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Spotlight on The London 3D Project and Google Earth

Two enthusiastic young 3D SketchUp modelers are going much further and trying to quickly populate larger areas of Central London in Google Earth, with its diverse modern and historical architecture. London has not yet been extensively modeled in Google Earth yet, like New York for example. SketchUpArtists recently interviewed the guys behind the London 3D Project to learn a bit more about the challenging task they have set themselves. They need support and volunteers to help in this momentous task... so if you can help contact them now!

Christmas Discount on Maxwell Render

Next Limit Technologies are offering 25% off the latest version of Maxwell Render...thats quite a substantial saving. This for a Standard Licence new purchases and even on the latest upgrade. The offer runs through the holiday period until January 10th 2012. If you have ever wondered about Maxwell, now is the time to take a peek...

Collection of ten new SketchUp Styles

We just published ten new Fine Pen and Marker Styles by our friend Scott Poloney. Now depending on model complexity, these might work quite well for you..try them out! And thanks again to Scott for his continuing wonderful contributions to SketchUpArtists! here is an example of one of the new Styles (Pilot Razor Point Style) with Shading and Textured turned on in SketchUp.

Shaderlight Pro: render an evening office by Kate Marshall

The right lighting can transform the look of any interior scene; Shaderlight uses physically based lighting features and advanced global illumination techniques that can give your visualisation that extra edge. In this tutorial Kate Marshall shows you how it’s easier than ever to get from SketchUp model to a photoreal render and all in five easy steps.

New version of Augmented Reality has just been released..

With this plugin users can visualize their 3D models using Augmented Reality directly in the real physical space which sorrounds them. Models can be visualized out of the digital workspace directly on users' desktop, by connecting a simple webcam and by printing a suitable code. Read more here..

Ken Nguyen this months featured artist at ASGVIS

Our good friend and recent contributor Ken Nguyen has been featured over at the ASGVIS site as this months featured artist. Check it out....

SketchUp and Thea Render: Christmas Garland and Glass Ball Tutorial

New tutorial just published by 3D artist Eric Lay.This tutorial will take you through the creation of Eric’s latest rendering. A Christmas garland and decorative tree baubal. Eric states that he has never created an image of this type before. Well, we think that Eric is certainly on to a winner with this one as he shows us how he achieves such a wonderful 3D model and seasonal image..

Create Animated GIFs in SketchUp!

Create a GIF from Jpg, Png or Bmp with this latest SketchUp plugin and and watch it in SketchUp!  




Explanation on how it works and plugin can be downloaded here .....
Pretty cool!