More From GarageMahals.....

So far, 2011 has been one of the better years for GarageMahals, LLC – a company owned and operated by Michael Rhodig in Phoenix, Arizona.  As many of you know, Lone Wolf Drafting and Design has done extensive work with GarageMahals over the past few years.  Michael typically designs the garages and provides sketches that I turn into 3D renderings.  So far, we have worked on a couple of garages this year.  The first garage, designed to hold a private collection of Ferraris, is shown below (note differences in artwork and cabinet colors in some of the images; the renderings provided allowed Michael the ability to show his client different detail options that were available):

Layout showing artwork and blue cabinet system to the left

Looking across the garage.

Note the garage door graphic on the right.

Same angle as above, note the different door graphic (and yes, it is supposed to upside down)

Another view showing blue cabinets.

Same view as above showing silver cabinets and alternate door graphic.

Same view as above 2 images with different door graphic.

After this design was completed, Michael wanted to present a design that featured a unifying chrome band that ran around the perimeter of the garage.

Option with chrome banding.

Another view with chrome banding.

Finally, Michael came up with an additional detail for the client’s consideration – a perforated panel in the corners of the garage.

Perforated corner panel detail.

Another garage developed by GarageMahals centered around a unique graphic on the back of the garage doors.  Michael wanted to create the illusion that the actual garage extended beyond the garage doors by creating a realistic looking pseudo garage.  Therefore, I had to model and render to separate garage for this project – a fake garage that would be used to illustrate Micheal's door idea and the actual garage that would be constructed for the client.  The creation of the fake garage posed a unique challenge, as I had to imagine where the owner would be standing in his garage to create the proper perspective so it would look real when the observer was looking at the doors. After determining the correct position, I had to take a snapshot from that location.

Left door graphic

Right door graphic.

From there, the rest of the garage was fairly easy – a nice wainscoting system, metallic walls and custom columns between the garage doors.

This was the original wainscoting system.

Alternate wainscoting panels.

Looking at the doors from the center of the garage.

Same view as above with black and white doors.

Back of the garage.

Looking across the garage.

 

Most recently, Michael had the opportunity to step outside of his usual role as a garage designer, and was given the chance to create an entry way for a private, in home movie theater.  Michael presented a couple of different options, one using a metallic wall covering with a two tone option, and a second design using a interesting dimpled material.  The results for both designs were quite stunning:

View of the theater doors with 2 tone walls.

Crystal lighting and ceiling design.

Red carpet strip with Oscar Statues.

Oscar Statue.

Theater entry with dimpled material.

Oscar with dimpled material behind.

 As we were developing this concept, Michael felt that the reflectivity of the dimpled material was not being illustrated quite right.  The problem was that the material was so reflective that it was hard to determine how this much of the material would react in such a small space, especially because I was using such a small sample to base the image off of.  Therefore, I created 3 images of the same shot with different reflectivity values for the wall material so Michael could determine which image best showed the material in the most realistic manner.

The least amount of reflectivity.

A little more....

The highest amount (anything more would have been to mirror-like).

We hope the rest of 2011 will continue to be as profitable and interesting as the first quarter.  Thanks for reading!