Evermotion and AAndres furniture firm started a jointrendering competition. This image has not won a prize, however it is not really disappointing to lose in such an awesome field.

Competiotion website: Evermotion | Rendering: Tamás Medve @ ZOA

Talentis Project is probably the biggest regional development project today in Hungary. Similarly to the story of Silicon Valley, the whole project is based on investment into every level of educational institutions. Real estate development connect to this kind of development of the region. This promotional video had to express this very complex subject.

First we had to grab the most important thoughts about the Talentis Project with eye on the limited length of the clip. Than we sought for the right visual content to express the sentences we came up with. Few hours of raw material was converted into a solid video with the help of the Rubik’s Cube effects which was meant to be a metaphor for invention and knowledge. However simple it might seem to be, it was just the opposite, we struggled to link visual content to what we wanted to say and harmonize both with the rolling cube and each other.

Project page and Client: Talentis

Project page: Piarist High School | Client and Designer: M-Teampannon

Project page: hg hu | Pecha Kucha Budapest | Concept and photos: Barcza Gergő

Project page: 22 Dandar Park | Client:Solidum | Designer: Kima Stúdió

This movie shows the revitalization plans of public spaces in the ECC city, Pécs. To present plans for a whole district or town in an esthetical way is a rather demanding task. Birds-eye-view perspectives have to be filled with whole 3d towns and cities, while the actual development takes up only small part of the imagery. In this movie we solved this problem by accenting public places with colors. This composition of photo realsitic and mock-up styles lead to a harmonic video. Deeper relationships and properties of the design that are hard to be presented by film were shown through stitching together a virtual layout and the proposed 3d spaces via computer graphics. At the end of the movie the separate virtual worlds come together at a cafe table on the bank of the Balokany lake.

Project page: Pécs 2010 | Client & Designer: A+ Architects Studio

A company constructs an up-to-date five star hotel right beside the mind-boggling turkish medieval bath and the proper foyer building by architect giant Miklós Ybl that is called Rácz fürdő. ZOA had to visualize the spa part of the project. In the focus of our graphics it was haziness and intimate illumination as for the Medieval bath and flamboyant details as for the 19th century building. The prior demanded a bit more experiments since one can start to deal with water and haze in very different approaches in CG. It is worth to look around before deciding which way to go. The latter – to visualize a 19th century building full of details – simply accounts for a lot of modeling work. While modeling ornamental details can be quite tricky it is also rather giving: details contribute a lot to the aestethic of an image.

Review: Építészfórum | Project page: Rácz Hotel & Thermal Spa | Client & Designer: Budapest Architectural Art Studio

It was easy to catch the feeling of the very colorful building designed by Gábor Turányi and Bence Turányi: colored stripes fill the building and its neighboring space with colors. By the way it responds nicely to the project logo as well. ZOA likes to make any task challenging regarding the technical means. ING, the owner of this project left us enough time and energy to find the right challenge, and we believe this can easily be felt watching the final version of this video.

Project page: Simplon Court | Client: ING Real Estate Hungary | Designer: t2a

In the case of the government quarters competition our Client wanted us not only to create the images for the application but also to help the design process by providing constant and immediate feedback to the designer team. This helped them to fine-tune the early concept for the huge development plan. The whole team at ZOA worked a full month with the 3d model and imagery to fulfill these needs. The application received a shared 4th prize at the international competition.

Competition page: Hungarian Chamber of Architects | Project page: Government Quarters | Client & Designer: Mérték Architects Studio

Competition page: CGA | Rendering: Kovács Zoltán @ ZOA

“Huh, I’m a bit afraid, because the director came to me with a movie, but I’m not familiar with it. All I know is, that it’s something romantic. I hope it’s going to be funny too, but that’s one of the details I can’t know for now. The ones I have seen so far were not exactly shot in Turkey and I’m not sure whether it’s usual to renew only a part of a building in a situation like this. So far I was confident that it’s just a cardboard set, or they are going to put those huge green screens behind the actors. Anyhow, it sounds more than thrilling and I can’t say I wasn’t happy about the fact that they actually wanted me for the job. First I’m definitely going to make a couple of images about how this shooting spot will look like and then we will see how it’s going to go on. Yes, I’m sure this is a good plan, the Client will definitely like the idea, that they only have to make only a part of this gorgeous villa prettier. I wish I could be at the shooting. Do you think I’m going to meet the main actress? Did I say I was a bit in a fever?”

Competition page: CGA | Rendering: Balogh András @ ZOA

Review: Építészfórum | Client & Designer: Shambala Home & Aspectus Architect

p>Our Client, a Danube passenger shipping company, is actually a bunch of ship minded lunatics. One of their biggest plans is to buy and completely restore one of the last major steamships that was operated on the Danube river. This ship offered all conceivable luxury of her time to the passengers. And the most interesting part of this plan is that she could be operated with the original triplex steam engine and fancy interior that you rarely see these days. She would definitely offer a service in its own class.

Images are really telling: Sándor Csepregi designer speaks early 20th century design and shipbuilding as a mother tongue. His mind-boggling hand drawings full of details and all the information he poured on ZOA ,account for ornaments that not only look good but also are extremely authentic. The result is a space that catches the eye of the spectator. And we became eager to see this glamorous ship in full splendor!

These images were submitted to the YCON 2005 visualization competition. All of these have a bit different story. The surpise is fast evolution in visualisation in general: good materilas and nice illumination were enough to win a competition in 2005 while you have to come up with more serious staff today to get a prize: subject, details, composition, effects all has to be appropriately done. Well, this is hell of a dynamic market… Let’s go to work!

Competition site: Építészfórum

Client and Designer: Pálffy Architects