If you plan to start working on 3D models of furniture designs, you will need specialized materials for those objects. A library focusing on furniture is different from what we have in interior design. For instance, a surface that often appears in furniture models is leather, and it can be a plain leather surface or […]
To improve your work in architecture, you should always try to use PBR textures for all your renders, and they provide some of the best results in either Cycles or Eevee. A PBR texture is a particular resource type that usually has multiple maps to compose a surface. How do you get those types of […]
Besides furniture models that should be a top priority to anyone building an asset library for architecture, you should also look for materials and textures. In that case, looking for PBR materials is the best choice for that type of visualization. What are PBR materials? With this material, you have a shader made of multiple […]
Having a wide range of options to include vegetation in an architectural visualization project is a must-have in any artist library. If you still didn’t invest in something like an Add-on to handle those types of elements, a collection of cutout textures can do the trick. With those textures, it is possible to use the […]
A key resource for any 3D artist working with digital creation is assets to quickly populate a scene or project. Those assets may include textures, 3D models, and anything that can help us adding context to a scene. We often recommend the download of assets from sites like HDRI haven and Texture Haven. They offer […]
Even with lots of options regarding Add-ons and tools to include vegetation and trees to architectural exteriors, you should also keep a couple of cutout textures ready to use if you need something lightweight for the project. And by lightweight, I mean an object that is nothing more than a 3D Plane with a texture. […]
The best resource to include people for scale purposes or give context to a render is cutout textures. They are easy to use in Blender, and with textures, you won’t have any additional load in processing time for a render. As a downside for cutout textures, we can point to their flat nature, which requires […]
Even with the existence of multiple options regarding skies and backgrounds in Blender like the procedural Sky or Blackbody node, you might find it easier to insert a photo-based reference to get the desired mood. For instance, you may want to render a project with a warm afternoon look. Instead of trying to match the […]
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