Blue dishes with Blender 2.8 and Cycles

A residential interior will often feature a room or a large space on the outside of a building, but sometimes you might have to work on a small detail like the furniture or a particular piece of decoration. That usually happens when the client asks you to show a specific object in a render. That […]

House in the Alps using Cycles

As a way to develop your skills in architectural visualization, you should always try to work on personal projects. They will give you time to get the best possible results for a render. Usually, in a commercial project, you will have a deadline where you will have to “abandon” the project for delivery, but in […]

Luxury hotel room rendered with Cycles

After the release of Blender 2.8, you will have to make an important choice at the early stages of a project, which is the renderer you will use process all your scenes. Before version 2.8, you would use Cycles for all your projects, but now you also have Eevee as a compelling option. Eevee is […]

Apartment interior with Blender 2.8 and Cycles

Now that we have a stable version of Blender 2.8 with Eevee available, a significant amount of people starts to wonder when they should use Cycles instead of Eevee. The best answer for that question has a direct relation to the level of realism you wish for a render. Eevee is excellent to deliver instant […]

Museum visualization with Blender

The vast majority of projects related to architectural visualization has residential spaces as their main topic of interest. One of the reasons for that is because that is also the most common type of project for architects. You will find a much bigger demand for residential projects. One type of project that we never featured […]

Extruded House in Blender

What is the best way to practice your architectural visualization skills? The best approach to develop your skills with Blender and become more familiar with an architectural workflow is with practice. If you don’t have your design to create a visualization, use existing projects as a base. Here is an example of a project that […]

Backyard and flowers with Blender Cycles

A reader from Blender 3D Architect once wrote to us asking for more projects with external views rendered in Blender. We post a lot of internal visualization because it is the most common type of render for artists using not only Blender but any 3d software for architecture. If you are also looking for examples […]

Room Corner with Blender Cycles and no HDR

For projects using Blender Cycles to render interiors, you will find that most artists will use similar settings. You will use an HDR map in the environment settings, Area Lamps on windows, and maybe a Sun Lamp. All that lights will create a natural daylight look in your render. However, some artists may get excellent […]

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