AI archviz workflow in Boards: SketchUp to video by Pedro Enrriques

Pedro Enrriques teaches 3D visualization for architects and designers, and here he runs a complete bedroom project inside a single Rendair board. He brings in screenshots from his SketchUp model, renders them, fixes errors, adds people and night lighting, makes concept and technical drawings, and finishes with three short animations. The video is useful because it shows how he keeps several views of one project looking the same, which is often the hardest part of AI rendering.

What you'll see

1. Creating a new board, naming it after the project and dropping in the first SketchUp view.
2. Sketch to Render on that view with Nano Banana Pro at 2K, using his own prompt rather than the auto-generated one.
3. Comparing the render with the model side by side, then using Remove Objects to take out ceiling light tracks that are not in his design.
4. Adding a person to the bed with Populate Render, choosing age and gender, then a night version with Change Time of Day.
5. Rendering the other SketchUp views with the first finished render linked as a reference, so materials and lighting stay consistent.
6. A render-to-mood-board app for a concept sheet, plus Image to Render with the GPT model for a hand-sketch version and a technical drawing.
7. An empty-room version of the space, made to use as the start of an animation.
8. Image to Video with first and last frames: the empty room furnishing itself, the technical drawing becoming the render, and the sketch becoming the render, five seconds each.
9. Sharing the board with view or edit access, or as a public link.

Takeaways

• He prefers writing his own prompts to the automatic description, to get closer to the result he wants.
• He checks each render against the model and corrects anything that does not belong, aiming for an exact match.
• Using the first finished render as a reference is his method for keeping every view consistent.
• He warns that dimensions on AI technical drawings are guesses, so treat them as inspiration and verify them.
• He likes boards for keeping the whole process organized and easy for clients and collaborators to follow.

Try it yourself

Set this up in Boards with Sketch to Render for your model views, then Remove Objects and Change Time of Day for fixes and variations. Finish with Image to Video using a first and last frame.

The video is in Portuguese.