Blender Cycles new feature: Rendering hair, fur and Grass?

A new version of Blender was released last week, and even with lots of new features to play with, you will be impressed to know that more features are coming. A developer called BroadStu is working in a patch for strand rendering in Cycles. This means that we will be able to render hair, fur […]

Free download of a Wassily Chair for Blender

All architectural visualization artists should build their own library of furniture objects to use on their projects. A lot of my students asks me on what type of furniture they have to focus on to start their own library. Well, everyone should start with the classics! That type of furniture that never gets old, like […]

Octane Render 1.0 released

Among all renderers used by artists to create images for architecture, one of the best options for those of you looking for a commercial GPU based render is Octane Render. With a nice graphics card you can get great results with very little time on Octane. A few days ago Octane Render hit an important […]

How to hide mesh based lights on Blender Cycles?

The use of mesh-based light in Blender Cycles is one of the most important elements to setup a good light for architecture. But, there is a small inconvenience with those types of lights. They are big planes or objects that emit light, which will result on them showing up on the rendering. If you don`t […]

Blender 2.65 released

Just a few moments ago a new version of Blender was released! Yes, Blender 2.65 is now available for download and with a lot of new features and bug fixes. The good news for artists working with architectural visualization is that some of those modeling improvements proposed at Google Summer of Code are now available. […]

Modeling and rendering an interior scene with Blender Cycles

For those of you that didn`t had anything planned for the weekend, I just found out a really incredible tutorial that will keep you busy for at least one hour! The guys from Blenderpedia posted a tutorial a few days ago showing how to model and render an interior using Blender Cycles. Even if you […]

Free download of 2d cutout people for architecture

One of the best ways to add people and trees to renders in architectural visualization is with textures. If you manage to find textures with the proper alpha map or with a transparent background, you will be able to add these textures to a plane and use them on your project. This is a much […]

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