Our Mission
To help people understand the true physical nature of a project, before it exists. By providing a varied set of opportunities to the client, from concept to market, we strive to effectively communicate new ideas at every phase of product development.
What is so unique about the preVision Company?
The diverse background of our team, with professional experience in design, construction, CAD, 3d modeling, trade-show design, theatre design, graphic design, illustration and photography. This combination of practical knowledge and skill gives the team an insightful understanding of your project. Therefore we can provide you with creative and proficient solutions for your needs.
Great software. We have a dynamic combination of CAD, 3D modeling, photo editing, and illustration software that will give you stunningly realistic, tack-sharp images of any size, from web pages to billboards.
Product Offerings
360° Flash virtual tours of our 3D model products. A great animation alternative .
• Flash has a 95% installed based in web browsers worldwide.
• 360-degree tours are more interactive than self-running movies.
• Image quality is superior as 360-degree tours render more efficiently.
• Virtual tour files are typically smaller than movie files and load faster into web browsers.
• Flash 360-degree tours can be placed into on-line .PDF publications to present your brochures in an interactive, kinetic way.
CAD accurate architectural renderings of exterior perspectives and interior designs.
• Models can be made from virtually any CAD format, .PDF, or hand-drawn files.
• Rendering quality is photo-real, and can be rendered to virtually to any size.
• 1000’s of images in plant material, image cel and 3D prop libraries.
• Color-calibrated workflow.
Design development: lighting and finish treatment studies.
• Finish information is created directly from manufacturer’s specifications.
• Finishes are carefully sized to each surface.
• All physical properties of finishes are addressed for reliable image quality.
• Light handling controls can replicate a fixture’s photometric data.
Photo composites of sites and proposed improvements.
• Advanced photo editing techniques.
• Layered, alpha-channel rendering output for composited scenes.
2D illustrations of sites and floor plans.
• Linear information can be derived from CAD or hand-drawn plans.
• Vector-based illustrations can be sized without pixilation.
3D representations of logos and trademarks and other commercial products.
• All of the tools above are employed for realistic representation of your product or logo.
Digital "hand drawn" images derived from 3D models.
• All renderings and 3D wireframes can be digitally filtered or rendered for watercolor or sketchy styles.
Affiliated Services
To simplify the use of our products with any of your permitting, design or marketing processes, we coordinate with select businesses who can readily address the following marketing functions.
• Pre-sale to resale package approach to web site marketing.
• Photographic virtual tours and stills.
• Output and mounting services with 24-hour turn and overnight shipping of images.
• NEW! 3D printing of physical models. Use our model data to print in 3D!
About the Principal
Tom Macie, ASAI, professor of theatre design and production at UNC Wilmington, 1986-2004, began researching digital art in 1994. With grant funding to explore the possibility of making digital renderings of stage designs from computer-drafted plans, he tested various combinations of drawing, painting, CAD, and 3D modeling software products.
It quickly became apparent that it could be possible to combine all of these tools to make a photo-real picture of a stage design. At the time, much of this software was not designed to interact with one another. Photorealism was just emerging in 3D software development. An additional challenge was that many theatre designs were composed of abstract shapes. Therefore, using software designed to make models conform to contemporary architectural forms would ultimately prove unsuccessful.
The criteria for the selection of the software combination needed for this purpose (and ultimately used in the preVision Company’s process), was a diverse tool able to create a wide variety of shapes, exacting control of textures, a dynamic range of lighting control, and the
ability to produce high-resolution images at any size.
After several years of experimentation with a variety of techniques and software combinations, Mr. Macie abandoned his hand drafting and watercolor perspectives in favor of 3D computer models. He used these models to show theatre producers and directors an exact representation of his designs during the development process. One of the many advantages was that the models could be updated during the design process, allowing the production staff to efficiently explore variations of the design.
Mr. Macie made several presentations of his process at state, regional, and national theatre conferences. He eventually used it to design scenery and multimedia productions with professional opera and theatre companies, who saw this as an accurate and cost-effective method of designing productions.
Today the preVision Company uses these diverse tools and skills for commercial applications with the same mission, helping people understand the true physical nature of a project, before it exists.
