Kopke
April 27th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Four images produced for two commercial outdoor. Located in Oporto, this private condominium/ building, currently under construction, was developed by Adriano Pimenta and Octávio Queirós.
Sometime ago we created a poll and to our surprise there was a draw of 113 votes for each side (VraySun/Sky vs HDRI). In the end, we had to choose only one and so HDRI was the method selected to illuminated this scene. We hope you like it.
Juizados Especiais
April 5th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
In this picture we tried to capture the massive weight of this “interior” parking lot side with a strong perspective. AboutBlankArchitecture did a great job with the brazilian looking architecture, and this is our favourite shoot of their nice project! It consists of an huge building for Juizados Especiais, in Cuiabá, Brazil. Mood was intended to be hot – tropical, so this time we decided to use a warm Direct Light (instead of hdri) and played a bit with the newest Viz People Skies package.
Lucios
March 17th, 2012 § 4 Comments
Commercial images of Lucios office building located in Maia, Portugal. Architectural project created by João Álvaro Rocha, Arquitectos. Project main reference goes to Dan Graham glass works type of effect, supposed to be visualized in the courtyard glass material. Here the wood pine covering all the façade had to be kind of “dead”, with almost no reflection.
Book of Creation
March 12th, 2012 § 3 Comments
Book publication of our works, this time by French editor Stéphanie Guillaume. It covers around 1000 works of 86 digital artists from around the globe. In our opinion, the best thing about this publication, is it´s great diversity – incredible amount of methods of using Software to achieve Digital Art.
Awards
March 3rd, 2012 § 2 Comments
Just wanted to announce that Biomed image was selected for the prestigious 3D Total Gallery and automatically won the 3D Total Excellence Award (our third award of this type), which makes us very proud. Along with that, the same image has also won the Image of the Week Award in 3D Artist Online and will be published in their magazine on issue nº 40.
You can view the image in the 3D Total Gallery here, and Image of the Week at 3D Artist Online in here.
Vray Dome Light vs Vray Sun & Sky
February 25th, 2012 § 8 Comments
This is a Work in Progress of a commercial job concerning a building in Oporto. Just wanted to share a test of Vray Dome Light vs Vray Sun & Sky. Only curves and color balance adjustments were made in Photoshop. Vray Sun & Sky rendered faster around 25%.
Which one do you prefer? Vray Dome Light or Vray Sun & Sky?
Best regards,
Jacinto Monteiro
Biomed
February 20th, 2012 § 7 Comments
The building represents the Biomed Facility in Coimbra, Portugal. Since this work was developed during December, we tried to go for an exterior winter mood. We decided to only post the two final images we were most happy with. In the end, there were a total of five images with interiors included too.
Small note: it was fun to play a bit with Vray Lens Effects in this work.
Architecture: Atelier 15
February 2012
Social Housing
January 17th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Done last December 2011, this was a fast visualization work of a simple complex, which took us a couple of days to finish. Architecture was created by Joaquim Portela and it refers to the construction of social housing in Cape Verde – África.
January 2012
Ourense
December 13th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Developed by Eduardo Souto Moura (Pritzker 2011), Adriano Pimenta and João Álvaro Rocha, this architectural competition project is located in Ourense and includes a TGV Station, Hotel, Office Building and a Master Plan surrounding all this buildings. Finished last November, this is the digital result of around 15 days of work. Constant modifications – even to the building structure and materials – were carried out till the last hour and we had to follow very strict rules regarding image dimensions. Not the perfect job we would say, but this is what was possible to do taking into consideration that the important thing was to achieve exactly what the client wanted, mostly focused on the building form and materials. Surely in this case, 3DS Max was used more as a tool than to create a finished product, like my friend Fabio D´Agnano would say.
The winner of this competition was Norman Foster.
As always comments & critics are most welcome!
Master IUAV
December 12th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
In the 2nd of December 2011, invited by M.A.D.I (Master Architettura Digitale IUAV) and the Architecture University of Venice, Jacinto Monteiro teached some of his 3D skills to a class of 25 students – most of them already graduated architects. Only Italian was spoken which was made us very proud.
