Silvershadow's eye candy 1: The river runs thru it

Click Draw · 10 Nov 2008, 16:26

Hey Silver....your extremely talented. Do you use SU in your daily work?
Jeff

silver_shadow · 10 Nov 2008, 20:30

hi there, thanx for the comment, i only use sketchup. My profession is to build models for an architectural firm all day quite nice
been using sketchup for 3 years. My primary render engine i use is mainly Vray for sketchup, been using that for a year an a half

Camille · 10 Nov 2008, 23:15

hye !!
I'm a young french user and I don't understand all wich write on this page but I'm really really impressed !
this render is amazing, very very good !
When I'll be able to do 1/4 of that I'll be happy !!
very nice !

Camille

akololo · 11 Nov 2008, 03:46

great job!!!!

by the way, im still confused how to make the background...like the mountain... how did u make it?.
hehe

thanks... and job well done!

silver_shadow · 11 Nov 2008, 04:11

like the old fashioned way. Create a alpha of your render, or just cut out the background via photoshop.
so you will have a model which has no background. Then just put a mountain image in behind the model.

skyscraper100 · 11 Nov 2008, 14:13

OMG!!!!! this is AWESOME!!
btw what software?

silver_shadow · 12 Nov 2008, 04:07

hit there
All the candy series was an experiment to see how far i can push sketchup untill it folds
So to be true to the program, i had to use only sketchup for modelling. The first candy was not really intended to be rendered, but eventually got rendered in vray and a little bit of photoshop. The candy 2 model went the same path, all 100% sketchup, no elements were build in another program and then brought back, because then it would have defeated the purpose. Renderd in maxwell, vray, and fryrender.
2008 i will start my last candy, trying to push sketchup for one last time, building everything in sketchup again. I hope it will be bigger and better and at least ten times more intense than candy 2. But we all have to wait and see

Andrija Posarić · 13 Nov 2008, 08:14

Silver, I am really amazed with your work. The final product looks fantastic, and I like the atmosphere in the scene.I see that you utilized a lot of rubies:-) I haven't heard for half of them but, I see they are very useful.

Keep up the inspiring work, I haven't seen work of such quality for a long time here.

Cheers,

Andrija

Gaieus · 15 Nov 2008, 07:01

I doubt he will

wheay · 16 Nov 2008, 13:22

very nice work! and tutorials.. thanks for sharing it to all. keep it up.

silver_shadow · 17 Nov 2008, 04:03

Hi Coen
hee hee i think we all just have to wait and see whats its gonna be. sorry guys
The thing about last time, it will definately not be my last model, its just doing these candy models is actually a real hard process, saving each day as a seperate file as you progress and try to document youre every move, where the normal way is just, build the model, and post it. But again, ive learned this is ACTUALLY the proper way to demonstrate youre model, so yea, i would not say it will be part of candy, but probably more similar stuff.

rombout · 17 Mar 2009, 22:04

@jim said:

@solo said:

I cannot seem to locate it but I once remember talk about a 'Greeble' script, my thinking was that this too could be a solution.
However Silver you certainly used SP in a very creative way.

It's not well documemented, but protrude can offset, protrude, and taper faces. Leave the second column blank unless you want a random number btween the range.

[attachment=1:1pvfn6zh]protrude.jpg[/attachment:1pvfn6zh]

This model was produced using these inputs:

[attachment=0:1pvfn6zh]Clipboard01.jpg[/attachment:1pvfn6zh]

hi jim, im workin on a mac and it seems it doesnt work for me... any help possible???

Jim · 18 Mar 2009, 00:16

No word yet.

I hope to be able to get back to working on Protrude before the end of March.

EDMON242004 · 6 Jun 2009, 02:21

hello silvsershadow, since i saw ur work done in sketchup i cant believe those can really be done using su, now i will be using it for all my projs, hope to see more of your tutorials, specially w/ window glass effects, thanks

prismcnd · 6 Jun 2009, 04:31

OMG!!! I'm in sheer shock and amazement,absolutely breathtaking. DO NOT STOP! You are an inspiration to all

Chris Fullmer · 6 Jun 2009, 05:43

Don't miss his eye candy 2 thread:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=12513&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Chris

publied · 3 Jul 2009, 08:23

what's saying? you master! thank you for this very interesting tutorial.
(is true you used 4 days only for all this works?)
ciao.
/paolo

silver_shadow · 3 Jul 2009, 08:30

Hi there, no it took me about 4 days to render my scene in parts during the day.
The modelling process took about a month if i could remember correctly.

simon le bon · 4 Jul 2009, 19:21

HeyHey! SilverShadow:

@unknownuser said:

The ghost returns....
Hi all young and old sketchup users, developers of the new sketchup 7 team,and any other modeler out there that do not really know the true potential power of this amazing tool. Today i want to share the power of sketchup itself, to encourage those who thinks sketchup is just a tool that can only build block models and nothing more.

For my part your intention have simply found the center of the target!! Never thought it was possible to do so real with SU. And also a dreaming beautiful scene.

I have to come back again and again to study your tuts. Bravo et un grand merci pour votre générosité!!

*simon

Latetzki · 8 Jul 2009, 18:55

Amazing work. What's the render plugin you used? V-ray?