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The Architecture Academy Trailer

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Blender Guru presents their latest course, 'The Architecture Academy'.

Andrew Price writes:

For the past year I've been working on a new training course called 'The Architecture Academy', designed to teach blender users how to make stunning architecture.

I wanted to show exactly what the course was about, so I made this little trailer.

If you're keen to join, here's the link.

21 Comments

  7. onnevan on

    Hi Andrew, I´ve just seen the trailer and it's just amazing.
    I guess you can't reveal much information about details, but I'll try anyway:
    Do you use bilateral blur node for noise reduction or is it just brute force sampling? like 10000 samples or so? I guess animating such scenes at 1080 is unrealistic for most of us, you must have a beast of a computer and GPU!!!

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  8. icon121 on

    I think Andrew Price after 9 years is totally The Guru of texturing in blender.

    Who needs the bureaucrat of camera mapping when you have an Andrew Price.

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  9. Ludovic_L on

    The animations and quality of rendering are quite amazing. I do not have the money now but I do hope that the course are gonna be as Nature Academy. A friend is taking his time time and really did amazing things as the courses are still online.
    I'll surely join in as soon as I can.
    One point mention above. When I see the grass made in the animations surely a recent computer with a lot of Rams were used. I have a computer thats getting old. What are the specs required for your machine to follow the course in good conditions?

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      • onnevan on

        Bart, oviously he's impliying that you secretly love Andrew and you have a stong bias favouring him whenever you can, just because the power of love!!! hahahah

        Dumb answer for a dumb comment

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      • DimitrisC on

        I thought that BN only featured training that had some connection (direct or not) to Blender Foundation. I've only seen a couple of non related to BF -paid- training courses featured here and Andrew's is one of them.
        Anyway not the place or time for that; feel free to delete my comments. Sorry.
        @ Onnevan lol

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  11. wyslij on

    Hi,
    I don't want to be unpleasant, but in my humble opinion this academy is to pricey.
    The Nature Academy with in my opinion was looking great (can tell only by watching end results and presentation). But the architecture is really bad. Maybe two scenes are close to semi realistic 1:10, 1:32, 1:43. All others has really bad light cold blu/gray, not good mud, textures are way to bumpy and gray, this is my personal opinion. In my point of view for this huge price I will probably buy vray -stand alone for 350 EUR (around 458 USD) and rest of the money spend for 3 month subscription to site like digitaltutors.com. Than i will download (3ds max / maya / vray) trial and learn really good lighting methods / modeling concepts and techniques. Then all that knowledge I will start to implement in blender with my stand alone copy of vray. So for me sorry but i will pass on this academy too. For me its way over priced.
    Anyway, regards for Andy for whole hard work!

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    • onnevan on

      the architecture is really bad? bad light? about the mud I have to agree, I think it lacks mud, specifically a mud pool and two girls (or boys if you preffer?. Anyway, I think you should visit your eye doctor, clearly something in going on with your vision, but you still have time, ¡hurry up!
      Pricey it is, for me at least, but the qualyty deserves it IMO

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          • onnevan on

            I don't think I was being rude, just funny, I guess I think I'm funnier than I really are. Those renders you show so proudly are not bad, they look semi realistic to me, as you'd call it. I think I know what the problem is. You like busy images, a lot of details. Andrew's images ar more minimalistic, but that don't have nothing to do with realism. I like Andrew's style and rendering much more, and to me it looks better. The lighting in the images you post is quite boring indeed, and very little cinematographic. Andrew's on the contrary look more elegant and sophisticated. Realism? to me Andrew wins on that too. Some of the images you posted looks like out of a game, very well done, but gameish...does that word even exist.

            A matter of points of view, Im affraid.

  12. wyslij on

    I not 100% in to those images I've posted before too, those as i montioned are random pick from max3d, but this kind of pictures are vray- like standard in interior / exterior design. This kind of lighitng soft gama 2.2 (linear workflow, lots of ambient light) are standard for client now. Ppl (customers) love them and even modo(from version 5 or 6) lightwave and other start to mimic them or use vray as 3th praty renderer. So there is really no option, if you want to start in interior/exterior "buisness" you have to learn techniques that customer like!. And what is the point of buying 600USD course if it's as you call it: minimalistic?
    In conclusion the standard in interior /exterior architecture visualization are soft light. The majority mayby 95% ppl after learning architecture visualization will be working for some house developer or interior stylist not in Hollywood.
    Here are some photos (author is one of the best architecture and interior photographer in my country he's name is Jacek Kucharczyk he is "nikon guy" I am more canon ;) but interior photography can show you what I mean, and what almost every client want on the market: soft light, nice bright exposure lots of ambient light. This kind of work is more similar to vray pic with i've posted before than the Architecture Academy.
    http://cdn13.muratordom.smcloud.net/t/photos/thumbnails/48/aa/92/48aa921bc3f8c3d2_320x0_rozmiar-niestandardowy.jpg

    http://cdn28.muratordom.smcloud.net/t/photos/thumbnails/29473/biala_kuchnia_320x0_rozmiar-niestandardowy.jpg

    http://polki.pl/work/privateimages/formats/V5_MT_LIFE/4355.jpg

    http://cdn6.urzadzamy.smcloud.net/t/photos/t/23404/biala_kuchnia_1274367.jpg

    But it is only my humble opinion.
    BTW I really don't like bumpy planks and wood floor in Andrew works. Its too obvious to wood grain"ish".

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  13. lashaungdaukhao on

    I Like Andrew's Works, The Nature Academy , The Architecture Academy and All free stuffs from Blenderguru.com ,

    Thanks , Blender foundation , Blender nation and Andrew(Blender Guru).

    Hey wyslij post your ART WORK , (After Two years later) LOL

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