The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

Bryan K

Absolutely incredible work Ken.

There are some amazing and talented people who post here. You all keep me inspired and constantly working to improve.

ken28875

Hey, my old '56 Sunliner is seeing some action
Did it survive the attack?
Your work is fantastic, very imaginative, and very detailed (and I like details)

@ Steve M.: did you mean you have a real '56 Sunliner car, or did you build that model? When I don't have time or not so interested in modeling certain models, I downloaded some from the warehouse like that Sunliner.
Anyway, thanks for your comments. Glad you like my work. Yes, I love details.

@bryan k said:

Absolutely incredible work Ken.
There are some amazing and talented people who post here. You all keep me inspired and constantly working to improve.

@ Bryan K: Thanks for your kind comment. I am happy that I am an inspiration for other Sketchup artists out there. One of the secrets of being a better modeler is practice, practice and practice. Pratice makes perfect as they say.

Hey everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend.

Here are some more vehicles. As usual, Sketchup + VrayfS + Photoshop.

Have a terrific week!

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028&start=120
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/

hellnbak

@ken28875 said:

@hellnbak said:

Hey, my old '56 Sunliner is seeing some action
Did it survive the attack?
Your work is fantastic, very imaginative, and very detailed (and I like details)

@ Steve M.: did you mean you have a real '56 Sunliner car, or did you build that model? When I don't have time or not so interested in modeling certain models, I downloaded some from the warehouse like that Sunliner.
Anyway, thanks for your comments. Glad you like my work. Yes, I love details.

Yeah, that was a model I put on the Warehouse. It's no longer there, but I'm glad to see it getting some use.

ken28875

@hellnbak said:

Yeah, that was a model I put on the Warehouse. It's no longer there, but I'm glad to see it getting some use.

Thanks, Steve. Your model was very useful.

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend.

Here are some concepts for some space fighters. The first one was part of the vehicles from my personal project that I worked on during the winter break. Sketchup + VrayFS + Photoshop

The 4 sketches were done in late 2011. There were line sketches on top of Sketchup models.

Have a wonderful week!

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028&start=120
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/

ken28875

More spaceship concepts.

Good weekend to you all!

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028&start=120
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/

boofredlay

Ken you are a master, these are fantastic.

ken28875

@boofredlay said:

Ken you are a master, these are fantastic.

Hi Eric. Thanks for your kind comment. Much appreciated.

I know that both of my Sci-fi and Fantasy threads are some of the most viewed on Sketchucation. However, I don't get many replies. Not that I expect people to reply, but sometimes it is nice to see you guys are interested in my work by posting comments, feedback or questions. Don't worry, I won't bite.

Anyway, back to the Sketchup models. I have posted sci-fi and contemporary military vehicles, submarines, tanks, spaceship, droids,helicopters. How about some airplanes?

So here's a couple of them.

Good day to you all,

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/

solo

Ken, your work is mind blowing, I'd really love to see your texturing techniques, all your stuff is so well made and textured.

pilou

Have you somewhere a step by step of an airplane ? Video ?

olishea

beautiful work ken, just perfect

Daniel

over-achiever!

CoreMaster110

So much amazing work.
I wish I had so much time to make so many awesome models and also would love to be as good with photoshop.

ken28875

@ Oliver Shea, Daniel Cooter and Karl Künstler:

Thank you very much for your kind comments. Much appreciated.

@unknownuser said:

Have you somewhere a step by step of an airplane ? Video ?

Bonjour Pilou...sorry I don't have any videos. Maybe someday.

@solo said:

Ken, your work is mind blowing, I'd really love to see your texturing techniques, all your stuff is so well made and textured.

Thanks, Pete! Sorry for the late reply. I finally have the time to gather some images and put them together.

I do most of my texturing in Photoshop as postwork with different types of layers (diffuse/colors/materials; grimmaps; highlights, etc.). I play with the layer styles (multiply, overlay, etc.).

I hope the images below will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great one!

_KN

Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html

ken28875

Hi guys,

I hope you had a great weekend.

Here's another tutorial showing a little bit more layers than the previous images. Usually most of my renders have an alpha channel so I can separate the vehicle from the background.

You can have the alpha channel either with the option in Vray for Sketchup (or any other rendering engines should have it, too), or create your own in Sketchup my making your model all black and the background white.

I have also shown a Decal layer here. I always have lots of them for the little details. I have somewhat merged them in the Diffuse/Colors layer in the previous tuts.

Hope this helps.

Have a wonderful week!

_KN

Here's another tank.

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html

ken28875

Hi there,

I have posted some sci-fi concepts before but never mentioned about the game they were for. That game, Defiance, just shipped a couple days ago. You can check it out here:
http://www.defiance.com/en/game/?CAS_REDIR=true

I did some 3D conceptual models for this MMO game back in 2010.

I did post some images of alien props if you go back in the earlier posts.

Here are some more.

Cheers!

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html

ken28875

Hi there,

Here are some more spaceships.

Good day to you all!

_KN

Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html

cotty

@ken28875 said:

Here are some more.

Looks like energy harvesters?
Inspiring as always!

ken28875

@cotty said:

Looks like energy harvesters?
Inspiring as always!

Energy Harvesters? Don't know...maybe...why not. Thanks for your comment, Carsten.

Here's a couple of tanks.

By the way, there is a tutorial on Sketchupartists.org about my texturing techniques. Here's the link http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-photoshop/art-of-sketchup-texture-workflow/, alghough you probably saw all of them already in my previous posts.

Thanks for stopping by. Good day to you.

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
My interview with Nomer:
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/05/q-and-with-our-featured-artist-ken.html

pilou

Does the operations in your tutorial are automatised ?

ken28875

@unknownuser said:

Does the operations in your tutorial are automatised ?

Salut Pilou. No, they are not automatised. I have to render each pass individually and combine them in Photoshop. Thanks for asking. I hope this answers your question.

Bonne journee!

_KN