New DoF options for Eevee

When you have a project that needs maximum realism in a render, a great way of making it look better is with a couple of effects. A popular choice for rendering interiors is a Depth of Field effect, which focuses the render on a single object and applies a blur to the rest of your […]

Rendering a floor plan with Blender 2.8 and Eevee

When you think about architectural visualization, in general, it is common to think about interior perspectives or external renders from a building. However, when you are trying to sell a project idea you will need much more than interior perspectives. Another type of media that will often appear in marketing materials for architectural projects is […]

Kitchen modeling from a photo using fSpy

An architectural visualization project usually starts from a reference or idea that could be a technical drawing or a photo. You will either get those reference data from a client that needs the visualization as a marketing piece to sell his idea, or you might want to test your skills and recreate an existing project […]

Apartment interior renders with Eevee

Whenever you have a project related to architectural visualization that requires rendering of multiple cameras, you will have to choose the angles and rooms you want to show. That is important for projects using Cycles because render times can scale up to a couple of hours depending on the project, The release of Blender 2.8 […]

Blender 2.8: How to create a shadeless material?

In previous versions of Blender, we used to have a renderer called “Blender Internal” that is no longer available in Blender 2.8. Regarding architectural visualization, we never found much use for the internal renderer other than maybe rendering technical drawing with Blender. One of the features of the “Blender Internal” in the materials settings was […]

Bathroom interior with Eevee in Blender 2.8

Once you start to use Eevee for your architectural visualization projects, you will feel that you will be able to save hundreds of work hours in the future. Since it can render scenes in a matter of seconds, you no longer have to wait several minutes for a render to finish. Do you want to […]

Blender 2.8 and architecture: Living room and kitchen

How close to a Cycles can we push a render in Eevee? That will depend on a lot of factors, but we can easily say that in the hands of a skilled artist, you can make some incredible renders with Eevee. Even with the limitations of a real-time render engine, like Eevee, that doesn’t use […]

Blender 2.8 for architecture: Wood interior with Eevee

The upcoming release of Blender 2.8 in a stable version is making a lot more artists trying Eevee for the first time. And the results for the real-time render engine are impressive. You cant get the same level of realism of Cycles, but for most cases, it is close enough to replace Cycles as the […]

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