Tips and Techniques

3D World: 150 Industry Secrets

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3D World: 150 Industry Secrets

Head of Arch Viz, Nik van Herpt contributed some tips of the trade to 3D World magazine. You can see one of his tips below accompanying one of our images for Limassol Marina.

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British Eurosport rendered entirely in the ‘Cloud’

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BlueGFX – British Eurosport from Glowfrog Studios on Vimeo. bluegfx, in association with 3DR Studio, http://www.3drstudio.co.uk, have produced a cloud GPU rendered iray animation for British Eurosport’s “Home Sweet Home of Motorbikes” campaign. The “Home Sweet Home” 60-sec film will be the most broadcast promo on British Eurosport in 2011 and is designed to showcase ...

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Crazy Bump

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For anyone who creates texture maps for 3D, this tool is a lifesaver. http://www.crazybump.com/

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New matte painting tools in Photoshop

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Take a look at the new tools in the next release of PhotoShop. We can’t wait to start using it! Beware…CS5 only works in 64 bit on Win7 and Win Vista.

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Itoo Software – Forest Pack

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Here’s another forest generator for 3DS Max. It’s worth downloading the demo. Has a lot of great features and at $200 per seat, its a good tool to have. http://www.itoosoft.com/english/menu.php

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VRay Sea Shader

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The below link is a new sea shader for Vray developed byDL3D. http://www.dl3d.com/index.php/vmchk/Shaders-plugins/DL3D-Ocean-Shader-V1.0/flypage.tpl.html

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Building Generator for 3DS Max

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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=6193717&postcount=408

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Vray Scatter

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VRayScatter enables users to generate huge amounts of objects in a scene. With VRay Scatter you can create huge forests or even a city with uncountable amount of objects in a few clicks. It has quick rendertimes of objects (using VRay Proxies) with optimized RAM management. Integrated into the software, the VRayScatterTexture allows you to define random colors for every objects in ...

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