The Museum / Maxwell Render Challenge

‘The Museum’ challenge starts today! Collaborating with Next Limit for the second time, this event calls for the use of Maxwell Render in showcasing a 20th century masterpiece designed by legendary architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. We also have some enticing prizes for you, not commonly seen here before, such as a grand winner pick between a Canon 5D Mark III or Nikon D800, The New iPad, Life Time Maxwell Render licenses and more…

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model+model Givaway

Following model+model new release of Vol. 06 / Books & the Bookmanager Script we’re doing a Giveaway in which you can upload to the dedicated forum thread any image that you made showcasing lots of books being scattered in them… doesn’t matter how you did it, just the end result. Bring them books on!

First Part Winner Announced

Congratulations to Andreas Hummel

You are the lucky winner of a brand new model+model Books Volume & Bookmanager!

All of you still have a running chance in the second part of this giveaway… Sending in your renders here. The best image will win the same pack.

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model+model Released Vol. 06 / Books + The Bookmanager Script

model+model released a new volume of 3D Books that will make you want to start adding lots of bookshelves within your 3d scenes! And it is super easy using their brand new Bookmanager script. It will allow you to scatter this diverse collection of 670 different books in a snap. This will be volume number 6 from model+model, but you can get single models too on their website.

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Paso Robles Residence / Aidlin Darling Design

Following the rural theme from last time, here’s yet another great design in a remarkable location! Paso Robles Residence by Aidlin Darling Design sits on an agricultural site in California’s Central Coast wine region. Great sky, vegetation and a design mixing earth toned materials such as the stone, corten steel and wood. Great photos taken by Matthew Millman, and some nice exposure blending in some of them it seems (or HDR editing).

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Making of CityLIFE’s ‘Metabolic City’ by Jean-Marc Emy

The first of the CityLIFE Challenge making-of articles is here! Done by the Grand Prize Winner, Jean-Marc Emy will describe the process of creating his ‘Metabolic City’ scene which is rooted deeply within the concepts of the Japanese Metabolic architecture stream and relies heavily on 2d post production techniques. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

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