A white former cinema converted to apartments, seen from above in late-afternoon sun

Entrance to a light industrial park with timber and stone signage wall, wildflowers in the foreground

A timber-clad house above a lit swimming pool at dusk

Timber holiday lodges stepping down a coastal hillside at dusk

CGI & Visualisation · 2026

Visualisation

Photo-real CGI, made by architects from the drawings up.Regent Cinema — elevated exterior

Introduction

Images for planning, marketing and sales, built from the scheme you have drawn.

BRL Design is a RIBA Chartered practice based in Plymouth, working across Devon and Cornwall. Alongside our own projects, we produce photo-real CGIs for architects, agents and developers who need images for a planning application, a sales launch or a funding pitch.

Every image starts from the planning drawings or the SketchUp model. Before anything is rendered we list what is in each view, from openings and materials to ground surfaces and levels, so the finished image shows the scheme as drawn.

Exteriors: Street, garden and elevated views
Interiors: Living spaces, kitchens, bedrooms, shops
Lighting: Daylight and dusk from the same view
Inputs: SketchUp model or planning drawings

From model to image

The model fixes the building.
The render adds the rest.

↔Issued imageSketchUp model

Drag across the image. We render from the model or drawings you already have, so the camera, openings and proportions stay yours. Materials, landscape and light are agreed with you before the final images are upscaled.

01 — Recent commission

Regent Cinema

A former cinema converted to apartments, with a shop at street level

The converted cinema from above, in its street — Elevated exterior

Nine views issued over two rounds in 2026: the elevated exterior, the street approach, the ground-floor shop and the undercroft, followed by four apartment interiors, from an open-plan living space to a top-floor bedroom opening onto a sea-view terrace.

The model fixed the openings, the arched windows and the structure. Each interior was then furnished and lit to suit its outlook, and the exteriors set in late-afternoon sun to show the building in its street.

Type: Conversion
Views: 9
Issued: April and July 2026
Scope: Exterior and interiors

The restored cinema frontage from the street — Street approach

A chocolate shop with arched timber shelving — Ground-floor shop

Open-plan living and dining space with sea views — Open-plan living

Penthouse living room at sunset — Penthouse

First-floor apartment with exposed brick and arched windows — First-floor apartment

Top-floor bedroom with freestanding bath — Top-floor bedroom

Roof terrace looking out to sea — Terrace, sea view

Undercroft with cobbles and white columns — Undercroft

02 — Recent commission

Castle Hill Park

Light industrial units near Bodmin, rendered for the project architect

Central green between two terraces of industrial units — Central green

Five exterior views of a proposed business park at Lanivet, near Bodmin, produced for the project architect from their SketchUp model.

The model fixed the profiled cladding, stone panels and timber colonnades. The landscape follows the approved planting scheme, with wildflower lawns, granite boulders and pollinator planting between the units.

Type: Light industrial
Location: Lanivet, Cornwall
Views: 5
Issued: August 2026

Timber colonnade walk beside the units — Colonnade walk

Service yard with roller-shutter doors — Service yard

Unit frontages and parking — Unit frontages

Earlier work

Re-rendered

We have gone back to CGIs from earlier BRL schemes and re-rendered them, keeping the architecture as designed and improving the light, materials and planting. The same view can be issued in daylight and at dusk.

Roodscroft Tamar Valley
West Looe Looe, Cornwall
Millendreath Holiday Village South East Cornwall
Queen Street Chatham, Kent

Private house

Roodscroft

A replacement home above the Tamar, shown in daylight and at dusk

↔DuskDaylight

Roodscroft across the meadow at dusk — Meadow, dusk

Roodscroft seen across the lake at dusk — Across the lake, dusk

Residential

West Looe

A hillside community on the Cornish coast: five detached houses and ten affordable family homes

Timber and slate houses on a wooded hillside at dusk — Dusk, version A

Dark slate houses stepping up a hillside at dusk — Dusk, version B

Leisure

Millendreath

New holiday lodges stepping down the hillside above the south Cornwall coast

Holiday lodges at dusk with planting in the foreground — Lodges at dusk

Holiday lodges in evening light — Evening light

Residential

Queen Street

Apartments around a landscaped courtyard in Chatham

Two apartment blocks along a street — Street elevation

Residents' courtyard with planting and seating — Residents' courtyard

Process

How a commission runs

What you send us, and what you get back

01
Brief
Send the drawings or SketchUp model, the views you want and what the images are for: planning, marketing or sales.
02
Geometry check
We list what is in each view before rendering, so nothing appears that is not in the design.
03
Draft images
A first set for comment on camera, light, materials and styling.
04
Revisions
Comments are worked through view by view until each image is signed off.
05
Final files
High-resolution images for print, web and planning submissions.

Visualisation

The model fixes the building.The render adds the rest.

Regent Cinema

Castle Hill Park

Re-rendered

Roodscroft

West Looe

Millendreath

Queen Street

How a commission runs

Brief

Geometry check

Draft images

Revisions

Final files

The model fixes the building.
The render adds the rest.