Boutique, premium 3D rendering & visualisation · Australia

Aurum Render is a boutique, premium 3D rendering and architectural visualisation studio based in Sydney, led by Anthony, who has more than 20 years in the industry. One senior artist carries each project from first model to final image, and the studio caps how many projects run at once. It makes photorealistic renders, photomontages for planning, architectural film and interactive tours from drawings for architects, property marketing agencies, developers and luxury custom builders — with published prices and a fixed quote, setting out the scope, price and delivery date, before any work starts.

Time, and where it goes. A budget render is a model with a sun and a camera. Ours has a lighting pass, a materials pass, styling and a grade — several times the studio hours. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on what the image has to do. For a DA submission, often not. For a campaign that has to sell forty apartments, always.

Usually within two business days of a signed scope. We deliberately cap concurrent projects, so if we are full we will tell you a real date rather than take the work and run late.

Yes. Everything runs on drawings, survey and shared review links, so the process is the same wherever the project is.

Yes. A render, 3D render, CGI, artist’s impression and architectural visualisation all describe the same thing: a photorealistic image of a building made from its drawings before it exists. Architects tend to say visualisation, property marketing tends to say artist’s impression or CGI. What separates one studio from another is not the name but the hours that go into the lighting, materials and styling.

In Australia, a single architectural render costs from about $300 for budget work to $6,000 for established-studio photorealistic work, and mid-range work sits between $1,000 and $2,500 per image (in AUD; the source does not say whether GST is included), according to the published price guide cited in our cost guide. A single still from us starts at $1,000 + GST, and a set of five works out at $900 an image. Every project gets a fixed quote before work starts.

Start with the renders it has made for councils and for off-the-plan campaigns, not just its best portfolio image. Ask how it models the neighbouring buildings, whether it works from your finishes schedule, and how it sets the sun for the site. Then compare fixed quotes that state the views, the revision rounds and the delivery date.

Yes, on request. If a project is confidential, say so when you get in touch and we will sign your non-disclosure agreement before you send the drawings.

Drawings and a sentence about what the imagery is for. We quote a fixed price with scope and a delivery date attached — not a range, and not an hourly estimate that moves.

It depends on scope, and your quote fixes the delivery date before anything starts. As a guide, an exterior or interior still typically takes three to four business days, aerial and masterplan work four to six, and film eight to twelve business days.

Yes. Plenty of our work starts before the drawings are resolved. The grey-box stage — massing, camera and light with no materials — is exactly the right tool for testing a concept, and it costs a fraction of a finished image.

Revit, ArchiCAD, SketchUp, Rhino and CAD models all work, and a usable model reduces the price. If there is no model, elevations and a floor plan are enough to begin — we build from those.

Yes — storyboarded architectural film, priced per finished minute from $6,500. It is built from the same scene as the stills, so commissioning both together costs meaningfully less than commissioning them separately.

Finished stills at 4K, 8K or print resolution, sized for what each image is for: a website and social posts need far less than a brochure or a site hoarding. Each comes with web and social crops, and layered files on request if your designer wants to adjust a sky or a figure later.