Completely forgot about this until I got sent a copy of the magazine, but 3DArtist Magazine has one of my skies on the cover disc courtesy of 3DOcean.net.
It doesn’t mention my name anywhere but it is indeed one of mine so maybe a good chance to try a HDRi sky out if you haven’t done so already.
The sky on the disc is ‘1928 Dusk Sun’
*when you buy the magazine for 6 quid
Before I start making new skies, I decided to go back and work a bit more on all the old ones. If you bought any of them, you can now log in to 3docean.net and download the updated versions.
Changes include:
Enjoy!
EDIT: labelled version as requested.
EDIT 2: Any new skies won’t be happening anytime soon I’m afraid, I’ll probably wait till I have 9 ready so that I can offer them as a pack for a reduced price straight away.
EDIT 3: Lots of people asking how to get the updated skies. Just log into 3docean as normal, click on the downloads tab and you will see all the products you have bought from 3docean, then just download the ones you want. All my skies on 3docean have been updated so you will get the new version when you download.
Saiful Said sent me a nice selection of images, one of which features “1934 Dusk Sun Clouds”. Love the warmth of the direct sun contrasted with the cool skylight.
You can read more about it and see the rest of the images on Ronen’s blog.
I loved these images by James Pickford even before I learned he had used my skies to light them. The dusk ones are absolutely spot on in terms of lighting and colour balance.
James works for the excellent Uniform in Liverpool and did these as a personal project. They are based on the Lake Lugano House by JM Architecture in Italy. You could easily sneak the dusk images in amongst the photographs on the architect’s website and no-one would notice.
He used 1957 for the dusk images and 1008 for the overcast one.
Really interesting to see some non arch viz work being made with the help of my HDR skies! These beautiful renders were sent to me by Andreas Fougner who works in the video game industry and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
The sky he used was 1342 Cloudy and you can find the complete set of images on his blog: bullfinch visuals.
Some very exciting news for fans of high quality HDR skies! As well as having 9 new products out and a corresponding super-saver-multi-buy-pack, 3DOcean have a great deal on this month where you get 50% marketplace credit back on all purchases!
I have now uploaded 36 of 54 skies, and due to popular demand have started offering packs of 9 (for a reduced price).
You can keep track of which skies are available here, and feel free to request which ones I upload next.
HDRi Pack 001 - $150 on 3DOcean
HDRi Pack 002 - $150 on 3DOcean
HDRi Pack 003 - $150 on 3DOcean
HDRi Pack 004 - $150 on 3DOcean
Better colour accuracy. All my HDRi skies were shot with a Canon 1dsmk3 so I like to keep as much as possible of that information preserved in the HDRi file. Radiance (.hdr) is limited to sRGB colour data, whereas OpenEXR (.exr) is not.
This is reflected in the file sizes:
For this skydome for example
the exr file size is 160mb, the hdr version is 50mb
That said, I have decided to start including a .hdr version in the products I am selling on 3docean. I’m still updating all the files, but check back soon and if you have bought one of them you can re-download a new version for free.
Why hdr? Unfortunately some applications don’t support exr, so until they do you can use hdr (albeit in the knowledge that your colours might not be quite as lovely*)
* not scientifically tested!
A beautiful example of 3 of my HDRi skies at work:
The HDRi skies he used were:
Check out Daniel’s architectural visualisation portfolio and blog.
This is my complete collection of 54 HDRi skies, the ones already available to buy on 3DOcean are marked with a red logo (you can click through to 3DOcean.net). Feel free to let me know in the comments which ones you think would be useful to you. If you hover over the thumbs you should get the name of the HDRi, and if you click you’ll get a 1000px preview.
