Hopper Design + Illustration 
Drone on
Collecting high-quality contextual photos is an important part of visualization, so we upgraded our early DJI Phantom series drone to a Mavic Pro. At just about 1.5 lbs including the battery, it travels easily to building sites and collapses to a convenient 3” by 8”. The greatest improvement over our old manually adjusted camera mount […]
Neptune Plaza
Our newest vision for the city of Alameda in collaboration with architect Daniel Hoy, the proposal for Neptune Plaza re-imagines the existing shopping center to reflect the history of Neptune Beach, once known as “Coney Island of the West.” Together with the proposed Foster’s building (see our December 1 entry), the two projects would span […]
Remember when…
Remember when artistry and computers were not simpatico? Until not that long ago, renderings were done exclusively by hand–it was the only way to make them look good. Sometime in the mid-90s, the potential of the computer as a rendering tool began to crystallize. It was around this same time that I began transferring my […]
