Render Rally...A Celebration of Speed, Power, and Beauty

As warmer weather reaches the Northern Latitudes, few words can truly describe the exhilarating feeling of riding in a classic car with the top down, the radio on, and the open road ahead. Nothing comes between you, your vehicle, and the surrounding panorama. In a singular moment, all that speed, power, and beauty are yours. This is what it feels like to use Artlantis.

Artlantis is a fine-tuned balance of speed, power, and beauty. As soon as you drop the first shader, 3D object, or light source into the scene and see the instant preview results, you know you are behind the controls of something incredibly responsive, fun, and easy to use. This carries through to the final renderings, which are delivered with amazing speed and superb quality.

Now through June 30, take Artlantis Render for a free 30-day test drive. If you love the way it handles, pick up your first seat of Artlantis Render at 20% off and additional seats at 15% off. And because no journey is complete without a good set of wheels, we're also offering select volumes of 3D Cars at 10% off. Get to the Render Rally before it ends!

 Render Rally Pricing and Ordering

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

 Download the Export Plug-ins

The "Ground Floor" Opportunity

As the new year is ushered in, discussions inevitably shift toward new beginnings. Have you ever been offered the chance at a new beginning with a "ground floor" opportunity? Maybe someone approached you to become a part of something that holds the possibility for great things to come, opportunities for advancement, and huge potential rewards? Often, those dreamy promises are dangling at the end of a stick that is tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach. We're offering a "ground floor" opportunity of a different sort...one with immediate benefits and no strings attached. We're talking, of course, about the "Ground Floor" Opportunity Sale featuring two essential shaders volumes from the Artlantis Media Collection: Dosch Design's Ground Pro and Floor Pro.

The Ground Pro volume features 126 detailed shaders, 30 billboards and 35 textures of ground styles and materials, such as street surfaces, grass, dirt, and industrial surfaces, which can be applied to surfaces in your Artlantis scene with a flick of the wrist...just drag-and-drop. These high resolution textures will greatly enhance your architectural and landscape renderings. Floor Pro contains 80 detailed floor shaders for professional visualization of large floor areas including wood, parquet, laminate, marble and granite floors, natural stone, cobblestone, weathered and aged floor materials, and brick (can also be used on vertical surfaces, such as large brick wall areas).

Start the new year off right by adding one or both of these workhorse shader volumes to your Artlantis media collection. This may not be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will make you fabulously wealthy, but it is definitely one sale that you won't want to miss!

 Promo Pricing and Ordering

 Preview the Ground Pro Volume

 Preview the Floor Pro Volume

Sock Away the Savings

The holidays are always full of surprises. Sometimes, it's a sparkling gemstone or shiny new gadget. Other times, it's another darned pair of neutral-colored socks from Aunt Millie. We can't control what other people give us during the holidays, but this year, we can control what we get from our rendering software.

If you're tired of getting the same old stuff from your rendering software every year, why not get more with Artlantis 4? Now through December 31, 2012, we're giving you the opportunity to sock away the savings with 20% off Artlantis Render & Studio first-seat licenses and 10% off selected Artlantis Media volumes.

Whether you like Artlantis for its world-famous speed and ease of use, or you delight in the world-class quality of the optional Maxwell Render engine, there's no question that with Artlantis, your workflow and renderings will benefit year after year. Download the free Artlantis demo today and see what a difference 30-days can make.

We hope you have an enjoyable and safe holiday season this year!
 "Sock away the Savings" Promo Pricing

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

Pair of Aces

When the chips are down, nothing comes in handier than a pair of aces. For architectural visualization, Artlantis Render and Studio are your aces in the hole, an unbeatable combo that can pull you out of the toughest situations and put you in the winner's circle. Abvent is featuring this powerful pair in a special promotion, perfectly suited for offices that need create a mix of still and animated renderings.

From now until October 31, save 25% when you purchase the Pair of Aces promo, featuring one first-seat licenses of Artlantis Render and one first-seat license of Artlantis Studio. Both can be used to render still images, while Artlantis Studio provides additional animation and VR movie-making capabilities. Hurry! This deal won't be on the table long...pick up this Pair of Aces and get in the game!

