Many of you took the time to answer the satisfaction survey sent out to customers who had sent at least 1 project in the past 12 months. We thank you for your feedback and your trust. And here are the main results : Our areas of work : Upload /…
One of the time-consuming tasks in the search for photorealism is the reproduction of shaders identical to the real samples. We face 2 problems: capturing the texture of a material (wood, leather...) and reproduce its aspect (brightness, roughness, transparency...). Most of the problems related to materials texture acquisition are solved…
Peter McDonald is a 3D / CAD animation designer for Rhondium, a company based in New Zealand which makes dental equipment. The company uses the latest high-tech methods such as 3D CAD design software, full five-axis, high-precision CNC milling machines and 3D printing to bring high quality products to…
Olivier REGNEAULT has been a freelance graphic designer for the past 10 years and is specialized in the production of realistic and photo-realistic 3D images. Among others, he works with C4D / Zbrush and Maxwell for advertisers like Nike, Chanel, Nina Ricci, Nexity, Renault or Histoire d'Or for example. Modeling…
Review of Corona, a few weeks after the release of version 1.6. Speed, still and always… Corona is already famous for being one of the fastest CPU renderer. Yet developers anounce perfomances improved up to 200% for scenes which use a HDRI direct lighting. This, added to "glare effects" treatment…
There are numerous researches conducted about images creation throughout the world. Fields are very wide, from automatic learning of walking creatures to knitted mesh simulation or cities automatic generation. We would like to present 2 out of these numerous publications to you. StyLit is a software that comes from a…
Jeff Mottle is the owner and founder of CGarchitect, the online magazine for the architectural visualization industry. After graduating in Architectural technology, he started his career in the mid-90’s as a visualization artist and held various positions before founding CGarchitect and a school dedicated to teaching production level architectural…
Substance Designer 6: What's new? Substance Designer from Allegorithmic is a PBR (Physically Based Rendering) material creation software. It is widely used in the creation of video games but thanks to its latest development, it also becomes popular in the film, architecture and design industries. 3D artists like Substance Designer…
Com par l'image has 28 years' experience in graphic creation, multimedia design and images rhetoric. The main fields of its expertise are science, architecture and medical sector. Your job must have changed a lot over 3 decades. What are the major changes that you obeserved? At the beginning,…
If you don't know this new render engine yet, it's time to try it now! It's a completely GPU-based renderer meaning you need a decent graphical card to render with it (see more for the system requirements). If you are a 3D artist or a PC gamer, there is a…