The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

Bryan K

Impressive as always.

ken28875

Impressive as always.

Thank you for your kind words, Bryan.

Hi everyone,

Here's a couple of concepts I did for the latest Simcity expansion: Cities of Tomorrow, that was released last year. (http://www.simcity.com/en_US/buy/ep1

These buildings are a bit more futuristic compared to the ones I posted before.

The designs below are based on Minimalism.

SketchUp + Vray for Skp + Photoshop

Hope you like them.

Have a great day!

_KN

pilou

Modular!

cotty

Great designs!

pbacot

enjoying it all Ken! Love the little red space ship and the futuristic buildings. thanks for sharing.

ken28875

@unknownuser said:

Modular!

Merci, Pilou. Bonne journee!

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend.

Here's a couple of other buildings for Cities of Tomorrow.

Take care,

_KN

TK0001

Ken,

I want you to know that I pop into this thread whenever I want to see what is really possible with SketchUp (maybe not humanly possible....have you been tested?). It is tremendously inspiring to see your work, as well as humbling when going back and looking at my own.

If I could one day model something half as cool as what you could put out in half a day, I'll be a happy man.

ken28875

@cotty said:

Great designs!

Thanks, Carsten. I am glad you like them.

@pbacot said:

enjoying it all Ken! Love the little red space ship and the futuristic buildings. thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for your kind words, Peter.

@tk0001 said:

Ken,

I want you to know that I pop into this thread whenever I want to see what is really possible with SketchUp (maybe not humanly possible....have you been tested?). It is tremendously inspiring to see your work, as well as humbling when going back and looking at my own.

If I could one day model something half as cool as what you could put out in half a day, I'll be a happy man.

Thank you for your kind comments, Mark. Very happy to hear that my work can be an inspiration to you. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. And no, I have not been tested, but if I were, you would find out that I came from a galaxy far, far away...

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a terrific weekend.

Here's a concept I did using one of my droids.

SketchUp + Lumion3D + Photoshop

Have a wonderful week!

_KN

andyc

More great stuff Ken.

Would interested to know how much of the scene is 3D and how much is comprised of 2D elements. Love the tilted camera-angle and composition

cheers,

A

ken28875

@andyc said:

More great stuff Ken.

Would interested to know how much of the scene is 3D and how much is comprised of 2D elements. Love the tilted camera-angle and composition

cheers,

A

Hi Andy, Thanks for your kind words and interest in the making of my art works.

As you can see in the images below, I'd say 90% 3D and 10% 2D.

SketchUp changed my life as a concept artist. And the day I found out about Lumion3D, it was a game changer in the way I do visual developments.

Besides these programs mentioned above, I also use E-On Software's Vue for natural environments (see some of the older concepts from the The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy - e.g. Gods and Heroes concepts).

Anyhow, back to this current image. The techniques I used are very similar for all of my visual developments.

I combine/compose all the pieces in SketchUp or Lumion3d. Working in 3D allows me to move elements around quickly to see if the composition works. I can also play with lights and shadows. That would be impossible to do in the old days (just using Photoshop only).

I have a library of tons of 3D models that I use in my work to save time. I only build some of the unique 3 assets or things that I don't already have.

When I am satisfied with the overall composition and mood lighting, I bring it into Photoshop.

Paintover: FX (fire, smoke, dust, muzzle flash, shells, etc.), color correction, hue/saturation, contrast, etc.

I hope this helps. I will post some more concepts soon.

Have a great week!

_KN

ken28875

Hi guys,

It has been a while I have not posted some of my military vehicles.

These were done whenever I have some free time for a span of several months last year. I will eventually render them like I did for the other vehicles that I posted earlier in this thread.

Thanks for viewing.

Have a great weekend!

_KN

cotty

great models and modelling!

ken28875

@cotty said:

great models and modelling!

Thanks Carsten!

Have a great weekend,

_KN

pilou

Epic!

ken28875

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend.

I have a series of concepts inspired by games like call of Duty or Battlefield. I think I did post some images before. Here's another one.

SketchUp + Lumion3d + Photoshop

The military vehicles that I did are part of this personal project. I will use some of them in future concepts whenever I have time to work on some more.

Thanks for viewing.

Have a terrific week!

_KN

ken28875

@unknownuser said:

Epic!

Merci Pilou!

Hi everyone,

I hope you have a great weekend.

Here's a concept I did for Simcity - Cities of Tomorrow.

SketchUp + V-Ray for Skp + Photoshop

Take care,

_KN

ken28875

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a terrific weekend.

Here's another concept for Simcity - Cities of Tomorrow.

SketchUp + V-Ray for Skp + Photoshop

Questions/feedback always welcome as usual.

Take care,

_KN

cotty

Nice!
Is there a maximum vertex count for these models you have to achieve?

ken28875

@cotty said:

Nice!
Is there a maximum vertex count for these models you have to achieve?

Hi Carsten,

No, there is no maximum vertex count for any of my Skp models because they are for concepts. They are not the real in-game models.

After the concepts are approved, they are sent to the modelers who will build the 3D models with Maya or Studio Max. Some of my coworkers do use my SketchUp models as reference or export them into Maya/Max and reduce the polycount and re-texture them.

Thanks!

_KN

Bryan K

Those are some crazy cool looking buildings!