Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Architecture Art, Art, Books, Education, Google SketchUp, Google SketchUp Training, Image Manipulation, Modeling, Presentation, Render, Textures/Materials, Training
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
![Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image]](http://news.sketchucation.com/files/2011/11/Broadleys-by-John-Higgins-Stacked-Books-Image-90x65.jpg "Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image]")
John Higgins, one our our regulars here on SFC has produced his first Mini Publication, Modeling Country British Home with Google SketchUp and Photoshop. The book is a ‘step by step’ on how he produces his wonderful models of existing commercial and domestic buildings around the UK. This Mini Publication at $4.95 also includes the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Competitions, Render
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Next Limit Technologies are running the first ever Maxwell for Google SketchUp render competition! Full details can be found here
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation, Render
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Next Limit Technologies has released Maxwell for Google SketchUp , a standalone package fully integrated into SketchUp. A limited version is available for free and full version is available for $95 (75€). [See download/buy options]. Maxwell for Google SketchUp allows users to achieve Maxwell Render™- quality without having to leave their SketchUp interface. Maxwell Render™ [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Presentation, Render
Friday, November 4th, 2011
A new version of LightUp (v2.3e) is available in free demo and retail form (PC and Mac), here. The new release covers, – Anisotropic texture support (much sharper looking textures) – Improved realtime performance – More robust handling of user input – Fixed some precision issues – Fixes to FBX exporter with name clashes – [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation, Render
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
SU Walk for Google SketchUp provides photo-realistic animations in real time SU Walk from Cadalog, Inc. is a new, photo-realistic animation application for Google SketchUp models. Newly updated, SU Walk 1.0.11 was released today. SU Walk’s specialty is to turn SketchUp models into photo-realistic walk through/ fly through animations. Users can apply reflections and lights [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
2D Art, Adobe Photoshop, All News, Interiors Art, Presentation, Render, V-Ray
Monday, October 10th, 2011
The ‘Nomeradona Interiors’ post here demonstrates skillful use of SketchUp, V-Ray and PhotoShop and the resulting top quality images are a pleasure to view and learn from. He has also provided a link to a step by step tutorial, Nomeradona Mixed media approach_SketchUp, Vray and Photoshop here
Posted by Mike Lucey
3D PDF, All News, Animation, Presentation, Render
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Simlab Composer has upgraded to version 2.4 with many new features. What’s new in version 2.4? Building 3D Scenes New Decal System Improved Materials Management Improved Precise Transformation 3D PDF Preview Image Rendering Depth of Field Animation Exporting Animation To IPad Import\Export enhancements Updated Imports
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, Presentation, Render
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Abvent have announced they will be launching iVisit3D shorty. I understand the application will be available for both Win and Mac users and is aimed at architects and designer wishing to show interactive panorama renderings on the Web. Examples can be explored on the announcement site. The above image has a small floor plan icon [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, Presentation, Render
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Prepare to be amazed! Tavi Chis, one of our Directors, has posted information on a really amazing process for inserting objects into photos! This is putting it very crudely to say the least. Check out the SCF thread here also Kevin Karsch’s blog here This process is due to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, Render
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Adam Billyard, the LightUp developer, is complaining about the weather in Brighton, UK. Its pouring rain there these days but the upside is that he is working hard prepping the forthcoming LightUp 2.3. Check out the ‘Roman Bath realtime capture in SketchUp’ (Video), here.
