Hello fellow creatives! We’re absolutely ecstatic to share with you that GarageFarm.NET has upgraded their render farm by incorporating the beastly NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU! This powerhouse of a graphics card is engineered to excel in a plethora of professional applications, not the least of which is 3D rendering! In…

In a previous article, we had a look at texel density and how taking it into consideration can help us achieve a feeling of consistency and immersion in our 3D scenes. We learned that often, a render can feel strange because the objects have textures with resolution disproportionate to their…

For its recently concluded 3D contest, Modo gave this prompt to 3D designers in Japan: use Modo to create a realistic render of food. Guess who won? An architectural visualizer took the top prize while a designer of pachinko machines took second and a modeler of backgrounds for games were…

If you’ve ever played video games and appreciated the level of consistency in detail (or even noticed a lack thereof) among the 3D elements around your point of view as you traversed the game world, you have experienced the good (or bad) application of a concept known as texel density…

By Alex Jerome A Brief History In the world of film and television, creating a unique and memorable visual identity is crucial. One way to achieve this is through Ident and OBBs which are the opening sequences or promotional trailers that play at the beginning of TV shows, films, or online videos. The…

Dots Core CEO DooHyeok Kim talks to us about his single-person studio and how he grew it with the help of a render farm Being a 3D artist is fun but it is not easy. It is endless hours of toiling with the ins and outs of various software, each with its own arcane menus and settings and parameters. It is grappling with a million steps between modeling to rigging to texturing. Add another…

By Sabrina Facchetti Interior design is one of the most popular and fascinating branches of the design industry, and also one of the most elaborate ones. It requires good communication and coordination among all the parties involved to make things happen. Typically, interior design studios have entire teams working on…

A look at how 3D CG and render farms are used in films and TV shows to create digital versions of characters Question: why would you replace a highly paid actor with a computer-generated double? Answer: because you could. *wink wink* Kidding aside, there are many reasons film producers and…

If you’ve been enjoying Photoshop’s latest neural filters, working on CAD or adding motion capture data to your 3D characters online, you’ve been engaging with cloud-based technology. It’s everywhere these days, and while the turning of the technological tide will eventually bring forth an alternative, cloud computing has been a…