Ronen Bekerman's Architectural Visualization Challenge II - HOVER

Architectural Visualization Challenge II, HOVER

HOVER is starting! I’ve added the information pages to the blog under the Challenges menu option in the navigation above. You can also visit the forum and register right now if you haven’t yet. The model kit for the Challenge is online, so please download and start exploring it as well as review all the information and ask me anything you like by commenting below…

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Best Overall Architectural Image for 2010

2010 CGarchitect Architectural 3D Awards winners were announced and big congratulations to Bertrand Benoit for winning the best overall architectural image category for 2010 with his previously won GH House Interior Image! Bertrand will co-judge HOVER, my second Architectural Visualization Challenge that will be announced very soon.

Checkout the GH House Challenge Winners Page if you haven’t seen it yet.

BRIX by Materialwerk

Materialwerk has just released BRIX, a new tool for 3ds Max & Maya that offers a solution to working with tiled materials (planks, bricks, tiles, mosaics, stone cladding and more). Bertrand Benoit posted a very informative article about his first steps with BRIX you really should take a look at. You can also see some of Bertrand’s tests below.

[added July 9th, 2010]

Materialwerk published the BRIX lite version for download at their website. They have also added a Video Tutorial Page. I’ve embedded them inside the post below too.

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