Creating VRay for SketchUP Vermont Verde Antique Marble Material

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ASGVIS 3D Artist and Trainer, Fernando Rentas, created the Vermont Verde Antique material in V-Ray for SketchUP Using basic material creation techniques as explained in the featured video tutorial “Creating Vermont Verde Antique”. Fernando was able to match the rich green color and unique light green and white veins by looking at a small sample of the marble. Check out the video below, it is very informative and the result is remarkably good.

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Making of 93 Tram

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As mentioned in the latest newsletter, I bring you Tom Svilan’s making of 93 Tram scene. This will be the first Blender + Indigo Render article in this blog. This combo is not the usual thing in archviz and I’ll try to publish more content related to the use of Blender and Indigo in particular. In this article, Tom describes his process from CAD to Finish, creating 3 Interior / semi exterior night time 3d renders. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

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BRIX by Materialwerk

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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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Making of Uro House

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I’m happy to bring you a short new tutorial by Luis Linares from Kuan Studio. In this article he will describe the creation of the Uro House image posted not long ago in the Finished Work section of the forums. It was very interesting for me to know more about the post process done on this image since there is a big difference between the pure render output and final result. Kuan team was very kind to share this process with us and I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page.

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