New tools in Blender 3D 2.49: Bone Sketching and Texture Nodes

In the last couple days I was playing around with Blender 2.49 RC1, and looking for new features to work with. Some of them will be an interesting addition to architectural visualization artists and other tools will be more suitable to animation artists. If you want to check out how two of those new features […]

Script that edit and transform Edge Loops in Blender 3D

I was looking into some articles about the release of the new version of 3ds Max 2010, which shows the so called graphite modeling tools. This new set of tutorials are an implementation of the PolyBoost plugin, bought by Autodesk and merged with this new release of 3ds Max. What about Blender 3D? Are there […]

Indigo Renderer will no longer be a Freeware

In Blender 3d we have several external renderers to choose today and almost all of them add great tools and possibilities to any artist producing architectural visualization, and with the need to create photo real images. A quick look at the Blender Gallery will show that today, we have most users using either YafaRay or […]

Interior design with Blender 3D and YafaRay: Scene to download

I still find a lot of experienced Blender 3d artists with problems to migrate completely to YafaRay, most of that is because they have a solid workflow with the old YafRay core, and lots of projects made with the old render engine. If you are one of those artists, with a few problems and difficulties […]

Workflow to create architectural visualization in Linux

If you use Linux to create architectural visualization or develop architectural projects, how can you define your workflow? I have to say that I don’t know much architects or companies that have a workflow for develop architectural visualization or projects, based on Linux machines. Some of that is related to the fact that in colleges […]

Blender 3D importing DWG files?

If you work with architectural visualization and 3d modeling with Blender, you probably have faced a problem like receive a full set of technical drawings from a client, in DWG format. And to be able to work and import it to Blender, a middle application like DoubleCAD or another have to be used converting everything […]

Tutorials about global illumination with Blender 3D and YafaRay

The most common external renderer to use with Blender 3D is undoubtly YafRay, which is called today as YafaRay. In the past few years I was a heavy user of YafRay to produce architectural visualization renderings, but since YafaRay become stable, I`m always using YafaRay to setup new scenes, especially when I have to create […]

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