D&D
Interior design for a young family in the city of Kiev
TSR 010: Victor Bonafonte on Cooking Images in B&TB Kitchen, How to Grow as an Artist, As a Team and Having Fun!
The Start of Beauty and the Bit
You can hear all about Victor’s backstory on our interview from SOA Academy Day #6, found in The SpectRoom on session 002.
Today we’re diving right into the details of Beauty and The Bit, starting with the work Victor did for his first client and transforming that into his own studio. He began as a one-man show working from home but quickly grew into more. Just one month after starting out, Victor was approached by three other companies. The snowball started rolling, and the work hasn’t stopped since.
Refining the Work
Beauty and The Bit have grown by word of mouth because clients were happy with the projects they were producing. Victor shares the approach that he takes to creating successful images and the changes that he’s made to the process along the way. He says he started out quite impatient, but as he’s matured, his images have improved.
We talk about the division of labor in the studio, ways that he’s kept the team from recreating the wheel, and why refining the work they do every day is the key to their success.
Growing Little by Little
Victor says he’s satisfied with slow growth at Beauty and The Bit. He doesn’t believe in shortcuts, and that is the perfect approach to creating a quality, unique, or even iconic project. Those types of high-quality projects have put a seal of recognition in their studio, and Victor is always willing to research the best way to approach each project to get it done to their standards.
We talk about the animals in the studio, the things they do to keep everyone oriented in the kitchen, and what applicants need to do to be considered at Beauty and The Bit.
It’s all inside this session of The SpectRoom with Victor Bonafante.
Main Quotes
“If you’re not an animal, you’re not at Beauty and the Bit.” — Victor Bonafante
“The main goal is to refine our work day by day.” — Victor Bonafante
“If you improve the way you do things, you will never run out of work.” — Victor Bonafante
“If you grow based on a formula, you are screwed up.” — Victor Bonafante
“Always question the way you work.” — Ronan Bekerman
“I don’t believe in shortcuts.” — Victor Bonafante
“Your best rendering engine is your brain.” — Victor Bonafante
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Hi Everyone Please find my recent work Tools used for it 3dsMax+Vray and lot of Photoshop work Hope you like it….
Kitchenette
Kitchenette Interior visualization
The inspiration was a photo I found on Pinterest and I liked the simple design and material (stucco lustro or stucco veneziano, the grey wood). I also loved the lightning the indirect lights and the illumination by the natural light and the downlights.
TSR 009: Surfing the Waves of ArchViz with Pedro Fernandes from Arqui9 in London
The Long Progression to Arqui9
Starting out at university, Pedro always had a passion for visually demonstrating the work he was doing. He really began cultivating his passion for 3D after internships in Lisbon and, and as his interest grew, so did his experimenting. He joined forces with three friends to create architecture, 3D, and design. As more information became available on the internet, he sourced as many tutorials as he possibly could, including many of the blog, which can be found here.
This started in 2008, when the economic downturn gave him the opportunity to depart from architecture and focus more on 3D design. After sending his portfolio all over, he started at Vyonyx in London and eventually formed his own company.
The Drive Behind the Work
After working for several companies in different countries, Pedro decided to work for himself, and he never looked back. He gets to do what he loves, working for clients he loves, and he considers himself among the luckiest people on earth.
He has always worked toward the goal of working with certain people, and that desire has driven him to keep working harder and better, even on the days when he wishes that he’d never started down this road.
Crafting Visuals at Arqui9
Pedro creates unique images that always catch my attention, and have been featured on the blog several times as “Best of the Week.” On this session, we discuss how he has passed his unique vision on to his team, where he gets his inspiration, and how he incorporates the talents of each artist into the work that they do. He appreciates that his work isn’t better or worse than anyone else’s, and appreciates the differences in visuals. Recognizing this has helped him identify what he wants to accomplish with his work, and pushes him to achieve it.
You’ll be inspired when you hear about this and more — including why London is the best place for ArchViz and the why behind Arqui9 Learn — in this session of The SpectRoom with Pedro Fernandes.
Main Quotes
“Being able to show your ideas how you want to have always seduced me.” — Pedro Fernandes
“We are some of the luckiest people on earth.” — Pedro Fernandes
“You’re going to have good days, bad days, and days when you wish you’d never done this.” — Pedro Fernandes
“The magic is the artist instilling their own experience into the image.” — Ronen Bekerman
“The 3D program may not seem like an essential thing, but it’s very essential.” — Pedro Fernandes
“I’m not gonna lie — good work gets you far.” — Pedro Fernandes
Bathroom N°13
This is a personal project I made it for studying the composition of a commercial image of a bathroom, I tried to work with a lot of simplicity with a clear composition of the image, trying to recreate a photographic set.