fmh design

Renderings of commercial interiors, as part of the design process and for client presentation.

I'm a commercial interior designer with over fifteen years of experience in design, space planning, computer renderings, construction drawings, construction administration and furniture and finish specifications on corporate office and tenant-improvement projects. I acquired Autocad skills in 2004 and worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco, focusing on Autocad renderings for Harvard University and Citibank. I returned to San Diego in 2005 and worked with Howard-Sneed Interior Architecture and Jossy + Carrier Design Group, firms I had been with in the past, focusing on all areas of commercial interior design practice, until 2008.

After being laid off in 2008 as firms closed or downsized, I developed a working knowledge of Revit, along with advanced rendering skills in that program at the time, and expected to soon return to work. After several years, I turned my attention instead towards developing rendering skills. In 2009 I developed skills in SketchUp. In 2013 and 2014 I increased my skill level in SketchUp, developing an NPR style inherent to the program. In 2015 and 2016 I developed skills in Maxwell for SketchUp, and I was involved in beta-testing Corona Render for SketchUp. In 2018 and 2019 I developed rendering skills in Vray for SketchUp. In 2020 and 2021 I rendered in Corona Render; importing SketchUp models to Cinema4D and rendering them in Corona. In 2022 I developed skills in real-time renderer Enscape, Enscape facilitated the creation of videos as well as allowing me to create additional views of each project with ease.

I' m now working with ai-powered visualization, which I'm interested in for its rendering capabilities. I use ai-powered renderers as conventional renderers rather than to explore design ideas. I have numerous examples of returning renderings matching an original, given design intent (here based on published workplace design projects I admire.) with this AI powered program. Benefits of this rendering program are its increased photorealism (rather than trying to achieve photorealism, it "starts" with photos) and fact that you don't have to use texture maps, which is a tremendous time saver.

The Veras, Enscape, SketchUp, Corona, Vray and Maxwell renderings shown are based on published workplace design projects by others, while the earlier Autocad and Revit drawings are based on projects I was involved with as a designer.

Seeking a part-time hybrid or remote position focused on renderings.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/franhumphrey2/

Contact me:

fmhsketch@gmail.com