How can Lumion help us?

"How can Lumion help us?" is a fair question because the initial idea we had of Lumion was that this fantastic application lets us create amazing 3D visualizations in minutes. Lumion has effects that can imitate some of the techniques previously mentioned, and this can provide us with a good head start. Nevertheless, there is something we have to keep in mind: there is no such thing as automatic art. In the previous chapter, while covering different effects, we didn't have any secret formula or settings to improve the realism of the scene. Why? Because each scene is different and it is only by experimenting and playing with the effects that we can fully grasp what is possible to accomplish and when an image or video is perfect with the correct combination of effects.

However, enough talk! Let's see the available artistic effects in Lumion. The following screenshot gives an overview of the effects:

As highlighted in the previous screenshot, we have five artistic effects...