pmolson's HOMES
(Above is a link to other pmolson homes)

This is another real world project from pretty early on in our companies
sketchup use. At the time my presentation skills were not up to speed so
we were using Sketchup to model form for study purposes and then because
we have skilled individuals with colored pencils we would use the perspective
images as underlays and scan them for use in marketing and presentation.

I just thought I would throw this out here for any of you who are early on
in your use of sketchup as a way to utilize this program while honing your skills.

We have now pretty much gone over to fully rendered models instead of sketches. My
goal now is to study and learn some of the artistic rendering techniques that
we see posted throughout this gallery.

As always, C&C welcome and also I love to see how others are using sketchup
in the industry even if not in a fully polished way.

Thanks

Paul![Entry Study to get the "feel"](/uploads/imported_attachments/TmNz_3f.jpg "Entry Study to get the "feel"")

As a budding Graphic business, would you be willing show us a couple of images?

I love the discussions, but I always like pretty pictures too.

p

@thomthom said:

So I'm not going mad then... good to know.

No one said that.

Welcome Richard!

paul

I actually don't mind the color.
The fact that you did not over think the
color application gives it a half assed
feeling in a good way.

What is missing as far as I can see is
Screaming kids, crying kids, hair pulling, fighting,
peeing, you know....normal kids.

Nice work by the way.

p

Is this "object" a component?

If so, try right clicking on it and clicking "unglue"

paul
@pmolson said:

Please tell me that the second & third images are as builts not renders.

@solo said:

Great renders mate, the second and third are excellent, the first one has a little texture tiling on the counter top however.

I actually thought the second & third images were photos of the finished product.

The manufacturers tag on one of the chairs in the third image is a level of
detail I would have not thought of going to.

These are renders...? Wow!

p

@awakenedart said:

I suppose my question is you guys that have your own business or freelance, do you stay busy, and hows the income. I don't want it to seem like money is a huge issue...but we all got to eat, and hotdogs are only okay for a short while.

Hi Logan,

Welcome!
If money is not a huge issue for you, I wish I were in your shoes.

Self employment is about money. Don't get me wrong, passion, freedom, self expression,
not working for the man, are all wrapped up in the freelance game, but if you are
not making money the creative spirit is a lot harder to turn on.

My advice to you if you are just coming out of school is to maybe spend a little time working
for someone else while you develope a game plan and get a feel for how your skills can fit in the market place.
As for income level, your skills and your ability to market those skills will largely determine how much money
you can make.
If I sound like I am trying to discourage you, I am not. I just think its better to go into the freelance game with your
eyes open.
It aint easy!

Good luck.

Paul

Jhuman,

Nice job for such a limited time table!
The beauty of sketch up is the ability to relatively quickly put your client in the space. Even if
there is not time or money for a full blown presentation it can still make a powerful impression on
clients.
Please tell me that the second & third images are as builts not renders.
Nice design! Thanks for sharing some of your work.

What rendering program are you using?

p

Hi Fletch, I always welcome advice & or constructive critisism.

The way I interprate the lights is that they are casting light
out to the sides. I am sitting in my living room right now and
the ceiling light is on and casts light out to the sides as well
as down.

Do think they should cast more down than out? That probably is true
in that they are recessed fixtures.

The primary purpose of this post as well as the other posts in my home
series was not to show off my skills, but just to show an example of how
our company uses sketch up in the real world and hoping others would
post some of their own real world projects.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion and I would appreciate it if you would
expand a little on what you think the light should do.

Thanks

Paul

@jhuman said:

Looking good, somewhat resembles FLW's work. One question, are they really going to build the roof that way over the garage? Looks like some drainage problems in the near future.

Thanks for the comment and observation JHUMAN.

Good Catch. This was an early massing model and adjustments were
made to have the hips meet. Here is how it was built.

In the true spirit of FLW we could have left the flat spot and embraced the resulting leak.

@david57 said:

Look very good, nice models and renders.

Thank You David.

Thanks Markus. I like the $tone too. I have little to do
with design decisions on this one though, I am just modeling
and producing construction docs.

I am sending you a PM.

p

pmolson's HOMES
(Above is a link to other pmolson homes)

Still in concept mode, but we should be moving to construction docs soon.

As with other homes, I will post final concept renders and
construction images as we progress.

p

In progress images:

Updated construction progress images.

Plus a little lesson learned.
If you look at the entry rendering at the begining of this thread you will see a nice smooth flat ceiling.
During the design process this was changed to a mdo and batten ceiling. The Home owner was part of that
process & signed of on it, but only remembers the flat look from the rendering
and is a bit bent out of shape that he will have to pay a bit
extra for the flat no seam ceiling.

This is a minor deal this time, but it could have been something major.
From now on I need to be very clear with clients if the rendering/model
is being used as concept only. Selective memory is a dangerous thing.

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Thank you Tig.

p

Is there a way to force text created with the Text/leader tool to not re-size when zooming in & out?

Drives me crazy!

Thanks

pmo

Tim's reply was not very clear, so let me clarify for him...

BACKUP!

try this.

Insure curved piece is a group.

select it

right click

soften/smooth edges

in soften edges dialog window, check smooth normals box

adjust slider until geometry disappears.

p