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A woman walking past tall windows at golden hour, the city beyond

Hi, we're Hocus.
You bring the model. We bring the light.

Hocus turns your SketchUp views into photoreal renders. Your geometry stays where you put it.

Have a look around. We'll wait.
The rendered room: linen sofa, woven rug, sea through the glass, someone walking pastThe same room as a SketchUp line drawing, before renderingviewport.png · sketchup
same window. same chairs. same rug.

This is your view, straight out of SketchUp.

Same walls. Same windows.

We only added light.

A kitchen and dining room in soft daylightThe same kitchen and dining room in the evening, pendants and lamps on

Tell it like you'd tell a friend.

No settings to learn. Say where it is, what it's made of, and what time it is. That's the whole trick.

Feature wall in LimewashFeature wall in Charcoal plasterFeature wall in Oxblood limeFeature wall in Sage limeFeature wall in Walnut panels

Change one thing. Keep the rest.

Mark the wall, try a finish, then another. The bed, the lamp, the light on the floor all stay exactly where they were.

See how others made theirs.

Every render here shows what went into it. Open one and borrow its settings. They'd want you to.

credit travels with the settings
this was a grey box at 10:02
Poetry of Dusk
Render of the weekpoetry of duskby Lalu N. · founding user

We'll help you get good at it.

Short, free guides for the tricky bits. No paywall, ever. We checked with ourselves.

A cup on a stack of books in warm afternoon light
A woman behind a sheer curtain at sunset, a lamp glowing by the bed

We're letting people in slowly.

Not to be cool. So everyone who joins gets a proper start. Tell us about you and we'll send an invite.

A note from us.

We're Nihal and Aswin. We trained as architects and spent too many nights waiting on renders that changed the design we'd drawn.

Hocus is the tool we wanted then. It's early, it's honest about what it can do, and it gets better every week. Here's what we've been up to.

Nihal & Aswin · somewhere with good light

  • Sep 2026Five-part Design DNA: subject, place, materials, light, camera
  • Sep 2026Mark a wall, change only the wall
  • Sep 2026Failed renders refund themselves
  • Oct 2026Refine one thing, keep the rest
  • Oct 2026Community and Learn, open to everyone
  • Oct 2026Any shape of view keeps its framing, and what you asked for stays with every render
  • Oct 2026Open any render large and zoom right in
  • Oct 2026Something off? Report it from the render. No screenshots
  • NextZoom in while you mark, so every edge lands where you mean it
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