Spotlight

The Spotlight section is primarily designed to feature articles on you the ‘Artist & Modeller’, regardless whether it is through an interview, a case study or simply to display some of your outstanding work. We will also be doing in-depth articles covering areas dealing with other topics important to SketchUpArtists.

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• Jacques Cleghorn better know as ’silver_shadow’ does full time  3D design work for a firm called MLB Architects in Cape Town, South Africa. He has  been working with Google SketchUp for almost 4 years now. Jacques is running the 3D department side of the office and he does mostly medium to large scale developments.  The way his firm uses SketchUp is purely for design purposes, to aid them in what has been drawn in 2D basically…Read more

• Laurent Brixius is an architect, architectural 3D artist and author based in Beaufays, Belgium. Passionate about computer graphics from the middle of his architectural studies, it is naturally in this area that he started working in parallel with his internship in an architecture studio. The project he is  most proud of is his book “Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre”. It gave him the opportunity to work and share advice with SketchUp experts from around the world…Read more

• Adam Warner is a full time Architectural Illustrator and Intern Interior Designer at Desmone & Associates Architects. Adam received his B.S. in Interior Design from LaRoche College, where he was recognized as a top contender for the 2009 Interior Design Educational Achievement Award. As an Architectural Illustrator, Adam specializes in computer rendering and 3-D animation…Read more

• Ricardo Cossoli is a student of architecture and CAD designer working for the architectural visualization company Three Dimensions. He and his partner work  together, examining projects, plans, modeling to the last detail. They make the respective renders and their services today are focused on creating architectural photo realistic images, from modeling to the final stage, whatever the type or scope of project they try to do it as professionally as they possibly can for the benefit of  future reference…Read more

• Jim Leggitt FAIA, is an architect, urban planner, and professional illustrator and has been practicing for over thirty-five years in Denver, Colorado.  He has conducted drawing seminars and workshops at AIA National Conventions, AIA regional and local conferences, universities, architectural firms and for allied design professionals throughout the country and Canada for many years. Jim has presented at the Google SketchUp 3D Basecamps 2005 and 2008.  He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning…Read more

• Daniel Tal RLA, ASLA, is a landscape architect with many years experience in his field and has recently written a book on Google SketchUp, the easy to use 3D modeling software that has given students and design firms an affordable way to produce professional 3D renderings  for clients. Daniel has been using SketchUp since the early days and consulted with the developers of SketchUp in 2004. We caught up with Daniel and asked him about his newly published book…Read more

• Alex Jenyon is a freelance matte painter and concept artist in the visual effects industry in London. He is hired to design and produce concept paintings and matte painted backgrounds for commercials, TV shows, Feature films and… Read more

• Pepe’s choice of models and especially his amazing application of textures and photo matching has left us speechless. Here is a sample of some of his work. These great models and much more are all available for download …Read more

• Snoopywang’s style is instantly recognizable when you see it. His bold artistic style with both exterior and interior 3D models is quite unique. His ease of use with Piranesi and Google SketchUp shows many years of patience and practice, which has made him stand out from the rest…Read more

• Tina Stiles-Bryant “Art is not about the tools used to create it,” Tina begins… “it is about the vision, message, and emotion the artist is trying to convey.” Digital art is much like any other artform, it’s just created using different tools than traditional art. Tina’s secret to success lies not only in her vision and interpretation, but in her mastery of the complex software and processes involved in creating effective, aesthetically pleasing digital artwork… Read more

• David Allan: I always knew that I would illustrate my book in 3D space, because I knew that I’d never be able to achieve each scene’s desired perspective and camera angle on the first pass. Also, I wanted my illustrations to be better than those of other books I’d seen, virtually all of which had “cartoonish” illustrations. Sketchup was a perfect fit for my needs…Read more