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Modeling a contemporary Sofa with Blender

Modeling a contemporary Sofa with Blender

You may not remember the work of an artist called Hans B Erickson that was posted here on the blog about two months ago. He was working on an animation project not related with architectural visualization, but this project demanded a lot of work to create scene objects like furniture….

Blender tutorials about 2d camera tracking

Blender tutorials about 2d camera tracking

For those of you that want to use Blender as a video editor, there are some new tutorials showing how to use the features of the strawberry tomato branch of the SoC 2011. The author of all tutorials is an artist called François Tarlier. You will learn how to use…

Sapling: Create procedural trees for architecture with Blender

Sapling: Create procedural trees for architecture with Blender

If your project needs lots of vegetation like trees one of the best ways to add those elements to a project is with textures. At least with textures the load to the scene will be minimum. But, if you want to create an animation the textures will look strange, simply…

Creating seamless textures in GIMP for architecture

Creating seamless textures in GIMP for architecture

Another nice tutorial aimed at game artists that can be useful for architectural visualization. This time we have a tutorial showing how to create seamless textures in GIMP to be used in Blender. A seamless texture is really great to use in tiled surfaces. In this tutorial the author (GameDesignGuru)…

MachStudio Pro is now a free download for GPU Render

MachStudio Pro is now a free download for GPU Render

The number of options for people interested on jumping in GPU renders is getting bigger everyday. I just saw that the company behind MachStudio Pro, which were a commercial solution to create GPU based renders, just changed their business model to focus on consulting and training, and decided to give…

WakYak: Architectural animation made with Blender and Octane Render

WakYak: Architectural animation made with Blender and Octane Render

The life of an architectural visualization artist is not made only by tutorials and technical stuff. Sometimes it is good to take a look on other artists work as a way to benchmark our own projects. And here is a nice example of animation created for architecture, using Blender and…

How to use the new Inset Polygon in Blender 2.58

How to use the new Inset Polygon in Blender 2.58

You may be aware that last week a new version of Blender was released, and with Blender 2.58 a huge amount of bugs were fixed. But, among those bug fixes we have some new tools and options in Blender 2.58. One of those new tools is an Add-on called Inset…

Free download of an Eames Lounge Chair for Blender

Free download of an Eames Lounge Chair for Blender

An artist from the YafaRay user forums called sadaj72 posted an interesting render with an interior view of a room, using only a few objects on the scene. One of those objects is a classic piece of furniture, which is the Eames Lounge Chair. The render can be viewed in…