Most eco-friendly building materials don’t look much different from traditional ones, so people often can’t tell they’re looking at sustainable, green features when they see them. To help raise awareness...
Dennis Allain recently won the prestigious Hugh Ferriss Memorial Award as part of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators annual international exhibition “Architecture in Perspective 21” held in...
We all love SketchUp. However, what the program has traditionally suffered from is a lack of reference materials. Sure, there are the video tutorials on the website, and you've always had the on-line hypertext...
I recently received the brand new flagship NEC 30” display and was able to put it through its paces over the past several months. Around 800 hours of on time as of the time of this writing. The new NEC...
I recently had the opportunity to review many of the model collections offered by Evermotion. I had access to volumes 1-12 for this evaluation and will look at model quality, ease of use, file setup, variety...
Having now recovered from this year’s SIGGRAPH, I’ve finally found some time to do a small write up about the event this year. This was my tenth SIGGRAPH in as many years, and while my role when attending...
The Neighbourhood was founded by myself and 3 friends in July 2006. We’d met at different stages working together over the last 4-8 years at a number of illustration and animation companies, including...
modo is said to have a cult following amongst the ArchViz community. Why then is a 3D application, known for its subdivision modeling capabilities, in its early to middle stages of development gaining favor so...
Jan Ruben Fischer is the 2003 winner of the CGarchitect.com/ART VPS Scholarship.
The aim of this tutorial is to model a pillow. This model will be created with simple and easy steps. At the end of this tutorial you will be able to create a pillow as in the image below. In fact, this image...
Between their almost nonstop barrage of calls since its wide spread popularity, CGarchitect was able to sneak in a few moments to speak with Benjamin Darras, one of the owners and producers at ONE MORE...
Victor Gonzalez is CEO and Founder of NEXT LIMIT Technologies the makers of the up and coming renderer Maxwell. Along with CTO and fellow founder Ignacio Vargas, these two and their team are promising to bring...
A mere three weeks post SIGGRAPH and my mind is still spinning. Being that this was my fourth time attending the conference, I was not expecting such a whirlwind of emotion.
Marking the first of many upcoming hi-res RPC libraries, ArchVision recently released a North American Deciduous collection containing 75 trees each 2500 pixels high.
Chad Warner from Blue Lime Studio reviews 3DATS latest book - 3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization Advanced to Expert. "I would highly recommend this book (as well as the other two) to anyone involved...
I recently had the opportunity to review a new video tutorial CD for the architectural visualization industry made by a relatively new company to our field – 3dquakers.com.