The use of mesh-based light in Blender Cycles is one of the most important elements to setup a good light for architecture. But, there is a small inconvenience with those types of lights. They are big planes or objects that emit light, which will result on them showing up on the rendering. If you don`t […]
With more artists starting to use Blender Cycles to render architecture every day, a lot of interesting artwork produced with Cycles will appear Blender user forums such as BlenderArtists. This week I found an interesting example of this type of artwork produced by an artist called camara. He manages to create some really nice renders […]
Back on the first days when I get started with Blender for architecture visualization, one of the renders that I always liked was Indigo. Of course, at that time the renderer was still a freeware and with much less options and features. I’m glad to say that I will get back to use Indigo for […]
Another nice example of how YafaRay artists can produce quality architectural visualization with Blender, even without stable releases for the Blender 2.6x series. To use YafaRay with Blender today, you must download a custom build from graphicall.org, which is the easy way to get YafaRay working with Blender. An artist called stoneage posted at the […]
When you start an architectural visualization project modeled with Blender these days, which renderer do you try to use? A lot of people is starting to move all their projects to Cycles, and it is not just because it is already there, you don`t have to install any extra software or exporter. The renderer is […]
Here is another nice example of the use of Blender as a tool for architectural visualization. Last week an architect from Italy called Arcangelo D’Alessandro contact me to show his latest project rendered with Blender. Arcangelo uses Blender for his projects since 2004, and this time he tried to test the possibilities of Blender Cycles […]
The amount of external renders available today for Blender is really great, and there are options for all types of artists with free and commercial options. One of these commercial options is Octane Render, which is a really nice renderer with nice support for GPU computing. Here is an example of visualization created with Octane […]
Earlier this week I posted a quick introductory guide on how to install and start to use Blender and Mitsuba to render images for architecture. The feedback on the guide was great, but some people are facing problems during the rendering. I could see this at my classroom with my students as well! The problem […]
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