Architects and community planners long relied on scale models to represent their vision to clients and stakeholders. These true-to-life miniatures offer a view of structures and neighborhoods well suited to in-person walk arounds, but don’t translate well to the digital world.
Studio 4D, an architectural visualization firm with clients across the US, realized early that high-quality digital visualizations that are easily viewed and shared, are essential to enable architects, designers, and developers to convey their projects to community stakeholders and future investors. In 2016, the company broke new ground by adapting Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to build and present its architectural models digitally.