Posts Tagged "Render"

Rendering a still life scene with Blender Cycles

An architectural visualization artist must know how to properly setup a scene to render external views of buildings, landscapes and interior spaces. Besides those skills I do believe that knowing how to render simple objects, like a studio setup is also an important skill. From time to time a project…

Gothic vault: Architectural visualization with Blender and YafaRay

The gothic architecture is not a very common subject for architectural visualization these days, unless you work with some kind of restoration. But, if you want to take a look on an example of visualization inspired by gothic architecture made with Blender, just take a few minutes to check out…

GPU Render demo with Cycles for architecture

From all features added to Blender in the past few months, I believe that no other feature had the impact of Cycles. Just to be able to render my projects with advanced shaders, global illumination and more is something that most Blender users dreamed about for years. Besides all that…

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…

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…

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…

Free download of a kitchen scene created with Blender

The visualization of a kitchen is a really challenging scene for any architectural visualization artist, especially at the modeling stage. A scene like a kitchen demands lots of small objects spread along all surfaces. Those objects could be anything from plates, forks and spice jars that could really help to…

Comparison between Blender Cycles, Mistuba and LuxRender

With the number of external render engines available for Blender these days, it may become really hard for new artists to pick just one. I still remember the days when we had just a few options, like YafRay. The best way to get to know those renders is to try…