Their my parents too Brandene

Holy discombobley thats cool

Its one I made by combining 2 that were in the Style Builder Competition Winners set and tweaking the settings a little. All credit to the original authors.
Both Image 3 and 4 are the same style but with different face styles (Hiddenline, Shaded, Monochrome etc) and 'Use sun for shading' switched on or off.
To be honest I cant remember the exact combination but you get the idea.

I've attached the mashed style.

Pencil Sketch _ Traced lines _ Boarder1.style

Ohh, is that still doing the rounds?

I should finish it...Shouldn't I

Ok, here goes..

The images look to bright, there's no contrast.

Remember its a model and not the real thing, nobody's going to notice if you swing the north point around to create better shadows per image. A lot of yours are completely in shadow removing any opportunity for the shadows to pick out details like cills, reveals etc.

Your road/pavement/curb materials look wrong, go outside and have a look at the real thing, their quite dark, the pavements will be darker than the road as their not driven over every day.

This is a link to the materials I used in the model you PM'd me about. With luck the images used in them are in the exported materials.
Zipped folder of SU materials from housing project

shareck, hope you don't mind but I did a bit of mucking around with a couple of styles.
I think the 3rd and 4th image look fantastic.

Here's a link to the Picasa album I've dropped them in : Picasa Album

2009-03-09 - Picasa Link - 8 Images
Version 2 of the church I posted on Friday.
Changed everything, shown to client, loved it, changed everything.

What is it with me and churches? Here I am an Englishman whose opinions on ANY religion is totally unprintable, living in Northern Ireland, working on church after church after church.

I think someone is sending me a message and I think whoever that someone is has a very sick sense of humor.

In a previous life I was a mechanical engineer, In one of the companies I worked I was involved in making the radiator grills/engine covers for the challenger II's. (along with the commode/seat for the driver, ughh)
I can tell you now that I instantly recognized the part(s) from this image:

All I can really remember is that they were very very heavy, were made from alloy stock that had to be kept under lock and key and that even the arc welding rods were rather special. We even had to return any swarf to the 'customer' in a locked container when finished.
All this for a radiator grill!!

Well done, these are fantastic models. If I may ask, what are your source materials?

How about a small postit note stuck to the corner of the screen whenever you play the animation?

Think about it, each time you ran the animation it could be personalised for the audience:

Good luck, having been where you are now (Link, Link), I know it can be a daunting prospect.
If you don't mind I'd like to offer a little advice.

Does the model need to have both the interior and exterior? or could it be built as 2 models, when your inside you can't see the outside and vica versa. If you build it as 2 models it will make it far more manageable.

Groups, Groups, GROUPS! I can't say this loud enough, and Layers, I'd be lost without them. Group as you go along, in the church I did, a typical column is a component(group) that consists of 4 groups (Base, Column, Capital, Details) Within the base group alone there are are 3 groups and the details group (the flowery stuff around the capital) there is probably 20-30 groups within groups.
You can always explode it later.

Beg, steal, borrow or as a last resort buy a Leica Disto, it will make the surveying MASSIVLEY easier.

Start with the floor, get this built and everything else will link to it.

Mentally break the building down in to parts - The columns -> a column -> its base, shaft, capital etc. Thais way you'll be able to put it together again later.

Photos, you just can't have enough of them. Take photos of everything from every angle.

Save things like the pews for later, this sounds a bit odd but there will be times that you'll get a bit lost in what your doing and having a 'thing' that you can start and more importantly FINISH in an hour/day/week will get you back on track.

Hope the above helps and feel free to ask away.

Edit:
One more thing.... Remember, your building a MODEL of a church, not a church itself, you don't have to get every detail right. You only have to get it right enough for it to be recognisably that column, cill, pew etc. Its very very easy to get lost in the detail.

What I got was a rectangle (4 lines) 2 'stickyout' bits (another 4 lines) and whilst he was putting his coat on to go to a meeting I got "Make it 19mx36m, chop the corners off, make the roof 22.5 degrees, a 1.8m center isle and 1.2m side isles" and then as he was passing through the door "stuff some column/frames in, I'll look at it in the morning" SLAM!

Alll in all a rather typical day....

2009-02-18 - Picasa Link - 7 images
A lot of work but not much to show today, I'm in the process of building and locating all the radiators, sockets, light switches, furniture etc. This is not what we'd normally do but its necessary on this particular job.

2009-02-19 - Picasa Link - 34 images
Lots done today but not much to show for it so here's an project I did a while ago.

2009-03-04 - Picasa Link - 61 images
Slow day today so did some mucking about with styles, here are 9 views done in 6 different styles.
I was especially impressed with the last style so did some closeups.

I also tried a quick anim test with the last style, not bad, I was expecting the sketchy lines to jump around a bit but it looks fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJpf1Rn0XoE

Thanks Dave.

Here's today's meager effort.

2009-03-05 - Picasa link - 7 images

Just starting this one, the boss appeared at about 2pm and said 'build this' whilst handing me a piece of paper with about 6 lines on it. Its only an initial concept to show the client as to what could be possible on the site.

Opps, I've just realised that I used the wrong style, I put the new one in the folder but forgot to flush the old one out of the model

I'll have a go later with the new one.

Here's a couple of quick tests using the above style, Thanks

Chris, its OSX's place for storing logins/passwords.

I imagine that SU will store your Google account info for logging into warehouse and this is what is keychain is wanting permission for.

I did some mucking about with the above style along with some others, I'm well impressed with the results.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=16822&p=137091#p137091

I have to admit that I'm quite poor at replying to other peoples posts.
Unless I can say something constructive I tend not to say anything, I don't like just typing 'Good job' or 'Well done' etc. because they invariably don't reflect the effort/work by the original poster....So I don't type anything....Weird.

I'd love it if we could award stars (like iTunes), that way I could show my appreciation without the need for a 2 word post.

Evey time I think to myself "The best think about Sketchup is how beautifully simple it is" somebody comes along and makes it more beautiful and simpler.
Thanks for this its one of those things you didn't know you wanted until it appeared.