation, vehicles, people, time of day, weather. The output is a hero image (or set of images) that a developer can put on a billboard, a broker can put on a listing portal, or an architect can put in a competition book. Our renders are CGI but not stylised — they are calibrated to look like photographs taken by a senior architectural photographer, with the same lens choices, same hour, same atmosphere.
Pricing context
Industry premium (USA/AU): $5,000–$15,000 · EU mid-tier: €3,000–€8,000 · DARK: from $3,360 (≈45% under US premium)
How the price is formed
Hero stills earn most of their hours in lighting and material work — that's where photoreal lives. We render at 8K with multi-pass AOV so colour-grade revisions don't cost re-render time.
How we run it · 5 stages
Discovery
Day 1–2We walk the architect's drawings, the brief, the references. The art director picks the camera angles, the time of day, the mood. You leave with a fixed scope, a fixed fee, and a calendar.
Block-out
Week 1Massing model built straight from CAD or BIM, basic materials, neutral lighting. You approve composition and camera before we spend a minute on hero detail.
Detail & dressing
Week 2–3Façade detail, interior fitout, vegetation, cars, people, props — every element placed with intent. Lighting is locked to the chosen hour.
Render & review
Week 3–4Full-resolution renders on the cloud farm. Two rounds of revisions are standard — color, contrast, mood, props.
Delivery
Final weekFinal 8K TIFF or PNG, plus retouched JPEG variants for web, print, and social. Layered PSD on request.
Tools & technology
Architectural visualization at our level lives or dies on light. Our renderers, scan libraries, and post-pipeline are tuned for cinematic accuracy first — not speed.
Corona Render
Unbiased physically-based renderer used for interior heroes and master plans where light accuracy beats raw speed.
V-Ray
Backup engine for high-volume exterior arrays and IES-spec architectural lighting.
3ds Max
Primary modelling environment — every wall, mullion, and millwork detail built to architect's drawings.
Megascans + Quixel Bridge
8K scanned surfaces — concrete, timber, fabric — for surface accuracy you can't fake procedurally.
What you receive
- Hero exteriors
- Lifestyle interiors
- Master plans
- Lookbooks
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