Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

Listen up designers. This amazing piece of software (in development) allows users to place a 3D (CAD) model directly into a photograph, rendering it with realistic lighting and reflections. All this without the need for backplates or even HDR images. We don’t know how long this product will take to hit the market, but we’re sure some big wig software company is kicking it’s self for not getting there first. We can easily see this as a great plugin for Photoshop!

Check out the video to see this thing in action! It’s impressive!

I was recently taking a look through CGISociety and came across some amazing images, and thought I had to share them.
There is a lot of great CGI artists out there nowadays, but its great to see some CGI imagery that really pays homage to the art of photography. Some of these images have amazing depth of field that really draw you in. Awesome! Read the rest of this entry »