Official Google SketchUp Blog: Organic modeling made simple with Curviloft

Official Google SketchUp Blog: Organic modeling made simple with Curviloft: The process of extruding one 2D profile such that it ends in another, different 2D profile is often called lofting .

SketchUp Digital Watercolor “Step-by-Step” by Jim Leggitt

This quick-turnaround project by Jim Leggitt reveals the simple process of modeling the project space in SketchUp, rendering the view with Shaderlight, illustrating the printed view with markers and pencils and finally applying a watercolor filter to the image using Adobe Photoshop.

Volume Light Effects - LightUp for SketchUp

This tutorial by Adam Billyard will show you how to use the LightUp Material properties to create cool Volume light effects. Adam shows you how too easily create spotlight lighting with the added effect of dust showing in them...pretty cool...we like LightUp!

Ideas for 2012

Find something cool you’d like to see adapted into a future tutorial? Post your comments here and we’ll do our best to find an author to make a tutorial covering your idea if it will be useful to many people. Whether it’s a SketchUp model, post processing or rendering, it doesn’t matter. Let us know what you want to see in 2012! We need your feedback so we can feed you with what you want! You can also post your thoughts our Facebook page.......