Fourth Artlantis Render Contest winners announced

Sonia Alonzo is the winner of the Fourth Artlantis Render Contest, sponsored by ArtlantisMembers.com and Design8 bv. The theme of the contest was 'Interior & Light' and the contestants really let their imaginations soar. With the help of Artlantis Render, the entries were really outstanding.

Sonia wins a free upgrade to Artlantis Studio 4; a 3D Plants Media CD; and a one day shopping spree in the ArtlantisMembers.com furniture section.

Anita Spencer and Patrick Bernhard won 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Click here to see their award-winning submissions, as well as the gallery of all the entries!

New Years High-Resolution Sale at Objects Online

Do you use billboards in your Artlantis renderings? If you don't, or are unfamiliar with what a billboard is, read on to learn how billboards might benefit you.

Billboards are flat 2D objects, usually positioned in an upright or "standing" orientation, onto which photos or textures are mapped. An alpha channel is often used to remove an unwanted background from the billboard's photo.

Billboards offer the benefit of allowing you to place photo-realistic objects (in this case, people) into a scene without the downside of adding hundreds or thousands of polygons to the rendering calculations, since a billboard is composed of only one rectangular polygon. The result? Fast renderings without any sacrifice in image quality.

If you've resolved to create better renderings in 2012, you'll want these high-resolution billboards. From now until February 14, 2012, Artlantis Shopping & Travel Billboards volumes 1 & 2 are on sale at 10% off. We're also discounting the 2-pack bundle. Take advantage of this offer to expand your media collection today!

Preview Shopping & Travel Billboard Volume 1

Preview Shopping & Travel Billboard Volume 2

New Years High-Resolution Sale Pricing & Ordering

iVisit 3D for the iPhone/iPad

Learn how to add an Artlantis 4 panorama to your iPhone or iPad using the iVisit 3D app available from iTunes. Click here for the tutorial!

The Artlantis 4.0.15 update is now available!

Abvent has launched Artlantis 4.0.15, a new update version that includes the following fixes:

• Problem while replacing an object;
• Problem with the Fresnel option in the Shader Editor;
• On Macintosh: correction of the QTSocketServer and the .tmp file problems;
• Correction of the iVisit 3D Builder application;
• Japanese character problems.
  

The complete list of fixes can be found in the ReadMe document zipped with the update.

The Artlantis 4.0.15 update version is available for downloading at www.artlantis.com. Artlantis 4 users are entitled to download it free of charge. An automatic message will announce the availability of this new update to users.

The Artlantis demo version was also updated; users can download this latest 4.0.15 version right away.

SketchUp 8 plug-in to Artlantis 4

The export plug-in for SketchUp 8 to Artlantis 4 is now available for downloading. Click here!

Revit 2012 plug-in for Artlantis 4

The export plug-in for Revit 2012 to Artlantis 4 is now available. Click here to download!

[News] Object Observer - Artlantis 4 and media sale

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Attention all Vectorworks 2012 users!

Good news for Artlantis 4 / Vectorworks users!

The export plug-in for Vectorworks 2012 to Artlantis Render and Studio version 4 is now available for downloading ! Click here! (Scroll to Vectorworks in the Modeler drop-down menu.)

ArtlantisMembers.com design contest

'Interior Lighting' is the theme of the fourth ArtlantisMembers.com design contest. Participants are encouraged to enter with their previously unpublished work to win one of the following prizes:

1st Prize:

• FREE upgrade to Artlantis 4 (sponsored by Abvent)
• 3D Plants & Trees from VB visual (sponsored by Design8)
• Free shopping in the furniture section for 1 day (ArtlantisMembers.com)

2nd Prize:

• FREE upgrade to Artlantis 4 (sponsored by Abvent)
• 3D Asian Trees by VB visual (sponsored by Design8)
• Free shopping in the urban section for 1 day (ArtlantisMembers.com)

3rd Prize:

• FREE upgrade to Artlantis 4 (sponsored by Abvent)
• Cars 2004 by Dosch design (sponsored by Design8)
• Free shopping in the food section for 1 day (ArtlantisMembers.com)

The deadline for submitting your work is November 30, 2011. Click here for details!

[News] Object Observer - Artlantis v4 is released, along with new media volumes!

Click here for the latest issue of Object Observer!