Quick Start: Create your first AI render

Turn your Revit model view or an image into a photorealistic architectural visualization in minutes. No rendering experience required — Motif Review handles the details so you can focus on the design.

1. Place something on your board to render:

   1. A saved view of a streamed or published Revit or Rhino model. See 📄 Create Views for navigation and renders

   2. An uploaded image — a sketch, photo, or existing render. See 📄 Upload and place 2D + 3D assets

      💡 For more rendering options, see📄 AI rendering workflows

2. Open the rendering toolbar — On your board, click the image or view you want to render. This opens the AI rendering toolbar along the bottom of the image.

3. Choose your render settings (optional) — You can render immediately with a single click, or customize the look using up to four modifiers. Mix and match, or leave any option unselected.

   Modifier	What it controls
   Style	Visual treatment — Photorealistic, Watercolor, Architectural Sketch, Marker, Collage, and more
   Environment	Surroundings — Rural, Forest, Mountain, Desert, Light/Dark background
   Weather	Atmosphere — Clear, Cloudy, After the rain, Foggy, Snowy
   Time of Day	Lighting — Sunrise, Daytime, Sunset, Nighttime

   💡 Want to describe materials or set the scene? Use the prompt box to add plain-language instructions — for example: "mass timber facade, lush rooftop garden" or "apartment building in Miami deco colors." If the AI might not recognize the building type from the model alone, help it along: "soccer stadium clad in aluminum."

4. Render — Click the up arrow (↑) in the rendering toolbar to start rendering — this usually takes about a minute.

   ⚠ Heads up: AI rendering involves some variability by nature. It's normal to generate several variations and select the best result. A small change in the view angle or wording of the prompt can make a significant difference.

5. Iterate and refine — Once rendered, your image appears on the board. From here you can:

   1. Re-render with different style, environment, or prompt settings to explore variations

   2. Edit with a prompt — describe a change you'd like to the entire image (e.g., "change the facade to Corten steel")

   3. Edit a specific region — double-click the render, choose Edit, use the Lasso tool to select an area, and describe the change in the prompt

   4. Use a reference image — Shift-select the render and a reference image, then describe how to apply it (e.g., "apply the texture from image 2 to the wall on the right in image 1")

   5. Upscale — once you're happy with a render, select it, open its properties, and click Upscale to generate a 4K version

      💡 Resolution: You can select 1K or 2K at generation time when using Nano Banana Pro, then upscale the final image.

You've got your first render! What's next?

• Explore📄 Visualization styles— try the same view with Watercolor, Architectural Sketch, or Collage for presentation-ready variations

• 📄 Make videos from images— select a rendered image and use the Image to Video tool to animate it with or without a prompt

• 📄 Invite others to your organization or projectso teammates can see, comment, and build on your work