Thea Render 1.1 Review by Sandro Sorce
Following SandroS latest Carapicuiba House posting and the pending release of Thea Render 1.1, I asked him if he could write a review about Thea, a render engine developed by Solid Iris Technologies. SandroS was very kind to agree, and in his article you will find information on how Importing, Materials, Browsing, IBL, Instancing, Interactive Rendering, Tone Mapping, Relight and Repainting all work in Thea Render v1.1
VizPeople Submitted Image Winner
Congratulations to Jakub Gramczynski for winning the second stage of the VizPeople giveaway! During the month of August I held that giveaway and the first winner was randomly selected from all who commented in the original VizPeople giveaway post. Jakubs seamless entourage insertion skills, as seen also in his Dune Apartments project, awarded him with a VizPeople collection of his choice. Big thanks to VizPeople sponsoring this giveaway and to all who took part in it… see you in the next one!
Villa Tugendhat 3D Recreation by Lasse Rode
Lasse Rode form studio xoio posted on the forums, one of the most amazing 3d recreations of a house designed by master modernist architect Mies van der Rohe Villa Tugendhat. Done as a personal project over the past few weeks to test color-mapping and GrowFX tree creation among other things, this is not something you want to miss out.
CGAxis New Exotic Plants Volume Released
CGAxis released the a new Volume 15 Exotic Plants and offer a special price for a limited time. Hurry up and take advantage of that offer while it lasts.
Interview with State of Art Studio
The first image I’ve seen by SOA‘s Roberto De Rose was the Maison Hermes personal work based on Renzo Piano’s Hermes building in Tokyo. I was so amazed by it I asked him to share more information about it and it became one of the first making of articles on this blog – Making of Maison Hermes. Roberto is on the CityLIFE Challenge jury panel and those of you coming to Academy Day #2 in Venice this October will get to meet him and Gianpiero in person. For the time being here is an Interview that will shed valuable light on the insides of SOA… Enjoy!
XFrogPlants Asia Released
XFrog Inc. the makers of XFrogPlants, and CityLIFE sponsor, added a new collection of 180 models from Asia. The new library includes 20 species, each with nine 3D models of the plant in different ages and sizes for a total of 180 highly detailed, fully textured new models. This set of nine botanically correct ages and variations are modeled by hand, not randomly produced, to give maximum variety for instancing the models across a virtual terrain.