model+model Givaway

Following model+model new release of Vol. 06 / Books & the Bookmanager Script we’re doing a Giveaway in which you can upload to the dedicated forum thread any image that you made showcasing lots of books being scattered in them… doesn’t matter how you did it, just the end result. Bring them books on!

First Part Winner Announced

Congratulations to Andreas Hummel

You are the lucky winner of a brand new model+model Books Volume & Bookmanager!

All of you still have a running chance in the second part of this giveaway… Sending in your renders here. The best image will win the same pack.

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model+model Released Vol. 06 / Books + The Bookmanager Script

model+model released a new volume of 3D Books that will make you want to start adding lots of bookshelves within your 3d scenes! And it is super easy using their brand new Bookmanager script. It will allow you to scatter this diverse collection of 670 different books in a snap. This will be volume number 6 from model+model, but you can get single models too on their website.

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Paso Robles Residence / Aidlin Darling Design

Following the rural theme from last time, here’s yet another great design in a remarkable location! Paso Robles Residence by Aidlin Darling Design sits on an agricultural site in California’s Central Coast wine region. Great sky, vegetation and a design mixing earth toned materials such as the stone, corten steel and wood. Great photos taken by Matthew Millman, and some nice exposure blending in some of them it seems (or HDR editing).

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Making of CityLIFE’s ‘Metabolic City’ by Jean-Marc Emy

The first of the CityLIFE Challenge making-of articles is here! Done by the Grand Prize Winner, Jean-Marc Emy will describe the process of creating his ‘Metabolic City’ scene which is rooted deeply within the concepts of the Japanese Metabolic architecture stream and relies heavily on 2d post production techniques. 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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Free “Glass Buildings” RailClone Scene

Long time blog & challenges sponsor, iToo Software, created a very nice RailClone generated glass buildings 3d urban landscape scene that showcases how you can create full parametric buildings form a set of basic elements. You can download now the RailClone “Glass Buildings” scene, ready to render on 3DS Max 2010 or higher, starting with Forest Pack Lite 3.6, RailClone Lite 1.3 and either VRay or Mental Ray.

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