David Barbarash

Best case situation, buy a blade server and kick your rendering jobs out to it. However, I would have to say that some of the best environs that come out of 3ds start as basic spatial models and are brought to life in post production. Animations are important to get right solely in the program and demand real power. You better have 2 computers or…[Read more]

I know of network rending, and have a vauge idea of how to do it, but I have yet to actually try it out. I’m currently running a laptop with 2G ram, 256Meg GeForce6800 Go Graphics Card, and a 2.17 Pentium Centrino. It isn’t fast, but it gets the job done. The dream rig I was planning before my Fiance’ got laid off was a Intel I7 processor, 32 Gig…[Read more]

I thought this might be helpful for people learning. It is 26 lessons on how to do arch/la visualisation. It looks really good, and goes through the whole process.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/VI/default.asp

and more serious competition 🙂 then the last one, but it might be short notice.
DEADLINE 16.09.2009, for LA up to 36yrs( or 39- they have two figures in different location) old 🙂
In recognition of Otto Linne’s 140th birthday, Hamburg would like to encourage interested participants to investigate the water-bearing hillside located between the E…[Read more]

POP.Park
that people can use to reclaim public space each and everyday of the year. POP.Parks will be public spaces produced from readily available, reclaimed or post-consumer recycled materials that will emerge from a regular, cardboard box.
POP.Parks should be no larger than 8’x15′ – the size of a regular car parking spot. The cost of building a…[Read more]

Abbey Green design competition

http://www.landscapejournal.org/index.php/news_articles/view/design_competition_for_abbey_green_barking/

A competition to redesign Abbey Green in Barking, East London, has been launched by Design for London,At stage one, shortlisted entrants will be given £5,000 to develop their designs and produce a model. The…[Read more]

REBURBIA A SUBURBAN DESIGN COMPETITON

which asks you how you would redesign the suburbs for a more sustainable future. For example, how can we transform vacant big box stories, foreclosed McMansions, and empty cul-de-sacs into vibrant, living, breathing, walkable communities? What are the energy and transportation infrastructures that we will…[Read more]

advice on learning to use 3dmax? i am so impressed with the images and would love to play, but am unsure how or where to begin. any advice would be greatly appreciated!

hai

oh man, images of the “week” im looking forward to it…

Tomorrow I will be posting images of the week. so everybody get ready to critique.

Thanks Lee, lets see how many we can get everybody.

Here’s some trees I got a couple years back. They’re even labeled which is nice but due to size constraints I can’t send each individual tree already cut out. Just layer use selective color tool in PS and they come up pretty nice

trees_lee.zip.

Can we get people to upload as many tree cutouts as possible?

I got a bunch of stuff for max. Onyx TreeStorm which is pretty good though memory intensive depending on the amount of polygons.

Has anybody seen Vray RT the new realtime renderer? Looks really good….

Shelter Competition:
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for any location in the world using…[Read more]

Lenne Prize:
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/wettbewerbe/lenne/en/ausschreibung.shtml

Ideas for Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China
Application deadline: 01.06.2010
Competition details: The British online garden and landscape guide Gardenvisit.com has launched an ideas competition for Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. This is the first of several competitions being held to identify a range of possible design solutions for…[Read more]

Land F/X is a great tool if you are going to do a concept to working drawings set and are looking for real world ability to create and modify a great set of plans, it is functional within Autocad and now BricsCad ( a cheeper version of ACAD, which looks very powerful for the price), and LandF/X functions with SketchUp (which is not a TOY as stated…[Read more]