My Friend Ship - Roche Limit

Cool video made with SketchUp..not a bad song either...

New - Architectural Rendering with SketchUp and Kerkythea

Just published this new tutorial by 3rd year architectural student Nick Howlett. Its called 'Architectural Rendering with SketchUp and Kerkythea'. In this tutorial Nick shows us how to get up to speed with Kerkythea and produce a desirable result with as little fuss as possible.

New download section at SketchUpArtists

We have reorganized our available download files into different categories. You can now download Google SketchUp,PDF,Photoshop and image files that are all related to our tutorials. Also, all our Google SketchUp Style files. Each file comes with a brief description, thumbnail image and how popular it is, so you know what you are downloading.

 

Bonnie's Blog shows us how...Styles!

Bonnie Roskes has just published a neat little article on Styles and how to implement and use them in Google Sketchup. Check Bonnie's blog out, there's plenty to learn...

AutoCAD for Mac now available..

Its finally here...AutoCAD for Mac

More Google SketchUp Styles!

A Quirky Hand Style by our friend Urgen and two more new Styles by French Architect Jean-Luc Clauss, great for your presentations..

More Tips and Tricks..

Just published some more new tips and tricks, The ten Top Tips for Texturing and also Painting Clouds  by 3D Artist Steven Stahlberg....

New LightUp 1.10 release...

Adam Billyard has just announced the release of LightUp version 1.10. There are a few cool new features with this release, for example - New material attribute 'Shadow Catcher' for creating realistic drop shadows on your skybox background. New control to set Fresnel color on materials, so color can change based on viewing angle. New Ambient Occlusion shader supports color bleeding between surfaces. This are a few of the new features with this release. Click on the image to visit Adam's website and read more on whats new with LightUp...

3D Artist Eric Lay Interview

A recent interview by the Twilight Render crew with talented 3D Artist Eric Lay. Eric used Google SketchUp and Twilight Render to produce this really cool bit of art 'the electric chair' and winning image... talented guy Eric!

Google SketchUp Render Styles by Architect Jean-Luc Clauss

French Architect Jean-Luc Clauss has kindly contributed three new render styles in our Styles section, you'll like these!

Shaderlight Pro is released today...

The Pro version of Shaderlight for Google SketchUp has been released today, with all its extra lighting and resolution options ($199.00). This full release features Shaderlight's unique 'progressive' rendering system that enables users to see their image develop on screen as they continue to work inside Google SketchUp. You can trial the Pro version for 14 days or use the free version with less options.

Let's make a rug - SketchUp and V-Ray

New in our Tips and Tricks Section, take a peek!

New Tutorial...Kerkythea - take a deeper look at materials

This is part 2, and an extension to Majid’s  ‘KT Fast Start 4Architects‘. In this tutorial Majid goes further into the more advanced techniques in making materials, understanding their settings and then using them as a saved templates which can be edited later to suit your needs. Click image to view full tutorial...

Spotlight Article on Robin de Jong

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 and how he uses Google SketchUp. Robin will also be contributing a great tutorial for us and this can be found in our Tutorial section when it is published soon…