1. ral_color_chart_2000_series.jpg (1.0) : RAL color charts
(File Repository)

...with RAL code name, color name and RGB values. This charts will help CG artists to mimic better the real world colors, used on many types of paint. Color samples shown may vary from actual paint du...

2. ral_color_chart_1000_series.jpg (V 1.0) : RAL color charts
(File Repository)

...with RAL code name, color name and RGB values. This charts will help CG artists to mimic better the real world colors, used on many types of paint. Color samples shown may vary from actual paint du...

3. 3DA Charette#16 - House N
(News/News)

...touch the very essence of a house in a completely unique way, in different setting, culture, part of the world. We present you House N in Tokyo, by architect Sou Fujimoto. ...

4. Illuminate Labs™ announces NEW Beast™ Software
(News Feeds/Offsite News)

+ Illuminate Labs, creators of world leading lighting solutions for the games industry, today announced the release of... Read Full Article

5. Metropoly HD evolution 2
(News/News)

...evolutionary new 3D Human Models for Close-Up views, unmatched in resolution and quality anywhere in the world today. Includes a stunning MentalRay skin shader and Lighting setup! T-Pose ready to ...

6. E-on Software Uncovers Vue 7.5
(News/News)

...ural terrains with infinite level of detail Spherical cloudscapes (procedural, or based on real-world/modified cloud maps) Material Painting and effect-driven material mapping in th...

7. LightWork Design
(News/News)

LightWork Design releases LightWorks 8.0 LightWork Design, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, today announced the latest

8. NewTek
(News/News)

...es our products in action  they are immediately amazed," said Don Ballance, director, training worldwide, NewTek Inc. "We are excited to give people an opportunity to see first-hand how...

9. Artist Spotlight - Paco Morales
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...s a freelance architectural and still life illustrator and animator. I discovered the fascinating world of 3D in the University. It was there that I started to learn in simple programs like Min...

10. Artist Spotlight - Jakub Gabriel
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

... I would render my own architectural designs. After endless hours of practice and observation of how the world is lit, I proceeded onto freelancing and have been freelancing for 6 years so far, mainly...

11. Creating Waterfalls Tutorial
(Tutorial/Tutorial - 3D Software)

...sp;Decay = When Decay is set to 0.0, the Gravity space warp has the same strength   throughout world space. Increasing the Decay value causes gravity strength to    diminish a...

12. A New Business Structure for the Global Economy
(Articles/Articles - Business)

...ize on a strong community of artist, 3DAllusions Studio consists of visualization artist from around the world. Professionals, who generously devote their time and energy to help other artists hone th...

13. Artist Spotlight - Aaron Coon
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

... order to get closer to my goal of photo-realism, my focus is on learning new techniques, observing real world lighting and materials, and studying professional architectural photography. Featur...

14. trueSpace - A Love/Hate Relationship
(Reviews/Review - Software)

...w of the complete program, so the following reviews can perhaps fill in those areas: Digital Arts 3D World Cadalyst An area that Caligari has invested a lot of resources on and pursued an inno...

15. Autodesk's Impression
(Reviews/Review - Software)

...y, I do not understand why a program of this type did not appear at least a decade ago. In today’s world of BIM (Building Information Models) systems being adopted by architectural firms and 3D ...

16. Mental Ray revisited - new features tests
(Articles/Articles - Software)

...o, the speed up is quite noticeable. A little late, we may say, considering that Vray conquered the world market in this area and Maxwell coming on hard. It will be difficult to fight with t...

17. AW2 Contest Winners
(Contest/Contest Winners)

...-   Judge Three: Juan Siquier: born in Albacete / Spain Before ending up on the CG world he use to spend his days painting in traditional mediums and showcasing his art in many e...

18. Maxwell Render 1.1
(Reviews/Review - Software)

...s to predict how light and materials will interact and behave with great accuracy, just like in the real world. Is this sounding too much? Next Limit Technologies, its creators, is promoting it as T...

19. Maxwell Using KML Files
(Tutorial/Tutorial - 3D Software)

... Latitude and Longitude data in order to place the sun at its correct position. This way we can use real world coords from any place on the Earth and get very acurate sun light in our projects. After ...

20. Interview with Jeff Mottle
(Interviews/Interview - Industry)

...lack of personal growth opportunities. At the time I thought there were maybe only a few thousand people worldwide who did visualization (I know better now) and I had no idea where any of them were or...

21. Artist Spotlight - Hipólito Alcobendas
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...o Spain (to the region of Extremadura) and it was love at first sight, I love Spain. I began in the world of the CG seven years ago, in principle in the design and development web, later in the g...

22. Contest Assignment & Deliverables
(Contest/Contest Assignment)

...erpiece. The forms and spatial hierarchy seem classical, alluding to some great historical wonder of the world, yet the materials and construction techniques seem to be appropriate to the 21st century...

23. Contest Sponsors and Prizes
(Contest/Contest Prizes/Sponsors)

...torials walking you through the step by step process of creating specific scenes. ambientLight is a world leading provider of Seamless Textures to the CG industry across the world. With an ever i...

24. Contest Judges
(Contest/Contest Judges)

...-   Judge Three: Juan Siquier: born in Albacete / Spain Before ending up on the CG world he use to spend his days painting in traditional mediums and showcasing his art in many e...

25. Abstracting History
(Articles/Articles - Theory)

...ing a fresh new language unfettering our shackles of the past and creating architecture for the new world order. Those of you who fall under that category can just move along, nothing to see here...

26. Calling It like I see It - May
(Articles/Articles - Business)

...eration of illegal software, it is quite another to fund their campaign to take over the 3D/CAD software world. You may think that this path would lead to their downfall, but while they have the be...

27. Artist Spotlight - Branko Jovanovic
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...t first for design development and latter for visualization. Some four years ago I stepped in that great world for real and work as CG artist since then. First I worked full time for one luxurious mod...

28. Artist Spotlight - Francisco Bolanos
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

... level of visualization quality unseen before. Many of the traditional illustrators they felt their world got tumbled because they lost the technology train long ago, and many customers are getti...

29. Discussion with Diego del Castillo
(Interviews/Interview - Artist)

...ay that I tend to favor the modernist approach and just say ‘less is more”. In today’s world where construction and steel prices and outrageous, I’d rather make my building hav...

30. Maxwell Render Review
(Reviews/Review - Software)

...it? Maxwell is a third party render engine based on the actual physics of light. It is based on real world physics and is heavily based on the principles of photography in its setup and operation....