Authors and Books

SketchUpArtists Spotlight – the author is primarily designed to feature articles on you the published author and for those of us looking for knowledge, humour and inspiration. Whether it is through an interview, a case study or simply to display some of your outstanding work, you will be in the Spotlight!

• 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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• Robin de Jong – SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization 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. Learn about Robin and his background, including this new publication. Robin will also be contributing a great tutorial for us and this can be found in our tutorial section when it is published.

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• 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.

• 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 recent publication.

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