Kate Marshall and Martin Cox of ARTVPS, the Shaderlight people, have had their first Webinar of 2012. In case you may have missed it, check out this link Kates advises, ‘We had a great turn out for the first Shaderlight webinar of 2012 so thank you to everyone who logged in to join us. Being [...]
Adam Billyard, the developer of LightUp for SketchUp has recently launched some excellent tutorials on the LighUp site, here. The tutorial list, some of which include models that can be used to replicate the procedures, have been included. Items covered are, Volume Light Effects This tutorial will show how to create Volume light effects. Neon [...]
Richard Tibury of 3D Total will be running an online workshop spanning four weeks, illustrating the technical and artistic approaches used to develop concept art using a 3D render as a foundation. Software used will be Photoshop & Google SketchUp. There are 24 places available and the course price is $250. Full details may be [...]
A new Mini Publication, Sofa & Cushions by Alvis has just been launched on the Book Site. Its a great step by step tutorial for anyone that would like to learn the tricks of the trade when it comes to learning how to model a sofa and cushions. Its aimed at intermediate level SketchUp Users [...]
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 [...]
This week fellow director, Tavi (TBD), and I got off our backsides and got SketchUcation into publishing. This would not have been possible without our first published author, Tom Fenn, a respected SketchUcation member and Product Designer that goes by ‘tfdesign’ on the forums. Tom has produced ‘Let’s SketchUp’, a book that is aimed at [...]
Using LightUp for SketchUp you can perform an insolation analysis to assess the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. It can provide realtime navigation of Insolation results with a realtime spot meter showing kwh/m^2/day as well as static and tracked daily results for photovoltaic designs. View [...]
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
Dennis Fukai of InSiteBuilder’s has updated the Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling. Dennis tells us, ‘We just finished an update to our classic book, 3D Construction Modeling. The new book was written for project managers who want to learn first hand how to build their own piece based construction models. A construction model [...]
Armchair: IKEA and Pelican Chair Alvis, one our our new SCF members has produced some really attractive chairs, one from the IKEA range and a Pelican chair. He shows the stages on construction in a Youtube video! Check his post out here
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