See you in Venice!

Hey all! I’m on my way to Venice for Academy Day #2 being held by the good people at State Of Art. Looking forward to meet all of you who will attend these two days gathering of artists & friends, and see Peter’s workflow workshop. I’ll showcase my personal SketchUP workflow and the latest addition of Lumion to my tool box.

XFrogPlants Asia Released

XFrog Inc. the makers of XFrogPlants, and CityLIFE sponsor, added a new collection of 180 models from Asia. The new library includes 20 species, each with nine 3D models of the plant in different ages and sizes for a total of 180 highly detailed, fully textured new models. This set of nine botanically correct ages and variations are modeled by hand, not randomly produced, to give maximum variety for instancing the models across a virtual terrain.

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The 3rd Architectural Visualization Challenge Begins

The long-awaited architectural visualization challenge No. 03 is here at last boasting a brand new website with an exciting and challenging theme – CityLIFE! This time you are tasked to explore one of the most complex and vast subject matter in Architectural Visualization, our urban way of living. Visit the new challenges main site to get started with your journey on this one. You will find all the challenge related information over there and keep on reading here to find out more about that site, how it came to be and and introduction to using it.

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