Retina will help bring your plans to life, from early design explorations, planning applications, and property marketing material.
But what you can’t see here is all the extra value brought to every project.
Before establishing Retina Images, Stephen produced photo-montaged illustrations and verified views for major planning applications in central London.
Verified views are among the most technically demanding outputs in architectural CGI. They require precise camera calibration, rigorous methodology, and a deep understanding of how planning authorities and inspectors evaluate visual impact.
Producing them for schemes of this scale — at a time when London’s planning committees demanded the highest possible standards of accuracy — is a background that few CGI practitioners in the UK can claim.
That methodological rigour now informs everything Retina produces, from a simple residential planning image in rural Lincolnshire to a cross-section drawing for a listed Victorian theatre in Portsmouth.
What This Means for You
As veterans of more than 30 years in the computer-graphics industry, working on the biggest (and smallest) projects you can imagine, we have seen it all – and will bring all this knowledge, insight and understanding to your next building project.
Retina is not a production studio that takes a brief, renders an image, and sends it over. We are a creative collaborator who invests the time to understand what a project is trying to achieve — and what problem the CGI needs to solve.
For an architect preparing a planning application in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, that might mean images that demonstrate visual sensitivity and minimal impact rather than dramatic photorealism.
For a self-builder trying to understand how their new home will look in context, it might mean a series of exploratory images that helps refine the design before anyone reaches for detailed drawings.
For a cabin manufacturer, it might mean photorealistic marketing imagery that communicates the warmth and craftsmanship of a product that does not yet exist in physical form.