Blender 3D Architect

Quick visualization with Blender and YafaRay for architecture

Allan Brito — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:42:10 +0000

Even with the entire buzz around Blender Cycles these days, there are still a lot of artists working with architectural visualization in Blender and rendering their scenes with either YafaRay or LuxRender. You may remmenber suomi from the YafaRay user forums, which is a very talented artist that uses Blender... Related posts:

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Free download of IES profiles for architecture

Allan Brito — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:18:59 +0000

One of the common tasks that an architectural visualization artist can get in a project, is to create a light setup that might show how exactly the lights will look like on the physical world. This demands a really good knowledge about light and render, or the use of special... Related posts:

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Animation for architecture made with Blender

Allan Brito — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:43 +0000

An architectural visualization artist is always looking for examples of animations and stills produced to show architecture. It is always good to know what other artists and studios are producing in terms of architectural visualization, and push our own work forward and improve the quality of images and animations. The... Related posts:

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Add-on for wire renders with Blender internal and Cycles

Allan Brito — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:42:55 +0000

A wire render has a lot of uses in architectural visualization and most of them involve the demonstration of the structure of a 3d model for other artists. I ask all my students to produce a wire render of their 3d models to evaluate their work. In Blender we have... Related posts:

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Rendering a bathroom with Blender and YafaRay

Allan Brito — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:20:52 +0000

Even with the release of Blender 2.6 and the option to use a stable version of Cycles, we still find lots of artists using external render engines in Blender. There are a few features that must be incorporated in Cycles, before we can totally abandon external render engines for architectural... Related posts:

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