Architectural Visualization

Another Barcelona Pavilion model rendered with Blender Cycles

You may remember that a few days ago I did posted an article about a project called Barcelona Pavilion from Mies van Der Rohe. A full model of this project was posted on Blend Swap by that time, and you could take it and study all aspects of the modeling…

Blender for architecture: Greek corner tutorial

The best resources to learn architectural visualization with Blender are those where you can practice all stages of a project. And it would go from the modeling, materials, lights, render and post production. It is kind of hard to find these kinds of tutorials because they would take to much…

Urban visualization with Blender

A urban visualization projects is really challenging for any architectural visualization artist due to the amount of information and objects that might be present on the scene. If your street has lots of threes and vegetation, you will be in serious trouble without a good plan to produce your images….

Architectural visualization using panoramas in Blender

The creation of a panorama image can be sometimes a much better alternative to video or interactive visualizations made with the game engine. With the panorama all you got is a simple image that is rendered to give the viewer some level of control. Of course, in this type of…

Blender used to create urban scenarios and backgrounds for comic book

Here in Blender 3D Architect I`m always trying to show examples and technics related to the use of Blender for architectural visualization. When you think of architectural visualization you probably will imagine projects made in architectural firms, or aimed to design big and expansive office spaces. What if I told…

Best of Blender 3D Architect: Interviews

And to keep going with my Best of Blender 3D Architect series, I would like to point again two interviews posted here on blog in the past. Both interviews are with Blender artists that use YafaRay to render their projects. Is there a reason that explains why only YafaRay artists…

Architectural visualization at the 2012 Blender Conference

This year I almost find the time and ill to attend to the 2012 Blender Conference, until I realize that if I made to Amsterdam, I would get really behind schedule on some projects. So, I will try again next year. But, if you couldn`t make to the conference like…

Interview with Sunil Chavan from pixel3d

Here I am back with another great article related to the use of Blender as a tool for architectural visualization. Today I will post an interview with a really talented artist from the YafaRay user forums. His nickname there is sc20 and he posts some really nice architectural renders made…