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  • DMR Digital Visualizations – exterior visualization

    Click the image to see full resolution composite! Thanks to Diego Reales for sharing his awesome visualizations with us. You can visit their website HERE.

  • Flooded street scene – Photo manipulation

    Have you ever wondered how to make Flooded scene like this one in the image above? Learn how to make splashing water effect, rain, dark sky, or destroyed and wet buildings! Check this video tutorial. [20 seconds advertisement at the beginning. Source: psd.tutsplus]

  • SketchChair

    “Sketch Chair” is an exploration in using computation and rapid manufacturing techniques to allow users to design and build their own products or in this case their own chairs. The Sketch Chair software allows a novice users to take part in the entire process of designing and building their own chairs. Chairs are designed using [...]

  • House N – Timothy Back

    Have a look at this nice architectural visualization… can you feel the morning? Very nice visualization from Archangel Visual. What do you think? Let us know, use comment area below.

  • 62 Most wonderful CG characters

    What are the best 3D CG characters all around the internet? Do you know them all? In some cases, do you even believe they are not real? Have a look HERE and let us know what do you think!

  • Google Maps parody – photo manipulation

    In this Photoshop tutorial we will use photo-manipulation techniques. We will learn how to make parody of Google Maps which allows you to pin your notes to exact place on the Map. You will learn tips about blending images seamlessly by adjusting color balances and their opacity modes. You will learn how to make metal [...]

  • Chevrolet Camaro – Rhinoceros tutorial

    This video tutorial is created by artist Vladimir from Ukraine in Rhino software but techniques could be applied to all 3d softwares. This series is divided in 12 parts and in this series he will explain you how you can model the car from scratch. This is step by step tutorial. Continue to cgarena.com Rhinoceros [...]

Click the image to see full resolution composite!

Thanks to Diego Reales for sharing his awesome visualizations with us. You can visit their website HERE.

Categories: 3D, autodesk, gallery

Pixel Must Die demoreel.

admin On August - 13 - 2010

“Pixel must die” – Group was formed to provide high quality 3D representations of your ideas. Primary field of work is 3D-visualization of architecture, product-design, outdoor environments and exhibition spaces. Within this field they offer images and animations which can be used for marketing, design or planning purposes. They also offer the best quality photographs of the products. They say, they are not afraid of any challenges. Check their work here.

Categories: 3D, animation, autodesk

The targeted restriction in the use of materials, elegance in the lines and transparency in the effect are the characteristic properties of the S 533. It owes its special comfort to constant elastic flexing. This effect results from the fact that Mies van der Rohe conceived the front part of the tubular steel frame as a big bow made of spring-hard tubular steel. While most of the designs from the 1920s were rather simple and functional, this chair clearly communicates the signature of the architect: his design combines functionality and comfort with timeless aesthetics. The chair was first presented in the Weissenhof-Siedlung in 1927.

Free download available here: FlyingArchitecture.com

Categories: 3D

T-Splines launches Premium services!

admin On August - 12 - 2010

(official statement:)

T-Splines represents one of the greatest improvements for organic design since the invention of CAD. With T-Splines, you can quickly make distinctive, organic models that are easy to edit. Frankly, we think you should buy and use T-Splines yourself. If that’s not an immediate option for you (i.e. you’re in a time crunch or you want proof that T-Splines can work for your designs before you decide to learn the software), we would love to work with you to create your model. We are often sought as the solution of last resort, where designers come when nothing else works. However, we would also love to work with from the start to get your model created quickly.

Visit T-Splines official website.

(Image courtesy: T-Splines)

Categories: general, news

miniCHALLENGE 01 / BRIX (by Ronen Bekerman)

admin On August - 12 - 2010

Ronen Bekerman will be celebrating his blog’s 1st birthday this August 15th and he plans some cool stuff for you all… And this is a heads up for this blog’s first miniCHALLENGE#01 – BRIX that is the first event for this birthday month. Sponsored by Materialwerk it will start on the 15th and will end on the 31st. Head to the miniCHALLENGE’s forum thread for more information, but you can see the prizes HERE (original post).

Categories: general

DemoReel by Yongchan Kim

admin On August - 11 - 2010

2010 DemoReel from Yongchan Kim on Vimeo. Sit straight and observe!

Categories: 3D, animation

Famous 3D furniture collection

admin On August - 11 - 2010

Legendary Helena chair – called also Bibendum chair. This piece is available primarily for Rhino NURBS in 3dm format or in any other format you will ask for. (export)
Original post: flyingarchitecture.com

Categories: 3D

Making Of “The Getaway Vehicle”

admin On August - 11 - 2010


Simeon Patarozliev, The Getaway Vehicle, 3ds Max, V-Ray, Fusion, car, modelling, lighting, texturing

Someon Patarozliev started modeling this car for another scene and it was supposed to be just a low-poly half-finished model. The whole process took about 18-20 days from start to finish. There weren’t any blueprints available for this model at that time so he mostly used references and blueprints from a similar models. Original post here: link

Categories: 3D, autodesk

Photoshop passes tutorial

admin On August - 11 - 2010

Evermotion passes combination from VrayART on Vimeo.

Watch this tutorial from Evermotin to see how to stack layers from rendered passes to get really great looking visualization in postproduction in Adobe Photoshop!

Categories: 2D, 3D, tutorials

Smoke Portrait tutorial

admin On August - 10 - 2010

Browsing on the Internet recently I found a great tutorial, how to make an artistic smoke portrait out of an ordinary photo. Have a look and give it  a try! Have you ever made any photo manipulation on your own? Let us know and show us the result!

photoshop tutorial portrait

This is final image:

Source: Photoshoptutorials.ws

Categories: 2D, photoshop