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3D-dimensional software for Design Visualisation

3D visualization is the process of creating renderings and virtual models to explore, review
and envision 3D designs. Architects can use 3D visualization software to create interactive
experiences to show owners and potential buyers what the final design of space will look like
once the intended project has been completed.

These are the common uses 3D visualization software

1. 3D visualization designs are used in the field of architecture and interior designing to
provide an advanced version of the final output. Architects and interior designers with
the help of this 3D visualization designs provide various structures that can be used
for reference and guidance throughout the process of construction.

2. 3D visualization designs help in the process of manufacturing and implementing the

design changes while keeping up with evolving ideas.

3. 3D visualization designs are also used in the field of media and entertainment for
providing animation movies and creating various characters in games along with
effects.

4. Various Studios like Play Games Development and various other studios that involve
in the production of VFX animations for TV programs make use of 3D visualization
designs to create various animated characters and graphics designing.

3D visualization software is abounding all over the industry and on the internet. Picking out
the best one can be a bit of a tedious task especially if we are looking for some software to
help us with our learning or designing needs. These are the top 10 3D visualization software
for professionals.

1. Foyr Neo®

Foyr Neo is a newly launched software that makes it easy for all kinds of users the
process of understanding and using 3D visualization design software. This software
comes packed with most of the features of the above-mentioned software, along with
a comprehensive guide for users in all kinds of landscapes. Moreover, this software
 comparatively costs less when compared to other software for the same services,
which makes it one of the most practical options to choose from this list.

2. Blender®

For all types of 3D visualization designs, Blender is one of the most common software
that is being used by both the professionals and the beginners. The software can be
installed in both Windows and Mac-based systems. It contains various 3D
visualization tools that can be used to create various models and animations. This is
one of the very few completely free and open-sourced interior design software in the
webspace. The only disadvantage of the software is that it has a slow rendering
process.

3. SketchUp®

This is also a 3D visualization designs software, but it is much less complicated when
compared to Blender software. This software is also free for a particular amount of
time after which, the users need to recharge it. It is mainly used for architectural
modeling with a large number of library models. The process of the interface might be
a bit difficult to grasp for the new users. It also supports third-party plugin programs.
Sketchup is the simplest 3D modeling software to use.

4. Wings 3D®

This is an open-source 3D visualization design software that uses polygon modeling

techniques, and this software is much easier to use. It makes use of some basic
techniques, and hence, this is one of the best software for learning 3D designing. This
tool can be used for learning the concept of 3D modeling easily with the help of
professional-grade software packages. The major disadvantage is that it cannot be
used for animations and doesn’t provide other features apart from the basics.

5. Autodesk®

This 3D visualization designs software is contributed completely for non-commercial

purposes, especially for students and other community members. Everyone can make
use of this software because learning this software is a valuable skill. It is a free top-
tier 3D design software and has some powerful rich features, along with some high
 range software tools belonging to them. One of the major disadvantages is that it has
certain complex software packages which would be difficult to learn initially and
demand some critical system requirements which are sometimes difficult to arrange.

6. Keyshot®

KeyShot is all centered on providing users a quick experience in design. It comes with
a powerful and quick as a wink renderer that gives users an in-depth view of every
element in the design such as lighting, materiality, camera angles, and geometry. It is
A great tool if you’re dealing with workflow issues as it eliminates problems related
to drafting and drafting views. It’s a streamlined software less cumbersome in
navigation than most other software and users would find learning the software to be
fun as they work on a scene and simultaneously watch it being rendered in real-time.
The real-time 3D rendering displays results instantly and lessens the time to create
realistic product shots.

7. Octane Render®

Another lesser-known rendering software that is an excellent addition to any

designer’s list for visualizing and designing needs. As its supreme name would
suggest, critics and users have called it one of the fastest software on the market that
has a smoothly built graphics card and render engine. It also animates at a fraction of
the time at which other 3D visualization software takes up, employing more optimized
techniques for producing results. Octane supports over 21 plugins and has tremendous
backup capabilities, ensuring compatibility with other mainstream and lesser-known
modeling programs.

8. Lumion

Another popular rendering software on the list is Lumion. Its easy user interface and
set of powerful tools let you create distinctive designs with minimal effort. Apart from
that, it is compatible with almost every rendering software available in the market.
This feature is especially useful when you have to deal with students or other fellow
architects who prefer other software for rendering. Lumion is a real-time rendering
software that integrates with CAD software. Lumion create images, videos and 360
panoramas and communicate the real-life possibilities of your design ideas with
 architectural visualization. Lumion LiveSync is another feature that creates seamless,
real-time connection between several modeling programs and Lumion.

