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Ask how the studio works inside the R-Codes. Since 10 April 2024 the Residential Design Codes have had the force of subsidiary legislation, and the Medium Density Code covers grouped dwellings coded R30 and above, single houses at R50 and above and apartments in areas coded R30 to R60. With density, setbacks and open space set that plainly, the useful image shows what a design achieves inside its envelope — and none should suggest more height, a smaller setback or more open space than the drawings allow.

Ask how it handles Perth light and coastal materials. The light here is the harshest of the capitals — high, bright and hard on white render and pale masonry — so the whites should keep their detail instead of flaring into flat panels, and west-facing glass should be shown at an hour the room is really used. On the coast, limestone’s porous, variegated face needs matching to supplier samples or site photographs; a smooth texture gives it away.

Look for a quote that names each view, how many rounds of revisions are included and the delivery date. Ours does, and a single senior artist builds and lights every image from start to finish.

Setting is the biggest variable. A coastal custom home between Cottesloe and Mandurah needs its limestone, face brick and powder-coated aluminium weathered and lit the way salt, wind and hard western light will leave them; resource-sector offices and workforce accommodation are often judged by people who will never see the site, so the imagery carries the whole explanation and has to be honest about scale.

Scope is the second. Infill under the R-Codes often calls for compliant options shown side by side, each from the same camera in the same light, and a grouped-dwelling sale needs the street, the view down the common drive and an interior for each home type, all from one model; extra views from a scene that is already built cost a fraction of the first one.

Every Perth project is priced in writing, scope and delivery date included, before work starts — generally within two business hours — and there is no deposit for a registered business.

The City of Perth spells out the images it wants. Its guide to major development applications says a coloured photomontage or coloured perspective, or both, must be submitted, showing the proposal in context within the streetscape from a pedestrian viewpoint, and it asks for shadow diagrams at 10am, noon and 2pm on 22 August, 22 September and 22 October. All major developments also need a 3D digital model, which the City views in its own 3D City Model during assessment.

The largest projects can go to the State. Since 1 March 2024, developments worth $20 million or more in the Perth and Peel regions can use the Significant Development Pathway, decided by the Western Australian Planning Commission's Statutory Planning Committee. Its application guide asks for elevations and perspectives of each side, the same pedestrian-viewpoint photomontage and data that lets the proposal be modelled in three dimensions. The Commission can also require design review, usually deciding with the Government Architect, who chairs the State Design Review Panel.

Two details shape the work. The City licenses the relevant blocks of its 3D model free of charge for development application images, but not for promotional use, and it will not accept models carrying materials made for rendering software such as V-Ray. So for Perth projects we build the photomontage from your lodged drawings, at street level from a pedestrian viewpoint as the guide asks, and model the street context ourselves for any marketing images that follow. How each montage is made and documented is on our photomontages page.