Tips to Polish Your Vision and Secure Funding
- 3D Animation, Conceptual Design, Design and 3D Visualization
- 3d visualization, business plans, design communication, Fundraising, fundraising tools, Renderings, sales, site plans
- March 10, 2025
"Capital Isn't Scarce, Vision Is."
~Sam Walton
3D visualization is a powerful communication and sales tool. Be it a 2D plan layout, 3D rendered environment or an animated fly-through of a space, a visual seamlessly shows what words cannot.
Anika Robinson
President, ASA Now
A Visual for Every Stage
At DugOut Design Studio, we truly thrive in the early stages of design when all the pieces may not yet be in place. Our collaborative approach involves engaging closely with our clients through multiple iterations, allowing us to identify challenges, analyze spatial dynamics, and explore a variety of tailored solutions. Throughout every phase of the project, we prioritize clarity and communication by sharing quantity take-offs, site plans and detailed drawing sets with architects, contractors, and engineers, ensuring that everyone involved is aligned with the design intent.
STAGE 1: 2D PLANNING & SITE MAPS
AN INTEGRAL STEP FOR ACCURATELY VALIDATING POTENTIAL SPACES, CREATING SITE MAPS AND MASTER PLANS.
STAGE 2: 3D MODELING CONVERTING 2D CONCEPTS INTO 3D WORLDS FOR ANALYZING VOLUMETRIC SPACES, VIEWING FROM MULTIPLE POV’S AND MAKING AESTHETIC DECISIONS.
STAGE 3: RENDERING & ANIMATED FLY-THROUGHS
3D RENDERINGS + FLY-THROUGHS SHOWCASE THE FINAL PRODUCT INCLUDING LIGHTING, TEXTURES AND INTEGRATED BRANDING
STAGE 4: DETAILS, DIMENSIONS & PLANS COMMUNICATION OF DIMENSIONS, SECTION CUTS, MATERIALS SPECS AND QUANTITY TAKE-OFFS.
Tips for Leveragng Your Visuals
Raise Capital with a Rendering:
- Brand Your Pitch to a Sponsor: A 3D modeled space can be branded with logos/colors/custom features. These can be swapped to suit multiple brands.
- Seek Loan and Grant money: Renderings enhance business plans by communicating vision, environment and space that words cannot.
- Pitch Investors: There’s nothing like a polished rendering, 3D fly-through or VR experience to get investors excited and engaged.
- Host a Fundraising Event: Captivate your audience with photo-realistic images, animated fly-throughs or a VR experience. Capitalize on a time when you have full attention.
- Marketing Content: Use visuals for social media and website content to attract customers while project is in development.
Save Time and Money with 3D Visualization:
- Avoid being locked in early with a design/build firm. The initial concept stage should be fluid and expected to change. With DugOut, you’ll work through design iterations to scale while assessing layout, colors and materials to make informed design decisions without locking into a costly commitment.
- Be prepared and professional for the planning and permitting departments. Quickly make changes to adhere to their requests to keep the process moving forward quickly. Each city has different requirements but you can guarantee they’ll appreciate your visuals!
- When you’re ready for the next phase, communicating design intent to an architect and contractor will be seamless. We work with architects, engineers, contractors and manufacturers often. Our detailed and dimensioned packages will save you time and frustration.
- Keep team members/stakeholders on the same page. Online design sessions can include multiple members or screenshots of the meeting can be sent to the team to share.
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