Architectural 3D rendering
in Vail
A Tyrolean-style alpine village where a design review board reads every roofline, balcony and stone base.
Send the drawings: a fixed price, scope and delivery date come back by the next business morning. No deposit for registered businesses.
Working in Vail
Vail is one of the 31 US cities Aurum Render works across.
Planning context
Every exterior project in Vail goes to the Town’s Design Review Board, which reviews architectural character, site planning, materials and details, and landscaping for compatibility with their surroundings and the environment, under the Town’s design guidelines. Larger proposals, master plans and special development districts go before the Planning and Environmental Commission.
What gets built here
The pedestrian streets of Vail Village and Lionshead, with their pitched roofs, timber balconies, stucco and stone in an alpine-village style, slope-side condominiums and lodges, and large mountain homes in East Vail, the Golf Course area and up valley toward Beaver Creek.
Who commissions it
Architects and builders of mountain homes and residence remodels, owners redeveloping older condominiums and lodges, and developers of resort residences.
One thing we get right here
Vail Mountain rises directly south of the village, so the low winter sun drops behind it early and much of the valley floor spends winter afternoons in shade while the slopes above stay bright. A Vail Village render lit like a summer noon misses the light the place is known for: glowing slopes, shaded streets and warm windows.
Typical Vail projects
Village redevelopment
Renovations and redevelopment in Vail Village and Lionshead, where a project has to sit within an established alpine streetscape. We render from the pedestrian streets at eye height, with the neighboring buildings, balconies and rooflines modeled from photography.
Mountain homes
Large homes in East Vail and the Golf Course area and up valley toward Beaver Creek, designed around views of the Gore Range and the ski mountain. Terrain comes from elevation data, so each room’s view is the real one.
Condominium and lodge remodels
Older condominiums and lodges being remodeled or replaced, where buyers and owners need to see the new building, its amenities and its residences long before construction.
Services
What we make for Vail projects
Exterior Rendering
Facades, elevations and streetscapes rendered at the fidelity a considered building deserves.
From $1,200Interior Rendering
Rooms rendered with the light, materials and styling that make a space feel lived in rather than assembled.
From $1,200Aerial & Master Plan
Whole-site imagery for master-planned communities, districts and phased developments — context, landscape and scale in a single frame.
From $2,400Architectural Film
Cinematic film that moves through a building the way a person would, not the way a camera on rails does.
From $7,500Interactive & Virtual Tours
Navigable 360° environments for sales galleries, leasing offices and pre-construction campaigns.
From $3,5003D Floor Plans
Each floor of your plan, every room furnished at true size, rendered from overhead in a single frame.
From $750Start a Vail project
Send the drawings and a sentence about what the imagery has to do. Fixed price and a date back, usually by the next business morning.
Request a quoteWe work across Vail, Vail Village, Lionshead, East Vail, Beaver Creek, Edwards and Avon.
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Choosing a rendering studio for a Vail project
Ask how the studio prepares for the Design Review Board. Every exterior project in Vail goes before it, and the board reads architectural character, materials, details and landscaping for fit with the surroundings — so elevations and street views should show stone bases, timber, stucco and roofing as specified, in accurate context. Larger proposals, master plans and special development districts also go before the Planning and Environmental Commission.
Ask how it lights the valley. Vail Mountain rises directly south of the village, so the low winter sun drops behind it early and the valley floor spends winter afternoons in shade while the slopes stay bright. In Vail Village and Lionshead the neighbors’ balconies and rooflines belong in the frame, modeled from photography and seen from the pedestrian streets at eye height.
Check what is fixed before you commit. Our quotes write down the views, the number of revision rounds and the delivery date, and one senior artist stays on the project from the first model to the final frame.
What drives the cost of rendering in Vail
Context comes first. A village redevelopment needs the surrounding alpine streetscape modeled around it; a mountain home in East Vail or up valley toward Beaver Creek needs terrain from elevation data, so each room’s view of the Gore Range and the ski mountain is the one it will really have.
Scope is the second. A condominium or lodge remodel usually calls for the new building, its amenities and its residences, shown long before construction — more scenes than a single home. A winter set and a summer set come from the same scene, and each extra view or season costs a fraction of the first.
Every Vail project is priced in full before work starts, with the scope and a delivery date, usually by the next business morning; registered businesses are not asked for a deposit.
Published prices: exterior and interior stills from $1,200 per image, aerials from $2,400, film from $7,500 per finished minute, 3D floor plans from $750 per plan and interactive tours from $3,500. See pricing or ask for a fixed quote.
FAQ
Vail questions
Do you work on projects in Vail?
Yes — we produce 3D renderings for projects in Vail, Vail Village, Lionshead, East Vail and across Colorado. We work from your drawings, survey and site photography, and match the light, materials and planting to the place.
Can you prepare imagery for Vail’s Design Review Board?
Yes. The board looks at architectural character, materials, details and landscaping, and at how a project fits its surroundings, so we render elevations and street views in accurate context with materials as specified — stone bases, timber, stucco and roofing that read as themselves.
Can you show a Vail project in winter and summer?
Yes, from one scene: a winter set with snow resting on the roofs and decks as the design sheds it, and a summer set with the slopes green and the creek running. Owners and buyers see the place as they will use it all year.
Do you work in Beaver Creek and up the valley?
Yes — Beaver Creek, Avon, Edwards and the rest of the Vail Valley. Snow load, aspen and spruce are drawn for the season and elevation of each lot.
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