The Farmhouse

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In the beginning of March Reinier Reynhout started working on visuals for a renovation project for relatives of his, trying out some ArchVIZ during his spare time form being head of a 3d department in a big company during the days. Renovating and learning more about ArchVIZ at the same time, Reinier also started a WIP thread on the forums during the process and shared it on the go which I really liked. the WIP + Finished work was a great start for this case study I kindly asked Reinier to share with us. Enjoy!

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THE ARCH / Sci-Fi Vision of the Future

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Thomas Dubois started to share his Future Sci-Fi explorations on the forums back in 2012, grabbing the Best Visualization of the Week NO. 50/2012 & 09/2013 for being such a remarkable piece of visual work. This project of his, which is a collaboration with his brother and a good friend has much more to it, and goes beyond ArchVIZ into games and film… and real life well ahead of us in some scenarios. I’m keeping tabs with his work and invited him to write a bit more about it to share with you all. Enjoy!

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Making of NEON Light

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NEON is a campfire inspired light and sound installation by Nicole & Markus Heilmann from 2003. What you see here is a virtual simulation of that installation done by Markus himself driven by a what can only be described as bad documentation! The result, accompanied by cool sound design & music by Bram van der Poel, is pretty remarkable and we get to see how it was made too. I wonder if he would ever document the real thing the same way?

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Making of Griehallen – Memory

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Tamas Medve‘s cold and rainy visual memory of the Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway awarded him Best Visualization of the Week NO. 14/2014 for the great composition and mood he managed to convey, as if we stand there with him next to this concert hall in the rain. Join Tamas in this article, as he describes his process of creating this scene using 3dsmax and V-Ray, with some extra shots at the end. Enjoy!

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SketchUP V-Ray Proxy Grass

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Creating 3D Grass and Scattering it all over the place inside 3dsmax was featured here plenty, but with V-Ray for SketchUP becoming better and better it can be done inside SU too with great results and little effort as David Brufau showcases in this short how-to. Follow his process and feel free to jump in with questions or suggest your own methods of doing this inside SketchUP.

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