As a way to show how Blender can become a production powerhouse for any architectural visualization office, you just have to list off their features. By the time you get to the not so obvious features like the Game Engine and the Video Sequence Editor people will immediately ask how much it will cost! You […]
The furniture models you choose for your project will help to add context, scale and a human touch to the image. For architectural visualization, those are requirements you can’t ignore! That is the main reason for artists to invest so much time developing good furniture models. For instance, when you have to create a model […]
Among the resources we share with our premium subscribers, we have some full architectural visualization projects. They will often be part of two main categories, which are residential and commercial spaces. But, a few of our subscribers were asking for different types. And last week we started to add some variations to the projects. The […]
For architectural visualization projects using the Unreal Engine, you will find plenty resources for interior scenes. But, for exteriors requiring natural landscapes, you might have a hard time finding useful tools. If your project needs a large water surface like an ocean or lake, you may end up with a flat plane with a water […]
The upcoming updates and new features of Blender will make quality textures a crucial asset for realistic architectural visualization. No matter if you use Cycles or Eevee, getting good PBR textures will make a huge difference. We are often pointing to free resources related to PBR textures for architecture, and today we have an update […]
Even with several options to create interactive animations using game technology, there is still room for traditional architectural animation. What is an architectural animation? It is that kind of video with a fly-through camera moving around the interior of a building. Blender is capable of creating such animations quickly because it can do both the […]
Last week I had an unusual request from a colleague working on a project for a dental clinic. He had to create the layout in 3d of a procedure room for a dentist and was having a hard time finding a dental chair in 3D for Blender. That was the only missing part of his […]
As an architectural visualization artist, you probably are always looking for ways to improve your renders. It could be with some new hardware or post-processing techniques. A straightforward and efficient manner to get better results as a digital artist is to study photography. If you manage to reproduce some of the techniques skilled photographers uses […]