XfrogPlants April (and May) Sale
You can never have enough 3d trees & plants. Keeping your scenes greenies nice and fresh is important, so here’s a little heads up – April is almost up and you have 1-2 days left due to my previous heads up, demand was such Xfrog granted an extra full month to take advantage of the 50% discount on all Xfrog’s products. XfrogPlants are realistic, highly detailed, fully textured 3D trees, shrubs, and flowers, carefully modeled with the Xfrog procedural software. You have 600 species available in libraries or as individual species… just have your pick.
48 Free Old White Wood Planks Textures
Mário Nogueira follows up with one more great share of 48 Old White Wood Planks Textures that you can use in your own scenes with the help of FloorGenerator + MultiTexture maps or MightyTiles. The set has 48 JPG’s (for Diffuse, Bump and Normals) at 3607×186 pixels size, representing a plank size of 480x20cm.
Making of ‘Crystal Box’ Villa
tresde’s Santi Sánchez has been pretty active on the forums lately, and I like the fact his work is a mix of both ‘All In Render’ and ‘Postwork Based’ workflows. He’s really good at doing both, which clearly shows in his ‘Crystal Box’ Villa project which did not get too much attention on the forums, but it will now! This one was a personal project of his, intended to take postwork for a long drive. You’ll find here a Video by Santi taking you through the process of making this image, a step by step textual and visual breakdown as well as a scaled down version of his PSD file.
model+model Released Vol. 08 / Interior Accessories
model+model released a new volume of interior accessories 3d models, with a touch of retro-chic, to help you spice up those interiors you are working on! You’ll have over 100 interior models in 40 sets ready to go with VRay & Mental Ray supporting LWF and Arch&Design Mats too.
30 Free Stone Pavement Textures
Mário Nogueira Kindly shares this great set of 30 Stone Pavement Textures that you can use in your own scenes with the help of FloorGenerator + MultiTexture maps or MightyTiles. The set has 30 TIFF’s at 1425×284 pixels size, representing a tile size of 120x20cm.
Making of ‘Viking Pavilion’ NPR Dusk Exterior
Here’s the continuation to Scott Baumberger‘s Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) Approach to Architectural Visualization workflow article. This time he dives in, with great detail, into the process of making the ‘Viking Pavilion’ Exterior Dusk Image. Enjoy, and stay tuned for the next part!