Recommended 2D people textures for arch viz?

[belushy]

Digicam some time outside and Photoshop (fluidmask)
best training for your eyes and unique libarys

[moka.studio]

I agree with Belushy.
Best is to take photos, so you have several people under the same lighting situation.
Most commercial bundles are awful in my opinion. You can always tell when people use them.

[alawrence]

Would love to but I am very stretched for time, stuck in London UK. Everyone is dressed for a cold day, pale pastey white skin, and dont look like they have spent the summer tanning in LA.

[belushy]

Dosch has some but they are soso
some are good some are real bad
Birdeyepeople are fine for example
Marlin studios has some

but as said i almost use my own people because readymades are not so good

the people are often shot in a studio and are posing ,
very unnatural

[dan22]

Anthony - if you're doing a job for LA, isn't there someone involved with the project locally (client, architects?) who could go and take some snaps at a shopping mall etc... for you?

Or perhaps one of the LA, or Florida based members here could do it, for a small fee?

Summer is always a good time to snap people, but equally, might be worth you going out now and grabbing some shots of people in overcoats - you're next job might be for Stockholm or Moscow!

Having said that, London's been nice and sunny today.

Cheers.

D.

[maikukai]

I was really hoping someone would come up with some suggestions. Aren't there any good commercial packages out there? I need some 2D people for the work I do but my boss isn't going to pay me to make them, nor do I have the time for all the Photoshoppery. The time it would take to photograph and cut out the people in PS would cost more in man hours than it would to just buy a commercial package.

You're also forgetting about model release paperwork. If you take an image of someone to be used in advertisement (which archi-renderings often are) you need them to sign a model release. So going to the mall and snapping shots isn't an option. We can sit around and argue all day long that the people in the mall are unlikely to see my renderings, but I'm sure that's what Kodak thought when they snapped a shot of my friend on Venice Beach and used his image in one of their ads. They had to pay him a $10,000 settlement for failing to get his permission.

I'd like to keep things nice and legal. Since my work ends up in local magazines and newspapers, I'd rather not have someone that I took a picture of at the mall recognize their image in an interior rendering and demand money from the company I work for.

[moka.studio]

I was really hoping someone would come up with some suggestions. Aren't there any good commercial packages out there? I need some 2D people for the work I do but my boss isn't going to pay me to make them, nor do I have the time for all the Photoshoppery. The time it would take to photograph and cut out the people in PS would cost more in man hours than it would to just buy a commercial package.

You're also forgetting about model release paperwork. If you take an image of someone to be used in advertisement (which archi-renderings often are) you need them to sign a model release. So going to the mall and snapping shots isn't an option. We can sit around and argue all day long that the people in the mall are unlikely to see my renderings, but I'm sure that's what Kodak thought when they snapped a shot of my friend on Venice Beach and used his image in one of their ads. They had to pay him a $10,000 settlement for failing to get his permission.

I'd like to keep things nice and legal. Since my work ends up in local magazines and newspapers, I'd rather not have someone that I took a picture of at the mall recognize their image in an interior rendering and demand money from the company I work for.

That is a good point. You should not use images of people that could recognize themselves unless you are sure it's ok. But for many background people this is not going to be the case. This is also were blurs etc come into play.
A good library takes time to create. Of course it takes a lot more time (and therefore more money) to cut out images yourself than buying textures off the internet. A lot more time.

Got3d has some textures on sale, you see those cut out people in a lot of arch vis images. maybe this is of interest to you.

[maikukai]

I've used a few of the ones from Got3D. Depending on what you need, Got3D does have some good stuff. Dosch does also, but neither have exactly what I'm looking for. I need business and semi-casual people AND I need a big variety. Usually these collections have only a handful of useful images per CD.

As for my comment earlier about photo releases, for the renderings I do you can definitely see people's faces, so I need royality-free hi-end photography. But if you're doing large scenes where the people are tiny, then by all means go out and shoot at the mall or on the street. Nobody will notice and if you're worried a little work in photoshop can fix that.

For now, I think I'll try photographing my coworkers against a white background and see how they turn out.

[IlaySHP]

Another site like this - http://vyonyx.com/index.php/category/down/cutout-people
You can download it free and also cutout-trees

[andrasn]

I use Ambientlight People from http://ambientlight.co.uk , and I found quite useful some collections (search for author: aatomic) on http://www.the3dstudio.com .

Cheers,
Andras

[SpanKissimo]

You cant try the Imagecels collection of enturages, people cars and trees from http://www.imagecels.com/

Compared to the dosch ones these are far superior but they are twice the price. Usually with one or 2 collections you can manage a decent amount of different shots. Some need some mirroring in photoshop to get the perfect lighting but at least they got the point of using well-lit outdoor humans since that's the way most exterios shot's are.

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