off topic, but playing with sketchup and surfaces:

Nice!

A few other things I've been working on...





both of these were for New Energy Works

What was the rendering done with? Me like.

SketchUp >> Fotosketcher >> Little bit of Photoshop to layer the images.

Cool work Mike. Are you using some special Ruby Script to develop those those pierced cubes, or drawing an arc, following around to make a cone and then rotating it in 6 axes and then intersecting with a cube - or ??

thanks chris. i have a few more 'sculptures' that i'm working on - similar concept - surfaces that wrap around themselves to become another shape.

i'm using a 'loft' type ruby script to create the first arc'd corner, then do some manual intersecting of 3 of them rotated about their centers to form a corner of a cube. then copy / rotate / mirror that around and intersect everything into 1 shape.

Hey Mike, Do you want me to quote per cube or per hour? My gouges are really sharp.

per cube. that end grain will slow you down, and i don't want to pay for that...

starting to play with rendering... very much a beginner at this. need to adjust materials (and find some good ones) - and play with how reflective certain finishes are.







Going to play with all the demo render programs and probably buy something soon...

That first one looks very much like a photo. Keep us posted, I'm interested in what you learn. CB.

thanks clark. first one was pulled up in pshop by someone on sketchucation... as mine came out really dark.

i dropped the last one into fotosketcher and applied to watercolor filter. i still like fuzzy / sketchy images - as least for now until i can get good and proficient @ making things look a bit more realistic.

lots to learn. placement of materials, lighting, etc. etc.

for interior work and selling clients on overall design package... i can see this being a huge help (and time killer, until one gets good at it!)

twilight runs right inside sketchup, and is only $99.
after some more playtime i may buy it just to have.

Mike,
you might want to have a look at the free Kerkythea, they also have an export plug-in for SU.
I haven't tried it, but it seems to produce nice renderings.
I use Artlantis (wich is not free) and also comes with a plug-in for SU.

Thanks Jonas.
Kerkythea - I think Twilight is based on this.
I'll look into it.

Don't need free, just using the free demo's to try things out.


I'll have to step up to a desktop workstation though - pretty slow on my fast (for modeling, general work) laptop.

Last one... let the machine run 4 hours while we were out...

Hi Mike,

You forgot to turn on the cross brace layer !

Regards

ken Hume