Amazing Rhino+V-Ray stuff

Tweet For those of you who are in need of high-quality NURBS models and V-Ray materials for Rhino, take a look at this amazing website: Flying Architecture – free 3D models, materials, textures and tutorials for Rhinoceros, 3DS Max, C4D and all other programs. Share

Posted on January 17, 2011 at 09:32 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Photorealistic rendering? Check this out – Pt.2

TweetRemember the classroom renderings from Studio Aiko? This is a flythrough showing this amazing scene!Great details and illumination.You can find other animations on Vimeo, check the list on the right panel: there’s a “making of”, after all this scene is incredibly realistic so the making of is necessary Classroom (3D camera flythrough) from Studio Aiko [...]

Posted on September 8, 2010 at 18:59 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.4

TweetIt’s been quite a long time since the last post on this subject, sorry, I’m actually extremely busy with the ARTC Rome opening! Ok. so let’s talk about rendering quality and rendering time for the Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivisions we have created in our previous steps. Let’s start with the CC series. This picture shows [...]

Posted on September 8, 2010 at 12:53 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Rendering – Real world analysis pt.2 – Water

TweetSome pictures I took in Tuscania (Italy) during a walk: it’s amazing how water interacts with light and environment! Another interesting cue for a render-maniac… like me Share

Posted on August 19, 2010 at 14:14 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Photorealistic rendering? Check this out!

TweetThis is an a-m-a-z-i-n-g sample of photorealistic rendering by studio-aiko. The pic shows the daylight solution, but on the page you can find other light conditions. http://www.studio-aiko.com/temp/classroom/classroom_daylight.html Share

Posted on August 9, 2010 at 21:06 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Rendering – Real world analysis

TweetProbably I ate too much that day… but these shots are an interesting basis to start a discussion on rendering. This is the general scene: A table, a cup of coffee (italian coffee… aaaahhh), a jug of water… and most of all: light, Light, LIGHT!!! Direct light, indirect ligh, reflections, refractions, caustics, translucency, SSS… everything [...]

Posted on August 8, 2010 at 19:46 by Giancarlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.3

TweetIn the last post we have analyzed the aspect of our meshes and we have noticed how their smoothness is connected to the number of subdivisions. We didn’t point out a critical aspect: the “weight” of the subdivided mesh in terms of disk space and rendering time! Let’s take a closer look at these objects. [...]

Posted on July 24, 2010 at 22:54 by Giancarlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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