Elvin Aliyev made an awesome and greatly detailed making-of Church of the Light, an incredibly good reproduction of the “Church of the Light” made by Tadao Ando in 1987, in Osaka.

He used SketchUp, 3DsMax and VRay, Photoshop and a few After FX plugins.

You can check this making of on the Ronen Bekerman website.

Photoshop CS 6 Beta is out today, and available to download on the phoshop website : Photoshop CS6 Download.

Here is a video of Adobe’s Senior Creative Director Russell Brown, who shows six of his favourites CS6 features :

For those of you interested in VFX and animation,  SideFX has launched a 12-week series of online webinar classes to help beginners explore and learn Houdini. The classes will begin on March 27th, and will be held every Tuesday.

Did I forgot to tell you ? All this training is FREE, and an Houdini Apprentice Edition is provided to help you follow the classes.

To get more information and register a seat, visit  the Side FX website.

Here is the structure of the webinars :

• 27 Mar – Intro Workshop
• 03 Apr – UI & Modeling Tools
• 10 Apr – Procedural Modeling & Digital Asset Creation
• 17 Apr – Traditional Animation Tools
• 24 Apr – Procedural Animation and Expressions
• 01 May – Understanding Attributes and Variables
• 08 May – Lights, Camera, Render!
• 15 May – UVs and Materials
• 22 May – Creating a custom shader
• 29 May – Particles
• 05 Jun – Dynamics
• 12 Jun – Compositing

Like promised, here is the first tutorial of this site. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to make any suggestion.

In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create your own unique concrete material from a tillable concrete texture found on cgtextures.com. We’ll add some random dirt and holes with realistic erosion around them, keepind in mind that we want to avoid any pattern or repetitions that are the common problem of tillable textures. By doing so, you’ll end up with an unique texture that you can use on big walls, floors, ceiling etc. Your 3D renders will look more realistic and less “CG-like” : it’s perfect for your ArchViz productions !

Enough blabla, here is the video (sorry, no audio commentary this time, it’s subtitled. But I added music for you \o/) :

I hope this tutorial will be the first of a long serie ! More coming soon…

Hello and Welcome to Hexrender.com ! This article will inaugurate my Portfolio/Weblog.

So, what will you find here ?

In the Portfolio section you can see all my works, be it Computer Graphics images (3D and 2D), photography, web designs, or applications that I developped. As for this blog, I’ll post any thing that I find might be usefull or pleasant for you : CG tips, tutorials, interesting videos, softwares news, etc. as well as my W.I.P. and useless bits of my life !