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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.
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Archive for September, 2007

Tutorial / Creating V-Ray displacement maps from hi poly tiling geometry

UPDATE : Zip file with illustrations & max 7.0 files can be downloaded here.

This tutorial is about making a displacement map out of complex geometry that can be then applied to any object, no matter his curvature (with the VRayDisplacementMod for example) to recover the hi poly look of the original tiling. Read more »

Posted: September 26th, 2007 under 3dsmax, tutorial, vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 10

Madou Tower at Dusk – 2

Here is a small album of the tower below, in higher resolution.
Notice how the color switch very quickly from orange/blue to violet in minutes… like belgian politics ? ;)

©2007 image pixelab.be

PS : Thanks to “Eyes Wide Shoot” Thomas for the useful php script !

Posted: September 25th, 2007 under photo.
Comments: 2

Madou Tower at Dusk

No CG this time / Even if the atmosphere and colors on CG representations of towers are often exaggerated imo, this picture of the Madou Tower (located in Brussels) I took this week may contradict me. Useful as color scheme reference for future works, with this nice Blue/Orange opposition…

Posted: September 20th, 2007 under photo.
Comments: 2