My environments based on SketchUp models

[Tonic]

First of all, glad to see such subforum. I'm sure it will expand in no time and prove it's one of the greatest software for fast modelling, setting camera view and overpainting! I only hope they won't turn it into paid version, as (if I'm not mistaken), the Pro version costs a lot!

Anyway, there are my works:

1).




WIPs:

Video:





2).




WIPs:

Video:












3).

[MattGamer]

very cool usage of sketchup. ;]

[dorian]

sweet! thanks for sharing!

[THUNDERCOCK]

outstanding sir!! very excellent example on how modeling in sketchup can aid in painting. Rock on!!

[Tyson]

It's fantastic that you create pretty simple models but in your painting you add great details and life. Thanks for sharing.

[Trimmer82]

oh lordy I am loving what you are doing with that. This is the first Ive heard of sketchup before, it looks very cool!

[Brashen]

Great work, if a little too saturated for my taste. But excellent.

[Tonic]

Thanks to you for such kind comments

Great work, if a little too saturated for my taste. But excellent.

Yeah, the second work is over saturated, but it's nothing weird as I didn't made any serious values/colours studies, it's just faking

Not long time ago I've took a few days of experimenting and reading tuorials/manual for Kerkythea renderer. I'm liking it very much. I was afraid that being a zero in 3D terms will make learning a tedious, but it wasn't that hard. And it paid There are few renderers, nothing so special, but in future I should give more complex and interesting models.



This one was done with Depth Render rendering profile. Interesting effect.


15 minutes of over painting for fun:


There I've found how to make intersecting lines between irregular shapes - just select objects (or everything with Ctrl+A shortcut), click the right mouse button, then Intersect > Intersect with Model). With that, the model is much clearer and it avoids the risk of bad lightning in renderer


And there I've tested Photoshop's Lens Correction (or something) to obtain this effect. It may come handy in illustrating or comics:

[JanDegler]

Really nice!!!!!!

Keep on posting!

[Tesla]

Woow, i didn't know that program, but is wonderfull what you can do

[shade1012]

very cool man I gotta check out sketchup

[nakirush]

Wow. Just wow.

I really have to give SketchUp a try.

[Tonic]

Wow, five stars, I'm flattered. Now my ego is going to burst out. Just kidding

Thujon, Tesla, shade1012, nakirush, thanks so much!

Now I feel so stupid with only few update images. Sorry, guys, next time I promise to make much bigger update!

Two renderers, made for fun:

Copper thingy - a bit badly rendered because you can see white dots, which aren't allowed to exist:


UFO thingy:


And few of my roundabout projects. First, the 3D SketchUp model with enabled pen style:



Overpainted:


And projects of roundabout islands:

[rattus]

really cool stuff, loving the roundabout islands!!

[Tonic]

Thanks, rattus!

I've spent a lot of time on SketchUp education using video/text tutorials, example models, plugins, my own experiments and sketchucation.com forum. I can't believe that SketchUp is much more greater software with simpler interface than I thought previously. And I found few disadvantages, but it can't be helped as there are no any perfect softwares and SU is free Anyway, after this education, I wanted to make a rough 3D model for over paint, but I thought I'd reuse what I've learned and make a more serious model. Since it takes quite time (much more than I could in 2D), I will post WIPs there. The theme is a science fiction geek's room

The whole hall:





Kerkythea's quick render


The column:





As the rough hall was done, I've started creating components for interior, such as lamps, cases, flowers, toys, machines. As so far, I did a halogen lamp and electric box:





Again, Kerkythea