Dale Martens & Artisan – organic SketchUp?

September 30, 2011

30th September 2011 @ 2:00pm

SketchUpArtists managed to grab an interview recently with Dale, the creator of Artisan, and gently ‘grilled’ him on Artisan’s abilities as a sculpting plug-in alternative for SketchUp and what his plans were for the future development of this ground breaking organic toolset for Google SketchUp.

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SketchUp to Photoshop – no render engine required by Alex Hogrefe

September 22, 2011

22nd September 2011 @ 2:00pm

As the title implies, this architecture illustration tutorial doesn’t use a rendering engine. Alex has done a few other tutorials in the past that don’t involve rendering programs, however this tutorial does things a little differently, and in less time.

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Digital Watercolor Method:SketchUp Shaderlight Photoshop

September 9, 2011

9th September 2011 @ 11:00am

Jim has been experimenting with combining 3D SketchUp models, traditional hand coloring and Photoshop filtering to create the digital effect of a watercolor painting. He calls this the “Digital Watercolor Method” and it is certainly worth trying on your next project!

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SketchUp Ur Space Competition final days!

September 2, 2011

3rd September 2011 @ 6pm

Sketchup ur Space have announced that they are extending their competition date too Saturday10th September due to the overwhelming response to this SketchUp competition. There is a free V-Ray for SketchUp licence from Chaos Group and front cover of their next Emag. Please note again this is the final deadline, end time is 11:59:59 pm (IST) 10th September 2011.

So don’t stick around, get your entries in now!……

Good Luck!