If you have to work with a visualization project that requires real-time graphics and also interactivity, one of the best options is to use Blender for modeling and the Unreal Engine for rendering. The Unreal Engine uses cutting edge realtime graphics, if you have a good GPU, and can deliver interactive presentations. Do you want […]
Once you start working with architectural visualization it will be a matter of time until you find yourself working on personal projects, like taking an existing project and recreate that in Blender. We posted several examples of this practice in the past, and today we have another impressive exercise from digital artist Helmy Ardiansyah from […]
Whenever you have a project related to architectural visualization that requires rendering of multiple cameras, you will have to choose the angles and rooms you want to show. That is important for projects using Cycles because render times can scale up to a couple of hours depending on the project, The release of Blender 2.8 […]
For projects related to interiors, you will have to make a few choices regarding lights in Blender. There are options to start your light setup with an HDR map or using a large Area Light. If you use Cycles, an HDR map will work great, and for Eevee, the best results appear with Area Lights. […]
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 […]
The history of Blender and external render engines goes a long way. In the past, we didn’t have Cycles or Eevee to make realistic renders using Blender. The options were YafaRay or LuxRender in the open-source field. From those two renderers, we have LuxRender that today has the name of LuxCoreRender, which is version 2.0 […]
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 […]
The upcoming release of Blender 2.8 in a stable version is making a lot more artists trying Eevee for the first time. And the results for the real-time render engine are impressive. You cant get the same level of realism of Cycles, but for most cases, it is close enough to replace Cycles as the […]
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