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Free download: Barcelona Pavilion from Mies van der Rohe rendered with Cycles

Free download: Barcelona Pavilion from Mies van der Rohe rendered with Cycles

There are several ways to improve your skills on architectural visualization, but practice is one of the most important aspects of fine-tuning your technique. If you don`t have any projects designed by yourself to practice, you can always find some classic buildings with tons of information available on the web…

Free guide about quick visualization for architecture with Blender and YafaRay

Free guide about quick visualization for architecture with Blender and YafaRay

The use of YafaRay among architectural visualization artists is decreasing since the release of Blender Cycles, but I can easily say that with YafaRay we can still create some incredible and realistic scenes. And since YafaRay is much older than Cycles, you will also find lots of guides and tutorials…

How to setup an interior scene using Blender Internal render for architecture

How to setup an interior scene using Blender Internal render for architecture

The use of Blender Cycles or any other renderer with Blender capable to create good lighting without the need to setup several light sources or intense tweaking with materials, is driving artists away from the Blender Internal render. I see this clearly with my students during class, where almost no…

LuxVR: Virtual reality using Blender and LuxRender

LuxVR: Virtual reality using Blender and LuxRender

Would you like to create virtual reality presentations of your architectural projects produced with Blender? For those of you that said yes, in the near future LuxRender might help you out to go into virtual reality presentations. The LuxVR project is an initiative of a LuxRender developer known as Dade….

Rendering a bedroom with Blender Cycles

Rendering a bedroom with Blender Cycles

For those of you trying to learn Blender Cycles and render interior scenes for architecture with Blender, I just found an interesting project posted at the Blenderartists forums that might help. An artist called AniMeAniBe posted at the forums some interesting renders with the visualization of a modern bedroom. All…

Sun position addon for architectural visualization with Blender

Sun position addon for architectural visualization with Blender

The sun position is really important for architecture, and all projects should take in consideration how it interacts with the sunlight along the seasons to balance temperature variations. And since this is quite important, sometimes a visualization project may require the production of an animation showing how the sunlight interacts…

Free download of a Le Corbusier Petit Chair LC2

Free download of a Le Corbusier Petit Chair LC2

If you want to work really fast on architectural modeling, you should take some time to build your own furniture library with models that could be used to give context and scale to any project. The best type of furniture to keep on a library is, of course, classic furniture….

Basic tutorial about rendering grass for architecture with Blender Cycles

Basic tutorial about rendering grass for architecture with Blender Cycles

One of the new features of Blender Cycles in the latest stable release of Blender, is the support to render particles to simulate hair. This is really useful for animation and modeling, and could become handy for architectural visualization artists. It is easy to imagine that we will be able…