SketchUp Renders with Kerkythea

One feature that is missing in SketchUp, though, is photo-realistic rendering. But don’t let that stop you… You can add high-quality rendering to the free SketchUp software even if you don’t have any of the full-featured commercial rendering programs like 3ds max, VRay, maxwell etc. Although there are some commercial rendering solutions available for SketchUp (namely Twilight, Podium, VRay for SketchUp, LightUp, IDX Renditioner – all of these i…

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Creating, Baking and Correcting Normal Maps

Creating, Baking and Correcting Normal Maps. This 3d normal maps tutorial by Waniek Rafal aka EDI. Word from author “In this tutorial I will try to explain some techniques and show you how to bake and create normal maps, which become very popular in this days, specially in game industry. Software that I will use : – Zbrush 2 – for baking normal maps from high poly models. Currently ver 3.1 of Zbrush is available, but the baking techn…

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Render an Interior Scene with VRay

This tutorial shows you how powerfull is VRay as a render machine to create realistic interior scene. With simple lighting arrangement and simple things to do, you can create a realistic 3d interior scene. You can follow this simple tutorial even if you are the beginner of VRay user. Note: The scene for this tutorial is provided by Wouter Wynen from Aversis (http://www.aversis.be/). For further discussion of this topic, see this topic on the VRa…

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Basic Compositing VRay Render

This simple and easy tutorial explains comping VRay’s renderpasses by Christopher Nichols. The following is a very basic breakdown of how to reassemble a VRay image in a compositing program. This Vray tutorial shows you how lighting can make your 3d interior scene looks nice and somewhat realistic. Word from author “I am showing it to you in a very straightforward node breakdown, but this can be done in AE or any other package. Firs…

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Photoshop Compositing – VRay Render

This tutorial by Ahmed Fathi explain how to composite VRay render layers using blending-modes and masks in Photoshop. Author says “As this is a compositing tutorial, not a lighting/rendering tutorial, I’ll assume that you have at least a basic knowledge of V-ray, and that you are able to render out your own scenes already. We’re going jump straight ahead into setting up the different render elements for the compositing process”. He a…

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