What you'll learn

How to render with Lumion

How create photorealistic images and videos with Lumion

Understanding Lumion at core

Getting Familiar with Lumion

Requirements

No rendering experience required, you will learn everything you need to know

Description

This comprehensive Lumion course is designed for architects, designers, and visualization professionals looking to elevate their skills in 3D rendering, animation, and architectural visualization. Through hands-on exercises, real-world projects, and step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to harness the full potential of Lumion’s powerful real-time rendering tools to bring your architectural concepts and design ideas to life with stunning visual quality.Participants will start by familiarizing themselves with the Lumion interface, learning essential tools and features to quickly develop immersive environments. As the course progresses, you will explore advanced techniques in creating ultra-realistic materials, dynamic lighting setups, landscape design, and adding atmospheric effects like rain, wind, and fog. Special emphasis will be placed on perfecting textures, fine-tuning reflections, and incorporating realistic people, vehicles, and vegetation to make your scenes more vibrant and engaging.In addition to photorealistic still renders, you will also delve into the animation features, learning how to create fly-throughs, walk-throughs, and animated sequences that showcase your designs in motion. You’ll discover storytelling techniques that can enhance client presentations and how to integrate Lumion with popular CAD and BIM software such as SketchUp, Revit, and AutoCAD to streamline your workflow and improve productivity.By the end of the course, you will have gained the confidence to produce high-quality visualizations, animations, and presentations that communicate your design intent with impact and creativity, making your work stand out in a competitive industry.Key Topics Covered:Navigating the Lumion interface and core functionsImporting and optimizing 3D models from design software (Revit, SketchUp, AutoCAD)Applying high-quality textures, materials, and object librariesRealistic lighting techniques (daylight, artificial lighting, and night scenes)Environmental and weather effects (rain, fog, wind, and landscape customization)Creating lifelike people, trees, vehicles, and animated elements in your scenesMastering camera settings, perspectives, and composition for storytellingProducing professional-grade animations and fly-throughsOptimizing scenes for photorealistic rendering in both still images and videosPost-production effects and enhancements using Lumion’s effects stackCollaboration and presentation best practices for architects and designersWhether you're a beginner looking to learn Lumion from scratch or an experienced user seeking to refine your skills, this course will provide you with practical knowledge, industry insights, and creative techniques to transform your designs into visually captivating 3D renderings and animations.Ideal For:Architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and urban plannersVisualization professionals looking to expand their rendering capabilitiesStudents and professionals aiming to enhance their portfoliosAnyone seeking to create compelling 3D presentations and animations in the architecture, design, or real estate sectors.Prerequisites: No prior experience with Lumion is required, though familiarity with 3D modeling software is beneficial.This extended version dives deeper into the practical skills and offers more details about the features and advanced uses of Lumion.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Learn everything about Lumion Part 1

Lecture 2 Lumion Welcome Page

Lecture 3 User Interface and Navigation Techniques

Lecture 4 Content Library

Lecture 5 Importing Model

Lecture 6 How to save and load file

Section 3: Learn everything about Lumion Part 2

Lecture 7 How to Import 3D Contents from a 3rd party warehouse into Lumion

Lecture 8 Move and Rotation Tools

Lecture 9 Working with Layers

Lecture 10 Placement tool and Object Color Change

Lecture 11 Flicker and How to make light Glow

Lecture 12 Water and Glass Materials Application

Section 4: Learn everything about Lumion Part 3

Lecture 13 The Material Library

Lecture 14 Applying Effects and 3D Contents

Lecture 15 Applying Light Effects

Lecture 16 How to Creates Rocky Landscape.

Lecture 17 Creating Pond and How to use paint tool

Lecture 18 How to Create an Island

Section 5: Learn everything about Lumion Part 4

Lecture 19 Weather Tool

Lecture 20 How to create photo and video

Lecture 21 How to animate people and object in Lumion

Lecture 22 How to create photorealistic image and video of interior

Lecture 23 How to create Exterior photorealistic images and videos

Lecture 24 How to export images and videos in Lumion

Beginners, intermediates and pro willing to understand the usage of Lumion to render and to create a photorealistic images and videos