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The Ultimate Collection of 3DS Max Tutorials Thinking of producing a cool 3D model or animation? It could be a simple task if you apply the right 3D animation rendering and modeling software and practice the right tutorial. Speaking of 3D software, 3DS Max is one of the comprehensive 3D modeling, rendering, and 3D animation software which used by most of the game developers, visual effects artists and design visualization specialists. There are countless ways that 3DS Max can be used and fortunately there is plenty of useful 3DS Max tutorials out there to enable artists and designers to more quickly ramp up for production. 3D Printed Letterpress Machines Halfway between vintage and modern technology Stampomatica proposes using 3D printing to create buffers, which can later be used with the manual printing machine. Discover in pictures as well as an explanatory video in the following article.
Introduction to Vray Part 1 – Lighting « macdesignstudio As it’s getting close to finals in architecture schools across the USA, I felt it was a good idea to create a small tutorial to help all those students pulling their hair out because of rendering issues. In this tutorial, I hope to shed some light (literally) on some of the nuances to my favorite render engine. This tutorial is based on the course that I taught while I was a student at Washington University from 2008-2010. I have modeled this scene in Rhino and will be using VRay for Rhino, but rest assured that these are basics that translate across programs, so if you’re using VRay for Sketchup or 3ds Max, the fundamentals are the same, I simply used an existing model I created in Rhino.
Vali Architects Create a complex roof in seconds - just select faces and edges; then run Instant Roof.Hip, gable, shed, dutch-gable, mansard, plantation, gambrel, open-trellis, combined, more... Eave types: boxed-in, exposed, soffitedHips and rafters with customizable endsFascia, fascia-trim, ridge and hip tiles, shingles, or sheet-metalComplete mission tile or standing-seam roofUse default roof styles - or create your ownExport and Import user defined roof stylesChoose any unit type supported by Sketchup: Metric- angles for slope or Feet/ inches - ratio for slopeUpgrade to Pro version for more roof slopes (The free version will only create the following roof slopes: 1/8:12 (0.6 degrees) ; 2:12 (9.5 degrees) ; 6:12 (26.6 degrees) ; 16:12 (53 degrees) or 24:12 (63 degrees). This plugin is currently not available for SketchUp 2014 - please see Instant Roof Nui for use with SU2014.
Textures Packs Feb 25 2011 Every day we try our best to present to you some useful tips, dear reader, to inspire you with fresh ideas and to try out new things. Today, we’ve prepared a nice collection of free texture packs that you just may have been looking for to freshen up your designs you’re working on. Enjoy! High Resolution Texture Pack 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere.
2007 Professional Awards Project Statement Built since 1985 as a weekend house, Casa Malinalco is one of the designer’s first and still one of his most convincing mediations between architecture, topography, climate, and cultural history. Malinalco is a village of small houses and narrow streets in a subtropical valley 110 kilometers southwest of Mexico City. Still largely agricultural, it is divided into eight barrios each with a small colonial church dating from the 16th or 17th centuries. The L-shaped house was built on the gently-sloping, 1,100-square-meter site of an old orchard.
Free Stock Photo Resources I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos. BLOG This post is also a follow up from many emails asking me to explain the diagonal line hatching used the site analysis diagrams. There are two methods in Photoshop that I know of that can create the diagonal line hatch seen in the image above. Both options use a relatively fast workflow and are easy to execute. OPTION A: Google Image Overlay
Compositing V-ray Render Layers in Photoshop In this tutorial Ahmed Fathi takes a look at how to composite together V-ray render layers using blending-modes and masks in Photoshop. Once completed, this process allows you to change or tweak any aspect of your image in seconds without having to re-render a thing! Ahmed also covers a few extra post production techniques such as Chromatic Aberration and Depth Of Field, as well as how to emulate a Cross-processed look. Escalalatina: Rendering Your Designs with Diversity Tired of seeing Nordic families in representations of Colombian markets and New York hipsters drinking coffee in Mexican cultural centers, a group of self-described “young latinos” have created Escalalatina, a collection of high-resolution images of “people on the road to development” to be used for renderings. Inspired by Teodor Javanaud Emdén’s SKALGUBBAR - a virtual library of people for renders - Escalatina aims to provide a way for Latin American architects to fill their renders with images of local people. All of the images are available in .png format and users can also submit their own images for the site as well. Check out some of the Escalalatina images after the break. Download the people of Escalalatina, here.
International Listings Blog Posted in Features on October 17, 2007 If Modernism was the twentieth-century architectural trend that developed a new way of thinking, then Urbanism appears to be the twenty-first century architectural mindset. This trend is breeding urban explorers (urbex), the greening of major metropolitan areas, and a focus on merging habitats and commercial structures with politics, culture, history and the arts. Public discourse and scholarly research have found meeting grounds in this global landscape, and the results are evolving. But, this evolution has affected how individuals and partnerships present their materials on Weblogs and Photoblogs.To that end, we’re treating you to the top 100 bloggers who focus on everything from architectural news to urbanism and from the junction of design and technology to the landscape. Top Ten