Winner Announced: model+model Giveaway
The first of the blog’s second birthday giveaways is here! model+model will give one of you lucky followers the volume of your choice out of the currently 4 available ones. You will also have the chance to win one more pack by sending a 3d render you made using one of their freely or commercially available models.
First Part Winner Announced
Congratulations to Caroline Jun
You are the lucky winner of a brand new model+model Volume of your choice 🙂 Probably Vol. 01, right?
All of you still have a running chance in the second part of this giveaway. Sending in your renders showcasing model+model free items until August 31. The best image will win the same pack.
Second Part Winner Announced
Congratulations to Andreas Hummel
Your image was selected as best among those submitted showcasing model+model items and you win a brand new model+model Volume of your choice 🙂
Happy Birthday Month!
This August marks the blog 2nd year online! Once again I find out that time does fly when you’re having fun. The blog kept growing in the past year and there are many more things in motion that will be revealed in the following months. I hope I can celebrate many more such birthdays for this blog and keep providing you all the best place to find information, share & learn about Architectural Visualization.
Lumion Real-Time 3D Competition / Win $10,000 Cash
Act-3D, the makers of Quest3D and the latest real-time 3d visualization tool for architects – Lumion, launched a competition with $10,000 cash award up for grabs to the winner. This announcement follows the release of Lumion service pack 2, that introduced among the many bug fixes and new features, a new pricing policy corresponding to 3 variants of the application – Free, Basic & Ultimate. The free version will allow anyone to take part in the competition with a chance to win, aside of the cash prize, a Lumion 2.0 Ultimate license too.
HDR Image Based Lighting 3D Scene Setup
This short video is a follow-up on a comment made by alex_starc in the 10 Free HDRI Spherical Skies Maps post. He had issues with the sky being too dark in the render so I just recorded a short session of how I setup my scene with Image Based Lighting (IBL) using and HDRI map. Hope this helps.
New HQ Plants / HD Trees Vol. 03 & HD Flowers Vol. 02 (Tulips)
Konstantin Kim’s 3DMentor has released yet another two new HQ Plant collections of high-definition 3d Tulip flowers and carefully groomed Trees ready for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D supporting Mental Ray, V-Ray, V-Ray for C4D, AR, Maxwell Render and Fryrender.
Making of House in Matsubara by Marcin “Neb” Jastrzebski
Marcin Neb Jastrzebski shares a very detailed making-of article of his winning “House in Matsubara” project for the latest Evermotion competition. Marcin really puts in a lot of effort on this one with many references for his modo modeling and material work using Fryrender in the various moods he created for this beautiful house design by Ken’ichi Otani Architects.