Office building with Cycles and Denoising

The release of Blender 2.79 will bring an incredible set of features for architectural visualization artists, and among those features, you will find the denoising tool. With this new option, you can apply a type of filter on any render, and the result will be an image with fewer samples and less noise. Do you […]

Blender 2.79 filmic: Should you replace it?

As you are probably aware by now, Blender 2.79 finally is available with a stable release. Among the incredible set of new features, you will find the filmic color profile shipping by default. For artists using Blender for architectural visualization, using filmic will give your scenes a breath of light! Until Blender 2.78 you had […]

Free 3d pipe joints for technical modeling

A type of modeling that is not common for architectural visualization involves technical visualization. For projects dealing with industrial scenes, it may help the engineering team to explain, how they will place machinery at the project. For the times where you have to model and show an industrial project, it would be great to have […]

Blender 2.79 released

After a period of testing and bug hunting, we finally have the final and stable version of Blender 2.79 available to download. You can grab your copy at this link. In recent years this release may be the most significant update to architectural visualization artists, after the Cycles first appearance back in version 2.61. Why […]

Free concrete textures in 4K for architecture

There are a few types of textures that you can’t live without for architectural visualization projects. We can put on the list textures like wood, bricks, and concrete. All around the world you will find at least a small part of a project that uses some of those textures. Do you want to increase your […]

Free download of a bathroom in Blender and Corona

Artists migrating from other software to Blender will eventually try to keep the same workflow, reducing any potential loss of productivity. The renderer they use is a big part of the workflow, and Blender has lots of options for commercial renders nowadays. Among those options, you will find Corona Render, which can produce impressive images […]

Rendering a scene in Cycles with only one sample and no noise?

Architectural visualization artists working with Blender and rendering in Cycles knows that image noise is a common problem. If you start your render and choose a low amount of samples for the render, by the end of the process, you will have an unusable image with lots of noise. To get rid of noise you […]

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