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, Animation, LightUp, Presentation, Textures/Materials
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
There is an interesting topic on LightUp here, ‘Loft Model’! The topic revolves around LightUp’s texture baking abilities. Adam Billyard, the developer, advises and demonstrates, ‘LightUp bakes “view independent” lighting offline, and calculates “view dependent” effects in realtime. That essentially means diffuse light effects are calculated once and cached, and specular effects are calculated on [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
David H one of our SFC members has uploaded some step by step tips on how to go about producing a Snow Scape scene. The post / thread can be located here
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Design, Google SketchUp, Render, Textures/Materials
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
IRender nXt 3.5 for SketchUp 8 from RenderPlus http://irendernxt.com/ is now available. Based on our nXt technology, IRender nXt is the premier, easy to use rendering tool for Google SketchUp. New Rendering Engine: Path Tracer Path tracing is a new rendering algorithm for IRender nXt. Path tracing can improve render quality for many scenes. Improvements [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Applications, Presentation, Textures/Materials
Friday, November 12th, 2010
From the makers of Fryrender, SWAP is a real-time material editor: Who is SWAP aimed at? Fryrender SWAP is a wonderful tool and a great time saver for professionals who need: to create brochures with multiple variations of the same scene or object to discuss material variations with their archviz or productviz clients a tool [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
This is a company providing high-end products (and I assume services as well) for the entertainment industry. Big Hollywood movies are made with their software, as in the image above. Check out The Foundry and some of their amazing products.
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Applications, Textures/Materials
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
I downloaded this application last night and gave it a go. It is a freeware program (Windows only) that allows you to create backgrounds of a realistically looking sea. There are a few parameters you can set such as Bloom and Blur (among others but the control panel is clipped on my computer, there are [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Every now and then I come across an application that just wows me. Not to be mistaken for HyperShot, this program called ‘KeyShot’ is a get-quality-output-in-seconds application. If you’re familiar with good quality render engines, you can distinguish the bad ones from the good ones and the very good ones. KeyShot fits in the latter [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Entourage Arts has released the new Wang Wang Collection of NPR (Non Photorealistic Rendering) Flowers Mini Pak. The Mini Pak of 30 Marker style images is available both as high resolution PNG for rendering applications and as medium resolution Google SketchUp 2D “Face-me” components. The collection is offered in response to many requests and is [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Animation, Applications, Modeling, Textures/Materials
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Sidegrade Offer Only Valid Until July 31, 2009 “MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced that CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D are now available at special prices to 3D artists wanting to enhance their current 3D arsenal.” Although there is an emphasis on “enhance” (and of [...]
