Matte painting? What’s Matte painting? Matte Painting it’ s a very useful and powerful technic to create imaginary landscapes. As you can read on Wikipedia: Mattes Painting: it’s used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground […]

This post has been updated > Ocean waves V2 * OceanWaves is a very, very interesting plugin to simulate…. Ocean Waves, obvious! It’s created by Charles Hollemeersch and it’s incredible how it get a ocean model so similar from the real ocean waves! This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates […]

< A great explanation of V-ray settings, parameter by parameter, to understand it in deep. > There’s no just english sites to find a great educational material, but you can find in many parts of the world people producing excellent tutorials. This time we’re going to Spain! Few years ago, Pedro Saiz Bilbao realized a […]

A reader ask to me why the RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) doesn’t project shadows using V-ray. Yes, it’s right. There’s some problem using both RPC and V-ray. When I had the same problem I must retouched the render with Adobe Photoshop. That was the only solution I found. But not any RPC Archvision library has […]

<< This is Sparta! >> This is the famous sentence from the movie “300”. As you can notice there’s a very massive use of visual effects (vfx) in the movie… surely, the most famous of this effects is Time Remapping. This technic is often used in fighting scenes and it consists in going slowly and […]