10 ONLINE DESIGN COMMUNITIES TO HELP YOUR ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION

To become a resourceful person in architectural visualization, it is very important to undergo series of training that will enable you to garner effective skills. In doing so, you might need to teach yourself or have a tutor who will guide you through the stages of becoming a great visualization artist.

While engaging in this training or while practicing as an amateur or

professional visualizer, it is also important to keep up with the new trends and information about the industry in other to be relevant. In doing so, joining some online design oriented communities or forums will be of immense benefits.

In lieu of this, we have outlined these 10 great online design communities and forum to help you

(1)    AUTODESK COMMUNITY

This is a great online community for architects, interior designers, 3D artist, modelers and all design oriented person. Their communities offer rich and relevant content to help you master the visualization craft.

Here are the links to their online forums and communities

AUTODESK AREA

area.autodesk.com

AUTODESK COMMUNITY

forums.autodesk.com

(2)    ADOBE COMMUNITY

forums.adobe.com is a cross platform forum for all adobe software. It offers quick tips, discussion and troubleshooting help for software like Photoshop, Adobe illustrator premiere pro e.t.c. It support all Visualization artist at any entry level be it beginner, amateur or professional.

(3)    CGARCHITECT

www.cgarchitect.com is one of the most popular online magazine and professional user community for visualization artist. Membership on CG Architect is free and all entry level is supported. The website offers range of information and resources helping design oriented people with their works and giving them opportunities to show case their works to the whole world. If you are new to Visualization, you can get everything you need to get you started in the industry and also, you can develop your skills as an amateur by browsing through many free tutorials and tips.

(4)    CGSOCIETY

www.cgsociety.org is the official website of the computer graphics society. CGsociety is an accessible global organization for creative digital artist helping artists to connect with others, be informed about the trends in the industry, and be promoted. At CGsociety, you can be sure that everything you need to know about visualization is at your finger tips.

(5)    BEHANCE

www.behance.net is the online community where you can discover latest work from top creative professional in visualization industry around the world. In behance, all creative fields are supported therefore, as someone who is intending to go into architectural visualization, all you need to do is to find categories relevant to architecture and from their learn, connect and garner more skills.

At behance, when you browse through their content, you can easily be inspired and also gather information you might need to complete your own WIP (work in progress.)

(6)    ARCHICAD COMMUNITY

For people who use archicad software for modeling archicad-talk.graphisoft.com is a resourful forum to help you with your work. In this forum, you can get tips you need to easily get work done or expert advice from other professional users. The forum also supports all entry level so if you are just starting, you can still find content relevant to get you along with the software.

www.graphisoft.com/open_bim is their open BIM community accessible to all users to connect and share BIM objects and relevant information about the software

(7)    GOOGLE SKETCH-UP COMMUNITY

www.sketchucation.com is one of the most popular sketch up community for all sketch-up software users. Information about the software, tutorials, plug ins and free resources are

available on their website. It also features sketchucation shop where sketchup artist can sell and share models, textures, tutorials and the rest.

(8)    CINEMA4D COMMUNITIES

www.c4dcafe.com, www.renderosity.com, www.c4dnetwork.com, www.c4d.deviantart.com e.t.c are all lovely online communities for cinema 4D users.

(9)    EVERMOTION COMMUNTIY

www.evermotion.org/vbulletin is a 3D community of CG artists and visualizers that helps beginners, amateur and professionals in most visualization software.

You might want to check some of our 3D renderings here Renderings from VeraCITY architects studio

These are just some of the most popular communities for architectural visualization, there are more. So, let us add more under the comment section.

Thanks.