Hey, that worked pretty well. That's an 8X10 composite at 150 dpi and it looks great. I've printed several of these of various models so I can show young people SU no matter where I am. Since always carry my photography portfolios with me, it's easy to whip out some cool SU work to impress kids and get them interested.

When I have some of my SU work worth showing, I'm going to put up a 3D section on my website. It's currently mostly about photo restoration and my other photography, but will soon include SketchUp, well actually it does in the "Links" section, but I mean pictures of models. The site is http://www.adifferentpicture.com.

I hope you will put up more of your work on SketchUcation. You're doing some good stuff.

Lloyd

I'm sorry, I know better than to use acronyms. I never know what they are so I shouldn't be using them.

NDA is "Non-disclosure Agreement" and would mean that you could not disclose the name of the game or the company/developer that commissioned your work. I will be showing your work to some of my students who will be at a dinner tomorrow, and they always want to know who, what, when and where. To reiterate, if you are not able to give any of that information, it is perfectly cool, because I can say "I asked", and they understand when there is an NDA it's not available.

My first model was posted in Sept, it's at
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=39872

Keep up the good work.

Lloyd

iichiversii,

Are you under NDA on the name of the game or the developer? If so it's ok, I just had to ask. My students will ask, so...

You've done a great job on adding age and damage to the barn and it looks like it was done very economically, time and polygon wise, also.

Great work!

Lloyd

Bryan K,

Do your models have really bad "anti Aliasing", meaning you have severe jaggies? At what level of model presentation are they the most problem? Could you post a couple of examples of the worst?

I searched SketchUcation for "anti aliasing" and got 24 matches. I don't have time to go through and find the ones that might help you, but until you get responses for others here you might check out a few of them and see if your problem has been discussed.

Lloyd

John2

I'm not sure this will help because I don't know that much about PDFs, but the only way to find out is to post it.

I make PDFs by pulling screen captures, moving them into PhotoShop and saving them as Photoshop PDF files. I've sent these "PDFs" out to friends and clients, and they seem to do the job, (they open on any computer, and can be printed) however I don't know how that would meet your requirements. I'm doing this on a Mac which is pretty easy. I can't tell you how to accomplish the same thing on a PC, the capture and put into Photoshop part, but I'm sure someone here can.

Good luck.

Lloyd

Charles,

It is such a kick to be gone from the forums for a couple of months and come back and find something so great like your ship. It is wonderful for sooooo many reasons...the complexity is so exciting, the anticipation for the detail you will accomplish is intense, and the joy, I am LOL, because it is so great that someone has the time and the deep inspiration and appreciation of a sci fi story to do that model. Hurray!! and I look forward to more posts of progress. Oh... and your blog is also great. It is such a pleasure to be able to follow the development of projects like yours.

You go guy!!!!

Lloyd

Unigami - anything with a track like that is awesome to us newbies. Most incredible! Did you just do that from the photograph you showed, or did you have some other better source?

Solo, you just HAD to show Jack Torrance. We all had his image in our minds. Obviously hard to resist and very intense.
Lloyd

Mushtaq,

You may have already found all of this with Google, but just in case, this first one could be very good depending on your needs.

This may be the most usefull. It has floor plans of a working studio campus in PDF form.

http://secondlinestages.com/

This is a small note on Green Screen setup. You gotta have green screen.

http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-a-Green-Screening-Studio

This contains about 90 movie studios worldwide. Could be used to reference well known as well as obscure studio’s information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_studio

This site has a presentation that shows a lot of organizational diagrams, charts on industry structures and management structures, in case your need includes the money and people side of the studio

http://www.slideshare.net/chakulan/motion-picture-studio-strategy-and-managment-presentation

Hope this is helpful.

Lloyd

Thanks Dale and Rick,

Both of your modeling is way beyond awesome!

@unknownuser said:

Were you previously doing them by hand drawing?

I essentially photograph buildings and build boxes in their shape and put photos on the boxes. It works best for simple buildings. For Rodven I took bits and pieces of textures from about 20 different photos on the Internet. So visually it’s pretty accurate. For others I create/combine/draw the buildings and textures with Photoshop. I’ve worked in PShop for over fifteen years, so I know about a quarter of it really well. I’m curious, can you/do you use SketchyPhysics to model Mobiles?

