Posted by Allan Brito on December 26th, 2012 ~
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There are lots of different ways to add an environment map to a scene to create reflections on mirrored surfaces or to add lights. To do that we have the HDRI maps which works really well with Cycles. But, to use HDRI maps you have to produce them, buy HDRI…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 21st, 2012 ~
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What would be of a series of articles related to architecture and Blender without something about Cycles? And today on the Best of Blender 3D Architect series I will bring back two articles about rendering with Cycles. The first one shows how to render 3d models with a special wire…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 20th, 2012 ~
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Last week I just mentioned that Octane Render achieved a milestone on their development history, with version 1.0 of the GPU based render engine. And to give some other examples of what you can achieve with this kind of GPU power, I just found out another impressive example of work…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 19th, 2012 ~
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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…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 17th, 2012 ~
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It is that time of the year again, and with the year getting to the end it is time to remember some of the best articles posted here on Blender 3D Architect. The blog has now almost five years and with some nice resources, tutorials and tips for artists using…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 14th, 2012 ~
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A new version of Blender was released last week, and even with lots of new features to play with, you will be impressed to know that more features are coming. A developer called BroadStu is working in a patch for strand rendering in Cycles. This means that we will be…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 13th, 2012 ~
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All architectural visualization artists should build their own library of furniture objects to use on their projects. A lot of my students asks me on what type of furniture they have to focus on to start their own library. Well, everyone should start with the classics! That type of furniture…
Posted by Allan Brito on December 12th, 2012 ~
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Among all renderers used by artists to create images for architecture, one of the best options for those of you looking for a commercial GPU based render is Octane Render. With a nice graphics card you can get great results with very little time on Octane. A few days ago…