3D and Interior Design

3D Interior Designing allows us to take a virtual tour of our home, office or anything before
the building is even built. We can see the impact of even a minute change in the design rather
than relying on the imagination. It is a fast and efficient way to get involved in the designing
process. This way you will be better prepared to take a decision on the design of your
building. An owner always wants to have the designs just as he wants. By taking a look at the
interiors of your home will help you to understand whether there is something is right or
wrong.

Having an interior design view can help you in avoiding mistakes that will not only help you
save money but can increase the beauty of your home. This helps you spend your money
more efficiently. The creation of the visual view of the interiors in 3D incorporating all
interior designs by placing things where you wish to place them without any actual physical
exertion is possible in these services. It is literally possible to move things around in the room
and redo the entire decor without lifting a finger to move the furniture around.

The only other alternatives are 2D drawings, but these do not let space come to life. Not even
floor plans are good enough in this instance, 2D drawings won’t create the interior
atmosphere in the way a 3D visualization can. After all of that, and the client then has to wait
until the end of the construction or renovation process to see how an interior designer’s vision
will turn out.

As a result, 2D drawings are ineffective, and obviously, no one wants to spend so much time,
money, energy, and effort only to be surprised at the end by the result of the development.
3D Interior Design Services allow designers to convey their ideas for space as accurately as
possible. If you’ve ever tried to have a 3D Interior design explained to you with hand-drawn
and colored sketches and plans, then you know that it takes a lot of guesswork and
imagination to understand the designer’s vision. 3D Interior Design also includes the
specification of furniture, fixtures, and finishes, and coordinating their installation. 3D
Interior Design has made everything easy.
These are the importance of using 3D visualization in interior design

1. Increases chances of design approvals

2D drawings and handmade sketches made it difficult for interior designers to

communicate their designs during client presentations. Often clients could not
visualize the designs, which resulted in non-approval of projects.

With 3D visualization, the client can easily visualize and understand the design. The
client can simultaneously make any kind of changes in the design as per his
requirements. The realistic visualizations make the process of project approval very
smooth for both the client and the interior designer.

2. Easy to make amendments

3D visualization enables interior designers to experiment and virtually place an item

or product in a specified area or space before actually purchasing it. This reduces the
risk of high costs.

You as an interior designer can create multiple design options quickly and easily in
3D models. You can present these to the client and any changes or a combination of
designs can be developed as per the client’s requirements. A 3D model’s participative
approach makes it easy for you to work with clients to change, replace or shift
elements or items in a virtual three-dimensional environment.

3. Flawless result can be delivered

Clients approach designer with the expectation that their vague outlines would be
flawlessly reproduced in impeccable outcomes. Before clearing payment, clients want
to assure themselves that the structure can be materialized in real life flawlessly. With
3d visualization, you can help clients envisage the exact design from all possible
angles.

4. Designing becomes faster and cost-efficient

If a project has to be revised at the last moment or after construction has started, more
time and money would be required. With the 3D design, changes can be made at any
 time and as many numbers of times as clients want. Extra expenses would not be
incurred.

History of Interior Design

With the profession of interior design clocking in at just over 100 years old, we’re
looking at the roots of interior design history and the seven legendary decorators who
made a name for themselves as the industry started gaining momentum in the early
1900’s. From the Ancient Egyptians to the dawn of modern interior design, here’s
everything you need to know.

It may seem a bit elementary, but let’s start with the basics of interior design services.
Interior design is defined as the art and science of enhancing the interior of a space in
order to create a polished and more aesthetically pleasing environment. An interior
designer is someone trained to execute plans, research, coordinate, and manage
decorative projects with authority. The profession of interior design is varied and
includes space planning, conceptual development, site inspections, programming,
research, communicating with the clients, project and construction management, and of
course the execution of the desired design.

Before the profession rose to prominence, interior design came in instinctively to strictly
coordinate with the architecture of buildings. The profession of interior design came with
the rise of middle-class society and the complicated architecture that rose to popularity
during the industrial revolution. The quest to make the best use of space, along with the
attention to user well-being and functional design continues to push the development and
life-enhancing possibilities of today’s iteration on the interior design profession. That
said, the profession of interior design is distinctly separate from the work of an  interior
decorator, a moniker more commonly used across the US. The term interior decorator is
less commonly used in the UK where the profession of interior design remains
unregulated and sadly, not yet considered an official profession to this day.

