Hostel MondoCúbico by Thiago Lima

Thiago Lima will feature a full-fledged making-of article here soon, but until then I invite you to take a look at this fast paced video recording of the making process of his recent Hostel MondoCúbico project. A lot is going on in the 8+ minutes of the video, but the music is great and so is the view. It is really inspiring seeing it this way. Enjoy!

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Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2013

This Friday is Black Friday. Doesn’t sound that good you might say… well, it is said the name originated from the heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic occurring on the day after Thanksgiving – coloring the streets black. Later an alternative explanation suggested that this day marked the transition to profit and thus starting to write numbers in the books with black ink instead of negative red. Which ever way it was – It is a chance for you to get good deals… And this is exactly what I will try to gather for you here.

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CGAxis Submitted Image Winner / Chog Burley

Congratulations to Chog Burley for winning the second stage of the CGAxis giveaway! During the month of September I held that giveaway and the first winner was randomly selected from all who commented in the original CGAxis giveaway post. Chog submitted an image from a set made in the project “Clay Farm” they did for Tate Hindle Architects. CGAxis trees are being used and showcased very nicely in this image which awards Chog with a CGAxis Unlimited account for a full YEAR! Big thanks to CGAxis for sponsoring this giveaway and to all who took part in it… see you in the next one!

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Making of Landenberghaus by loomn

Loomn‘s moody scene of a Multi-Functional Building with Café and Theatre competition entry for Karamuk-Kuo Architects awarded them Best Visualization of the Week NO. 41 using mainly ArchiCAD, Cinema4D + V-Ray and Photoshop as the software combination for fast turnaround fitting the competition production time-frames. Check out loomn’s process as Jost Hauer describes it in great detail below. Enjoy!

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