The proposed Kingdom Tower will be the world’s tallest building. Visual House, a UK-based archviz studio, produced this teaser animation for what will be a 1km high building, for Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture.
As Visualhouse has told 3Dworld, they’ve used 3DMax and V-ray, as well as After Effects to composite the separate rendered elements. [...]
Vyonyx gives a video breakdown of the above image – using only Photoshop. Click through here to watch it!
Top 10 Lies Told to Naive Artists & Designers
by Mark W. Lewis
1 “Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.”
No reputable business person would first give away their work and time or merchandise on the hope of making it up later. Can you imagine what a plumber would [...]
This animation, on Vyonyx’s site, was produced for a proposal for the London River Park.
Yes! 21 of them! Say thanks to CGdigest that took the time to put these together. Some you may have seen and some not, but take the time to go through them. Especially if you’re needing some inspiration today.
Link through here.
About two months back we posted up DBOX’s trailer for Rebuilding Ground Zero (did anyone catch that on TV? I saw a piece.)
CGArchitect’s Jeff, posted up his Q&A with Keith Bomely from DBOX. There are lots of questions
Read it here.
Glass Canvas is a studio based in London, who have been around since 2001. Watch their showreel below.
Glass Canvas Showreel from Glass Canvas on Vimeo.
Researcher, Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois have created a new software system that allows you to realistically add objects to photographs. Watch their video below.
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.
Can you tell it’s about lunch for me?
Since watching Alex Roman’s animation a while back, I’ve had an eye out on food in renders. Below are some still renders I’ve come across with food items as a focus.
2 things caught my eye today, so here they are…
1) The week before last I posted The Art of VFX’s Q&A with Ed Bruce who worked on Game of Thrones. They now have another post up relating to the beautiful title sequence. Read their interview with Kirk Shintani from a52/elastic. The opening took 4 months to [...]
PIRANHA was commissioned by Silverstein Properties to create a short film depicting the completion of The New World Trade Center site. Piranha wrote, produced, art directed, filmed, and finished all VFX.
A few stills above from their site, but watch the video. Visit this link for more info.
Whether you’re talking about the enthralling book series or series masterpiece – I lurve Game of Thrones! Even the title sequence is a masterpiece. Focusing on the effects of the actual footage though, The Art of VFX has a Q&A posted on their site with Ed Bruce (read it here), VFX supervisor at Screen Scene.
Video posted via Ed [...]
Here is CGtut’s roundup of 50 amazing architectural renders – LINK. Would you believe that I’d already started compiling this as today’s post, when I saw image 6?
Burn’s very own interior (Yay for us!). I’m proud that we’re amongst such amazing renders.
Graphic artist in Italy? Heading there? You might want to head to the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy from 25 – 28 October 2011.
Covering topics that include animation, gaming and VFX it might just be worthwhile. As all of these events have, there will be workshops and talks by big names in the general industry.
Opening [...]
Mark Lee from Uniform gives 11 archvis tips to 3dworld.
“Architectural visualisation is a fast-growing industry.
Just by looking at sites such as cgarchitect.com, it’s clear there are many companies and individuals offering their services.
As with all industries, there are some excellent companies out there, producing outstanding visualisations; but there’s an even greater amount of mediocre work doing the [...]
Now, I’ve seen a orangutan and gorilla up close (safely from behind glass though) and I can say that the CG in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes was amazing. Have a look at the featurette below.
Read Robert Herrick’s (founder and MD of Visualhouse) article on how to communicate your design differently. Robert has worked for Eric Kuhne & Associates and Hayes Davidson (one of my favourites so thumbs up from me).
“They all look the same to me….?
The design visualisation industry has changed quite dramatically over the past 8 years; studios have come [...]
The video was shot with a Panasonic GH2 and the post work was all done with Final Cut Pro.