Pikcells - Architectural Visualisation

Our Matt successfully completed the London Marathon last weekend. Very well done to him, current fundraising for Beating Bowel Cancer is £1400.

Any late sponsorers [You know who you are!] can donate here;

http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/MattFell

Scorching one minute, snow the next, its called global weirding if you watched the recent Horizon. Happens too fast to buy sensible footwear so sometimes you have to be inventive.

We are lucky to be situated near some design hotspots and we like to visit them regularly to gain inspiration and collect references because as any CG enthusiast professional knows, you can only really properly model and texture something from an actual product reference where you can touch it and feel the surface finish. A few weeks back we ventured down to Redbrick Mill in Batley and soaked up the many top designs on offer.

The beautifully restored building contains a huge amount of inspiration also and is well worth a visit for inspiration and reference.

It was ciprians birthday too so we all grabbed a bit of food…..yum.

http://www.redbrickmill.co.uk/

Here are a couple of random images from a few weeks back. Not worthy of the main site but we were quite pleased with them and wanted to pop them somewhere. Our client wanted some images creating to go on the windows of the shop fronts so they didn’t look empty. We created 5 for each store type, one was a child’s shop and the other a clothes shop. We styled and designed all the interiors so that they looked trendy and inviting.

Later this year our studio manager Matt will be running the London Marathon.

Above is the man in action a couple of years ago looking like he’s being chased by an undercover officer. Should be a piece of cake after running around up here though, there’s not a flat bit for miles so legging it around London doesnt compare……….

Please sponsor him using the link below so he can do us all proud.

http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/MattFell

Our design & CGI work for Kronospans Fresh 2 collection has been featured in a recent edition of Grand Designs Magazine. The article uses the image as an example of the type of kitchen design trends which are 2 be big in 2012 and cites a “…modern with a move away from pure white to warmer tones such as greys and dark beige..”.

We are well pleased with this editorial feature, its nice to be recognised. According to our client, Grand Designs Magazine didn’t even realise it was a CGI which is also great to hear.

http://pikcells.com/portfolio/?id=55
http://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/

Another series of images have been used by Chaos Group and featured in their gallery. The Fresh 2 images featuring office, bedroom and kitchen CGIs can be found in their visualisation galleries.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html

As the amount of design work we do increases we wanted to indulge this side of our work and gather some inspiration from the Interiors UK show in Birmingham earlier this week. All in all it was an OK show, no one came away feeling particularly inspired and felt it lacked a bit of innovation. Nick, Bev, Matt and Ciprian journeyed down to the NEC and picked out the stuff below from the vast amount of “tat” which was there.

http://www.interiorsuk.com