Interview with Jean-Pierre Hurel – 3D Visual Art & SketchUp

July 26, 2011

26th July 2011 @ 1:30pm

Jean-Pierre Hurel is a talented 3D visual artist. He started working with SketchUp back in early 2008 and since then, successfully incorporated it into his daily creative workflow. His art has been described as imaginative, wild, crazy, cubist and even surreal.

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Renditioner Pro V2 – interview with Bob Mayer

April 6, 2011

April 6th 2011 @4:30pm

The new release of Renditioner Pro v2 has been completely re-written and supports many new features and enhancements. We were interested in finding out more, especially with so many new releases of rendering software hitting the market place in the past few months, we were wondering what makes Renditioner Pro V2 so different? We managed to grab an interview with Bob Mayer, Chief Operating Officer of IMSI/Design.

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Alan Hook – Film and Television Design with Google SketchUp

April 2, 2011

April 2nd 2011 @ 9:00 am

Alan Hook – This week in our Spotlight section we are privileged to host an interview with Alan Hook, production designer and art director in the film and television industry.

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Book Review – Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating

March 7, 2011

March 7th 2011 @ 11:00am

Google SketchUp Workshop  – modeling, visualizing and illustrating Laurent Brixius’s latest release into the publishing world is the much anticipated English translation of his first book ‘Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre’. My French is somewhat limited, and to be honest pretty abysmal (not one of my favorite subjects at school I’m afraid…sorry), so it was with great pleasure that I got the opportunity to read through and examine personally what this latest edition of the English version has to offer.

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Lewis Wadsworth – Google SketchUp and Experimental Architecture

March 5, 2011

March 5th @6pm

Lewis Wadsworth, is a designer and artist located in Boston, Massachusetts. He works principally in the field of architecture. Lewis’s architectural projects have appeared in AIArchitect, journal of the American Institute of Architects, and has been honored by the Boston Society of Architects. Being great fans of his “Experimental Architecture”, his unique presentation style and narrative, we decided to present his three chosen works in their original form. We think that the images and the accompanying text are truly inspirational.

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Spotlight on The London 3D Project and Google Earth

December 23, 2010

December 23rd @ 5pm

The London 3D Project and Google Earth – interview with the people behind it.

Two enthusiastic 3D modelers want to go much further and quickly populate larger areas of Central London in Google Earth, with its diverse, interesting and historical architecture. SketchUpArtists recently interviewed the guys behind the London 3D Project to learn a bit more about the challenging task they have set themselves.

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Sketchup Art: in the online game industry

November 17, 2010

November 17th @ 9:00pm

This week we managed to grab an interview with Ken Nguyen. Ken is a professional designer and conceptual artist for many years and now working in the online game industry. He gives us some insite into his professional background, work and especially his use of SketchUp art in online gaming.

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Robin de Jong – SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization

October 1, 2010

October 1st @ 11:30 am

This week we are doing a Spotlight article on Robin de Jong and his recently published book,  SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization: Beginners Guide. Robin will also be contributing a great tutorial for us and this can be found in our tutorial section when it is published soon.

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Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp and SketchUpArtists

September 28, 2010

September 27th @ 6:00pm Spotlight Article – Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp and SketchUpArtists

Mateo Soletic recently traveled to Boulder Colorado, from Dubrovnik, to attend the 2010 3D Basecamp hosted by the Google SketchUp Team. Read this Spotlight article on his trip and see some of the images he brought back.

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FotoSketcher

August 6, 2010

August 06 @ 10:00 am –FotoSketcher – hand drawn look to your SketchUp image

Put the art back into your images with FotoSketcher. FotoSketcher is a free program which can help you convert your digital images into art automatically using fully adjustable filters. If you want to turn a portrait, a photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, sketch or drawing, then look no further. FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds. With FotoSketcher you can create stunning images in no time. Read More…

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