How we work
You approve the expensive decision first.
Nearly every render project that goes wrong goes wrong the same way: materials applied before the camera and the light were agreed. Our process exists to make that impossible.
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Brief and fixed quote
Within two business hours
You send drawings — elevations and a plan are enough — plus a sentence about what the imagery has to achieve. We come back with a fixed price, a written scope and a delivery date. Not a range, not an hourly estimate, and not a discovery call first.
Your part
Drawings, and what the images are for. - 02
Grey-box and camera
Before any material work
We build the massing and set every camera with no materials applied at all. You see exactly what will be in frame, from where, at what time of day. This is the single most important approval in the project and it is also the cheapest one to change.
Your part
Approve composition and light, or tell us to move it. - 03
Materials, styling and first frames
Once composition is signed off
Finishes go on to specification. Landscape, furniture, vehicles and figures are placed. You receive the first full-quality frames for review, and the revision rounds begin here rather than at the end.
Your part
One consolidated round of comments. - 04
Grade and delivery
Final stage
Final colour grade, full-resolution render, and delivery in every format you actually need — print, web, social crops, and layered files if you want to make your own adjustments later.
Your part
Nothing. Files land in your inbox.
Aurum Meridian
The pipeline behind every frame
Every Aurum image is made through Meridian, the production pipeline we have built in-house. The scene is built from your drawings and real site data. The light is solved for the actual orientation, latitude and hour. Materials are matched to the specification rather than picked from a catalogue, and every frame is finished with a colour-managed photographic grade.
It is how the Aurum Standard holds from the first grey box to the final file — and why a frame for a hoarding and a frame for a phone screen come out of the same scene without rework.
In Australia · October 2026
Fitting the stages to an Australian timeline
The four stages don’t change. When each one has to finish depends on the milestone your project is working to.
Lodging a development application
Agree the viewpoints first, including any the council nominated at a pre-lodgement meeting, so the grey-box cameras are the right ones. Final images are graded before the lodgement date, not after.
Planning imagery →Complying development or a DA for a new home
Settle the facade, materials and street view with your client from the first frames, before the drawings go to the certifier or the council. Changing an approved design means going back through approval.
Luxury home builders →An off-the-plan launch
Start four to six weeks out for a full campaign with film. Finishes are rendered to the proposed schedule of finishes that goes with the contract.
Developers →A strata general meeting
An image of the finished room, made from your plans and specified finishes, ready before the meeting that has to approve the work.
Interior designers →A design competition
Work back from the board deadline. The brief’s required views are set at the grey-box, so the jury sees the idea the scheme is built on.
Architects →
FAQ
About the process
Why does the grey-box stage matter so much?
Because changing a camera angle after materials are applied means redoing the materials. Approving composition and light first is the difference between a project that lands on schedule and one that quietly doubles in cost. Every studio knows this; not every studio enforces it.
What if I need to change the design mid-project?
It happens constantly and it is fine. We re-quote the change before doing it, so you always approve the cost before it is incurred. Small changes are usually absorbed at no charge.
Can I get a faster turnaround?
Usually yes. Ask for the earlier date in your brief and the quote will confirm whether it holds; a rush surcharge, if any, is shown in it before you commit, never applied afterwards.
What software do you use?
Our own in-house pipeline, Aurum Meridian, built on physically based rendering, so light and materials behave the way they will in the finished building. Stills, film and tours all come out of the same pipeline, which is why everything in a campaign matches.
Who actually does the work?
A senior artist owns your project from grey-box to grade. We cap concurrent projects specifically so this is possible — you are not handed between a modeller, a lighter and a compositor who never speak to each other.
Are your quotes in Australian dollars?
Yes. Every quote is a fixed price in Australian dollars, with GST added on top, and it comes back within two business hours of the brief together with the written scope and the delivery date.