Useful  resources

This page is a collection of resources that I collected over the years. Here you will find the technical tools and the inspiration sites that I use in working in Architectural Visualization.

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SOFTWARE

     Blender - The free and open source 3D creation suite

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  Gimp - Cross-platform image editor

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     Krita - Professional FREE and open source painting program

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        Darktable - photography workflow application

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         RawTherapee - photography workflow application

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        Draftsight - Cad software

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       InstantMeshes - Retopology software

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       Awesomebump - generation of normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image

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       NormalmapGenerator - generation of normal, height, specular textures from a single image

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COMMUNITY

Blenderartists.org
Blendernation
Blender.stackexchange
Evermotion
CGArena
CGarchitect
RonenBekerman
CGSsociety
3Dtotal

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RESOURCES

Poliigon
Blenderguru
Creativeshrimp
Cyclesmaterialvault
Chocofur
Hdrihaven
VizPeople
HDRI-HUB
Archive3D
CGtextures
CGRecord
3DSKY
3dwarehouse
Sketchuptextureclub

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INSPIRATION

Alex Roman
Peter Guthrie
Bertrand Benoit
Marek Denko
Alfa Smyrna