The lesson started off by talking a bit about Jacinto Monteiro´s life before and after the University, explaining how it all started and how the bussiness developed and is currently developing.
Next to that, a tutorial about 3DSMax basic modelling for Archi-VIZ was teached, followed by a session of Q&A about several works and other recent Making Of, such us FAUP Interiors and Exteriors.
Many thanks for Fabio D´Agnano and all the students involved. It was really a very interesting experience.
3D Creative Issue 76
December 3rd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
FAUP Exteriors got a little visibility this month -December- on 3D Creative. It was very nice to see the night shoot of FAUP in the same page of Bertrandb Bernoir´s Ditte Isager great work! You can have a quick look or buy the magazine in here! Also, our same work was awarded with the 3DTotal Excellence Award and now figures in one of the most prestige 3D galleries in the world. You can comment, vote or view the images in here!
Modern Sofa
October 22nd, 2011 § 7 Comments
This week fast sofa work done for Germany. Again the ambient of the living room had to be warm and clean. This time a cityscape window view (Prague) was chosen.
3D Artist Issue 34
October 13th, 2011 § 2 Comments
As promised, Casas do Forte- work is now featured in the newest magazine of 3D Artist. Issue nº 34, October 2011. It makes us truly happy to see our work featured in such highly regarded magazine. Inside, at least 6 pages describe the tutorial itself. Generally, the tutorial is about interior light in a day and night scene, in this case it´s focused on Casas do Forte commercial work, created in 2010. Hope people enjoy it. The magazine is available in here.
FAUP – Bloco H
October 7th, 2011 § 6 Comments
This is a personal work, focused on one of the main classroom buildings of FAUP – arch. Álvaro Siza Vieira. If I remember well, the tower is called Bloco H. In the tower background the body of the library and museum can be spotted. It was on those background buildings where “FAUP – Path to Knowledge” 3D work was actually created.
Several methods, inside 3Ds Max, were used to achieve the high level of dirt detail by using vray dirt and/or composite inside vray blend materials. The full scene with Overcast and Night mood, ready to render, is available in here. In my opinion, this is a good scene to learn dirt methods, grass distribution and mood aspects, or even create commercial spots, flythroughs or use it e.g. as a car environment scene. Trees and small plants are not provided, but the home-made grass is included.
Thanks for viewing.
October 2011
Modern Sofa
October 5th, 2011 § 3 Comments
Fast sofa work done in a couple of days. Client wanted the sofa in a warm, familiar, occupied living room environment. You can buy the sofa, pillows and small chair 3D model in here! Hopefully the first of many. The three types of fabric material are also available too. Black, dark grey and light grey.
3D Artist Issue 33
October 4th, 2011 § 2 Comments
FAUP – Path to Knowledge - work is now featured in the newest magazine of 3D Artist. Issue nº 33, September 2011. In the center of the magazine, a combination of two pages show the main image of this work. Again, this is really a great honour. Many thanks to the 3D Artist team from UK. You can download the magazine from here!
In the next issue, nº 34, Casas do Forte will also be featured. You will have access to a tutorial explaining light as well as other details/ tips.
Valença
September 26th, 2011 § 4 Comments
Finnaly we´re autorized to post this work concerning the Logistic and Innovation Center of Valença do Minho.
As usual software used was 3ds Max, Vray, Photoshop and AfterEffects.
This time we decided to try the new VizPeople HDRI package.
Main modern buildings modelled by Luke Szeflinski.
Architecture made by Atelier 15
3D Vizualization: Metro Cúbico Digital
September 2011.
New Tutorial
August 2nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Recently we had to create a gas fireplace in a living room for a German Company, in around 10 minutes. Time was very short so we had to think of a fast and efficient way to do it without much worries. Here is the tutorial of how we did it: click here!
3D Creative
August 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
FAUP – Path to Knowledge - work is now featured in the newest magazine of 3D Creative. Issue nº 72 of August. You can download it from here! This is really a great honour. Many thanks to all.
Faup – Interiors
June 2nd, 2011 § 10 Comments
FAUP University. Evermotion Competition 2011 Final Entry – 2nd place.
Architecture: Álvaro Siza Vieira
