My name is Karina Reid. I am a married Mother of two wonderful little girls. I have been working and living in Ireland for the past 8 years. I am an Architect and designer with over 20 years experience in the business. Since 2016 I have been using V-Ray and quickly fell in love with the software after I designed and rendered my first living room project. I have never stopped studying and teaching others how to use V-Ray. I find it incredible how realistic one space can become when using the V-Ray software.
I have worked in the architecture space for over 10 years now in residential and commercial spaces and it has always be an ever changing struggle to showcase plans and ideas to give our clients a visual representation and bring their visions to life.
I initially started using V-Ray a few years ago and loved the detail I could get in my designs from it, I eventually brought in Enscape to create simpler and real time designs during the early design phases. Both of these integrate perfectly with SketchUp when creating the 3D models.
When I am prepping my images and visuals for a client presentation I like to have Enscape open on another screen so I can make edits in real time within my 3d model, this is how I get get my final designs perfect. I will also use Enscape on smaller projects if I need to save time on producing a final render.
When using V-Ray I prefer to create larger projects, commercial spaces and high resolution images, rendering in high quality and the type of materials I can create in V-Ray take longer to create but have a better (in my eyes) end result.
It’s funny because I use both platforms to make sure I create the perfect visualization for clients, but most of the time they are wowed by the 3d model alone!
As I am representing myself with these designs I can be very picky with the end product, being able to view real time in Enscape while I work and then render for higher quality and more photo realistic designs in V-Ray creates a killer combo that wows my clients, especially in the commercial space.
Being able to create some create videos in Enscape to show clients enable the projects to be approved a lot quicker, before I used any rendering it would take 10-20 attempts for a design to be approved by the client, now it is almost instant.
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