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About me & this blog

Graduated Architect living in Brussels, I'm specialized in the field of architectural visualization.
This blog covers mainly non-professional CG work, architectural rendering, WIPs, photography, CG materials & methods, tutorials, render theories etc.
To see my professional work please visit pixelab, and don't forget to buy me a coffee if you find something useful here ! ;)

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Virtual visit of the Vaillant House

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 !

Inverted “Looking into the past”

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 into the old one instead of the old into the reality. With a bit a photoshop of course.

Here’s the result, hope you like the idea.

More info on the debate in french/dutch, and the flyer with text.

Two hospital CG animations

Last year I was invovled in the creation of two videos for two architectural competition for Quick-it. Both were hospitals, both in France.

First time for me to work with 3D animated people, those were AXYZ design people with manually tweaked bip files. We also tried the wind option technique with Onyx trees and custom leaves. Those were pre-rendered footage that were placed into animation with AE. Thanks to Peter Guthrie for his hints while looking for the best method to use, and espacially for providing this tutorial just at the right moment!  This can be improved but turned out good already!

Production time was approximately 1 week for the first video and 3 for the second.

Toulouse Hospital Presentation Movie ©Quick-it 2009

Toulouse Hospital Presentation Movie © 2009 from quickit on Vimeo.

Argenteuil Hospital Presentation Movie ©Quick-it 2009

Argenteuil Hospital Presentation Movie © 2009 from quickit on Vimeo.

Hope you like it !

I wish you a bright 2010

I hope the year was good for you and I wish you a 2010 full of joy.

I’ll try to update my blog a bit more this year, let’s say that it is one of my new year’s resolutions :)

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Frosted Mirror

update / 04-nov-2009 added material details

After making a quick test for a frosted mirror material (sort of frosted glass in front of a mirror) I couldn’t resist making a nice studio render with heavy post production :)

Frosted Mirror

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