July 2017 Summary – Premium Subscribers

Just a few days ago the Blender 3D Architect newsletter reached their 100th edition! That was a great milestone for us. Subscribers of the newsletter will receive a weekly summary from all articles we publish and also some resources, like furniture models and textures libraries for Blender. As a way to offer even more content […]

Sober interior with Blender Cycles denoiser

A series of articles here at Blender 3D Architect aims to show you some of the features from the upcoming Blender 2.79. Some of those features include filmic, Add-ons and more. One feature from Blender 2.79 promises to help you to render images faster. Not exactly faster, but to remove the noise from renders in […]

Architectural animation with Blender Cycles

Working with animation for architecture was that type of job that concerned artists. The reason to fear an animation project is the rendering, which may consume a significant amount of resources. A render farm would help to render the animation if the client is willing to pay the bill. With recent developments in Cycles and […]

Blender 2.79 new features: Filmic!

In the next few weeks, Blender will receive an update that will bring lots of new features. Among those features, you will find one that is shocking architectural visualization artists! I’m talking about Filmic. What is Filmic? In summary, it is a new profile to manage colors in Blender that will dramatically boost dynamic range. […]

Free furniture library compatible with Blender

Finding a huge furniture library to use in architectural visualization projects may become an invaluable source of assets, or at some cases frustration. A common characteristic of those libraries is to offer files on formats like MAX, RTA, GSM, DWG, and others that we can’t easily import in Blender. If you need one of those […]

Technical drawings for furniture modeling in Blender

To further develop your skills in furniture modeling you must start to put them in practice as much as you can. But, to create accurate furniture models, you have to use some reference to build realistic models. And there is no better reference for modeling than a technical drawing. How to find good references for […]

How to fix bad furniture meshes for architectural visualization?

Working with architectural visualization will make you eventually use, at some point, furniture models from libraries you didn’t create. That is no problem at all with that approach. The main problem with that solution is that you will end up having to convert between file formats and getting edit materials and textures. If you have […]

Free building energy analysis using Blender

When you think about Blender in the context of architecture development, you may initially get the idea of a tool that can only help you during the end of a project. For instance, you may have a project done and want to show it to potential costumers. In that case, you will create a set […]

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