The Oko Art Studio - Melbourne
Architectural Presentation Graphics (Concepts, Perspectives, Multimedia and Animation)

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We* provide freehand and computer-generated visualisations* and multimedia art direction services*,  to  developers and architects*,  urban planners*,   design teams* and   advertising agencies*.
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The Oko Art Studio - Melbourne    In Short...
 What is this website about?

OR, IN SIMPLE WORDS, WHAT DO WE DO
AND WHAT IS IN HERE FOR YOU?

Visual arguments and presentations of architectural projects

Melbourne Restaurant Project. (Computer illustration commissioned by client wishing to stay anonymous)
Will a multiunit residential and commercial development fit into the old city surrounding?



Sesmark Foods Inc, factory and office building.
Industrial presentations have to balance functional and aesthetic requirements...



El Prado Project, Brunswick. (Computer illustration commissioned by Carlos Constructions.)
Our perspectives sell your projects long before they are built...
El Prado project, Brunswick.




Mondo Project, Moonee Ponds
Our Images are created for you...
Mondo project, Moonee Ponds.




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Overhead projections with animation and multimedia presentations
ACCURATE, DESCRIPTIVE AND REALISTIC
Many people can hardly visualise future buildings on basis of architectural plans. Even building professionals can sometimes find it very difficult to imagine how will a future building look like in an actual environment... Hence, it is not strange when neighbors, city counselors and prospective clients, who are usually not experts in architecture, do not understand 2D drawings done by architects... It is not to say that architects do not draw clearly or do not have clear ideas about spaces they are describing in their drawings... This simply suggests that our cultures seem to be more used to 3D images and perspective representations of space... It appears that people find images that imitate optic illusions of space and, hence, look like photographs being more 'realistic', more accurate and more descriptive...

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
We are a team of visual art professionals who specialise in such 'realistic' interpretations of 2D architectural drawings... We create realistic images and animation of spaces and objects that do not exist... Moreover, thanks to our classic painting experience, we embed the accurate representation of architectural details in pleasant atmospheres and exciting visual compositions... We make pictures that look good and represent your building projects in a best possible way... We help solving costly disputes by taking arguments out of the hands of winging neighbors, we help your projects achieve prices they deserve on the market, we help you sell your projects long before they are built, we keep your investors excited simply by the fact that they can see and walk through the spaces that are about to become real - the spaces that do not exist but are experienced just as they do...

OUR IMAGES ARE YOUR ARGUMENTS
You may need our services if you want to sell a building on the Internet, if you want to inform your potential customers, promote your building offer, support landscape or urban proposals or advertise particular building sites... You will also find our services to be an invaluable advocate of your arguments in courtroom disputes just as in everyday presentations of your ideas to your associates... These images are created for YOU and, hence, they represent YOUR arguments by substituting thousands of words that may or may not be heard...

We help you define such finished VISUAL CONCEPTS by application of the images in PRINTED MEDIA, CD ROM and INTERNET MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS... Our works insure that you never again run out of text when presenting you projects...

SO, WHAT CAN YOU FIND ON THIS SITE?
By browsing this site you can find out more about our particular SERVICES , you can visit our GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES and see several projects including VR panoramas and animations in our MULTIMEDIA cluster.... There you can also learn more about the process of creating computer artworks...
Furthermore, you can browse our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), you can ORDER A VISUALISATION for your project, LOGIN AND MONITOR the progress of your project and finally you can leave this site by choosing links from our popular LINKS PORTAL...


Animation and VR panoramas
(Click to browse Multimedia Gallery)
Browse some MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS produced in our multimedia department. You can also download few simple animations.
Gallery of Architectural Perspectives
(Updated in December 2002.)
Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND perspectives of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the paintings which are produced in our studio.Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND perspectives of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the paintings which are produced in our studio.
Our Services
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Browse a simple multimedia cluster about projects we create.)
Simple WEB cluster presenting our services.                        (Frames enabled browser required)Simple WEB cluster presenting our services.                            (Frames enabled browser required)

Perspectives...
Realistic Impressions...

By ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES we understand images that are created on basis of architectural plans and elevations on principles of Linear perspective. Such images which imitate the optic principles of human eye are founded on Renaissance visual conventions (with one viewing point outside of pictorial space)... We create ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES by utilising traditional drawing and painting techniques combined with contemporary computer technology... We are using paints and pencils as well as 3D modeling (CAD) and 2D painting software... The final artworks can be works on paper and/or screen images such as the images you can see on these pages...



Virtual Reality...
Immersive Panoramas

Currently there are many software products on the market which apply digital stitching of photographs and their mapping on virtual spheres or cylinders to create the illusion of immersive 3D environments (you can browse the vendors pages from our LINKS pages)... Some software companies are targeting particularly the real estate agencies and it seams that, besides 3D walkthroughs and flybys, the technology will soon be broadly accepted standard for architectural presentation industry... We are regularly using several different programs for mapping 2D computer generated and hand-painted panoramas... Considering that we can still hardly imagine 3D "Holodeck" technology on the Internet, this is showing to be quite an appropriate and useful Web substitute for "Virtual Reality" technologies.

Click to browse the panorama
VR Panorama (35k)


How can I send my plans?
Simply Cut and Fax them...