As far back as ancient India, architects used to double as interior designers to fully
develop their complete vision. This can be noted from the references of architect
Vishwakarma – one of the gods featured in Indian mythology. Those references feature
sculptures illustrating ancient texts and events seen in palaces constructed in 17th-
century India.

Throughout ancient Egypt, “soul houses” or models of houses were gifted in tombs as
vessels for food offerings. From these evocative trinkets, it’s possible to decipher cues
about the interior design of various residences throughout several Egyptian dynasties,
including updates to ventilation, porticoes, columns, loggias, windows, and doors.

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and into the first part of the 19th century,
interior decorating was an exclusive concern relegated to the homemaker, or a
professional upholsterer or craftsman who could securely advise based on their artistic
eye for a home’s interior design. Incidentally, architects would also turn to craftsmen
and artisans to create interior design for their buildings.

The practice of interior design harkens back to the Ancient Egyptians, who decorated
their naive mud homes with basic furnishings enhanced by animal skins, simple textiles,
graphic biographical and spiritual murals, sculptures, and painted urns. Ornate gold
ornaments found in Egyptian tombs (such as King Tutankhamen’s) and trinkets
highlighted the need for more distinctively rich decoration to symbolize the more
wealthier and powerful Egyptians.

Roman and Greek civilizations advanced the Egyptian art of interior designing and
accessorizing by celebrating civic pride through their invention of domed-roof public
buildings. For their homes, elaborate Greek wooden furniture featured intricate ivory and
silver decoration while the Romans concentrated on marrying beauty and comfort, with
both civilizations home interiors designed to reflect wealth and social and political
status. Roman furniture was often made of stone, marble, wood, or bronze, and was
made comfortable via cushions and expressive tapestries. To elevate their homes, both
Romans and Greeks brought in vases and created mesmerizing mosaic floors, and wall
paintings and frescoes to make their spaces unique to them.

Following this period of decorative ornamentation, there was a sudden movement to

exactness due to the grim ongoing wars throughout Medieval Europe and the rise of the
Christian church. Coined The Dark Ages for good reason, interior design history of the
era featured somber wood paneling, minimal and solely practical furnishings, and stone-
slab flooring. Even wealthier patrons of the era stuck to muted, sobering colors when
adding decorative extras like tapestries and stonework.

After The Dark Ages, Europeans were once again inspired to introduce color and
decorative ornamentation into their homes. During the 12th century, darkly romantic
Gothic style was created to make the best use of natural light and freshly popular open
interiors.
Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, the French Renaissance started a renewed focus
on art and creativity in interior design. Architects of the time began creating homes with
substantial decorative notes including marble floors, ornate inlaid woodwork, paintings,
and furniture made with the finest materials. A quick look at the eras royal palaces,
villas, and chapels is certain to highlight the best of Renaissance interior design.

Following the Renaissance, intricate and complex Italian Baroque designs took a hold
over Europe. The Palace of Versailles in France for instance made remarkable use of
Baroque interior design elements like colored marble and stone, stained glass, ornately
painted ceilings, and spiraling columns. By the 18th century, European interior designers
made Rococo style increasingly popular while taking influence from Asian stoneware,
floral prints, and furniture inlaid with exotic details like ivory and mother-of-pearl. Then
came the Neoclassical look of the late 18th century, a distant take on the celebrated
design elements found in ancient Rome with its use of brilliantly colored silk, satin, and
velvet.

From the early 1800’s and on, more freedom and eclecticism was often found in interior
design in Europe and America. And over the next two centuries, a slew of innovative and
modern interior design movements would come and go out of style as the times changed
including Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Victorian, and industrial Bauhaus style. The 19th
century saw, however, the ultimate in appreciation and the popularization of interior
design. No longer exclusive to royal compounds and homes of wealthy citizens, the
possibilities of life-enhancing interior design began to reach critical masses in the later
part of the 1800’s.

And by the 20th century, functionality became a key component in the approach to
interior design as the growing presence of home appliances such as stoves, washing
machines, and televisions prompted a new challenge for interior designers, who had to
design spaces with more than aesthetic reasons in mind.

