For architectural visualization projects using the Unreal Engine, you will find plenty resources for interior scenes. But, for exteriors requiring natural landscapes, you might have a hard time finding useful tools. If your project needs a large water surface like an ocean or lake, you may end up with a flat plane with a water […]
The upcoming updates and new features of Blender will make quality textures a crucial asset for realistic architectural visualization. No matter if you use Cycles or Eevee, getting good PBR textures will make a huge difference. We are often pointing to free resources related to PBR textures for architecture, and today we have an update […]
Even with several options to create interactive animations using game technology, there is still room for traditional architectural animation. What is an architectural animation? It is that kind of video with a fly-through camera moving around the interior of a building. Blender is capable of creating such animations quickly because it can do both the […]
Last week I had an unusual request from a colleague working on a project for a dental clinic. He had to create the layout in 3d of a procedure room for a dentist and was having a hard time finding a dental chair in 3D for Blender. That was the only missing part of his […]
As an architectural visualization artist, you probably are always looking for ways to improve your renders. It could be with some new hardware or post-processing techniques. A straightforward and efficient manner to get better results as a digital artist is to study photography. If you manage to reproduce some of the techniques skilled photographers uses […]
In landscaping architecture, you will often find two main challenges which are getting vegetation and creating a terrain. For vegetation, you can use one of the several libraries we share with our readers, but for terrain generation, you will have to choose among several alternatives. The vegetation layout will probably be a direct outcome of […]
Architectural visualization artists using various software to show their projects knows that getting data from one place to another is a synonym to rework. On best case scenarios, you will only have to make minor adjustments to materials or textures. But, in reality, you will have to make a full review of all settings to […]
A feature that you will often hear people asking about in Cycles is the possibility to distribute a render between multiple network computers. Since Cycles works with threads to render still images, it makes a lot of sense to get different each one of those threads rendered by a different computer. Other render engines allow […]
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