Archive for January, 2010
Project Butterfly: Free web based AutoCAD?
Let`s take a small break on the GPU rendering articles and go to another trend, this time is about internet. We have a bunch of applications been released this days with online versions like office suites and even illustration tools like the amazing Sumo Paint. A few weeks ago I have showed a project from [...]
News about GPU rendering with LuxRender, YafaRay, iRay and Maya
In the past few days a lot of interesting news and demos about GPU rendering appear o twitter and user forums. It`s quite clear that after the announcement of Octane Render and Arion, we will start to see even more releases related with GPU render. I will start with the announcement of a GPU render [...]
How to animate anything in Blender 2.50?
As you may be aware of the new tools and functionalities of Blender 2.50, one of the new features is the possibility to animate anything with the new and redesigned animation tools. Back in Blender 2.4x we had to work on a few tricks to create animations with modifiers parameters or other values, especially if [...]
Update on NPR rendering for architecture with Freestyle
Before we start to work with photo real renderings generated by sophisticated softwares, the most used technique to show and represent architectural visualization projects was NPR, which is the acronym to Non-photorealistic rendering. The images were generated using techniques such as watercolor or airbrush. To use NPR style images in 3d softwares today we have [...]
Modeling for architecture: Turning Torso from Santiago Calatrava
The process of creating architectural 3d models for visualization sometimes presents us a few challenges, mostly because of the shape of the project. In some cases it’s hard to construct in real life and in 3d as well, but in 3d we can work at an incredible speed. One of the subjects that I like [...]
