5 new Lumion 8 features for elevating render beauty to new heights

Visualize creativity like never before. Communicate architecture while captivating your audiences. See how you can capture your vision in the best possible light by applying these new Lumion 8 features to your designs.

For an in-depth look at how you can create jaw-dropping images or animations in Lumion 8 with these 5 features, continue reading below.

5 new tools for saving time and energy in Lumion 8

Less time spent rendering means that you’ll have more time to focus on perfecting your design. 

At its core, Lumion 8 is a serious upgrade when it comes to your render’s image quality and visual attractiveness. 

Features such as Sky Light and the Soft and Fine Shadows made this dramatic quality boost possible, but it’s important to remember the other pillars of Lumion rendering: speed and ease-of-use.

By applying these five time-saving features new in Lumion 8, you can tighten your rendering workflow and start knocking out amazing renders in a quick, efficient manner.

Learn how to make amazing renders in Lumion 8 with this video tutorial by Mike Brightman

Discover how Lumion 8 can help you transform exteriors, interiors, landscapes and more into incredibly realistic renders with this recorded webinar tutorial from avid user Mike Brightman.

The Styles button, Sky Light, soft shadows, rounded edges and so much more! 

From its breathtaking render quality to its easy-to-use interface that empowers architects to quickly make amazing images and videos, Lumion 8 is certainly a rendering force to be reckoned with. 

In the above tutorial, Lumion expert user Mike Brightman walks you through the new features in Lumion 8. Mike also explores various usage cases so that you can leverage these features to achieve the best result. 

Learn more about the new Lumion 8 features with our specially made tutorials

Looking for a little extra rendering insight so that you can start producing striking images and videos? Check out our wide range of video tutorials:

• Styles button
  
• Soft and Fine Detail Shadows effect
  
• Sky Light effect
  
• Architectural outlines effect
  
• New color correction sliders
  
• Model and material variations
  
• Hyperlight in animation
• New water and presets
  
• Two-point perspective slider
• Tilt shift
  
• Fixed point camera
  
• New mass placement curves
  
• Measurement tool
  
• Place grid
  
• New open street map improvements
  
• Time warp effect
  
• Soften edges
  
• New Poliigon materials
  
• New content in the library

Expand the way you render with Lumion 8

Lumion 8 marks some major changes in everything from UI to the Styles presets to advanced features for exceptional image quality. The links above will take you to Lumion’s video tutorials, and you can further explore the new features on our What’s New page. 

You’ll also come across new images, animations and media capturing architecture in its best light on our social pages, including:

• Facebook
  
• Twitter
  
• Instagram
  
• LinkedIn
  

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more tutorial blogs and videos providing in-depth guides to using Lumion 8.

Sketch, tilt and render: what’s possible in Lumion 8

Get clients to feel the spaces you designed with these 6 incredible new features in Lumion 8.

With only the Styles button, Sky Light and the Soft and Fine Shadows features, you can give your designs a striking level of realism in a matter of seconds.

However, there’s much more to Lumion 8 than initially meets the eye. In this post, you can explore 6 amazing new features and discover how they’ll help you and your clients feel the space like never before.

Live Webinar: Explore New Possibilities in Lumion 8

Want to learn more about what’s possible in Lumion 8? Explore new features and functions with a Live Webinar hosted by Lumion aficionado Mike Brightman. 

Date/time: Tuesday, November 28 @ 11 A.M. MST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=rnUiGh15ZHg

We look forward to seeing you there!