1. 3DA Charette#16 - House N
(News/News)

...rterly rendering challenge. The architectural rendering charrettes have become very popular in the architectural visualization community. Challenge This time we bring you something different, someth...

2. 3DA Turning 10
(News/News)

...icial business the month before. Back then CG Architect was one of the only sites focusing on architectural visualization and the other sites I visited tended to be very poor places to show off a...

3. 3DATS Book Ispirato
(News/News)

3DATS - About to release book Ispirato that showcases artist work. Full of colored architectural visualization imagery that is sure to inspire. 3DATS announces the production of a unique new b

4. Evermotion ID Competition
(News/News)

Evermotion - Our friends over at Evermotion have launched a new Interior Design Competition with lots of prizes. We encourage you to check it out. Here are the current prizes:    

5. "Bunkspeed® Powers its next Generation of Software with mental images' iray® technology"
(News Feeds/Offsite News)

+ Bunkspeed, Inc, a leading global provider of rendering and visualization software for design, engineering, and... Read Full Article

6. 3DATS
(News/News)

1 week Only -$40 Off Upcoming Architectural Visualization Book 3DATS announces an update to their upcoming book, 3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization - Advanced to Expert, including 200 more

7. CGA 3D Awards
(News/News)

...Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2008/2009. ...

8. Challenge 12 Winners
(Contest/Charrette Winners)

Modern House Interior Rendering: This challenge comprised of two stages of the same project, 'House Kern' by swiss Stoosarchitekten. The first phase was an exterior rendering challenge and the second

9. Challenge 11 Winners
(Contest/Charrette Winners)

Modern House Exterior Rendering: This challenge comprised of two stages of the same project, 'House Kern' by swiss Stoosarchitekten. The first phase was an exterior rendering challenge (Challenge 11)

10. Onyx Grass and Onyx2Max
(Reviews/Review - Software)

A newbies thoughts on the new products offered by Onyx Computing. Onyx Computing has just released a couple of new plug ins. Hundreds of ground cover, grass, and ornimentals with a few clicks of

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

...s is happy to Spotlight Paco Morales. Paco is a versatile artist who excels on subject matter from architectural visualization to product illustration. Name: Paco Morales Nick on the web: Paco Mor...

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

...help me develop and evolve further and further. As for the future I plan to improve my 3D architectural visualization skills, illustration skills and enter more thoroughly into character anim...

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

  Seattle, WA - Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington, TX  based 3DAllusions LLC formed a dedicated visualization studio in an effort to effect change on how things are done in the industry and t

14. Challenge 10 Winners
(Contest/Charrette Winners)

3DAllusions announces the winner of the "Livingroom II Rendering Challenge", the tenth challenge at 3DA! It was a tough one once again, but we have made our selection and the w

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

3DAllusions is delighted to Spotlight our good friend and moderator at VizDepot, Aaron Coon. Aaron qualified as a finalist/participant in last years AVC and just got selected for Expose.  

16. Artist Spotlight - Russell Thomas
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...tly respect. I have varied interest and have been using CAD from day one. I started doing architectural visualization via computer renderings for the most part and some forms of traditional i...

17. Artist Spotlight - Paulo Barrelas
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...to me the opportunity to fulfill that dream. During the course, I had my first direct contact with architectural visualization, which opened my boundaries to 3D in general. I always felt attracted to ...

18. Artist Spotlight - Neha Kakkar
(Artist Spotlight/3D Designer)

...s can change entirely the look and style of design. By the time I completed architecture, I was so interested in visualization that I decided to pursue my career in it. Since then, I've been in Pune w...

19. The123D - Digital Content Provider
(Reviews/Review - Resources)

...out LWO format as a way to bring in existing content into Modo by Luxology. A lot of people in the architectural visualization sector are buzzing about the program and three of us at 3DAllusions Studi...

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

...e and content created outside of tS integration and the Vray render engine and how that relates to architectural visualization, but I did check out the program outside of those parameters, but didn&rs...

21. Ideas in Digital Entourage
(Articles/Articles - Software)

...line and applying materials more suited to traditional physical models in order to express digital architectural visualization in an ‘Old School’ style. ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IDEAS:...

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

... goes into the design phase without stealing budget from the other phases of the process. To the architectural visualization artist this may seem like it is taking work away from them and that this ...

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

...riences in the past with some favorable if not cautious observations as to MR’s place in the architectural visualization industry. Hi all! Though I am aware that you can find some good new ...

24. Faking Mist/Fog in PhotoShop
(Tutorial/Tutorial - 2D Software)

This is a simple tutorial for creating mist effect on a rendered image using Photoshop. It is based on the method Aaron Coon showed in his Architectural Wonder II contest entry. Step One: Let's

25. AW2 Contest Winners
(Contest/Contest Winners)

...p; Judge One: Jeff Mottle is the President and Founder of CGarchitect.com, the leading online architectural visualization magazine. He has worked for the past 11 years in the field of architectur...

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

      The architectural visualization market now has available Maxwell Render 1.1 by Next Limit Technologies, a powerful tool that allows visualisers and architects to predict h

27. Theoretical Discussion
(Articles/Articles - Theory)

...ectural theory in the forums and participate in any on going discussions. We tend to focus more on architectural visualization and in an effort to try and entice theoretical dialogue, I am posting a b...

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

...ve the honor of interviewing Jeff Mottle, President and Founder of CGarchitect, the leading online architectural visualization magazine. In addition, Jeff is business development manager for V...

29. SketchUp Review
(Reviews/Review - Software)

This is just a quick review of SketchUp by @Last Software, now owned by Google based on my limited use of the program. In addition a brief mention of a third party tutorial reference manual ‘Th

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

...ion. The final image should be a wonder to behold, while being in character with the practice of architectural visualization and represent up to date construction techniques and materials. The sce...