This is a frequently asked question with quite simple answer... If you have neither digital files of your plans nor the access to computer scanner you can simply cut the copies of your plans (building and site plans and elevations) in A4 strips and fax them to us one by one... We stitch them together and if you provide us the details such as the colour scheme (RGB numeric values or local Dulux, Bristol or Pantone names) we have enough information to start working on your project...
And, yes...
our phone/fax is:
(+61 3) 9329 8725
our e-mail is:
Here

We are a truly international studio; we can claim that artworks by our artists can be found in offices and residences of all 6 continents... Just look for this sign of quality in one corner of best architectural visualisations:



  Remote clients and contacts
High end visualisation and the network presence


Several of our recent projects for overseas clients were negotiated and realised over the Internet... The physical distance is not a significant barrier for successful business relations any more. Moreover, it seems that overseas clients find the quality, price and the convenience of our top artworks delivered by e-mail, snail mail or by FedEx very competitive. Even local clients often prefer using phone and e-mail negotiations as well as courier or taxi delivery of finished artworks instead of physical contact... It is not merely to say that we can set briefings and provide you artworks over the Internet but, also, that we can help you in developing your own - attractive and efficient presence in the net - your own virtual marketplace for selling your building projects before they are completed.
Tuscan Style Villa, Del Mar. Click to open a separate window with a large image (50k).
Front View, Tuscan Villa project.
(HTML, 120k)


Darling Street Project, Click to open a separate window with a multimedia cluster.
Darling Street Project, South Yarra. (Simple multimedia cluster)

Tuscan Style Villa, Del Mar, Great room. Click to open a separate window with a large image (50k).
From Tuscan Villa project
(HTML, 50k)

As you can see in this perspective of the Mediterranean style home in California we cope quite well with imperial dimensions and other American drafting standards as well as with worldwide plant species... Details for completing this project were negotiated over the Internet by using e-mail and they included scanned photos of the factual building site, house plans and landscape plans... Furthermore, the gradual developing of the perspective and interior design details were also used to redefine the architectural plan itself.

Likewise, in the case of this residential project the clients were regularly informed about advancing of the project by images similar to the large slides you can see on these pages in your browser. Over the Internet the clients were allowed to comment on the visualisation process almost in real time. The high-resolution computer illustrations were at the end printed by Epson Stylus and Kodak Pegasus photo printer. Images were stored as TIFF files on a CD and applied in an advertising brochure... Furthermore, the same materials - the images, VR PANORAMAS and AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS - are combined in a CD ROM multimedia presentation as well as in a content-rich and highly efficient Web site.
Besides the Darling Street project (left) we included several other Internet versions of multimedia presentations to demonstrate how your Internet presence can be established by a cluster of Web pages. The Tuscan Villa project, included in our Multimedia pages is such a cluster comprised of a clickable plan, exterior slides and interior VR panoramas.

To see more illustrations of this kind you are welcome to browse our gallery of still images...

(Images Gallery)    Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND visualisations of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the perspectives which are produced in our studio.Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND visualisations of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the paintings which are produced in our studio.



Amazing Graphics
Kodak and Epson prints

The low quality of digital output was until recently the principal excuse for avoiding computer visualisations. Differences in monitor gamma and unexpected settings of different printers made the printing of your digital files a kind of a gamble demanding a lot of patience and expenses to get the prints of reasonable quality. On the other hand with contemporary printing technologies that provide amazing results in resolution and colour accuracy this is not a problem any more... The Kodak's photo (Pegasus and Durst-Epsilon) and Epson's inkjet (Photo Stylus) technologies, that we are using for high resolution perspectives, allow us such sophisticated controls over the final result that this makes even our perfectionist team, educated on classical painting, very veeeeeery happy...
We are all proud when hanging our digital images on walls next to our oil paintings...


How do we do it?
ABC Computer Visualisations

If you are curious about the process of visualisation and techniques we usually apply in creating computer graphics you are welcome to visit our GALLERY or FAQ pages. Here you can browse the successive images illustrating the creation of perspectives and participate with your questions and comments...




  Urban and Landscape Studies
From the open-form sketches to sophisticated eclectic paintings


logo The highly defined computer visualisations that are presented so far at these pages are simply not adequate for all visualisation projects... Some projects demand less obligatory artworks, the artworks that present architects' visual ideas as developing forms rather than some finished products.


Click to open a separate window with a large image (45k).
From Osijek project (HTML, 65k)
For such visualisations a bit more stylised and/or expressive drawings which do not hide the drawing process and hand imperfections are certainly much better solution then overly realistic computer renderings. Thanks to years of diverse visualisation experiences we can offer different styles of imaging depending on particular technologies of reproduction and specific aesthetic demands of our clients.

Such artworks are often complex urban studies done for city councils and other government offices as well as independent architects and are ultimately included as parts of different preservation and development proposals. They are also used to illustrate particular arguments but in a less defined manner...

Here are images of few oil paintings done as a part of a large project - historical study of old Croatian town Osijek. Click the left image to view the small urban landscapes gallery cluster. To see more illustrations you are welcome to browse our GALLERY pages...

(Images Gallery)    Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND visualisations of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the perspectives which are produced in our studio.Browse through our choice of COMPUTER and FREEHAND visualisations of INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL objects - the paintings which are produced in our studio.



The Oko Art Studio - Melbourne    Client Support Area
 The real time developing of your project
          ...with your password.       

logoIf you are currently waiting for your artwork then you can check how your project is developing here. The images which illustrate the advancing of your artwork as well as the artists comments are changing according to the information you have received together with the password (the image is usually updated every 24 hours).

So, IF YOU HAVE A PASSWORD AVAILABLE then you can check the status of the project right now by typing your password in the field above and clicking the 'login' button.



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