Month: December 2022

Once we bought the house, my husband and I had been enamored with the attractive tile flooring: 2,000 sq. ft of beautiful wall-to-wall slate tile from one finish of the little ranch to a different. Jackpot! we thought. No carpet to vacuum or shampoo: bonus for my allergies. And just think about how straightforward it could be to keep up when we have youngsters! Sweep it up and also you’re accomplished!

Springboard, your final statement is the best way to go, I think! Purchase some land when the costs drop and erect a castle/home that can be in your loved ones for generations. That’s what the castles had been built for, anyway! We need to have an architectural scheme that isn’t so utilitarian, however will be beautiful, established homesteads for kids’s kids in the years to come back.

The moment we acquired the knowledge from French Toast we began to …

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Providing VR assets as part of an architectural visualization project is gradually becoming the norm. We’ve seen a few solutions before, and today I’m showcasing a new one by Biganto, called Virtoaster. Exciting features to consider are the overall 3d model explorer (open scale model style) and customizable interactive hotspots.

Biganto is an ArchViz Studio and a Digital Solutions supplier for developers, architects, designers, and CG artists. They are best known for creating interactive tours of large scale, such as Rumyantsevo Park, the “Making of” posted here a couple of years ago.

Virtoaster is a classic case of “scratching your own itch,” creating a tool others can benefit from during the process and bridge the gap between the existing pipeline of architecture visualization and interactive and VR content production.

With Virtoaster, you are provided with a toolkit and infrastructure for content creators, allowing you to turn your architecture visualization assets

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Here we go again! CONVERTED – The 9th International Architectural & Design Visualization Challenge in partnership with Substance by Adobe and ASUS as our hardware sponsor started.

Running March 1 – June 1, 2021.

Use #JoinConverted on social media and this link to share the challenge page – https://rcl.ink/rqXRJ

Along with Substance by Adobe and ASUS, also sponsoring are :

and many other prize sponsors you can learn about on the challenge site, all contributing towards a prize pool valued at nearly $125,000 USD (and growing).

We’re inviting the entire Architectural Visualization community to showcase your design and visualization creativity and skill.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to TAKE THE OLD and INTRODUCE SOMETHING NEW. Design and visualize a CONVERSION PROJECT of your own choosing and showcase it with a set of still images, animations, or VR experiences in a unique three months “Work in Progress”

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This is Lush, Lisa Della Dora’s personal project, and the only way to travel in the past year! This is a project of escape, using lots of MAXTREE 3d plants, and a test of caustics too. Can you spot the animals?

Hi everybody, I’m Lisa. I’m a 3D artist, the art director of the MADI (Post-graduate Master in Digital Architecture of the Iuav University of Venice), and the creator of the Italian blog and ArchViz community Render IT!

I’m thrilled that Ronen invited me to show some insight into one of my latest personal projects: Lush. I developed the image in 3ds max + Corona Renderer, and I did post-production in Photoshop.

Here you can see the final results I achieved with this scene, and I’m going to explain to you more in detail how I developed the main frontal image.

References for Lush

When I work on a personal

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV/Gray News) – A manager at an Olive Garden restaurant in Kansas was fired after a harsh message was sent to employees about taking time off.

A representative with the chain confirmed the Overland Park restaurant manager’s firing to KCTV on Tuesday.

“We are no longer taking ANY excuse for calling off,” the manager’s message read in part. “If you’re sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog dies, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. If it’s a ‘family emergency,’ too bad. Go work somewhere else.”

The message also said anyone who calls more than once in the 30 days since it was sent out will no longer work at the restaurant.

The manager describes her own work ethic in the message, saying she worked when she felt sick and even made it work after her car was

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Forest Pack 7 is out now with an impressive lineup of features and updates that cements its reputation as the most flexible scattering tool on the market.

To see a full description of the new release including embeddable videos please visit the Forest Pack 7: See The Light page. For the full changelog, please visit our documentation site.

For this release iToo focused on expanding Forest Pack 7’s versatility starting with the ability to scatter lights using any of Forest Pack’s powerful distribution modes and randomization tools.

The new version also adds real-time support with a new beta exporter for Unity alongside support for Chaos Vantage and Unreal Engine via Datasmith. Corona users can now benefit from Forest Pack’s invaluable animation modes and the library browser has been completely rewritten to make finding and adding assets a pleasure.

Talking of assets, color matching assets when they come from different sources

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PHOENIX — The Desert Botanical Garden welcomes the holiday season with its iconic tradition of Las Noches de las Luminarias.

“This tradition started to share with people here at the garden the beauty of the holidays,” said Marisol Peláez, digital marketing manager at the Desert Botanical Garden. “People can walk through the trails and they’re going to be able to follow this path full of luminaria lights.”

'Las Noches de las Luminarias' 2022 edition.

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‘Las Noches de las Luminarias’ 2022 edition.

The garden started this southwest tradition in 1978.

“They started with the volunteers at the time, by hand lighting 700 luminaria bags and now this event has grown to…more than 8,000 luminaria bags at the garden,” Peláez.

New this year: Guest will see sculptures of 'Playing with Stars' by Rotraut in the garden.

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New this year: Guest will see sculptures of ‘Playing with Stars’ by Rotraut in the garden.

Las Noches de las Luminarias is a long-standing tradition here in the Valley, and

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I’m thrilled to present you with the making of “Australian Home and Garden,” the visuals made by Globe Plants to showcase one of their recent bundles… number 24!

Globe Plants captured my attention around August 2020 as one of the few 3d vegetation creators fully supporting SketchUp with V-Ray, Thea Render, and Enscape. Since then they kept improving that support, alongside 3dsmax and GrowFX and reached 26 bundles so far. I’m keeping on testing their assets within the context of SketchUp with Thea Render and V-Ray and hope to share some examples soon. So far it looks and works very well… and today I’m offering a glimpse behind the scenes as they create 3d vegetation assets and presenting them in an architectural context.

Enjoy!

The Tools

The CG market today has countless valuable tools for architectural visualization. Each software has its strengths. We use SketchUp for modeling and detailed drawing,

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Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson looked elegant at they attended The Lady Garden Gala in London on Tuesday.

The mother and daughter both put on glamorous displays as they led the star-studded guest list for the charity event at Claridge’s Hotel.

Beatrice, 34, cut a stylish figure in a black midi dress embellished with gold patterns, which she teamed with pointed black heels.

Glamorous: Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson looked elegant at they attended The Lady Garden Gala in London on Tuesday

Glamorous: Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson looked elegant at they attended The Lady Garden Gala in London on Tuesday

She accessorised her elegant outfit with a dainty gold necklace and styled her caramel locks loosely in a straight fashion.

Beatrice’s husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi was also in attendance and cut a smart figure in a suave black suit.

She also posed alongside her mother Sarah, the ex-wife of the Duke of York, who looked smart in a sweeping black gown.

She added a touch of color to

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Twinmotion has come a long way since first released. Being part of Epic Games now, it offers a real-time ecosystem for building a better-connected architectural pipeline – Twinmotion and Unreal Engine combined

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry have a data problem. Taking a design from idea to reality involves a boatload of different disciplines. Architects, landscape designers, interior designers, engineers, consultants, suppliers, and manufacturers often need to collaborate to bring a project to fruition.

The process has not been designed with one single, streamlined pipeline in mind. Instead, each discipline is a silo, requiring specialist software that outputs different file types. This results in an archipelago of workflows that are isolated from one another.

Smoothly moving data along the pipeline involves lengthy, sometimes hit-and-miss conversion processes, across which information can be lost. And that makes effective, stress-free collaboration difficult.

Epic Games has been looking at ways to open

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