My organic modeling 'brick wall'

[bsintzel]

Nicolas.

What a beautiful presentation. You must have put a lot of effort into that. It looks quite elegant.

Are you a professional illustrator or Architect by profession?

Personally, I've never rendered anything. I typically use Sketchup as a quick modeling tool to visualize in 3D whatever I want to build, 'before' I build it e.g., This spring, I used it to model my deck before I built it. I saved a lot of time exploring design possibilities and also to identify problems assembly before actually building it. I used 3DS Solidworks do do the FEA's on certain structural components but used Sketchup do do the more interesting (an fun) design work. Using Sketchup, I also saved a small fortune in waste material by modeling my structural components 'before' cutting them to size.

At this moment, I'm modeling my kitchen and living room space in advance of an upcoming renovation. The money I'm saving in wasted time and materials by using Sketchup is being diverted to buying more and more plugins.

By the way, the table you rendered actually exists in my living room, along with a 'lot' of other pieces, all of which I'm trying to decide where to place 'before' I renovate the space.

In all honesty, I've never had so much fun with 'any' software before. It seems there is no end to how I can use Sketchup. Now that I've seen the results you've obtained with my humble table, I'm jumping on the render wagon.

Cheers

Bob

[leminilab]

Hi Bob,

As weird as it may seem, I'm still struggling to label my job correctly!
I'm working in the event organization industry and what's closest to what I do may be stage design.
Basically, I'm given cad plans of the venue where the agency want to organize an event and I try to meet production costs and artistic ideas to sell the concepts.

Since the business is quite slow at the moment, I like to spend some time practising, modelling and rendering and trying to help people when I can. I got helped so much on this forum... It's an amazing community!

When I started modelling in Sketchup 3 years ago, I just thought I had to do my best to make a living out of it. And when I started rendering, it just met my personal tendency for precision and taste for photography... It all just made much sense!

I started rendering with Kerkythea and now I'm using Thea render. Thea render's new release is very exciting and from my point of view a true revolution for Sketchup users. And a lot of the Sketchucation community also migrated to Thea which makes Thea's community also amazing.

I can say I met a lot of great people on this journey and if I can also help a tiny bit then I'm the happiest guy!

Nice meeting you Bob! Have a nice day!
Nicolas