@russellbeta said:

maybe i should make a seperate thread for this topic

yes may be

but it is amazing that you posted this here because I have exactly the same questions on a project i think about . It 's a building, and, as yours, something "big" with details and I wanted to make a kind of "movie", a camera that flies around it and shows us the outside and the inside .... in the sketchup scene (without colours or textures , just the shadows from the sun), but I didn't know if that is possible so...I don't know ....let's see if we will have an answer here but may be the best for your project (and mine) is that you create a new thread !

@russelbeta no i did no research on Kerkythea, it is just that I need a free photorealist engine with no limits of size and a friend told me about Kerkythea. I have just been on the website and I like the gallery

thanks russelbeta for your comment !

for the "hardlines" of makehuman, I wanted to keep them for these pictures because I want these "creatures" to look like "robots" and not like robot with human part . But thanks for the "smooth edges" , I keep it .

for the moment, my approach for rendering is to apply differents matcaps in Zbrush to my volume, then to exports these pictures in PSP and put them together to have a nice picture .

I don't use a rendering motor yet, but I will soon . I heard about Podium and the limits of the size of its rendering for the free version ...That's why I think that I will use Kertkythea instead of it . It seems to be a good one and no limit for size rendering .

and you are right,bezier seems to be usefull, I downloaded it and will use it

another one in black and white ...

http://i38.tinypic.com/20jl9o3.jpg

very nice !

first I couldn't see what it was ...but after reading I can see the girl, beach, and moon light

hi !

I really like the fourth one !!

volume, colour ...

it seems like from an animation movie ...

creative and beautiful

very good

yes, there is something "special" in this room I really like ...

@fewdavid thanks for your comments ok for the fanclub

here a picture I made with a matcap and PSP, it is not my favourite, I will try to do another one with the same "style"

http://i35.tinypic.com/2lizzf4.jpg

yes I sleep and I have a job

3 others renders I did with one matcap of Zbrush (a white one) and photoshop

http://i25.tinypic.com/2hdvcex.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/deohz4.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2bqgc9.jpg

ps click on the link under the image , and then click on the image appeared to enlarge it .

yes, me too, I really like the style and the colours of your pictures ....

thanks for your comments

@Igor spend time your models and you will find the "details". It is really just a question of work

what is very cool with Sketchup is that it is really simple to use .....not a lot of tools to use(draw then push/pull) .Then let your imagination be your engine !

me, I usually work with a picture, first I try to do what I see, and then I change my model as I feel it .

aahhh ok ... I understand the volume now

nice !

some rendering I did with the matcaps of zbrush and photoshop .

http://i30.tinypic.com/30cnoea.jpg

http://i31.tinypic.com/102nywj.jpg

I like this one very much ...your kind of art applied to something "real".

but I see it really bigger ! the human should be at least half the side he is now .

really nice ! I would like to live in it

yes, it seems that there is a lot of possibilities ! I understand when you say you have fun with doing this

I like your renderings, very differents and nice .

@Julius thanks !

how can I delete it ? If I erase it, a surface disappears ...

may be there is a pluggin for that

@Kwistenbiebel no...not yet, I wait for my new computer, I think I will have it next friday, then I will begin works with Zbrush too and colour/rendering with my Sketchup models .

thanks for asking

but you can see some "rendering" on my website (3d) . But I think I will do better mith my new machine

thanks Julius and Pilou ! yes components are very usefull

a train I did in old-futurist style

@ah ok ...are components usefull ? I will make inquiries about it .

thanks

a kind of amazon spider . the human part is from Makehuman

thanks !

@Durant Hapke how to make some lines invisible ? well, my model is not very clean .I mean that I usually work with symetry , doing only one half of my model , then I do a "mirror" .This time, the mirror I did was wrong . Normally, there is only one caudal appendice, now there is 2 .But i liked the result, so I repaired each half it piece by piece to have at the end something symetric and "closed" . the "invisibles lines" are the intersections of my 2 halfs , the volumes are crossed but the intersections are not drawn

I hope you understand my explanations

and I do like your machine, it is crazy ans funny, as you are may be I guess

hi Pilou yes...my moto in a pink sunrise ! looks nice

thanks for your comments ...

I
just bought a new computer, I think I will have it next friday .I will be able to work some colours and rendering of my Sketchup models ...

I am very impatient to have it

At the beginnig, that was a fly ...but at the end, Iknow it is an insect and I know that it flies , but I am not sure anymore of its name !

@kwistenbiebel yes you are right , I do my subdivisions and smooth with Zbrush or Blender if I need some