VALENCIA HYATT

Hi guys.
Here is a short video of the latest building, "THE VALENCIA HYATT"

Well People its with great regret....

i inform you of the departure of our goto designer Enrique Gonzalez ,who is venturing inoto the world of Cadployment. congrats kiki good luck ,and thank you for all your quality work you have given us, also with some reservations i to shall embark into a new direction as frontdoor llc models ahead into imaginary world of 3d. Gene good luck with this groundswell sorry i"ll have to miss it !Rob ,thankyou for trusting me with beta phase development , it has been fun if anything, and perhaps some more projects in the future good friend!
And a thankyou to all this blog reaches , a Monster is growing, be a part of its growth ,

Sincerely,
Phil Cranford
just a dude

Out the BETA

We are completing the BETA phase of the workflow today.  Thanks for the patience.   We will be entertaining a new client next week as well as beginning work flow in San Francisco area.  As the ITT campus is under remodel the next two weeks, we will have training through a gotomeeting later this week.

Nice work everybody!

Rob

Quality Control

I call it DC Beta!

What better test than 3,700 miles from location to location for our work flow?   Buildings look great and thats due in part by an extended team work from Andy to Jason, from Phil to Kevin.  

What a whirlwind, and with that we are holding a workshop from 4 to 6 on friday concluding food to hammer out all the kinks and bugs before our next bigger build out.

I really have to say we are ready...

Keep in touch!

Jason Battles the Rain

Our Virginia / DC photographers are on plan as they finish up the first round of Schools...Nice work colleagues!

Jefferson School

Here is one more view of the Jefferson school with details.

First Draft of Jefferson Elementary in DC

Hey,

Great Workshop with Scott F. Thursday from Cyber City!  It was also a wonderful surprise to a have a 3D rendering of the Washington DC model.   Yummy, tri-tip and raviolli's sure help the 3 hour session run smoothly.

Rob

RESOURCES FOR DESIGNERS

http://cgtextures.com

VEOHVIDEONETWORK.COM

PHOTOSHOPUSERTV.COM

YOUTUBE.COM

Q AND A FROM THE CREW ...

How do you change the perspective of a photo in photoshop CS 3 extended?
I try do the perspective menu under free transform but it don't seem to work?

WELL THIS ONE YOU MIGHT FIND USEFULL ....

FROM THE FILTER DROP DOWN MENU .. , DISTORT , THEN LENS CORRECTION ,

THE SLIDERS IN THE RIGHT TOOL BAR VERT & HORIZONTAL TOOLS HELP WITH THIS SITUATION. TRY IT AND REMEMBER PEOPLE IF THERES A QUESTION PLEASE ASK IT KEEPS THE FIRE BURNING THAT WAY , ..k? THANKS PHILWOOD

PHIL's BACK get your directives!

DC back on the West Coast!

East Coast Photo West Coast Design

Enrique finishes up the first school in record time.   Take a look at a rough draft in Sketch Up

Phil in Delphia errr Washington

Looks like Phil has already landed and captured great imagery.  After a half day of overcast perfect shadowless shoot he was blessed with a downpour.  Kevin saved the day with a fine resting dinner...

The first 18!

Wow,

Front Door team moves fast...still in meeting on a Saturday.  Mr. Cranford goes to Washington, while I have to stay in LA.

Monday will be NS training update for Right Hemisphere 3d mapping portion of build out.

Sac ATTACK!

Designers,

Tonight is the first round of the photos get ready for an email assignment.  Come see me for  arrangements.  Any time this week.

Here we go...

Sheraton Grande capitol city

here you get a glimpse of the sizes of buildings we are dealing with in beta phase , no precursor so , good job enrique once again thanks for the sketch up tips ...

Front Door Hiring Session

This week is huge for starting the top 100 build out.

Tonight's overview will be hosted by Phil.

Should be a good turn out for interview and Q &A

Right Hemisphere Training Begins

We will be holding two workshops this week.  

WED and THURS.

This is going to make things go much more fast.

another view oflodi station

this is where we want the whole team quality working level k peoples?

Enrique has completed all three models for lodi station project and as always with the highest of detail . we will be approaching lodi community dev.dept. for offset commision fees soon "good job Enrique!"

Spring forward!

Gearing up for April build outs means testing our work flow from Cyber City and back with the new Right Hemisphere software as the final link.

Also, we will partner with resort based and attraction based real estate, so any web developers get ready to sign up.

Rob

Video CONFERENCE success

Looks like Right Hemisphere is the right choice!

Thursday was more than training...

1.  Andy Y.'s workflow overview was in sync with our terrestrial work flow.  (anybody like my Keynote debut?)

2.  The new GUI for the 3D mapping is very approachable.  We start training this week.

3.  Communications begins this week as well with Washington DC and our friends in Virginia.

Nice work with the video conference at ITT conference room.  You rocked....!

Robert S.

UPDGRADE! Just when you thought TRAINING was complete!

GUYS,

Yes, the answer is Cyber City has done it...they have taken the software next gen development 10 rungs higher on the ladder.   What this means for us is that we are now able to streamline the terrestrial workflow making our turnaround time even faster.

For first level designers there are virtually no new tricks other than seeing the results on GE even faster.   I will be training with Peter, Scott and Andy at the end of the week.   Phil will run a workflow review for them from Nor Cal on Thurs afternoon via GoToMeeting so we can adjust our work flow before I get back the following week.

Front Door Welcomes our latest additions...

We are pleased to announce the addition of three more highly talented individuals to our lathrop team of designers.!
Enrique luis Gonzales
Neil Sanders
Kristy Melrose
Congrats lady and gentlemen get ready ....

It's been awhile but a lot is ramping up for the first round of development.

Congrats on the first Front Door hotel going up on Google Earth "The Citizen Hotel"  credit Phil Cranford...and a little hi rise photography adventure ...

Old Sac is on its way and if you look now you'll see floating default buildings on the water side...

get ready here we go!