The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

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!

ken28875

@bryan k said:

Those are some crazy cool looking buildings!

Thanks for your kind words, Bryan!

Have a terrific weekend!

_KN

ken28875

Hello everyone,

Halloween is just around the corner. So I thought I'd share some personal projects with zombies!

I found some models on 3D warehouse, fixed them and added more details and textures.

SketchUp + Lumion3D + Photoshop

Please let me know what you think.

Have a great weekend!

_KN

Bryan K

Love it! Those are great!

Daniel

Great work as always, Ken.
Question: why do they remodel your concept models? Why don't they use your SU models? Sounds like they are just re-inventing the wheel.

ken28875

@bryan k said:

:roflmao: Love it! Those are great!

Thanks for your kind words, Bryan.

@daniel said:

Great work as always, Ken.
Question: why do they remodel your concept models? Why don't they use your SU models? Sounds like they are just re-inventing the wheel.

Thanks for you interest and questions, Daniel. The SketchUp models are not game ready assets, therefore not optimized for importing into the game engine. The polycount is way too high and the textures are not correctly mapped. Indeed, my SketchUp models have tons of individual textures whereas the actual game models use 1 to 3, 512x512 or 1024x1024 texture maps.

However, for some simple and small models, the 3D modelers do use my Skp models sometimes by doing some minor fixes with the polygons and adding textures.

Have a good day!

_KN

ken28875

Hi everyone,

Here's another personal project called the Assault.

SketchUp + Lumion3D + Photoshop

Have a great weekend!

_KN

Bryan K

Excellent as always!

cotty

ken28875

@bryan k said:

Excellent as always!

Thanks, Bryan!

Here's another concept from my series of first-person-shooter-video game like Battlefield or Call of Duty.

SketchUp + Lumion3D + Photoshop

Have a great week everyone!

_KN

ken28875

@cotty said:

:thumb:

Thanks for your Carsten.

Hi guys,

I hope you all have a great weekend so far.

Here are some more of my military vehicles. I will texture and render them eventually in the near future.

Take care,

_KN

Bryan K

Those look great.

ken28875

@bryan k said:

Those look great.

Thanks, Bryan!

Have a great weekend!

_KN

ken28875

Hello everyone,

For those of you who remember, I did a sci-fi battleship inspired by Eve Online game back in late 2009.

If you have not seen the WIP to the final model or like to take a look again, please scroll up this thread. I have also attached images of the final model below...a walk down memory lane.

Anyway, I decided to use that spaceship in one of my illustrations done in October 2013. Instead of having it horizontally, I had it standing vertically.

SketchUp + Lumion3D + Photoshop

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

_KN

Another end-of-the-world concept: