For those of you who are familiar with Hyperfocal design, the digital art production company based in South Australia, you may already know of their Hyperfocal skies texture collection released in May of 2003....
For those of you that were not able to attend my session at this year’s 3DFestival in Copenhagen, I thought I’d summarize many of the items I presented.
"I’ve tested most of the commercial tree and plant applications out there over the past few years and I have to say I was pretty impressed with the capabilities of Xfrog."
Following the success of last year's first-ever International Radiance Workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland, the organizers decided to do it all over again. The second annual Radiance workshop -- a gathering of...
For anyone looking to create an impressive interactive presentation with a minimal amount of work, I’d highly recommend Anark Studio. This is an easy to learn and powerful too for interactive CD and DVD...
Rob Guglielmetti reviews ACADLighting v1.0: "ACADLighting, an AutoCAD plug-in from Design & Drafting of Oak Lawn, IL, allows you to create volumetric and other lighting effects inside of AutoCAD....
Is your collection of panoramic skies incomplete, or are the versions you have now not cutting it? Well, if you answered yes to either of these you will be excited to find out that there is a new kid in town.
In a follow up article to last week's review of ArchVison's RPC™ Parking Lot Cars™, we bring to light some exciting developments that have made their way into the just released RPC™ 3.4 Plug-in.
Christopher Nichols:" A few months ago, I was asked to write a review about an educational book on Alias / Wavefront’s Maya. The book is Maya 4.5 Fundamentals. Having been a teacher that taught Maya to...
For those of you who often include large numbers of vehicles in your scenes you will be happy to note that the latest release by ArchVision: RPC™ Parking Lot Cars, has hit the virtual car dealership.
By Christopher Nichols "The concept of perspective matching may not be uncommon to many architectural illustrators. You have a photograph of your site and you want to insert your building or space into...
"In a world crowded with trade shows, computer fairs, and glitzy product launches, a quiet meeting was held in a quiet city in the middle of Switzerland. The topic of discussion was the computer graphics...
Designer and CG artist Nick Nakadate of Mulvanny G2 Architecture, takes an inside look into SplutterFish's recently released Brazil r/s 1.0.
CGarchitect has just completed an in-depth review and comparison of two of the top tree plugins on the market. We have covered most of the major features in both packages and detailed the best and the worst of...
In this a CGarchitect exclusive, Christopher Nichols reviews 3ds max 5 from a designers perspective. If you are considering upgrading or even purchasing 3ds max 5, you should read this review first!
If you have ever needed to create realistic scenery or environments for your architectural scenes, then the new release of Vue d'Esprit is worth a look. With release 4 comes a completely redesigned interface,...