The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

rens282

I love your work man, mostly your awesome ship. Could you maybe explane how you did your engines?

ken28875

@ Carsten and Alvydas: thanks for your kind words.

I love your work man, mostly your awesome ship. Could you maybe explane how you did your engines?

@ rens: Thanks for your kind words and interest. For modeling, I use Sketchup basic tools as wells plugins like TIG's Extrude tools, Fredo's Joint Push Pull, Fredo's Scale, Draw Taper, just to name a few that I use the most for this kind of model.

@unknownuser said:

Cool!
Any idea of the Number of facettes / Size file of a such complete architecture object ?

@ Pilou: Thanks for your question. See image below for polygon count.

@pbacot said:

Wild! Fantastic but so real and intricate! Would like to see some of your buildings in real life.

@Peter: Thanks for your kind words. Some of my buildings in real life? Sure, these are not sci-fi... but here are a few of the projects I worked on from 1998 to 2003 while I was with VLK Architects (http://www.vlkarchitects.com/) before I quit my job to move to San Francisco and work for the game/film industries.

That's how I started learning SketchUp for Architecture when it came out in Fall of 2000.

I was either in charge of a project as the main designer or working with the Design Director on a bigger project for these buildings below.

Take care,

_KN

Weatherford floorplans-slide.jpg

ken28875

Hello there,

Here's a hangar I did for one of my space fighters.

That model was quite big with 865,369 quads/tris.

SketchUp + Vray for sketchUp + Photoshop

Hope you like it.

Have a great weekend!

_KN

pilou

Moebius' perspective!

ken28875

Cool, thanks for sharing, Pilou.

Have a good day!

_KN

boofredlay

Amazing work.

Stinkie

Indeed. Great stuff.

ken28875

@boofredlay said:

Amazing work.

Thanks for your kind words, Eric. Have a good day!

@unknownuser said:

Indeed. Great stuff.

Thank you very much for your comment, Tom. Take care.

Daniel

Maybe we should have a subfolder under "most impressive Sketchup modeling" and have Ken post all his work there.

ken28875

@daniel said:

Maybe we should have a subfolder under "most impressive Sketchup modeling" and have Ken post all his work there.

LOL...thank you for your kind words, Daniel. But I believe there are many talented people in this forum who deserve their own "most impressive Sketchup modeling" subfolder. I have seen lots wonderful models and renders. Keep them coming. You all inspire me.

All the Best,

_KN

Bryan K

@unknownuser said:

Moebius' perspective!

Is that from "Blank Incal"? Oh, I just Googled it. Yes it is. I used to have that series.

pilou

Yes the Golden age
I can't imagine that Moebius would create with Verve?
A so funny free prog of painting!

ken28875

Hi there,

Here's another personal project using some of my space fighters, the one posted above and the one below.

SketchUp + Lumion + Photoshop

Have a great Friday and weekend ahead!

pilou

Speed and action!

ken28875

@unknownuser said:

Speed and action!

Thanks for your comment, Pilou.

Have a good day!

_KN

Bryan K

Impressive as always.

ken28875

@bryan k said:

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.