The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

liam887

@michaliszissiou said:

So the creature is a 2d painting?
Well done, you need a sculpture app Ken. Its time to involved with this.
I could work some more on shadows, a hard-light overlay of a wall-plaster-painted tex could do the GI trick.

@ Michalis: Yes, the creature is 2D painted in Photoshop. I have Z-brush on my computer but never had the time to practice. It is certainly on my list to do (or should I say to learn). You mentioned about 3D Coat. I will take a look. Thanks!

@orgelf said:

the Giant Spaceship is clearly a Masterpiece
incredible !!
thanks for posting

@ Orgelf: Merci beaucoup. Glad you like it.

@ghalko said:

So about that awesome spaceship:

Another chance has come up, very similar rules but this time all Eve community feedback. http://www.evecontest.com/finalvote/

I might try but a 3 week window is really too small for someone with many ideas but no solid spaceship experience such as myself. Hope you resubmit, it would get my vote.

Let me know if I should post a separate thread or something.

@ Ghalko: Wow, that is pretty cool. Thanks for the notice. How did you hear about it? I will certainly submit my starship again. Thanks for you vote.

To Liam: Are you there? If you are reading this, you now have a chance to enter. But I guess you might be busy with school lately. I have not seen you in the forum for a while. Anyway, hope all is well and that you will be able to enter the contest.

Have a great day everyone!

_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
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

Ahhhhhh i wish I had seen this have been so busy I would have submitted again oh well something similar will come up again one day I guess!
on another note I am back while the holidays are on trying to make a shield helicarrier form the iron man marvel universe as the film is out next year!

numbthumb

Can´t believe I missed this -leaves me speechless!
Unlimited imagination plus some serious 3D skills ... a killer combination! Bravo, maestro!

ken28875

Sorry I missed some replies.

@unknownuser said:

:shock: Looking at all the pictures of that ship actually made me feel a bit nauseous. The fact that you didn't even get in the top 15 made me even more sick. And this made it in before you? That's just wrong.

"Wow" doesn't do your models justice. I was going to maybe post my sci-fi temple, but now? Excellent work!!!

@ SketchupNoobie: Thanks, John. I really appreciate your support. Yeah, I was very disappointed by the whole thing.

@liam887 said:

Ahhhhhh i wish I had seen this have been so busy I would have submitted again oh well something similar will come up again one day I guess!
on another note I am back while the holidays are on trying to make a shield helicarrier form the iron man marvel universe as the film is out next year!

@ Liam: I resubmitted a revised simplified version to the new contest. However, it seems like people are getting angry and confused this time too. Nobody has heard from CCP and the voting was supposed to start already. Oh well...

I saw your helicarrier in your thread. Very cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished model.

ken28875

Hi guys,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

@numbthumb said:

Can´t believe I missed this -leaves me speechless!
Unlimited imagination plus some serious 3D skills ... a killer combination! Bravo, maestro!

@ numbthumb: Thank you for you nice comment.

A friend a mine asked me about the wireframe Sketchup of the Jaguar XJ 220 that I did a render earlier.

I would usually use orthos to build it. But due to time constraint (I was in a rush to finish it for the ASGVIS-V-Ray interview), I downloaded a model from the warehouse that was really low poly but had the dimensions and proportions that I needed to build my hi poly model on top of it. I also used some images for reference.

Thanks for viewing and have a great day!

_KN

My interview with ASGVIS/V-Ray:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/

ken28875

Hi there,

Here's my latest render. I used one of my Sci-fi car that I did for the NVArt contest a few months ago.

I tried to make it look as realistic as possible with HDRI and backplate.

Sketchup model + V-Ray + Photoshop postwork as usual.

Hope you like it.

Best,

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
My interview with ASGVIS/V-Ray:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

artysmedia

@ken28875 said:

Hope you like it.

Yeah, i like it.

numbthumb

Ditto here!

meak

bravo
your work is incredible
I really like your second angle ConceptCar, there is a sense of power.

ken28875

@ Roberto and numbthumb: Thank you for your comments. I wish you the best for 2011!

@ Mickael: Merci de ton message. Je te souhaite une excellente annee 2011!

Regards,

_KN

artysmedia

@ken28875 said:

@ Roberto and numbthumb: Thank you for your comments. I wish you the best for 2011!

Happy New Year, Ken!
Happy New Year, SketchUcation!

numbthumb

Wishing you a very happy New Year, guys!

dolphus

Happy New (creative) yeat KEN and i really 'DIG YO WHEELS" well done and brilliant render....cheers

artysmedia

That is the justice of the contests, I'm afraid
Dont worry. Your model continues to be a great one

dolphus

I concur never mind the judges your model is fabulous .....

ken28875

Hi guys,

For those who followed the WIP and final submission of my Eve Online Create A Starship Contest a few months ago, you probably remember my entry here:

There was a huge protest in the Deviant Art community as many great designs were not selected. Listening to the complaints, CCP (the company that does EVE Online) reopened a new contest. Once more, people were disappointed. A lot of us did not know if our entries were reviewed by the CCP art staff as we could not see all the submissions and compared them against each other.

Here's my revised submission. It was a much simpler presentation with a color render added. I also changed the name to Pandemonium. Thanks to Bryan for letting me know about the second contest and suggesting the new name of the starship.

Again, my sharship was not amongst the finalists, but the ones below were selected with 40 something other designs.

One thing for sure, I don't think I will do any contests organized by Deviant Art or CCP.

But at least the contest was a great opportunity for me to create that starship. I will probably sell the 3D model in some sites like Turbosquid.

Have a great week!

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
My interview with ASGVIS/V-Ray:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

StilTeg

I am amazed !! Great Job !

Bryan K

Oh hell. Just kill me now.

Fantastic!

liam887

Nice work as always Ken, Just got my replacement Wacom pen so planning to try some digital paint compositions cant wait!

ken28875

Hi guys,

It's nice to be back. I apologize for the lack of updates the past half year. Things have been quite hectic.

My grandfather passed away a few months ago. I spent a few days in Los Angeles with my family to attend the funeral.

Back to San Francisco, I was really busy finishing the game Rift that was shipped on March. You can check out the website here if you're into MMO: http://www.riftgame.com/en/. So the NDA was lifted and I now can share some of my concepts/Sketchup models that I did the past 3.5 years. You can see them in the Fantasy thread: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028

I also worked on some sci-fi stuff for Trion's Defiance MMO: http://www.defiance.com/en/. However, since the game is not out yet, I cannot show you my Sketchup models due to NDA.

But here are some personal projects.

As usual, modeling was done in Sketchup; texturing inside Sketchup and done in Photoshop; rendering with VRay for Sketchup; postworks in Photoshop.

Thanks for viewing and have a terrific day,

_KN