Making of Urban Apartment by Enrico Cerica

Enrico Cerica published his Urban Apartment personal project renders on the forums a month ago. He made an impressive set using the Octane Render GPU application and I was very intrigued by that. It is not the first time I’ve seen work being done with Octane Render… you all remember Bertrand’s work with it too, but this time Enrico showed us a complete apartment model with lots of modeling and texture detail in it which we all know is an issue with GPU based ray-trace engines due to memory limitations. I asked him to share more information with me about his work and the way he manages his scenes and that turned into this article. Enjoy!

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Making of Roldal Pilgrim Center by Plankton Group

Planktongroup published the Røldal Pilgrim Center visual back in March this year, and it made a big impact on me. It reminded me a lot of MIR’s style, being located at Norway helped with that too… But this is a great piece of work standing alone, and relying so heavily on the use of Photoshop in achieving the final result form what proves to be a very simple raw render (from a super simple SketchUP model) makes the following read very interesting. Enjoy!

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model+model Submitted Books Image Winner / Lasse Rode

Congratulations to Lasse Rode for winning the second stage of the model+model Books Giveaway! In the past few days, you’ve been asked to share 3d renders that showcase the use and scattering of books within your scenes. Lasse’s natural books placements, the fact they look great both near and far, and the general look & feel of his work, awards him with a model+model Vol. 06 / Books + the Bookmanager script.

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The Museum / Maxwell Render Challenge

‘The Museum’ challenge starts today! Collaborating with Next Limit for the second time, this event calls for the use of Maxwell Render in showcasing a 20th century masterpiece designed by legendary architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. We also have some enticing prizes for you, not commonly seen here before, such as a grand winner pick between a Canon 5D Mark III or Nikon D800, The New iPad, Life Time Maxwell Render licenses and more…

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