Winner Announced: Designconnected Giveaway

The 1st 2013 blog birthday giveaway is here! DesignConnected will give one of you lucky followers a chance to pick 15 models from their 3971 strong collection… any model you like. You will also have the chance to win 15 more great 3d models by sending a 3d render/s you made using one of their freely or commercially available models.

First Part Winner Announced

Congratulations to Mihailo Krsmanovic

You are the lucky winner of a 15 DesignConnected 3D Models. Start picking them!

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Happy Blog 4th Birthday!

Things slow down during August. Most of you are probably out vacationing and I wish you all the best and lots of fun. August also marks the birth of this blog – This day 4 years ago to be exact! The blog kept growing and gaining momentum in the past year with the Facebook Fan Page passing the 25,000 mark this week. I plan to keep the momentum going strong, hoping 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.

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3D Modeling How to / Bath Towel with Marvelous Designer

Designer & 3d Artist, Nikki Candelero, shares with us today a bit of insight gained during work on a current project. I can easily say Nikki is a certified great guy and real fun to be around with as all visitors to AD#3 in Venice last year can say. We will have the pleasure of meeting him again at AD#4, but till then he shows us how to make a realistic towel… the same way as he made it for an Italian luxury bathroom project he is working on. Enjoy this article as he describes the use of Photoshop, Marvelous Designer, 3dsmax and V-Ray.

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3D Modeling How to / The Bohemian Sofa with Marvelous Designer

Following up on Eduard Caliman‘s recent Mills 3D Chair Modeling How to, he now showcases how he made the Bohemian Sofa. Eduard actually did this stunning sofa designed by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso in 3ds max fully, but then went on exploring making the capitonné with Marvelous Designer and here he shares his process as well as the resulting model and textures. Enjoy!

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