 Pair of Aces Pricing and Ordering

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

 Download the Export Plug-ins

Get Back to the Books with Artlantis

As summer begins to fade into a collage of sun-soaked memories, we look to that time of year when students once again return to the classroom. Even for those of us whose formal academic careers have ended, this time of year is still a reminder of the importance of learning. In that spirit, we're making it easier to "Get Back to the Books" with our current promotion.

Now through September 30, all of our Artlantis training resources will be 10% off. To ensure that you can put theory into practice, we've also placed Artlantis Studio on sale. If you've been wanting to delve deeper into the advanced features of Artlantis, this is a great way to accelerate that process. We can't offer you a degree suitable for framing, but there's a good chance you can expect to receive accolades and praise from your clients and associates when they see your Artlantis renderings.

Save up to $75 on Artlantis training products if you purchase them at the same time as your Artlantis Studio purchase. Use coupon code Back2Books2012 at checkout.

 Promo Pricing and Ordering

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

We the People Promo...A Popular Uprising

The popular uprising has begun. The people have taken to the streets, and they're on sale! No, this is not some vulgar red light district sale. This is a red, white and blue special. From July 4 through August 15, you can take home one or more selected collections of Artlantis Animated 3D People for a great price.

In order to keep the peace, we are pleased to offer you a savings of $17.76 on each of the selected Artlantis Animated 3d People volumes. Since no tea party is complete without cream and sugar, we're sweetening the deal by offering an additional 5% discount if you purchase all 3 collections in one order (by using coupon code "people+5%" during checkout).

 We the People Product Pricing and Ordering

 Preview Animated 3D People Business 1

 Preview Animated 3D People Casual 6

 Preview Animated 3D People Workers 1

AIA 2012 Artlantis Sale

Right now, thousands of architects and design professionals have convened in Washington, D.C., for the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition. What does this mean for you? Savings of course!

Now thru the end of June, we are offering 20% off New Artlantis purchases and 12% off Artlantis Upgrades as well as the following Artlantis Media;

Architectural Details
Interior Details
Antique Furniture

Artlantis is the fastest stand-alone 3D rendering application developed especially for architects and designers, ideal for quickly and easily creating high resolution 3D renderings, iVisit 3D Panoramas, QuickTime VR Objects and animations.

Architectural Details contains 200 objects including: garden furniture, mailboxes, park benches, lamps, balconies, columns, fences, umbrellas, escalators/elevators and more.

Interior Details contains 537 very detailed, textured 3D models of various objects. Whether it is for the kitchen/dining area, living room, or study, these details will make renderings more vivid, with maximum realism.

Antique Furniture contains 49 textured 3D models of furnishings for interior scenes with featured styles ranging from baroque to neo-classical to rustic.


 Product Pricing and Ordering

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

Bobrow Announces ArchiCAD Training Courses on Sale

It has been a while since we've heard from ArchiCAD Guru, Eric Bobrow on his training courses. Over the past few months, he's been hard at work, developing more lessons for The Best Practices Course. The Best Practices Course is organized as a series of 29 modules totaling more than 24 hours of material. Each module contains 3 or 4 lessons totaling about 45-60 minutes.

This month, marks the 6 month anniversary of The QuickStart Course. The QuickStart Course is a set of easy to understand training videos that will take you from starting up ArchiCAD all the way through creating a complete building with construction documents.

The offer is a combination of a price discount (QuickStart cut from $197 to $127, Best Practices reduced from $697 to $597) and payment plans (QS for two payments of $67, BPC for $97 per month x 7 months). This offer is for a limited time only, so order your ArchiCAD training courses today!

 The Best Practices Course Pricing and Ordering

 The QuickStart Course Pricing and Ordering

 The 7 Keys to Best Practices FREE Video Series

Spring Has Sprung

Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog of Gobbler's Knob predicted a long winter this year. The weather is finally starting to warm up, flowers are in bloom, and butterflies fill the air. This means Spring has sprung and it's time for you to spring into action.

We've got four of the Artlantis plant media volumes on sale through May 14, 2012: 3D Pines & Conifers, Asian Trees, Exterior Plants 1 and Exterior Plants 2. These sets have various species of plants at various stages of growth.

