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Want to get your client to a venue but the venue exists only in drawings and plans? Want to share the atmosphere and not only the technical details? Want them to really feel the venue, not just to see it? Here is where 3D animation comes in. We can flash out your drawings and specifications and you invite there your clients even before the object has been built.

This is how we saw the Quasar night club on Celebrity Solstice years ago:

This is how the Quasar night club on Celebrity Solstice looks now (be patient to watch till the end):

She is Real OR Find Five Differences

Though we have never seen Celebrity Solstice in reality, we know it as if we were born there. Each lamp or chandellier, their minutest details, each table or chair, even sockets and hull details are familiar to us. Are we telepathists? Nope :) We are 3D artists, who spent the last two years working hard together with designer teams and Celebrity marketing team to flash out the Solstice ship on the screens of your computers and on the pages of magazines and brochures. We really enjoyed "picturing" our model because she is beautiful. Don't you agree? :)
Just watch, listen, and compare:

Lawn Club

Hot Glass Show and Fountains on the Pool

Pool Deck and Swimming Pool

Pool Bar and Sky Observation Lounge

Solarium

Aqua Class Guestroom and Blu (in the cutaway)

Oceanview Cafe

Main Dining Room

Atrium (view from different decks)

Casino and Quasar

Quasar

Celebrity Central and Solstice Theater

Solstice Theater

And this is not all, folks :)

Story of a Green Fellow from ZBrush

The frog was born in a fierce discussion: what frog is the cutest one. Tree frog won the prize and the work on its creation began.

In order to do anything I had to look through a pile of different materials, the most useful being tutorial dvd’s from Gnomone workshop.
First, I tried to model in Z-Brush with the help of a computer mouse. It was a real pain. I can remember my happiness when I got hold of a Stylus and speeded the work with it. Thanks to its sensitivity to pressure modeling became a real fun.
This inspired me and I continued working with rendering settings, lighting, camera and postproduction.

A few weeks of work and the little green creature is looking at me with its wet frog eyes. And it is not alone - the second prize in ZBrush contest is its company J


Viktor Pavlovich
3D Aritist
www.vayersoft.com

Chobots: New Clothing Concepts

We are working hard to deliver new set of closing available to all chobots and some of them will be available to citizen only.

Our vision is making our virtual world as informative as possible, so we selected traditional dress styles and uniforms for our concepts. Here they are for your review.

The Future of Chobots

Chobots.com is a public beta now and our team is very happy that even minimal buzz generated thousands of subscriptions during the first days.

We will continuously improve our system all the time, but the next big upgrade is planned for January 2009 when our visitors will be able to access our learning module.

Chobots.com has Gone to Public Beta!

Chobots.com has gone to public beta!

The first family virtual world is now alive.

Thank you!

Thank you all for helping us in making our system better.

We could not have done it without you.

Your feedback is always important.

We are looking forward to your feedback, comments and suggestions!

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Architectural 3D Renderings

Photorealistic 3D renderings are perfect marketing materials representing a pre-construcion building. They make your presentations bright; they substantiate your portfolios; they materialize your designs on the pages of magazines; they serve as a welcoming sign on your websites.

Architect, designer or builer - whoever you are - display cozy apartments, deluxe office interiors, luxurious restaurant halls, sleek hotel suits by means of photorealistic 3D visuals. Choose an appropriate view that meets your needs:

perspective to grasp the set-up top-view to get the whole picture

And 360 degree panoramic rendering will help to scrutinize all the venue round.

Exhibit the exterior of a country house, the façade of a new office, front elevation of a condo, or just cast a glance at a ship lying at anchor.

Have aerial view renderings done for you to see a place from a bird’s view.


Take a look at a city after a new construction completion. Observe it as if flying over in a plane to view the site over.


Each rendering not only depicts a yet nonexistent place, it fleshes it out. Experienced 3D artists pay attention to every detail of the image. Each color and its shades are carefully calculated. Polished background contributes to staging true-to-life scenes. Thanks to the elaborate reproduction of lighting one can hardly tell a 3D rendering from an authentic photo. Such minute details as a cup of coffee waiting for you on the table or flock of birds flying over add up to the terrific impression. To crown it all you may choose to showcase the site either by daylight or in the last glow of sunset.

Vayersoft at Kyiv Casual Connect

Vayersoft is going to participate in Kyiv Casual Connect where we will continue explaining unique concept of family play that our virtual world offers.

Taking advantage of casual gaming concept Chobots.com will use it to train kids erudition, team working and social skills. I am happy about the conference is taking a place in the capital of Ukraine.

Send me a note, if you would like to schedule a meeting at the conference. v.y [at] vayersoft.com

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11 venues for 10 days

Curiously enough, the most urgent project turned out to be one of the most beautiful. I mean Oasis Palmilla, visualization and animation of a well-known hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico, which was done for RTKL Associates Inc.

