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Making of HOVER ‘3D Grid’ by Jamie Holmes

January 9, 2011/5 Comments/in Making-Of, Native, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

The 4th runner-up winning entry of the HOVER architectural visualization challenge was not the typical thing one would see in such events. Jamie went all out with his concept and Im very happy to publish the making of his 3D Grid Suburb scene. In this tutorial, Jamie describes his workflow using 3D Studio Max and Mental Ray as his main tools. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this tutorial page.

Making of HOVER ‘Spiral’ by Derek Jackson

December 20, 2010/12 Comments/in Making-Of, Native, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

Im happy to give you the making of the 2nd runner up winning entry of HOVER, Spiral by Derek Jackson. Derek describes his workflow using Form Z and Maxwell Render as his main tools. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

SketchUP & V-Ray from Start to Finish by Omar Estevez

December 13, 2010/20 Comments/in From The Web, How-To, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

Omar Estevez wanted to help new V-Ray for SketchUP users to learn some basic V-Ray skills, so he created a series of tutorials that explain the complete rendering process from start to finish. The videos are divided into three major categories, Illumination, Materials, and Post Production, with ten videos total. Enjoy!

Making of HOVER “Lake House” by Benjamin Brosdau

December 6, 2010/8 Comments/in Making-Of, Native, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

The first of the HOVER Challenge making-of articles is here! Done by the Grand Prize Winner, Benjamin will describe the process of creating his ‘Lake House’ scene. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

Photoshop Postwork at KHS by Ramy Hanna

November 8, 2010/16 Comments/in How-To, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

Houston based 3D Artist, Ramy Hanna, recently published a post on his blog about the Photoshop postwork process he implements in his Architectural Visualization work. Check out his screen capture video of this process on the ‘KHS’ scene down below and make sure to visit his blog too… Ramy prefers to use SketchUP as his main archviz modeling tool, much like yours truly and you will find many interesting posts related to that.

Modeling 3D Sand Dunes in 3ds Max by Sascha Henrichs

October 23, 2010/9 Comments/in How-To, Tutorials /by Ronen Bekerman

Following Javier’s great V-Ray procedural sand tutorial post, I’ve seen this rather cool video by Sascha Henrichs over at 3dtotal about the way he models 3d sand dunes using 3ds max patch grids. You might get a very nice looking sand environment doing a combo of both. Feel free to mess around with it.

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Making of HOVER ‘3D Grid’ by Jamie Holmes

Making of HOVER ‘Spiral’ by Derek Jackson

SketchUP & V-Ray from Start to Finish by Omar Estevez

Making of HOVER “Lake House” by Benjamin Brosdau

Photoshop Postwork at KHS by Ramy Hanna

Modeling 3D Sand Dunes in 3ds Max by Sascha Henrichs

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