The baroque architecture has some beautiful architectural landmarks around the world, some of them here in my home country. But, besides some interesting architecture mostly related to churches, we have a unique style of baroque architecture for furniture. An example of this unique style can be seen in this set of antique chairs that could […]
You may remember that a few days ago I did posted an article about a project called Barcelona Pavilion from Mies van Der Rohe. A full model of this project was posted on Blend Swap by that time, and you could take it and study all aspects of the modeling process and light setup made […]
The use of textures on a simple model can really improve the way it looks on a scene, especially for furniture objects. Take a look on this simple modern coffee table available for free on Blend Swap. The model itself is simple, but the textures applied to the model add another level of realism to […]
I just came across to another source for free textures online called Texturepilot. The site has by now almost a hundred thousand textures available to download, and according to their terms of use we can take those textures and use in commercial projects. But, unfortunately we can`t download textures at will and to get that […]
My favorite technique to add trees to a scene is with the use of some cut out images applied to planes, which show a realistic image of a tree and will keep the polygon count of the scene low. But, there are a few situations where a cut out image won`t be of much help […]
As part of any external visualization for architecture we must add objects and elements to give the proper sense of scale to the image. For external environments and especially urban spaces is really important to place some cars along roads, parking lots and all spaces where a car would be present. If you don`t have […]
As you may be aware by now Cycles does support hair rendering since the latest release of Blender (2.66). For architectural visualization artists this means that we can render grass, carpets and lots of other stuff with full support of Cycles. Did you already tried to model and render a carpet using Cycles? If you […]
I was just looking around my drafts for articles yesterday, when I found a simple and interesting project posted around last christmas on the blenderartists forums which I completelly forgot to publish. I know, shame on me. Anyway, the project was posted by an user called Cadvis and shows a really simple interior visualization rendered […]
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