Project in a nutshell:

• 11 different interiors - bedrooms, bathrooms, living-rooms, dining room, spa, verandas, restaurants, reception, and various lounge rooms – complex visualization of a luxurious hotel. On top of that, the renderings were meant for printing and needed to have high resolution.
• Interior animation of one of the luxurious suites.

The project began as usually: one morning a new request from our respected client was received. We were glad to start work on these visuals as they were extraordinary and exciting, interiors were in colonial style with lots of wood, ceramics, luxury fabrics, contrasting colors. At that time it was a godsend since we were tired of common white walls and ceilings.

But our happiness broke up soon, the smiles left our faces and we hanged the heads after we heard about the deadline:"We need all the images ready in the middle of the next week! The presentation is on Wednesday!"

The term was fixed: no postpones, no delays. Just 10 days including week-ends, and a couple of intermediate deliveries for one venue. And there were only 4 artists available.Most possibly the request would have been denied. But not by Vayersoft. We believe anything is feasible as soon as you have an interesting project, if you envisage textures and lightening beforehand, if you can visualize the result. Huge amount of work was done in a burst of inspiration.

It was the project Oasis Palmilla. We came up with nice 3D visuals, vivid impressions, and pride for the work done.

Oleg Ovcharenko,
3D Artist, PM
www.vayersoft.com

Avatar-based Internet

I saw a number of avatar-based startups at Virtual World Expo. There were avatar "factories" for your virtual world, avatar-based browser, avatar designer from your pictures and even some standardization efforts for your avatar, so it can travel between virtual worlds.

I had to disappoint owners of such start-ups with my vision that Internet will not be avatar-based and this is why.

Avatars came from gaming. And this is where they bring the value by taking you outside of reality. And the more photo-realistic a game is, the better it takes you out.

Avatar innovation is leaded by technicians and it is natural that they try to apply the same technology and approaches to serious gaming and Internet. But when you want to have a corporate interactive meeting you do not need to be outside of reality, because you need to resolve real problems. Therefore, you need to make things fast and easy what avatars can't help you with. Entertainment is important part of Internet, but it's not the only. And there are multi-million game projects which always will be ahead of 3D worlds where you can buy and sell goods.

What people actually need at this stage is more interactive environment that classic social networks cannot deliver. And visual level must be added only to increase interactivity and usability.

I do not say that there is no spot for avatars in-between games and social networks, it is like electro cars before hydrogen technology is there.

3D Renderings and Animation of Marriott Marco Island Renovations

A world of paradise opens at Marriott's exclusive Marco Island hotel and resort. This world-class Florida Gulf Coast resort situated on three miles of pristine beach front property is now fresh from an extraordinary $187 million makeover.

Vayersoft is proud to have touched it up by making 3D visuals of the renovated Quinn's Pool, 400 Pazzi's, Cafe' San Marco, Guestroom Suite, Fitness Room, and a couple of stores at their design stage. Actually, we are always happy to cooperate with the designers from RTKL Associates and to flesh out their ideas in 3d. Now, that the renovations are complete, you can have a look at the photos that followed in tracks of our 3D renderings.

Guestroom balconies were refreshed with new store fronts, tinted glass windows, framework, railings and tile flooring. The interior of the accommodations received a facelift as well, boasting new high-definition plasma televisions and incorporating the new Marriott Bedding Package: a washable duvet with 300-thread count, triple-sheeted linens, topped with a decorative bed scarf. Vayersoft 3D renderings were meant to depict these changes mostly. Now, we can compare the real photos with the initial idea.

The South Tower was outfitted with 400 Pazzi’s, an indoor/outdoor brick-oven pizzeria featuring café-style seating overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Now, that we have the 'real place', the 3d rendering also looks 'true'.

Quinn’s Pool was transformed into a free-form fantasy pool boasting two Jacuzzis and was relocated closer to the beach to offer guests a superior view of the Gulf of Mexico. Six private cabanas now circle the edge offering guests additional privacy while fully-equipped with plasma televisions and butler service. And this major change was showed in Vayersoft's 3D animation.

*The information and photos of Marco Island Marriott are taken fromhttp://www.marcoislandmarriott.com/

MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. (NYSE:MAR) is a leading lodging company with nearly 2,800 lodging properties in the United States and 67 other countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, Horizons, The Ritz-Carlton Club and Grand Residences by Marriott brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through itsMarriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has approximately 143,000 employees at 2005 year-end. It is ranked by Fortune magazine as the lodging industry’s most admired company and one of the best places to work for. In fiscal year 2005, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $11.6 billion. For more information or reservations, please visit our web site at www.marriott.com.

Ukrainian Blog about 3D

Vayersoft started ukrainian/russian speaking blog about 3D. The best 3D artists that Vayersoft collaborates with will be opening their secrets to the public. Our goal is forming a friendly community of professionals in 3D and related areas and also knowledge sharing that will speed up the progress.

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