Thursday, May 12, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
Artlantis is hitting the road in May!
May 9, 2011
MEDIA ALERT
Artlantis Roadshow
WHO: Artlantis, the fastest stand-alone 3D rendering application developed especially for architects and designers.
WHAT: Artlantis Roadshow
“Get your kicks rendering with Artlantis”
WHEN: May 23-June 7
May 23 -- Boston, MA
May 25-26 – San Francisco, CA
May 30-31 – Vancouver, BC
June 2 – Washington, DC
June 3-4 – Alexandria, VA
June 6 – Philadelphia, PA
June 7 – Baltimore, MD
FOCUS: Artlantis is hitting the road to show you how you can use this fabulous software to create jaw-dropping photo-realistic renderings and animations. The Artlantis Roadshow will be making stops at cities across the U.S. and Canada starting May 23, with demonstration sessions for those who do not yet own the software, and training sessions in select locations for those who already do.
For more information, please visit www.artlantis.us
About Artlantis
Artlantis is the fastest, stand-alone rendering application developed especially for architects and designers, ideal for quickly and easily creating high-resolution 3D renderings, QuickTime VR Panoramas, QuickTime VR Objects and animations. Artlantis interfaces directly with ArchiCAD, Bonzai3D, Revit, SketchUp Pro, Vectorworks, and Arc+. With the addition of the DWF, OBJ and FBX import formats and updated DXF, DWG and 3DS plug-ins, Artlantis seamlessly interacts with all the leading CAD software as well, including Revit Architecture, 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, CINEMA 4D, LightWave, and modo. A recognized leader in preview window technology, Artlantis is the rendering software used by architects, designers and urban design professionals in more than 80 countries.
Artlantis is developed and published by Abvent, which has pioneered digital imagery in the fields of architecture and design since 1985. Abvent's cutting edge approach to digital imagery has resulted in products and services that are innovative, powerful, and easy-to-use.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
New aquatic center -- rendered in Artlantis
NEW AQUATIC CENTER WILL SERVE AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR FUTURE, WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES
Paris, May 3, 2011 – The design for a new, competition aquatic center is the cornerstone of a larger athletic and field improvement project at Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, California. It sits near a main entrance to the campus where several world-class athletes have launched their athletic careers. The building will start construction in the summer of 2011.
© Evan Troxel
Conceptually, the design of the center is based upon the movement of competitive swimmers and their proving grounds – the lanes of the pool. High, floating roofs cover the main program of the complex. Each roof form was generated by deriving a simplified diagram from the front and side views of the butterfly stroke, which led to the main butterfly roof over the entry and undulating canopy over the bleachers.
© Evan Troxel
Designed by Evan Troxel using a combination of tools including SketchUp and Bonzai3D for the building, and Revit for the site landscaping and hardscaping, the model was rendered in Artlantis. “I use a variety of tools depending on what I need at the time, and all of these modeling applications work with Artlantis,” Troxel said. “I love how I only have to learn one rendering program that all of my other tools can talk to,” he continued.
© Evan Troxel
The aquatic center includes a 50m pool, locker rooms, shower and dressing room area with a concession stand and ticket booth building, and a mechanical pump building for a state-of-the-art microturbine water heating system. There are also outdoor showers, an expansive pool deck for tournament booths and spectators, storage, and a swimming coaches office. All of this is surrounded by a custom-formed, poured-in-place concrete panel wall enclosure primarily for security, and will also be utilized for graphics and signage. Given that the aquatic center will become the new ‘front door’ to the campus, it will certainly make a strong first impression and a statement to the surrounding community.
About Evan Troxel
Evan Troxel is an educator and architectural designer specializing in public works projects that include K-12 schools, community college and university projects, as well as civic and other institutional projects in development at HMC Architects in Southern California. He has taught the 3D design component for first and second year architecture undergraduates and first year graduate students at Cal Poly Pomona’s school of architecture for the last ten years. He has also taught architectural building information modeling (BIM) in Mt. San Antonio College’s architecture department, the community college program that feeds into Cal Poly’s architecture program.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
50% off ALL Artlantis Media NOW through May 15!
Turning a standard 3D model into a photo-realistic rendering often depends on the quality and realistic features of the shaders and objects used to dress it up. Artlantis Media are themed collections of materials and objects available on CD-ROMs, designed to round-out Artlantis’s innovative product line and bring project renderings to life! Now through May 15, 2011, Artlantis is offering a unique opportunity to purchase Artlantis Media at 50% off the price, when choosing delivery by digital download instead of traditional shipping methods. The Artlantis Media collection, optimized for Artlantis, offers a wide range of library elements, including:
- Shaders
- 3D Vegetation
- 3D Objects
- 2D Billboards
- 3D Vehicles
- 3D Animated People
Users should contact their local reseller to order the contents of one or more Artlantis Media CDs. Once the order has been placed, the contents of the CDs can be downloaded through a link appearing in their member area at www.artlantis.com.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sustainability Now: FREE online conference and exhibition
Sustainability Now is a free-to-attend online conference and exhibition that you can attend from the comfort of your home or work computer. It will bring you up to date with everything green across the property, construction and architecture sectors.Just like a live event, a virtual event has a full conference program, exhibitors and plenty of opportunities to network and exchange ideas. The best part: this can all be accessed from the comfort of your desk. You simply register for the event and log on from your computer when the event goes live. No travel, no fuss. Just a great opportunity to learn, network and debate.
Sign up today for the May 18-19 virtual conference and exhibition!
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
Tutorial: Interior Cove Lighting in Artlantis
Our good friend Evan Troxel over at getmethod.com recently shared a fantastic new tutorial with us. In his latest Artlantis tutorial, he shows us how to work around the lack of a tube-type light in Artlantis by making a tube out of geometry and applying the Neon Light Shader to emit light from the object. Although he uses a SketchUp model, the set up would be the same for any modeling software you are using. You'll also learn how to make stained glass look like it's being backlit with the ambient slider in the material inspector to get the center ceiling effect seen on this image. Thanks, Evan, and keep these coming!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Hero Contest
Our good friend Andy Vondrasek in Vienna recently pointed out this comic book hero contest. We thought you might enjoy Andy's submission: "Soldiers, spaceships, robots and comic heroes. All of them were in our rooms when we were kids. Who didn't pretend to fly through space or fight in wartime adventures...I remember that I couldn't wait to get my hands on the latest issue of my most loved comics...Rendered in Artlantis using victoria 4.2, nytropods spaceship, some stuff from daz studio and sharecg...no postwork at all here..."
(Click on the picture to enlarge.)
50% off ALL Artlantis Media NOW through May 15!
If you've been thinking about expanding your library of Artlantis Media, now is the perfect time to do so. Abvent is offering a unique opportunity to purchase Artlantis Media for 50% off the regular price when choosing delivery by digital download instead of traditional shipping methods.
Contact your local reseller to order the contents of one or as many Artlantis Media CDs as you'd like. Once the order has been placed, you can download the contents from your member area on artlantis.com. It's that simple.
Check out the wide range of Artlantis Media currently available by clicking here.
Hurry! This offer ends May 15, 2011!
Contact your local reseller to order the contents of one or as many Artlantis Media CDs as you'd like. Once the order has been placed, you can download the contents from your member area on artlantis.com. It's that simple.
Check out the wide range of Artlantis Media currently available by clicking here.
Hurry! This offer ends May 15, 2011!
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