Illustration of a pontoon design.

Pontoon Visualisation / Illustration

Software Used : trueSpace 6, Poser 3
Extensions used : ShaderLab (TG Reflectance Tint on the water)

One of the CAD images used to come up with the illustration. A visualisation of a pontoon design, done for a client. The design is at the CAD drawing stage, and the client wanted something to bring the design to life in a more vivid way than CAD line or shaded diagrams. The level of detail had to be just enough to make the illustration interesting, but not so detailed that it became a more lengthy or costly project.

A sample of the provided CAD images (this one taken from the DWG file provided by the client) is shown to the right - note that the CAD model was not used directly, and everything was reconstructed for the illustration render.


Technical Stuff

All shaders are procedural, mainly the standard tS ones, except for the water where the in development TG Reflectance Tint (the commercial modification of the free TG Glass shader) was used, along with the tS native Leather bump shader for the surface features.

The figures were imported from Poser, as the client preferred to have some people included to give a sense of scale to the image.