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Entourage Arts
Entourage Arts logoEntourage Arts is dedicated to providing architects and architectural illustrators with quality non-photorealistic entourage elements for use in conceptual or formal renderings.

Its alpha masked cutouts are rendered by artists from around the world, including Shanghai-based illustrator Wang Wang (whose work is frequently showcased on the Piranesi discussion forum), and include people, trees and plants, skies and more. All the cutouts are hand painted before being digitised so that they are ideal for use in non-photorealistic renderings.

Mastering Piranesi 5
cover of Mastering Piranesi 5Bonnie Roskes of F1 Books has written the latest in her series of Piranesi training books: Mastering Piranesi 5, a tutorial guide to all of Piranesi’s tools, features, and effects.

Mastering Piranesi 5 provides clearly detailed and illustrated exercises on all tools and features of Piranesi, including painting methods, blending, render actions, style libraries, textures, fades, and lighting. The book also features a chapter on Principles of Composition contributed by Susan Sorger of Entourage Arts, and another chapter contributed by two professional renderers (Wang Wang and Marco Crawford), describing their favourite Piranesi techniques.

The PDF download and the printed edition of Mastering Piranesi 5 are now available from our online shop. Discounts are available when purchased with Piranesi 5.

Form Fonts
Form Fonts logoForm Fonts is a web-based subscription service that provides professional low-poly 3D models, textures, scripts, and plug-ins for a low monthly fee. Subscribers have access to an expanding multi-platform database of artifacts and may download sizeable numbers of models and textures each day.

ImageCELs® & Realworld Imagery®
ImageCELs & Realworld Imagery produce professional quality, photorealistic clip art of people, trees, shrubs and a product line of 2500 royalty free tileable texture maps and photo-realistic clip art libraries, suitable for architectural renderings and landscape architecture design visualization.

Rich Photorealistic Content
rpc RPC (rich photorealistic content) cutouts, from ArchVision Inc., store multiple images of a 3D object; Piranesi automatically chooses the correct image for the desired viewing angle.

Marlin Studios
Marlin Studios supplies panoramic land and sky textures, stonework textures, animated fire squences, funiture and animated people.

Archifx 3D Studios
3D Studios is founded with the mission to provide high quality textures for architectural computer visualization. Their products focus on the basic texture elements that they believe are essential for the architectural visualization artist to effectively illustrate the exterior of an architectural structure.

We are keen to provide links to third party resources that are useful to Piranesi users. If you know of a resource that you would like to propose for inclusion in this section please send details (including the web site address) to piranesi@informatix.co.uk.