The textures of a scene play a big role on any architectural visualization project to add both context and realism. But, is there a right way to setup textures? Some people uses a mix of handcrafted UV Maps and polygons to improve details, others go only with UV Maps. I think that for most cases […]
What would be of a living room project without some furniture models like a sofa? For those of you that would like a few options to quickly create a living room scene using different types of sofas, I just found two different sofa models posted on Blend Swap recently that will help you to create […]
A new feature of Blender will probably help architectural visualization artists that want even more control over precision modeling. A 3d ruler and protractor were added to the latest builds of Blender and will most likely be available on the next stable release (2.67). If you want to check this new feature right away, you […]
The best resources to learn architectural visualization with Blender are those where you can practice all stages of a project. And it would go from the modeling, materials, lights, render and post production. It is kind of hard to find these kinds of tutorials because they would take to much time to produce. Well, that […]
A urban visualization projects is really challenging for any architectural visualization artist due to the amount of information and objects that might be present on the scene. If your street has lots of threes and vegetation, you will be in serious trouble without a good plan to produce your images. I just saw an interesting […]
There are several ways to improve your skills on architectural visualization, but practice is one of the most important aspects of fine-tuning your technique. If you don`t have any projects designed by yourself to practice, you can always find some classic buildings with tons of information available on the web to exercise. A couple of […]
The use of Blender Cycles or any other renderer with Blender capable to create good lighting without the need to setup several light sources or intense tweaking with materials, is driving artists away from the Blender Internal render. I see this clearly with my students during class, where almost no one wants to learn to […]
Would you like to create virtual reality presentations of your architectural projects produced with Blender? For those of you that said yes, in the near future LuxRender might help you out to go into virtual reality presentations. The LuxVR project is an initiative of a LuxRender developer known as Dade. He describes most of what […]
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