Turner Diversified Services has been in business for 6 years providing quality drafting services for architects and residential design services for contractors and home owners.  We added 3d Presentation services to our offerings 3 years ago and just recently began providing virtual tours and photography for the real estate industry, advertising, and special events.

The owner of Turner Diversified Services has a broad background in both residential and commercial construction.  He grew up working in the family business of residential construction and retail building materials being involved in all aspects of the business.  He spent 12 yrs. working as a superintendent of commercial construction managing projects such as: high end residential, retail space, churches, banks, hospitals, long term care facilities, and telecommunications.

Turner Diversified Services works nationwide and in Canada with architects and others providing CAD and 3d Visualizations using the internet, fax, overnight delivery services, and phones to coordinate the work.

Virtual Tours services are only provided in the NE Texas, SE Oklahoma, and Western Arkansas areas due to having to visit the site to perform the services.  Special arrangements and prices for requests outside this area.

1)      Advantages of using 3d Photo Realistic Presentations in General:

a)      Allows Architects and their clients to visualize what the project will look like when complete.

i)        Many times Architects have visualized in their minds how a project will look when completed only to find out that something just didn’t look quite right when the transformation from paper to wood, steel, and bricks is complete.  Using 3d Photo Realistic Presentations allows the architect to work out these problems before their client even knows about any potential problems.

ii)       For the client it allows them to see what the architect has designed as it will look when complete.  Many people who do not work with drawings a lot have a hard time visualizing how a building will look when complete just by looking at floor plans and elevations.  By doing a 3d Photo Realistic Rendering and working out any problems before construction begins it can sometimes save many thousands of dollars and having an unhappy client.  The small cost of creating a 3d Photo Realistic Presentation is nothing compared to what it could cost in change orders to re-design and re-construct a building feature after the construction has begun.

2)      Services Available

a)      3d Photo Realistic Renderings

i)        These are still shots of certain building features or elevations that can show how a building will look when complete

b)      3d Walk Throughs or Flybys

i)        These are animations of the camera to simulate what you would see by walking through a building or as it would look from the exterior much as a bird might see it.

c)      Panoramas

i)        Panoramas are special “pictures” that allow you to interactively look around, up, or down much as you would be able to do if you were standing in a building and looking at the architecture.

ii)       An “animated” Panorama is a series of these “pictures” taken along a path through the building which allows you to “jump” from one spot to the next as you “walk” through the building to look at all parts of it.

d)      Object Animation

i)        This option combines the Flyby and the Panorama in that it allows the architect or client to interactively move around the building or object as well as up and down.  To look at the building from 360 degrees horizontally and from 0 to as much as 90 degrees vertically the mouse is used to turn the object or elevate the viewpoint.

The cost of work varies from the single still shots being the least expensive to the true walk through or flyby being the most expensive with the panoramas and object animations falling somewhere in between.