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Wishing you a three-dimensional holiday season

Posted on December 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment
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Season’s Greetings, Everyone…

CastleView 3D wishes you a very 3D holiday season:
  • Delightful
  • Delicious
  • Deeply meaningful

It's Snowing! Holiday Greetings gif image from CastleView 3D

(Click here to make it snow!  But it’s a big image–give it time to load completely)*
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As the year comes to an end, I get reflective about everything that has happened over the year.  This has definitely been an eventful year for me personally as well as for CastleView 3D — and the success of this blog is one of the highlights.  I’d like to offer my sincere thanks to you for reading Life Should Be 3D this year, and wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!

Let me know if there are any 3D-related topics you’d like to see covered here. I’m always looking for information on new software, tips on modeling or rendering techniques, and inspirational rendered images. And while you’re at it, how about making a New Year’s resolution to write  a guest post for this blog?  Just contact me with your ideas — I’m always on the lookout for interesting new ideas, projects, products, and points of view to share.

I hope your holidays are rich in everything that’s most meaningful to you.  See you in 2012!

Kathleen

*The snowfall is created using a fun little freeware app called Sqirlz Water Reflections.  Sqirlz is a quick way to add basic rain, snow, reflection, and/or ripple animations to any still image, and can save the results in AVI, GIF, or Flash format.  You can see another example I created using Sqirlz here.

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Another inspiration (#5) – an architectural video animation

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | 5 Comments
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Here’s a wonderful architectural video animation recently shared on the 3rd Dimension blog:

$17.9 million is what you can expect to pay for this 30,000 sq ft luxurious private residence in Florida. 3rd Dimension was commissioned to create a number of aerial photomontages and eye level 3D visuals along with an exterior 3D movie of the proposed development. It was an amazing project to work on — credit to the project architects Yates Rainho in Florida for such a fantastic design. The 3D imagery and animation were used for both planning and marketing purposes…. One neat little trick we used for the 3D movie was the animation of the ocean in the aerial photomontages. Panning the still images and having movement within them such as the ocean and cars makes it difficult to tell that they are CGI.

The design is gorgeous, and I have to agree that animation of the surf and pool waterfall adds realism and an even greater degree of visual interest to the images of this breath-taking mansion.  I would have liked to have seen interiors — but perhaps that’s another project entirely (one for CastleView 3D, perhaps!).

I really do get inspired by looking at the beautiful work that others have done, such as this great architectural video animation, and I hope you do, too.  If you see work worth sharing on Life Should Be 3D, be sure to bring it to my attention.

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Another inspiration (#3)

Posted on July 24, 2011 by | 12 Comments
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Every once in awhile, I see an example of 3D modeling or rendering that really inspires me.  I ran across one today on the “Architectural Illustration” group on LinkedIn that I wanted to share.  Showcasing 3D architectural work by computer graphics artist Fabien Valour of Switzerland, this short demo reel features lots of cool effects like flowing water, blazing fires in fireplaces, flickering candle flames, a bubbling hot tub — and a unique approach to showing how the final products take shape.

Enjoy!

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An inspiration (#1)

Posted on March 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment
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Every once in awhile, I see an example of 3D modeling that really inspires me.  Some of them (like the one below that I saw today) are also animated, which makes the 3D effect even more compelling.

This short video by PGK Studios, a company based in Spain, looks like it was designed to sell blinds and shades.  But I’m more impressed by the beautiful home rendering.

They have more yummy stuff on their website.  Enjoy!


August 2010 from PGK Studios on Vimeo.

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