Thomas Hope

Architectural Visualiser

BSc (Hons) Degree: 3D Animation & CGI (Architectural Visualisation),
Bournemouth University, UK.

Specialty is Architectural Visualisation, also proficient in Product Visualisation.
Skills attained, and in constant development, include:


Modelling (Soft and Hard surface)
CAD (cleaning up drawings for import to 3D)
UVW mapping (unwrapping)
Texturing (production of shaders and maps)
Lighting (incl. IBL with HDRI)
Rendering (V-Ray, Backburner, Distributed Rendering)
Storyboarding (sketching, drawing, painting, graphic design)
Animation

Post-Production (Video and Still):

Compositing (PS or AE)
Editing (Premiere Pro)
Audio Editing (any editor; Soundforge, or within the NLE)
Colour correction/Grading (Adobe suite)


To summarise, my tools consist of...

Primary Software: 3ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop

Secondary Software: After Effects, Premiere Pro

Tertiary Software, such as: Sketch-up, AutoCAD, Mental Ray, Marvelous Designer, Mudbox, Headus UV Layout, Picturenaut, SoundForge, Corona Render, Lightroom, sIBL GUI & sIBL Edit,
etc.