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Populate plugin in action

By admin On July 1, 2011 · 3 Comments

Following my last post on populate plugin, it has proved to be really useful for me for this particular job. Thanks Marc !

If you’ve not tried it yet, you should ! And according to his facebook page, Marc Lorenz (the creator of the plugin) seems to be working on exciting [...]

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Populate plugin now open to beta

By admin On May 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Small post to let you know that populate plugin beta by Marc Lorenz has been released.

I made a quick test and it looks really promising !! Share your creations in the flickr pool

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Expanded metal with normal maps (VRayNormalMap)

By admin On April 22, 2011 · 2 Comments

Last year, Peter posted an interesting article on how to make nice looking expanded metal with displacement maps (this technique is covered here on my blog or here on BBB3 blog)

That reminded me an old project of doing this material only with opacity & normal map and after some research, it [...]

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DesignConnected Giveaway on Ronenbekerman.com

By admin On April 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I discovered DesignConnected last year and have to admit that I developped an addiction to thier models ! So nicely detailled, materials prepared for Vray, and even a personalized service when you are in a hurry to fill a project with specific furniture.

Ronen is (again!) making a giveaway on behalf of DesignConnected, and [...]

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Best wishes for a happy New Year !

By admin On January 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

 

Remix of this image kindly authorized by Tom Blackwell

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Vincent Callebaut Architecture Recruits

By admin On November 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

See the website for more info on how to apply.

Seems that a good news is in the air ! stay tuned… ;)

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SF street & sister

By admin On May 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

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SF street & sister, première mise en ligne par .pixel ..

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Virtual visit of the Vaillant House

By admin On February 26, 2010 · 4 Comments

Pixelab rencently did for Luon some CG stills and wireframe animations of key rooms of a contemporary house for a Vaillant marketing campaign.

Virtual visit is here (French or Dutch)

Images rendered with V-Ray and in-between animations with V-Ray toon, enjoy !

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Inverted “Looking into the past”

By admin On February 17, 2010 · 1 Comment

I had recently the opportunity to make illustrations for a serie of illustrations for debates about Brussels urbanism for distrurb.be. The idea was to work with old pictures of Brussels, and reuse the “Looking into the past” idea but by inverting it, putting the a recent picture of the real world [...]

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    Graduated Architect living in Brussels, I'm specialized in the field of architectural visualization.
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RSS pixel/ab/log

  • Populate plugin in action July 1, 2011
  • Populate plugin now open to beta May 10, 2011
  • Expanded metal with normal maps (VRayNormalMap) April 22, 2011
  • DesignConnected Giveaway on Ronenbekerman.com April 8, 2011
  • Best wishes for a happy New Year ! January 17, 2011
  • Vincent Callebaut Architecture Recruits November 18, 2010

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