Making of Sitting Area
Jason Lee posted a little fun side project he made not long ago on the forums – The ‘Sitting Area’. Today he shares a little about the process of making this 3d scene using Lightwave for modeling and rendering. I hope this will open up the door for more Lightwave users to share their work here as it looks like a very capable system and yet seems not so popular among archviz artists (is it?). Anyway, Jason get’s into some really great detail work in this scene we all can learn from… especially the extra push on adding details in postwork.
iray and Exterior Scenes with Jeff Patton
I’ve followed Jeff Patton’s blog for some time now and he posted the first of three articles about the use of iray in 3d exterior architectural visualization scenes. Most of you probably know Jeff’s work by now. He’s doing a lot CG cars visualizations, but also archviz using mental ray mostly and has some great tutorials available via thegnomonworkshop.com if you are interested, But what interest me the most is his use if the new iray render engine in his work and what he has to share with us about it. In this new series he showcases the use of iray in a much more common architectural 3d rendering work scenario and how it plays with the current shortcomings of GPU on-board memory. I recommend you all to follow this series and i’ll make sure to plug it here so you do!
Making of ‘Twins’ by Peter Guthrie
Peter Guthrie posted a great making of article on his blog about his ‘Twins’ project for William O’Brien Jr. offering great insights and tips related to snow covered environments using 3dsmax, V-Ray, SnowFlow, Forest Pro, HQ Plants and items from DesignConnected.
GrowFX Custom Foliage Creation by Studio xoio
Lasse, from studio xoio is sharing their experience working with Exlevels GrowFX plugin for 3ds Max as a tool for creating custom 3d Foliage models. This article will offer you an introduction of GrowFX so that you can better understand the concept of using it and set you on the right path for creating your own growth 3d models.
New HQ Plants / HD Flowers Vol. 01 / Roses
Konstantin Kims 3DMentor released a new HQ Plant collection of high-definition 3d rose flowers ready for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D supporting Mental Ray, V-Ray, V-Ray for C4D, Maxwell Render and Fryrender. You can also benefit from a 25% discount on all HQ Plant collections until July 7, 2011.
Making of HOVER ‘Time Traveler House’ by Tolgahan Gungor
The Time Travler House earned Tolgahan Gungor the 1st Runner Up award in the HOVER architectural visualization challenge. It is a very unique piece of art which also awarded him the special category prize for best design and a respected CGTalk CG Choice Award. This tutorial focuses more on the conceptual part of things then technical. I hope you’ll enjoy it, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this tutorial page.