And as the 20th century turned, novice designers and numerous publications were
increasingly working to defeat the hold that large upscale retail outlets had on the world
of interior design. Before that, feminist English author Mary Haweis produced a series of
popular essays in the 1880’s where she ridiculed the excitement of an aspiring class of
bourgeoise people looking to furnish their homes hastily around the strict yet bland
confines offered to them by dictating retail outlets. Her response was that people should
seize the opportunity in creating a particular take on a design style uniquely tailored to
address their needs and lifestyles.

The slow transition towards the decorative arts being seen as an individual artistic
profession aside from the salesman’s wisdom offered by manufacturers and retailers was
boosted in 1899 with the launch of the Institute of British Decorators; with  John Dibblee
Crace acting as its president. The institute represented over 200 interior designers around
the nation. And by 1915 the London Directory saw an increased listing of 127
individuals working as professional interior decorators, of which only 10 were women.
Rhoda and Agnes Garrett were the first recorded women to be coached professionally as
home designers in 1874. The importance of their design work was considered at the time
to be parallel with the legendary interior maestro William Morris. In 1876, their guide
– Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture – further
cemented their authority and spread their takes on artistic interior design approaches to a
design hungry middle-class.

Back in America, Candace Wheeler, considered one of the first female interior

designers, encouraged a completely new take on American interior design. She was a
key figure in developing the first interior design courses for women in a number of
major American hubs and was celebrated as the definitive authority on home décor at
the time. Another prominent influence on the newly categorized profession of décor
was The Decoration of Houses, a widely read and consulted guide on interior design
written by Edith Wharton and master architect Ogden Codman in 1897 stateside. In
the popular book, the authors deemed Victorian-style interior décor and interior
design irrelevant. No longer viable were the cold, dark, and moody homes decorated
with heavy furnishings, Victorian accessories and tufted, overstuffed seating. They
considered the design style having put too much importance on upholstered
furnishings instead of sensible space planning and architectural details, making
rooms dreary, uncomfortable, untouchable and therefor all too precious. Their book
 is still regarded as a seminal moment and their success propelled the rise of
professional interior designers adopting similar stances.

As you can see, the world of interior design has come a remarkable way since the
Ancient Egyptians as designers today have unlimited access to an endless amount of
design movements, furniture styles, and influences from the past. But it’s really the
seven interior designers we’re focusing on here that truly changed the way we
approach interior design for the better.

Interior Design Artists

1. Adrian Kent

Adrien Kent, one half of local design studio Studio Kanta (and winner of reality TV
show The Apartment), is responsible for some of KL’s most Instagrammed spaces – like
those modern tropical interiors you know and love.

He created co-working space Common Ground’s immediately identifiable interiors and lent
his touch to the light-filled Fern Batik boutique with herringbone doors and bursts of tropical
foliage. His designs gravitate towards clean, minimal lines, punctuated by soft touches of
texture and pattern. He loves the local design elements and markers. He most admires Kelly
Wearstler’s designs, specifically her recent work, the Santa Monica Proper Hotel.
2. Steph Low

Steph Low started her interior design journey by giving old houses a modern facelift.
Although starting her own design firm Yong Studio in 2015 was the most challenging phase
in her life, the early struggles soon gave way to successes; today, Low is living her dream
designing chic urban residential properties with numerous design awards under her belt,
including one from the Asia Pacific Property Awards in 2018. 

3. Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler‘s global luxury lifestyle brand is marked by its distinctive designs and

sophisticated soulful character. Wearstler’s signature style juxtaposes raw with refined, melds
sophistication and spirited spontaneity, and brings together diverse periods of furniture. Her
portfolio includes luxury hotels and grand residences from Beverly Hills to the Caribbean,
and throughout the rest of the world.
4. Timothy Corrigan

Los Angeles and Paris-based Timothy Corrigan knows a thing or two about European

elegance given that he’s owned has owned three historic castles and penned, An Invitation to
Château du Grand-Lucé about one’s renovation. The jet-setting decorator tends to a clientele
that includes Madonna and an array of Middle Eastern royals.
5. Mark Cunningham

As you may expect from a Polo Ralph Lauren alumnus, Mark Cunningham‘s rooms tend to
be masculine, well tailored, and timeless. He likes his palette neutral, but the Florida-born
designer isn’t afraid of shades like light blue and royal purple, either. He mixes crisply
upholstered custom-made pieces, American antiques, and accessories masterfully, all
resulting in a quietly invigorating look.