La Maison de Verre by Bertrand Benoit

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Bertrand Benoit shared his latest larger personal project on the forums yesterday – La Maison de Verre. Completed in the early 30’s by architect and designer Pierre Chareau, Bertrand took it on himself to recreate it in 3d as real as possible… resembling the original. The attention to details is what you would expect by now from Mr. B, and yet it still amazes me time and time again. Thank you very much for bringing this house to my attention (and thanks to Peter Guthrie too for initially suggesting it).

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Making of BOKA Artist Residence by EDiT

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EDiT‘s BOKA Artist Residence images were highlighted as part of weeks 43+44 on the forum finished work section. First, because of the architectural subject and the location. Second, because of the great look & feel these images had to them. I wanted to learn more about their process, which was obviously post-work centric, and Uros and Igor were very keen to share it with us. Follow them below as they describe the process step by step along with a video to recap the breakdown in the end. Enjoy!

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Making of Tribute to H&DEM

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I’ve noticed more great visuals being done recently using the SketchUP + V-Ray combo. The latest v2.0 release surly contributed to this bump with many great feature additions making the SketchUP native plugin much more capable and not so far from its bigger brothers on 3dsmax & Maya. It is also important to note that most of these visuals are being made by architects that use SketchUP for their design process… they are not professional visualization artists first. François (Frankoi) RIBOULEAU is one of them and his tribute to H&DEM 56 Leonard Street project captured my attention. His process is simple and the result is great looking. Enjoy the read and tell us what you think in the comments section.

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Venice, Here I Come!

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October is here and so is the State of Art Academy Day #4. A year sure went by fast, and I’m happy to take off to Venice and meet old and new ArchVIZ friends in this great gathering organised by Gianpiero & Roberto from SOA. Speakers this year include Bertrand Benoit, Vlado Koylazov (Chaosgroup), Nick Bently (Unifrom), Christopher Malheiros (Luxigon), Paul Roberts (iToo Software), Dario Lanza (Next Limit), Peter Jaworowski & Marcin Molskiand (Ars Thanea) and Peter Guthrie with a bonus lecture. It’s going to be fun!

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