The 3D Pines & Conifers volume includes 24 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The 3D Asian Trees volume includes 20 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The objects on both of these volumes are created from Bionatics seeds.

The Exterior 3D Plants 1 volume consists of 95 photo-realistic close-up capable 3D plants. The plants are adjusted automatically in their development of leaves (color, amount, size.) The Exterior 3D Plants 2 volume consists of 185 photo-realistic plants and trees. The plants have various stages of growth, starting from seedlings to fully grown plants. This volume contains a choice of plants from different latitudes.

 Spring has Sprung Pricing and Ordering

 Preview 3D Pines and Conifers

 Preview 3D Asian Trees

 Preview Exterior 3D Plants 1

 Preview Exterior 3D Plants 2

 Visit Objects Online

Daytona Discount Days

The roar of the engines. The smell of gasoline and scorched rubber. It can only mean one thing...and before you say it, no, the police aren't chasing us again. It's Daytona Discount Days! That time of year when you can get 3D cars for Artlantis at a great, no-haggle discounted price. That's right! The price you see is the price you pay. If you've been telling yourself that your renderings need a new set of wheels, now is the time to take action.

We've got two of the new volumes for Artlantis 4 on sale: 3D Cars 2010 Asia and 3D Cars 2010 Europe. These sets have cars from the major players on both continents...Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes, Renault, Saab, Volkswagen, and many more. The vehicles are represented in stunning detail, optimized and able to take advantage of Artlantis 4's new Fresnel shader made especially for metallic car bodies.

For those of you out there who rock to the world beat, we've also got 3D Cars 2007 on sale. This collection features popular vehicles of car manufacturers from around the world, including Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Audi, Ford, Jeep, Land Rover, Lexus, Mercedes, Opel, Peugeot, Pontiac, Saab, Skoda, and Toyota. All of them peacefully co-existing in one virtual showroom and compatible with Artlantis 2 or higher. If you don't have this collection, you need it!

And because we're starting this sale the day after Valentine's Day, we're showing you the love by discounting new and additional licenses of Artlantis Render 10%, now through the end of March 2012. Like a fine-tuned street machine, Artlantis perfectly balances ease-of-use and rendering speed. Take the 30-day demo for a spin and see what we mean.

 Daytona Discount Days Pricing and Ordering

 Preview 3D Cars 2010 Asia

 Preview 3D Cars 2010 Europe

 Preview 3D Cars 2007

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

New Years High-Resolution Sale

Do you use billboards in your Artlantis renderings? If you don't, or are unfamiliar with what a billboard is, read on to learn how billboards might benefit you. Billboards are flat 2D objects, usually positioned in an upright or "standing" orientation, onto which photos or textures are mapped. An alpha channel is often used to remove an unwanted background from the billboard's photo. Billboards offer the benefit of allowing you to place photo-realistic objects (in this case, people) into a scene without the downside of adding hundreds or thousands of polygons to the rendering calculations, since a billboard is composed of only one rectangular polygon. The result? Fast renderings without any sacrifice in image quality.

If you've resolved to create better renderings in 2012, you'll want these high-resolution billboards. From now until February 14, 2012, Artlantis Shopping & Travel Billboards volumes 1 & 2 are on sale at 10% off. We're also discounting the 2-pack bundle. Take advantage of this offer to expand your media collection today!

 Preview Shopping & Travel Billboard Volume 1

 Preview Shopping & Travel Billboard Volume 2

 New Years High-Resolution Sale Pricing & Ordering

ArchiCAD Best Practices Training Course Fire Sale

No, he's not going out of business...
but that little birthday cake candle started a big FIRE! Over 540 ArchiCAD users have signed up from 49 countries all over the world, and we're celebrating!
Come on in and get warm - baby it's cold outside (at least in the northern hemisphere) at this time of year.
Check out our big FIRE SALE!
From now until next Friday December 16, you'll save $200 off course registration, which was a great value to begin with.
And, for the first 50 who jump on the opportunity, we're offering a special FAST MOVER bonus - one hour of personal one-on-one consulting with ArchiCAD guru Eric Bobrow!
 REGISTER NOW for the Best Practices Course
 7 KEYS to Best Practices for ArchiCAD - video training series - 3 videos totaling 45 minutes