DesignConnected Submitted Image Winner / Joao Elias
Congratulations to Joao Elias for winning the second stage of the DesignConnected giveaway! During the month of August I held that giveaway and the first winner was randomly selected from all who commented in the original DesignConnected giveaway post. Joao’s soft dual colored image (very blog fitting pink!) and great composition awarded him with 15 DesignConnected models for him to choose. Big thanks to DesignConnected for sponsoring this giveaway and to all who took part in it… see you in the next one!
model+model Submitted Image Winner / Philippe Steels
Congratulations to Philippe Steels for winning the second stage of the model+model giveaway! During the month of August I held that giveaway and the first winner was randomly selected from all who commented in the original model+model giveaway post. Philippe’s rather unique interpretation using the bird and apple models awarded him with Volume 01. accessories model pack. Big thanks to model+model for sponsoring this giveaway and to all who took part in it… see you in the next one!
The Rendering Killer / Reality VS Twinmotion 2
New video about Twinmotion 2 – The Rendering Killer! A soon to be released visualization solution that aims to make traditional rendering for architectural visualization obsolete. To help you all understand what it is all about prior to launch, the Twinmotion team made some teaser videos about the main aspects of the software. Here is the final video prior to release, and the most impressive one so far. They show real life places and their virtual counterparts rendered with Twinmotion 2. While mostly focusing on small areas and not showing the places at full all the time, it is very resembling and not looking like game engine output as previously mentioned. Enjoy.
8 Hybrid 2D/3D Rendering Technique Videos by Les Chylinski
2D/3D Hybrid rendering technique are really interesting, although I don’t have too many clients that prefer or ask for it, there are many things to learn that can transfer to a more photo-real inclined workflow. I previously posted about the ‘Digital Watercolor’ Technique by Scott Baumberger and now I share with you 8 videos done by Minneapolis based architectural visualization artist Les Chylinski. The following videos describe his personal hybrid workflow putting much weight on the use of Photoshop starting with a very basic 3d model rendering, done with SketchUP most of times. Enjoy. Read more →
miniCHALLENGE 01 / BRIX : Winners Announced
Congratulation to the winners of the first miniCHALLANGE by Materialwerk and yours truly! From August 15 to September 15, Sponsored by the good people at Materialwerk, I was holding the forums first miniCHALLANGE. The participants were asked to use the BRIX Lite Edition and to create an image with one or more of the 8 included materials that show what BRIX is best for. The contributions were really great and we were surprised how well BRIX Lite Edition was used in the scenes. Apart from the winners, all other participants will receive a 50% discount for their contributions. So in a way, everyone has won…
Making of ASGVIS VRay for SketchUP Winning Render
Dirk de Jongh from DWanimations won the very first render contest hosted by ASGVIS in March 2009 for an interior render done with VRay for SketcHUP with the image you see above. He kindly shares his process with us in this first SketchUP + VRay article on the blog. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.