Nelson Bourke

SketchUp's Real-Time Rendering Moment: Lumion View, AI Render, and the End of the Export Workflow

SketchUp 2025–2026 has added native PBR materials, AI image generation, and real-time rendering plugins like Lumion View, letting archviz artists produce photorealistic images without leaving the viewport. This collapses the traditional design-to-render pipeline.

Nelson Bourke

This atmosphere was conveyed by the images when our work was ready. At the very beginning, the client told us about the main purpose of the project and gave us the vision that he wanted to implement. Since the apartments are created for the life and life of people, our task was extremely clear — it is necessary to visualize comfortable conditions and an intuitive arrangement of everything that would be inside.

Software: 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Corona Renderer

Posted on 10.11.2021