Posts Tagged ‘snow’

Making of Tugendhat House by Lasse Rode (xoio)

Making of Tugendhat House by Lasse Rode (xoio)

December 14, 2011 |  by  |  Making-Of, Native, Tutorials

Lasse Rode’s did a remarkable job at 3d recreating Villa Tugendhat, a house designed by master modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. Today he responds to the many requests for sharing more insight about his work on this scene, which was done as a personal project over a period of few weeks to test color-mapping and GrowFX tree creation among other things. In this article he focuses on the exterior part of his work.

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BrainTRUST Session 3, 'Exposition Center' by Gert Swolfs

BrainTRUST Session 3, ‘Exposition Center’ by Gert Swolfs

December 6, 2011 |  by  |  BrainTRUST Sessions

It took a long time, but here is BrainTRUST session 3, featuring a work done by Gert Swolfs – The Exposition Center. Check out the feedback by Adam, Alfa and I about this snowy, winter scene.

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Making of 'Twins' by Peter Guthrie

Making of ‘Twins’ by Peter Guthrie

Peter Guthrie posted a great making of article on his blog about his ‘Twins’ project for William O’Brien Jr. offering great insights and tips related to snow covered environments using 3dsmax, V-Ray, SnowFlow, Forest Pro, HQ Plants and items from DesignConnected.

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Making of Mountain Retreat

Making of Mountain Retreat

June 7, 2011 |  by  |  Making-Of, Native, Tutorials

I first learned about studio xoio following their co-founder’s, Lasse Rode, post about Casa Barragan at the forums. Browsing their portfolio, one image in particular captured my attention. ‘Mountain Retreat’ was created to be used as a new years postcard… and a great one it is! I just had to ask Lasse to be kind enough and write an article about it. Here it is… Enjoy!

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3D Snow Creation Tips by Bertrand Benoit

3D Snow Creation Tips by Bertrand Benoit

March 8, 2011 |  by  |  Tips, Tutorials

Following Bertrand’s great 3d recreation of the Bauhaus School at Dessau, I got that many request to post more detail about the snowy image he made in that set.  Bertrand kindly agreed to write about the process of making his snowy scene, and I’m happy to publish his 5 tips for handling snow in an architectural visualization 3d scene. Enjoy!

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Bridge House / Joeb Moore + Partners Architects

Bridge House / Joeb Moore + Partners Architects

January 21, 2011 |  by  |  Architecture, Inspiration, Photography

Dusky blue in the snow wood houses tend to look great all the time and this one is no different. Bridge House by Joeb Moore + Partners is great as design an photography reference. I really like the blue / orange contrast and bare trees as background… makes a nice environment to showcase a house

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