Wonderful work. Makes you wanna know what happened!!

Thank you all so much for the kind words!!

Fun little project I put together with SketchUp and Lumion 10...candles were a challenge but I think they turned out pretty good!

Challenged myself to finish a whole project in one evening, and here we are! Pretty much done, just have to not be lazy and finish adding all the label stickers

Rendered in Thea as always!

Looking sweeeeeet! Can't wait to see the tires get beefed up

Simply magnificent

This looks amazing Bryan!

This is some phenomenal modeling Tuna! I'm loving all the little details. I have a car lighting rig I'm working on if you feel like sharing the model Id love to test it out on this. Again, great work!!!

Looking absolutely smashing mate! Can't wait to see where this winds up.

@ntxdave said:

OK - I finally got around to messing with your model in Twilight Render Pro V2 and here is my latest attempt:
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This turned out gorgeous mate. Well done! Don't forget you can have fun playing around with the lighting position and colors for some fun effects

Trying to start making some of my own designs now instead of just modeling from reference. Hard to break out of the box/sphere trap grrr

It might have turned into a futuristic grenade Have fun playing around with it tho!

HARDSURFACE_01.skp

Google Docs (drive.google.com)

@ntxdave said:

@aviz770 said:

....I've had days of nothing to do but sketchup ever since COVID locked everything down, so I figured why not level up on the modeling skills

I can upload a link to the model and you can play around with it? I'm not sure if you have Thea Render but I can include the materials/lights as well if you'd like.

I have, at least for now, lost my sponsor so I am pretty much completely retired now and have lost some of my incentive.
I am kind of relearning JavaScript and trying to help my son learn it so he can build a new career.

Yes, please share you model so I can learn more/improve. All of met modeling to date has been car wash equipment but not as fulle detailed as your models. I have Twilight Render Pro 2 but I think there are a lot of similarities. I fo not have any plugins like SubD so I have to do everything from scratch.

Oh I hear ya! I just turned 21, and finishing up a CAD degree with a pretty dismal outlook on employment with cases exploding across the US. What a weird time to be living through.

Anyways, I'm happy to share the model! Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like help with and I'd be more than happy to help where I can! I'll post a link tonight.

@ntxdave said:

Once again, great/excellent work.

You are making me sound like a broken record and feel like like an artistic dunce!

No, thank you for all of your encouragement man, I really do appreciate it! I've had days of nothing to do but sketchup ever since COVID locked everything down, so I figured why not level up on the modeling skills

I can upload a link to the model and you can play around with it? I'm not sure if you have Thea Render but I can include the materials/lights as well if you'd like.

Fun practice piece I did today of a tiny little bike component!

Rendered in Thea as always

@ntxdave said:

WOW - EXCELLENT !!!!

Don't think it could be done any better than this. I would love to be able to achieve models at this level. Would actually be satisfied at a level below this. You should develop some tutorials/hints for people like me to be able to learn from.

Thank you so much! I would love to try and make some tutorials and spread the knowledge. As a real brief overview, I occasionally use Vertex Tools and SubD but honestly its usually easier to do some good ol' fashioned box modeling and then bevel the edges with the RoundCorner plugin. The modeling itself isn't overly complex, you simply have to model EVERYTHING in order for it to look detailed and realistic. I used to try and keep my projects down to a single day and now I end up spending days on a single piece

Will try and hop on some tutorials soon!