The amount of artists using Blender Cycles to render architectural projects is growing fast, and with all the new features added to Cycles in the past few months, it will become quite easy to find nice examples of artwork create for architecture using Cycles. And I want to show you another impressive set of images […]
Here is some great news for anyone using Blender Cycles to render architectural visualization! A new Addon posted at the Blenderartists forums allow us to use IES profiles with Cycles. Yes, with this new Addon you can use photometric lights to render your scenes in Cycles. For those of you that doesn’t know what an […]
Here in Blender 3D Architect I`m always trying to show examples and technics related to the use of Blender for architectural visualization. When you think of architectural visualization you probably will imagine projects made in architectural firms, or aimed to design big and expansive office spaces. What if I told you that architectural visualization is […]
The amount of details of an interior visualization projects can easily become a challenge for any artist, especially when it comes to render things like carpets. How do you render carpets with Blender? Well, an artist called Paulina posted some really nice renders of a living room at the YafaRay user forums. In this project […]
There are lots of options to render projects modeled with Blender going from open source software like LuxRender, YafaRay and Blender Cycles. And today there are several commercial renderers that support Blender like Indigo, Octane Render and even V-Ray. And today you can check out a interior visualization project modeled with Blender and rendered using […]
After a quick break for the holidays, I`m back with the updates for Blender 3D Architect! And to get started with 2013, what about a nice collection of chairs made with Blender? This collection is available in BlendSwap and all models are licensed with a creative commons zero license, which means you can do whatever […]
There are lots of different ways to add an environment map to a scene to create reflections on mirrored surfaces or to add lights. To do that we have the HDRI maps which works really well with Cycles. But, to use HDRI maps you have to produce them, buy HDRI maps or use free libraries […]
What would be of a series of articles related to architecture and Blender without something about Cycles? And today on the Best of Blender 3D Architect series I will bring back two articles about rendering with Cycles. The first one shows how to render 3d models with a special wire object, which will give you […]
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