March 2010 Archives

This is a continuation to my last post - "Architecture Board Exam Reviewers Download."

To all those who are planning to take the next scheduled Philippine Architecture Board Exam or the Licensure Examination for Architects (LEA) given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture (PRBoA), here are more review materials I've managed to gather from my friends.

I haven't checked them all so pardon me if there are some duplication of files.

The files are so big so I've cut them into four parts.

Here they are, more reviewers and more headaches:

Architecture Board Exam Reviewers part02a
Architecture Board Exam Reviewers part02b
Architecture Board Exam Reviewers part02c
Architecture Board Exam Reviewers part02d

Download the part 1 of the Reviewers here if you have not downloaded them yet.

Study well and Good Luck!!!

Update (31 August 2010) - Visit ArkiQuest!  It is an Architectural Review Site offering questions and review materials to aid you in your studies.  Check it out now!

Are you looking for photoshop brushes for your Digital Graphics Work?  Or are you a 3d Artist looking for textures for your 3d work?  Well here's a very good website where you can download a lot of free textures for any of your CG works.

Transparent House, a 3D Design and Visualization Company, has created a stunning video showcasing the designs in computer technology of the Apple company throughout the years.

Here's another amazing work by Pantural, a CG Artist from Azerbaijan.



Yep, it's Pantural walking a Tyrannosaurus Rex Dinosaur in the City.

After Alex Roman's "The Third and Seventh", I must say that this CG work done by Pantural is now among my list of Jaw-dropping 3D Computer Graphics Works and Animations of all time.

Architectural Visualization 3ds Max Tutorials #22: The Making of DBT Cafe

Artist: Juan Sequier

Posted in: Skymedias

About the image

Habitually, I go for long walks across my city with a digital camera and look for some corner that interests me, where I then create it in 3D. I found this house in a village of Zaragoza in Spain which they call Daroca, it is the type of building that I like because it includes curved walls and irregular angles with a lot of personality. It consisted of all the ingredients that interest me, like; wooden blinds, forge balconies, awnings, drain pipes, chimneys and antennas. It is these objects that make a house work and I think that they should be visible, just like lines in a drawing or the focus in a theatre scenario. I decided to use the house of Daroca to give homage to my friends of the DBT family with an imaginary coffee.

Architectural Visualization 3ds Max Tutorials #21: The Making of the Phoenix Building

Artist: Juan Sequier

Posted in: Skymedias



In this tutorial I will go through my usual workflow with simple steps (trying to make it as simple as possible), to build a scene from preparation phase of the project (Pre-Pro) to the final render. As usual, I'm using 3D Studio Max for the modeling, mapping and lighting, and Photoshop/Bodypaint for texturing-based off the great 3D Total collection of textures.

A good habit from the start is to create a special folder for the project, another subfolder for the textures and another for the references. Another advice (I always do it) is to print one of the references so you can look at it, whenever you go to bed or a bathroom break - in this print I usually write some notes and ideas to help me reach the final image.

My friends and I were planning to make a fly through animation of a city using 3ds Max but we wanted to finish one as soon as possible.  The problem was, we lack enough 3d building structures to populate the city we are visualizing to create, so a Google search for free downloads of 3ds Max building models was in progress.  Luckily, we somehow formulated a good keyword search that lead us to this really amazing 3ds Max tool.  This is the Building Generator created by Tyson Ibele, a 3d animator from Wellington, New Zealand.  It is a 3ds Max tool which creates procedural buildings from a list of user-defined settings.  The best part about it is that it is totally free to download and use.

(Image by DaKaktus)

From Wikipedia - "A greeble or nurnie is a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects."

This is actually an old plugin for 3ds Max, created by Tom Hudson for creating complex surfaces, that you can download for free.  For those of you who are using 3ds Max and have not yet heard of Greeble, take a look at some of these Greeble art I found on deviantart.  Most of them were done in 3ds Max using the Greeble plugin.

Worldbex 2010 (Philippine World Building and Construction Exposition 2010) starts today, from March 17 to March 21, 2010 in the World Trade Center, Metro Manila, Philippines.  Entrance is free of charge!