Wales Online features images that we created for the Austin-Smith: Lord designed St Teilo's Church in Wales High School at the site of Llanedeyrn High School in the east of Cardiff.

You can see the article here.

Planning permission has now been sought and we look forward to seeing the scheme progress!

 Nokia have released new photorealistic 3D mapping for several major international cities combined with panoramic street photography similar to Googles Streetview. The beta edition plugin must be downloaded and run through your browser but the results are fantastic, the best mass 3D mapping we've seen yet. It will be interesting to see if they have the resources to roll it out to the level Google have gone to.

Maps can be seen here.

There are 8 backgrounds and 9 trees for you to use. Just click the link to download or look at the pdf for more info.

The C4d file is set up in V12, but you can use the textures in any 3d app.

DOWNLOAD.    68mbs in total

PDF.

 A nice 5 page spread with a selection of work in this months 3DArtist mag..

3dartistonline.com

Waterstone Homes have launched their new development in Cardiff, 'Ffynnon Ganna', a development of 18 contemporary homes in the sought after Pontcanna area of the city.

As part of the launch Buzzbox produced a series of images for the brochure design by Wyndcliff, as well as an animation sequence.

More details about the development and Waterstone Homes can be found here.

 Well done to the team at Capita Symonds, who have been granted planning permission on an innovative new Primary School in Blackburn.

As a part of that submission we produced a series of day and night views of the exterior as well as two internal spaces.

To see more about the development as well as our images click here.

 Our new mugs arrived in the office today bearing the Render King logo, it's our Render Farm provider, which you can find here.

If you're making drinks Lee goes for Tetley, milk and a level teaspoon of sugar. Will has Nescafe Gold Blend, milk and 1.5 sugars. Thanks...

 We've spent the morning filming some test sequences at the Cardiff Bay Barrage skate park with the intention of incorporating some motion graphics and 3D elements into some film footage. Images feature Huw 'Cadillac' Caddy on his board of fury.

Twas a glorious September morning in the Bay, nice light rounded off by a Bacon Sandwich. Hopefully we'll get some results up soon on the website.

 In collaboration with Michael Holt Communication + Design we produced the CGI elements for an advert for Büroextrem Austria. It was a construction style animation with the building and contents flying in and popping out of the ground, something we have looked at before but it was an excellent opportunity to use this style in a live project.

We are not entirely sure what they're saying as, to be honest, our office German / Austrian knowledge has slipped a bit over the years but we think it looks good, and that's what counts surely?...!

You can view the animation below:

Klimax Haus from Lee David on Vimeo.

The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) revealed the 2010 shortlist for their top award in Wales this month.

A link to a Wales Online article on the nominations can be found here.

It was great to see so many local projects nominated, particularly Hyde + Hyde Architects for Pennard House and Idle Rocks and Loyn & Co for the Margam Discovery Centre, good luck to all those involved!