Catchup Edition 6

Rich O Brien

Ho Ho Ho,

Here's the Christmas edition of CatchUp and we hope you enjoy it!

Firstly, Eric Lay returns with 'Making a Weave' tutorial and Adriana Granados shares another Interior Design technique. We've Mike's Apps and Gadgets reviews and an indepth review of LightUp and much more.

Also, SketchUcation's Mini Publications go from strength to strength. Our shelf is now packed with great tutorials and models to examine and learn from. So head on over to books.sketchucation.com to get the full lowdown.

Special thanks to David Hennessy and David Hier for sharing some killer techniques in adding some extra style to your renders.

To download the Interactive PDF you can go here

or to view in Flipping Page Format online you can go here

As always feel free to comment here as we love feedback.

We'll sign off by saying Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to all 100,000 of ye

Khai

ta muchly

d12dozr

Great job guys! ...the poem really made me laugh

irwanwr

can we have this publication shared on any social network? facebook perhaps?
thank you

simon le bon

So much thanks to the team for such a remarkable publishing.

I just have finished to read the David Hier article about modeling architecture "VILLA" (p20) and have found it definitely intructive.

simon

Gaieus

@irwanwr said:

can we have this publication shared on any social network? facebook perhaps?
thank you

Sure, you can share it wherever you like. If you share the redirect ink, we can also track where clicks come from. http://sketchucation.com/catchup/2011/12/

Rich O Brien

Where are you placin this?

irwanwr

the thumbnail wont showed up with the link given though.
i'll try to find another way.
thank you Gaieus.

the flipping one works fine if it shared (fb) with "share on facebook" feature.

irwanwr

hi Rich,

i shared it on my wall on facebook.
with the java script provided by facebook, share on facebook.

javascript&#058;var d=document,f='http://www.facebook.com/share',l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p='.php?src=bm&v=4&i=1251646389&u='+e(l.href)+'&t='+e(d.title);1;try{if (!/^(.*\.)?facebook\.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))throw(0);share_internal_bookmarklet(p)}catch(z) {a=function() {if (!window.open(f+'r'+p,'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=1,width=626,height=436'))l.href=f+p};if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else{a()}}void(0)

CatchUp screenshot.png

i've opened the SketchUcation page on facebook. but, the CatchUp 6 haven't been posted there yet. tested the CatchUp 5 to share it, yet it wont show the thumbnail.

that one was shared with the flipping page link and the java script above.

[edit] direct download link will work with the "old fashion" copy and paste way right onto the status update box.

Rich O Brien

When it comes to Facebook I'm the wrong guy to ask. I deleted my account last month as it served no purpose.

Strictly G+ here.

But thanks for sharing this with your friends

irwanwr

@unknownuser said:

When it comes to Facebook I'm the wrong guy to ask. I deleted my account last month as it served no purpose.

Strictly G+ here.

But thanks for sharing this with your friends

Google+?
i can see what you mean probably.
since i haven't been that active in that fb networks either for about ±3 weeks.
it was a good one once a while though, a little better than Linkedin.

pbacot

Great job! Looks great and fine articles by everyone. I like the quality, seeing David's images with explanation then being able to zoom in to study the detail. Thanks! Peter

leedeetee

Great work by everyone involved. Always a pleasure to read/learn from.

Happy Christmas.

bmike

Online version not available for iPad.

Gaieus

Might be true - have not tried yet. However itz says it's an upcoming feature so in the future it will be available:
http://issuu.com/about

bmike

@gaieus said:

Might be true - have not tried yet. However itz says it's an upcoming feature so in the future it will be available:
http://issuu.com/about

just went to the PDF link and opened it in iBooks... so that worked well.

nice job everyone!

Rich O Brien

Try Adobe PDF reader app. It can be a bit sluggish on iBooks.

If we launched a dedicated iPad it would mean charging as it costs to host on iTunes but we could do alot more interactive stuff with videos etc.

We stick with free for now.

Issuu are beta testing an iPad friendly version that is pretty cool as I used it.

Hieru

Looks great!!!

I'm glad my work-flow tutorial proved informative (I was concerned that it was a bit too basic). At some point I'll probably create a more detailed version for my website, share some of the models and textures used and upload the more detailed version of the main Villa PM model.

fouronethirty

tnx