London On Tap Winner!!!

The London On Tap campaign is a unique collaboration between the UK’s biggest water company, Thames Water, and the Mayor of London. At its heart, is a competition to design an iconic carafe, which will be used to serve tap water in restaurants, bars and hotels throughout the capital.

Neil Barron, Gusto Design Ltd, was shortlisted in the competition and got in touch with Protograph to produce some iconic images of the design. We took up the challenge, with a very short deadline, and produced a range of hi-res images.

What do you know? Neil has won!!! Congratulations!!!

The carafe design is derived from a stylised tap to subtly reinforce the tap water message. It has four pouring spouts which are drip-free and instinctive to use. The form produces a waistline with four exits which helps to trap the ice when pouring. The carafe is tall, tapered and elegant, yet quirky and contemporary.

'Protograph produced excellent professional images to our brief in a very short period of time with no fuss and with great enthusiasm - thanks very much! Neil, Gusto Design Ltd'

Look out for images in the press over the coming days!!!

Train them young

Mr Segasby Junior, listening to some banging tunes and tweaking his lighting on his latest CAD render. Don't worry, we don't use child labour, he's only surfing the web!

What are Renderdrives?

Many people out there don't know that much about the ARTVPS rendering technology our business depends on... so here's a recent article I've written providing a potted history of our rendering technology for those that are interested.

www.protograph.co.uk/artvps.html

Warning... it is very honest but informative, and a bit geeky!

Protograph invest in more ARTVPS hardware

Protograph have now invested in more ARTVPS hardware to enable even faster turnaround of CAD rendering services. We had 14 Renderdrives and our recent investment takes that total to 26, it means using our own render management software we can efficiently split a complex hi res render across all machines for very very fast rendering, or we can use them for animation projects, nearly halving existing render times.

Renderdrives offer a speedy work flow that is unparalleled for rendering CAD files, maintaining data in the nurbs format throughout. This means there is little data preparation that is normally associated with visualisation - we import the CAD data from our clients and instantly can start to assign materials and add lighting.

We don't worry about triangles and polygons, Renderdrives just work and are very reliable. The 'Rapid Imaging Centre' we have created has no rivals as far as I'm aware, we have vast rendering power simply an email away for our clients. We offer real world commercial render times, sometimes you just can't wait overnight for a render. Many clients don't have that luxury.

CAD Snap Shots

We have been having great fun with some R+D recently. Using the latest realtime rendering technology with our new HDR camera system. We can now very quickly produce photographic renders from imported CAD data lit by a real world scene. We will keep you posted on some new visualising services that are in the pipeline.

HDR renders

We have captured real photo studio lighting set up with our Spheron HDR camera and rendered this watch model surrounded by our own HDR image. This process is also great for jewellry and any reflective products. It produces very real looking studio shots.

Perfume bottle fun!

Most of our work remains confidential, so sometimes we have a play so we can show you what we can do - here's some fun we've had with a perfume bottle we created!