What file formats do you take?
Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, and clean DWG/IFC exports. If it opens, we can build from it. Send the model with materials attached when you have them — it saves a round of back-and-forth.
Architectural visualization — Fairfield, CT
Pictures of buildings that don’t exist yet.
Gavelo turns your CAD files into photoreal stills, walkthrough animations, and 360° tours. The kind of images that help a firm win the pitch before a single footing is poured.
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Before you send the files
The questions firms actually ask.
Straight answers, in the order they usually come up. If yours isn’t here, email us the model and ask.
How long does a set of stills take?
A typical exterior set of three to five views lands in 7–10 business days: two days to block the scene, your markups mid-week, finals the following week. Rush work compresses that to 3 days for an added fee.
How many rounds of changes are included?
Two. The first after the grey-shade draft (camera, composition, massing), the second on the lit colour frame. Extra rounds are billed hourly at $110 — most projects never need them.
Can you render from early concept drawings?
Yes. We regularly work from hand sketches and schematic plans and fill in the detail ourselves. Expect one extra draft round so we can agree on the parts the drawings left open.
Who owns the final images?
You do — full commercial rights on delivery, for competition boards, websites, and print. We keep the right to show the work in our own portfolio unless you’re under NDA, which we’ll sign before files change hands.
How do you bill?
Fixed price per project, quoted up front from your scope. Fifty percent to start the scene, balance on delivery, invoiced net 30. No hourly surprises unless you request work beyond the agreed views.
The studio
One studio has lit every frame since 2016.
Gavelo started as a two-person operation building competition images for Fairfield County architects who were tired of flat, plastic-looking renders. It still is. The same pair of eyes that frames your scene grades the final light — nothing gets handed to a render farm and forgotten.
We care about the boring parts: correct glass reflections, grass that doesn’t repeat, furniture at the right scale, a sky that matches the latitude. That’s what makes a jury lean in.
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years rendering for architects & developers, from one studio in Fairfield.
— the frame is only as honest as the light.
What we make & what it costs
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Exterior views
Photoreal daytime or overcast exteriors — the hero shot of the building in its site, with real context and planting.
From $650 / view Brief usInterior views
Lit interiors with correct materials, soft daylight, and furniture at true scale. Ideal for lobbies, kitchens, and amenity spaces.
From $750 / view Brief usWalkthrough animation
A 45–90 second camera move through the project, graded and scored. The piece that carries a developer’s pitch deck.
From $4,200 Brief us360° virtual tour
Stitched panoramas a juror can pan and step through in a browser — no headset required.
From $2,800 Brief usAerial & massing
Drone-height context shots and massing studies that place the scheme in its street, block, or skyline.
From $1,100 Brief usTwilight & rush
Dusk / blue-hour treatment adds +$220 per view. Need it in 72 hours? Rush turnaround on any still set for +40%.
+$220 / view Brief us
Got a deadline?
Send the model Monday. See frames by Friday.
Tell us the views you need and when the board is due. We’ll quote a fixed price and a date, then start blocking the scene the same week.
The drawings get the project approved. The renderings get it chosen.