How Twinmotion is Democratizing Visualization at CannonDesign
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CannonDesign reports that Twinmotion (since 2019) lets many studios produce production imagery without render farms, linking SketchUp/Rhino/Revit/3ds Max models to real‑time PBR materials and Substance textures. Two case studies: a five‑building Restorative Care Village with 64 beds and a complete two-week redesign delivered polished imagery, and a science animation updated in hours that helps win work. Twinmotion prebakes first‑pass lighting, accepts heavy InfraWorks geometry, lacks Revit lights and multiuser collaboration, and the team wants RTX/denoising for higher‑quality reflections.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:14Living Center Design
- 1:53Real-Time Rendering
- 2:11Real Time Rendering
- 2:39How Twin Motion Can Optimize Our Workflow
- 4:11Design Process
- 4:37Ideating
- 4:51Prototyping
- 5:57Traditional Rendering Workflow
- 6:09A Design To Render Workflow
- 9:33How Can We Produce More and Faster
- 11:16Dynamic Backgrounds
- 12:00Rhino Plugin
- 12:13Vegetation Painting and Scattering
- 12:47Entourage
- 14:10Study the Restorative Care Village
- 16:24Sketchup and Twin Motion Workflow
- 21:30Interoperability
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