Making of The Museum ‘Field Project’ by Bertrand Benoit

I’m happy to introduce the making-of Bertrand Benoit‘s ‘The Museum’ 1st Runner Up Winner – ‘The Field Project’. Bertrand takes us through several stations in his process of making his work, starting with the concept and on with how he adds geometric and texture detail to the base model (actually – rebuilds most of it). It is great seeing how Bertrand works his way around a large-scale scene using Maxwell Render, which he previously only used for product shots or small scale single images. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

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Making of The Museum ‘Butterfly Effect’ by Stefan Hirschsteiner

I’m happy to introduce the making-of Stefan Hirschsteiner‘s ‘The Museum’ Grand Prize Winner – ‘The Butterfly Effect’. Stefan takes us through his complete process, starting with the concept and on with using SketchUP (with lots of Plugins!), key points using Maxwell Render and postwork all the way to final images. I learned a few new SketchUP tricks in this one and hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

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Making of ‘Trinity Bureau’

Beauty and The Bit have been present pretty steady in recent forum spotlights, featuring great looking visuals with a unique look and lots of emotive quality to them. Creating urban environments and visualizing office building and towers specifically is something I’m dealing with right now and so talking with them about the work they did on the ‘Trinity Bureau’ project was very interesting and even more so this behind the scenes article they made for us all. Enjoy!

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Making of Ratatouille Kitchen

Ben Cooper is not the usual ArchVIZ suspect. Currently working at The Dreamvision Company / Character Matters studio as producer of a new short film using Lightwave as their core 3d application. He was part of the team that created the charming animated short ‘Hooked’, and it sure hooked me! Exploring Ben’s work has led me to his CGSociety lighting challenge entry, which is the subject of this article. Enjoy!

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