Quick & Easy "Dennis Method" renderings [TUTORIAL]
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Wow, I never expected that this little idea will have such a lasting effect.
So, I'm going to share one dirty trick:Add a watermark vignette right into your SU model!!!
In Photoshop erase a painterly "hole" on a white page and save it right in the .PSD format (SU) understands it. Add your signature to it and the stick it up as a watermark. Now you get an real time painterly effect even without doing any post processing. The down side is that this vignette doesn't "hug" your building. However, if you need 10 views rendered in 10 minutes, sometimes even this will do.Thank you for your warm comments.
Since the posted tutorial is "bare bones", I hope that people will post here their own tricks and samples on "D.M.".Dennis
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Dennis, I, too, have used this method innumerable times, but don't think I will ever make them as lovely as you do!
@dennis_n said:
Add a watermark vignette right into your SU model!!!
In Photoshop Erase a painterly "whole" on a white page and save it right in the .PSD format (SU) understands it. Add your signature to it and the stick it up as a watermark.this is interesting... but by "whole" do you mean "hole"? ... sorry, but I was a bit confused by the tip... I know it's a gem, hope you can explain. pictures are worth a thousand words.
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Cool stuff, Dennis. Can this be done in SketchUp, without PhotoShop?
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of course - you just got to color a small part of your building and leave the rest to be white. that is it. It might take a bit longer to simulate "the painterly strokes" but I believe it is possible.
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@dennis_n said:
of course - you just got to color a small part of your building and leave the rest to be white. that is it. It might take a bit longer to simulate "the painterly strokes" but I believe it is possible.
Although i dont use your method, i plan to! But i have an idea about doing the painterly strokes. Use bezier curves on a face, then using the push pull tool, move it onto the wall. Then select all and instersect selected. Delete useless geometry and you've got the exact pattern you created with bezier curves on your wall.
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Swindel - clever thinking.
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Hey Dennis. I've made a basic tutorial for GIMP, using your method a few seconds ago. It's only the very basics, after you've done the tutorial you have to play around with the burn tool to make it look artistic. But how do i post the video here? It's .avi
Thanks
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here is a thread on "how to post a video". I'm looking forward to see what you came up with.
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The video isn't flash, and it isn't on youtube either. Can you just PM me your email adress? I'll send you it
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@dennis_n said:
In short, you will export 2 images from your SketchUP Scene: a) Hidden Line Black & White image and b) textured one with shadows.
Wonderful to "meet" THE Dennis at last. I have a question--not to make this quick and easy technique too complicated: Does the "textured one with shadows" have edges showing, in this two-image version?
Here is a re-posting of a pdf that I found here on the forum (or somewhere), if I may be so bold:A Dennis Technique pdf (three-image version)
Thanks for the great ideas, Dennis.
Peter
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the textured one with shadows has no lines. theoretically it is your paint in the watercolor. lines are pencil. Artists do them separately, so they don't line up exactly.
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Yes, Thank you!
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Thank you for posting this tutorial!
I've had SU since the "at last" days but just now getting back into it. I spent pretty much the whole day yesterday experimenting with this method and variations of it. It's a fun and creative way to work!
Robert
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i have a question, how do you get trees like the ones in your images. in particular the ones with just a black tree outline like the ones in this image you posted
is the tree background added in photoshop or are they models as well? they look gorgeous
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those are 2d trees in SU. Their outline is a big help if you want to fill it in PhotoShop. Just use the bucket tool in PS to give it a color.
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I don't really know how to use Gimp but this would work in there right?
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im startin in sketchup and this is a great tutorial, easy to follow and great results
thank you very much
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Seems your site is extremely devaluated by the "Top screen publicity"!
It's very hurting for the pleasure of the eyes!
I don't understand that for a firm who promote artistic feeling!
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thank you for the pointer.
To tell you the truth, I was focusing on architecture component of my business last couple years. The rendering part really needs more of my attention. -
Thanks Dennis!!!
That is really cool!! I was wondering if there was a way to do this (that you know of) in a program such as Gimp instead? Not all of us can afford Photoshop, after all! Thank you!
Crankston Shnord
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