Happy Christmas!
It's that time of year again! Hope you all have a lovely festive period and get some deserved time away from work.UPDATE: Some facebookers were asking about the plywood tree model, so I decided to...
View Article3dsmax - annoyances no. 1
I'm not usually one of those people who resists change in computer software, but I do when 'new' is both less intuitive and also slower. So this post is really just a reminder to myself of what to do...
View Articleoverscan
Quick 3dsmax tip.If you need to enlarge the frame of a camera without altering the perspective of your original composition, try this:Divide the original width of your frame by the new width, which in...
View ArticleHDRi skies - METRO CÚBICO DIGITAL
Thanks to Jacinto from Metro Cubico Digital for sharing these excellent renders produced for Hyde + Hyde Architects. I always love seeing your images made with my HDR skies so please keep them coming....
View ArticleHayes Davidson are recruiting!
Hayes Davidson are recruiting! They are currently looking for a Technical Projects Manager, Technical Photomontage Artists and 3D Artists. For information about how to apply, visit...
View ArticleTind by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Some of my favourite images from a recent project for the Swedish company Fiskarhedenvillan which was designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune. (thanks to The Urban Alaskan blog for letting me use the...
View ArticleFree HDRi Sky* - 3DArtist Mag
Completely forgot about this until I got sent a copy of the magazine, but 3DArtist Magazine has one of my skies on the cover disc courtesy of 3DOcean.net.It doesn't mention my name anywhere but it is...
View ArticleHDRi Skies - Mourelas Konstantinos
A beautiful image sent to me by Mourelas Konstantinos (@mourelask on twitter) which uses the very dramatic 1853 sky from my collection.Moody sky, fog, trees... ticks all the boxes for me. Love it.More...
View ArticleSketchup Extensions
With the recent release of Sketchup 2013 and its brand new extension warehouse it seems like a good time to do a round up of my favourite extensions (or as I used to refer to them, plugins). There are...
View ArticleHDRi Skies - Henry Goss Architects
Look at these great visualisations by Henry Goss Architects for one of his own projects. You can get the skies he used here:18471941Lovely stuff.Goss Visualisations
View ArticleGlenstone
I'd like to think that my best work is always my most recent work, but I'll freely admit that that's not always the case (you don't get to see the worst ones I'm afraid!). This is a project though that...
View ArticleTind Dusk
A quick study of my favourite of the 3 Tind houses for Claesson Koivisto Rune. For me this is where making everything in 3d really pays off, being able to open an old scene up and do something...
View ArticleTind 3d print
Received a lovely little memento of the Tind project through the post this week :) Thanks everyone at Claesson Koivisto Rune!
View ArticleT & S: From Bits to the Lens
Crazy that it has been 3 years already since Alex Roman released his seminal film, The Third & The Seventh. It still sets the standard for arch viz films, and arch viz stills too for that matter....
View ArticleNew Website! New Blog!
New Website!Designed by Mattias Forsberg from Humblebrag, a digital design agency based in Borlänge, Sweden. It runs on Squarespace which means it should work nicely whether you are looking at it on a...
View ArticleBanksy
Iain Banks AKA Banksy is a bit of a legend in arch viz, so make sure you check out his recently launched shop and blog. Looking forward to reading his blog, and am sure there will be loads of great...
View ArticleAcademy Day 4 Report on CGRecord
Head on over to CGRecord.net for Part 3 of their coverage of this years State of Art Academy Day: SOA Academy Day 4 Diary Part 3 (photos from CGrecord.net) As usual it was a brilliant weekend, shared...
View ArticleIcelandic Coastal House - Talcik Demovicova Studio
Juraj Talcik from Talcik | Demovicova Studio just published a new set of renders of an Icelandic Coastal House, have a look at the full set on Behance.Apart from them being beautiful to look at, I'm...
View ArticlePlaying around with corona..
An old personal project reworked slightly for corona renderer. Corona is a new rendering plugin which is still in the alpha release phase and currently free to download and use. I haven't had much...
View ArticleLa Maison de Verre à la Bertrand Benoit
Bertrand's flair with materials and modeling seemed such a good fit with this architectural masterpiece that I had to put aside my own ambitions to do a visualisation study of it and see what he would...
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