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Volume Light Effects – LightUp for SketchUp

Last modified on 2012-01-13 13:39:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

13th January 2012 @ 1:40pm

This latest tutorial by Adam Billyard will show you how to use the LightUp Material properties to create cool Volume light effects. You can download the LightUp free demo here if you want to try this tutorial out for yourself.

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Lots of Prizes! Maxwell Render for Google SketchUp Competition

Last modified on 2011-11-24 12:53:05 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

24th November 2011 @ 1:00 pm

Next Limit Technologies have announced  a new render competition for Maxwell Render for Google SketchUp ! They are offering thousands of dollars worth of prizes including:

• An iPad
• Cameras
• Maxwell Render licenses and much more!

All qualified entries will be uploaded to there new SketchUp image gallery, and prizes will be voted for publicly via social media networks as well as by the Maxwell Render development team. What are you waiting for! Christmas has come early!

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Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp – definitive guide part 3

Last modified on 2011-10-24 13:17:34 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

24th October 2011 @ 2:15pm

This tutorial is Nomer Adona’s third in his unique tutorial series, ‘Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp’. This tutorial focuses on ‘Studio Lighting’. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up a simple studio scene, how a professional photographers set up their studio lighting and how to simulate this lighting using V-Ray rectangular and omni lights.

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Watercolor Style – SketchUp Fotosketcher and Photoshop

Last modified on 2011-10-31 17:28:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

17th October 2011 @ 2:00pm

Architectural 2D to 3D visualizer and graphic artist Jonathan Ignas shows us his technique on how to create a digital watercolor using Google SketchUp, Fotosketcher and Photoshop. Basic skills in Google SketchUp and Photoshop are necessary to successfully complete this tutorial. You can do this!

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LightUp for SketchUp

Last modified on 2011-10-24 13:20:11 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

10th October 2011 @ 3:00pm

This tutorial will get you started on how to set up a model using LightUp for SketchUp, a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your SketchUp models. This tutorial covers the use of image-based Lighting (IBL), blending shadows from your model with a backdrop, positioning the backdrop relative to your model and adjusting the Field of View.

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Four New Styles by Dave Richards

Last modified on 2011-10-10 13:53:51 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

6th October 2011 @ 4:30 pm

Four great new Styles for you to use by ‘Style Guru’ Dave Richards

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Dale Martens & Artisan – organic SketchUp?

Last modified on 2011-10-10 13:55:29 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2011-10-10 13:54:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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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SketchUp Digital Watercolor “Step-by-Step”

Last modified on 2012-01-25 11:40:51 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

25th January 2012 @ 11:45am

This quick-turnaround project by Jim Leggitt reveals the simple process of modeling the project space in SketchUp, rendering the view with Shaderlight, illustrating the printed view with markers and pencils and finally applying a watercolor filter to the image using Adobe Photoshop.

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Digital Watercolor Method:SketchUp Shaderlight Photoshop

Last modified on 2011-10-10 13:56:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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!

Last modified on 2011-10-10 13:57:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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!

NewTutorial – Glass Reflection Effect – SketchUp and V-Ray

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:04:05 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

3rd August 2011 @ 3:30pm

Our latest tutorial by Jonathan Ignas, takes you through some basic steps on how to get a great reflection onto your glass, for added realism, using SketchUp and V-ray for SketchUp.

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Hybrid Watercolor from Jim Leggitt and SketchUp, Artlantis, Post Work by Niels

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:05:18 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

July 26th 2011 @ 5pm

New content in our ‘Tips and Tricks’ section from Jim Leggitt and Niels at Kropped.com. So if your are into SketchUp, Shaderlight, Artlantis, post processing and art you are in the right place!

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Interior Lighting with LightUp for SketchUp

Last modified on 2011-10-31 17:26:11 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

31st October 2011 @ 5:25pm

The following tutorial will take you step by step through the process of rigging lighting in SketchUp for rendering in LightUp. LightUp for SketchUp is a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your SketchUp models.

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

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:06:16 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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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Soft Colored Pencil Line Technique by Jason Christiansen

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:07:27 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

22nd June 2011 @ 2:30pm

Jason has his own unique style and here in this tutorial he shares some of his knowledge and workflow with this NPR style and technique that will produce some really professional looking final images for presentation. Check it out!

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New! Exterior Night Rendering: SketchUp to Photoshop

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:34:21 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

10th June 2011 @ 11:30 am

The latest from Alex Hogrefe. Really simple tutorial on achieving a nice artistic exterior city night scene without a renderer… just good old Photoshop. You can do this!

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New Tutorial! SketchUp Render using Blender and Photoshop

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:33:01 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

20th May 2011 @ 11am

Jean-Pierre Hurel (better known as Orgelf in the internet design communities), a visual artist, explains his simple technique on how to achieve this render of a SketchUp model he made by using Blender and Photoshop . It produces what has been described as a cartoon/comic book effect.

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Exporting Masks from SketchUp Models for Use in Photoshop

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:31:35 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

15th May 2011 @ 8pm

It’s somewhat peculiar to begin a tutorial for SketchUp with a prolonged discussion of a certain concept in image editing called masking. But without this clarification you might not quite understand why I set up my SketchUp models in a such a very specific manner.

So what are we talking about? Masking was originally a traditional “analog” art technique. Most adults will discover that they are familiar with it, even if they have never used it for anything more elaborate than house-painting: if you cover some part of a wall with “masking tape” and then paint across the surface, on removal of the tape you will find that the area it had covered was (hopefully) protected from the paint subsequently applied to that wall. In the fine arts, including painting, photography, printing, and even ceramics, this basic technique has been refined and elaborated in a thousand specific ways, depending upon the medium and the exact degree of protection of the underlying surface that the artist needs….

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Part 2 of Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp – the definitive guide

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:29:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

4th May 2011 @ 1:00pm

Part 2 of the definitive guide to lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp by Nomer Adona has finally been published. Part 1 in this series can be found here. Nomer Adona continues his great mini series of lighting tutorials to help you get to grips with and simplify this often complex process, with some easy solutions to this often frustrating and confusing aspect to rendering. In this guide Nomer checks out Emissve materials to help light your SketchUp models.

Latest from Jim Leggit Creating Perspectives from Multiple Sources

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:27:51 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

18th April 2011 @ 4pm

Jim’s latest tips on how to create perspectives simply by using three techniques to arrive at the same perspective conclusion with incredible accuracy. Jim always makes it look so easy!

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Renditioner Pro V2 – interview with Bob Mayer

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:20:19 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2011-10-10 14:19:18 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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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