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Originally Posted by denizen467
While we wait for spyguy to fill us in on where he got the info ... I just want to admire how incredibly realistic renders have gotten lately. The one above the river looking westwards (with the new el cars) looks like it is blending photographs of existing buildings with high-quality renders of the new building. And the grass and trees are just so photorealistic. It's actually getting kind of scary.
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It's a photo montage. You create a base render from a 3D program, and then go to town on making the base render look way more sexy. Surrounding buildings are photographs taken and mapped onto simple geometries. In photoshop you'll swap out flat geometries of the base render with texture elements. You'll take a picture of grassy field for example and paste it into the base render. You'll then start adding all the plants, people, and stuff over that. Finally you'll adjust light levels with filters and gradients.
The post render process can be extremely time intensive. That's why you only see the best imagery after the design is finalized, where in schematic design phases renderings will look dumbed down and conceptual.