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Populate plugin in action

admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:20:29 +0000

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 [...]

Populate plugin now open to beta

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:21:26 +0000

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

Virtual visit of the Vaillant House

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:46:41 +0000

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 !

Frosted Mirror

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:21:10 +0000

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 :)

Material of frosted mirror consist of a pure mirror behind (inside on [...]

Masks : Essential tools for your CG workflow 1/2

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:38 +0000

update 1-oct-2009/ thanks to Peter, I’ve learned that Multimatte workd by default with object IDs. The topic has then be corrected/completed

update 27-oct-2009/ added some info on the “Affect channel : All channels” option of a material

When it come to archviz rendering, one of [...]

Displacement and Gamma issues with V-Ray

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:10:40 +0000

This might intrest thos who work in Linear color mapping with a gamma curve (like the so called Linear Workflow LWF with 2.2 gamma correction). I recently bumped into an annoying side effect of putting an input gamma for bitmap files other than 1.0 in Max : Diplacement maps gets corrected aswell…

But [...]

Nir Sullam’s “Creating Hedges Using PARRAY”

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:16:39 +0000

Update 08-2009 : Sorry but this one seems to be offline now :(

Nice tutorial from Nir Sullam about making hedges with particle leaves…

Fog Bias parameter test in Vray Material

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:34:18 +0000

I did notice this new parameter since the 1.5 Service Pack 1, and decided to make some test. Actually, this parameter does exactly what I need… but it’s quite hard to explain and an image will be clearer than thousands of word :

Let’s say that it quickens the darkening of the [...]

Vincent Callebaut Lilypads

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:58:17 +0000

New set of images added on pixelab main website. This project has ready been covered in a national newspaper and on multiple blogs but credits for the images are often missing. I’ll do a more complete article with some wires of this project but … I’ll have to find time for this ;)

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