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Pre-Production:

Shoegnome:Jared Banks website is a great

place to learn about uses of BIM software.
Featuring a variety of YouTube tutorials and
articles, Shoegnome can educate novices and
seasoned veterans alike through Banks blend of
reader-friendly content and technical subject
matter.
ThinkParametric:Many of our readers called for
us to include ThinkParametric in the list despite
the fact that it requires a subscription fee. This
website organizes instructional videos into
courses on a range of topics, including
Grasshopper, Rhino, and Revit. It also includes
project-based courses in which students learn to
use software by recreating built projects.
ThinkParametric has a fourteen day trial period
to experience its teaching methods and topics.
The Revit Kid:Offering a combination of video
and text based instruction, Jeffrey Pinhieros
blog addresses topics primarily in BIM systems
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and Revit. The Revit Kid.Coms library of sources

is extensive, with numerous pages of relevant
content, and also includes supplemental
material such as a newsletter, and (paid) ebooks
and videos.
The Grasshopper Website:The official website
for Grasshopper includes several video tutorials
for beginning users, as well as links to outside
sources which cover additional related topics.
Within the website is also a link to a free
download of the 157 page Grasshopper Primer,
which covers topics relevant to all levels of
users.
Digital Toolbox:Focusing on Rhino and
Grasshopper, Digital Toolbox, developed by
Scott Leinweber and Tam Tran, has hours of
tutorials on topics ranging from the most basic
uses to more involved processes. Digital Toolbox
has a somewhat small collection of videos, but
the content is nonetheless valuable.
Autodesk's Youtube Channel:It almost goes
without saying that Autodeskoffers a wide
range of resources for their own software. Their
Youtube channel contains a number of
instructional videos alongside showcases
ofnew features and promotional videos -the
listcan be overwhelming at first, sounless
there's something specific you're searching for
keep an eye out for anything labeled "Getting
Started."
Bond-Bryan BIM Blog:Bond Bryan's Rob
Jackson has been publishing on the company's
"BIM Blog" since 2013, focusing on BIM-related
news, case studies and guidance for
usingArchiCad, the BIM tool used by his
company.
Nick Senske on Youtube:Created for the course
he runs at UNC Charlotte,Senske's video
tutorials largely focus on modeling in Rhino
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Plethora Project:Jose Sanchez's series of

tutorials focus on a number of tools thatare
perhaps less "standard" in architecture,
includingthe Unity3d game engine, Autodesk's
Maya software for animations, and C#, Python
and Javascript. However, the site also includes
the more usualRhinoandGrasshoppertutorials,
meaning there is something for almost everyone
here.
NYCCTfab on Vimeo:New York City College of
Technology'sDepartment of Architectural
Technology Fabrication Lab has created an
astonishing number of videos on modeling
software,
includingRevit,RhinoandGrasshopper- they
even have a series of videos on GIS.

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Image Production:

Evermotion: Evermotion has a huge range of

tutorials, including guides for exotic
visualization programs such as Unreal Engine 4
and Cinema 4D,in addition to more common
programs like V-Ray and 3ds Max. It also
includes an image gallery, which is an excellent
way to discover new techniques.
SketchUp Artists: Although it only focuses on
rendering within SketchUp, this website has an
impressive volume of tutorials and instructions
for ways to use several different rendering
engines, as well.
Maxwell on Youtube: Maxwell Renders YouTube
channel has hours of instruction about various
features in their programs. The large number of
videos Maxwell has produced can make it a
challenge to find meaningful content, but
viewers can navigate to helpful guides by using
the playlists tab.
Arch Viz Camp:Arch Viz Camp has a small but
useful set of video tutorials dealing primarily
with 3ds Max and Vray; the website'seasy to
understand instruction makes it accessible to
novices and experienced users alike.
SimplyRhinoWebinars:Althoughnot the most
comprehensiveof tutorial platforms, this
Youtube channel has a series of videosabout
V-Ray forRhinototaling over five hours.
Visual Dynamics Website:This V-Ray reseller is
gradually addingsets of tutorials for the
software in3ds Max,Rhinoand Sketchup,
among others. So far, only the3ds Maxtutorials
are particularly developed, but watch this space
for more.
Official V-Ray Website:In a similar vein, the
official V-Ray website has a range of tutorials,
mostly focusing on3ds Maxand Maya.
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Post Production Image Manipulation:

Pixelflakes: Thisvisualization studio has

produced renderings for some of the largest and
most influential architecture firms in the world.
Their Vimeo channel breaks down some of their
images into thorough lessons in the firms
workflow.
CG Architect: Under CG Architects features tab
is their tutorials section, which shows the
visualization artists production process from a
digital model to a completed image. Most of the
projects on this website are architectural, but
others show the design and visualization
process for different fields, which could provide
insight into different methods of working.
Photoshop.Architect's YouTube Channel: In
spite of having a rather small collection of
videos, this source includes tutorials for slightly
unconventional rendering practices. In
Photoshop.Architect's videos, viewers can find
examples of rendered plans, sections, and night
scenes.
Adam Kormendi on YouTube: Adam Kormendis
YouTube channel features tutorials in
Photoshop which cover advanced techniques for
adding realistic details and atmospheric
elements to images. Kormendi also includes a
few videos on 3ds Max and V-Ray and several
breakdowns of completed images which
supplement the finished work in his tutorials.
VyonyxTutorials:London-based visualization
studio Vyonyx offers a small set of tutorials,
largely focusing on how to achieve certain
effects inPhotoshop. They also include a small
number of tutorials focusing on modeling
software such asRhinoand 3ds Max.
ARQUI9 Visualisation on Youtube:Another
visualization studio who are sharing their
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knowledge online, ARQUi9 have only five videos

to date, but their tutorials are clearly presented
and cover useful techniques onPhotoshopfrom
adding people to images to creating convincing
reflections in water.

General:

learnarchviz.com: With tutorials on Photoshop,

V-Ray, and 3ds Max, learnarchviz.com offers a
fairly large collection of free videos in addition
to paid courses that go into greater detail on
visualization topics. Users can access the paid
courses for relatively low price by signing up
with learnarchviz.com on the homepage.
Lynda.com:You may have heard of this site,
which offers over 3,500 courses and hundreds of
thousands of individual video tutorials in
everything from photography and business to
architectural software. Whatmany students
don't know is that their university may be able
to provide them with a free subscription.
Visualizing Architecture:Alex Hogrefe has
created a comprehensive list of tutorials for
creating compelling images, split conveniently
into four sub-categories. Most of the tutorials
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focus on techniques that can be simply achieved

using justSketchUpand Photoshop.
Ronen Bekerman:Ronen Bekerman's blog is,
above all, a fantastic place to see case studies.
Bekerman regularly features contributors who
showcase their own work, explaining how they
created a single render from the modeling stage
topost-production.

We hopeto keep building on this list, so please

postmore tutorials in the comments section
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Thomas L Denney 5 days ago

Uh...don't forget Grant Warwick
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Jan Vlach 10 months ago

Anyone interested in getting started
with "Exotic" Cinema 4D+Vray combo
should also look for tutorials by
ShepperdOneill on youtube.
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Kurt Westerlund 10 months ago

It's not architecture specific, but no
photoshop tutorial list is complete
without Donny's classic "You Suck at
Photoshop" series.
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abinash sethi a year ago

u have left the digital tutorial...
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moses a year ago

am in love with the arc.
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Vrender.com a year ago

Thanks for an interesting tutorials links!
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baju-baju a year ago

How did Cinema 4D make it into the
"exotic" category?
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