@unknownuser said:

Caution: SketchUp can be addictive

I think a “productive” addiction would be nice to add to all of my other not so productive ones. You talk about addictions, how about my spending hours in your “Fine Design” thread, not to mention all of the side trips, Tim Cooper, and MechiCards (I can hear SketchyPhysics calling me). Now, when I’m away from the computer or home, I am looking at the way everything is designed where before it was just “How would I model that?” and I’M ONLY ON PAGE 12 of your thread. But thank you for it.

Must…..find…..more…..time, but where? Ah ha, less sleep…..no, no, too old, suicide…. How about fast food? No, no…..also suicide, grrrrrrr

Quit an inspiration to catch a little attention of two high-end modelers.

Thanks again.

Lloyd

This began as a card stock model shown in the middle composite with a photo of the original 12th century stave church. In addition to learning SU, one objective was to see how usable existing texture maps that I have would be in SU. I found that they will need some serious work for each to be workable.

I made a lot of mistakes in building this so it wouldn’t pass the requirements for Google Earth use. Maybe later I’ll take a shot at an economical version. The texture is worth using and it's a very simple shape, especially compared to other stave churches.

After some PShop touch up, I inserted it in place of the original church in the Google street level scene in the bottom picture.

I’ve been deconstructing a nine story stav kirke in spare time for over a year that was to be my next card stock model. It's got to be an SU model once I get the proportions down solid. I'm going to have concentrate on removing hidden geometry since the shapes will create lots of it.

Wow! SU has really reordered my life. I find I'm more conscious of small blocks of time not spoken for when I can dive in for a while. Thank you so much to all who have so quickly helped me when I needed it. This is a great place to be.

Lloyd

@unknownuser said:

I prefer big focal lenght such as 125mm; probably the focal lenght of your camera is almost 28mm

Edson. Could Fabio be referring to the Camera Menu>Field of View selection that lets you enter the values in the lower right corner of SU, either in degrees, or mm as in 28mm. That sets your view to the same as a 28mm lens on a camera? I was looking for a way to convert FoV degrees to millimeters since I'm a photographer and don't think in degrees, when I discovered that SU does it for you my just putting mm after the value.

I like the wide angle look in your renderings, but I can see Fabio's point.

@unknownuser said:

isn't possible(and usefull)to use the lateral ground by natural stone terrace?

I'd be interested to know what he is referring to there also.

I'm posting my "first ever model" tonight. I've quit a way to go before I can do the remarkable work you have done.

Thank you for posting those pictures

Lloyd

Thank you TIG and Johnny, I've think I've got it now. In a few days I will have some time to try it. The next time I run into a problem, I'll experiment more before I ask for help.

This time I'd been reading posts and looking at tutorials for days and couldn't look at another one so I appreciate your taking the time to bail me out.

Lloyd

@mac1 said:

Toggle the alt during the move to allow the auto fold.

Thanks Mac1. I'm with you up to toggling the auto fold which I haven't even looked at. I will now and while I'm trying your approach, I'll see how it works. I think I've got the spire covered.

In the mean time, while making an example of how I produced the base, I found another way to do it that has the face clean. I should have tried other ways to get the measurement of the spire base (that center eight sided circle) before I posted a request for help. I'm uploading my example of how to do something the hard way.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi,

I’ve been reading a lot of posts and watching a lot of tutorials and I’ve gotten pretty far on my first model, but when I ran into this and went back to posts I’m having a hard time distilling the information down to a simple answer. I haven’t quit got the vocabulary down enough to ask the right search questions.

I may have built this roof the wrong way (from the box on the left) and a better way might not have created the problem, but I’m going to ask for some help on this one.

How do I remove the middle triangle and keep a face over the whole side?

I tried to fill in that space with the shape in the middle above the roof (inserted with photoshop) by drawing lines from point to point, but it would not create a face, so I ended up creating the face by inserting those middle lines. Of course when I try to erase them, it opens up the face.

Also should I post the SU file or is it enough to do the JPG?

A little direction or explanation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Lloyd

Thank you TIG for the answer AND your patience.

Quick Newbie question -Can't find an answer with multiple searches, so I guess I have to ask, what does DEA refer to?

@unknownuser said:

Hi Lloyd,

Have you tried pgup or pgdn keys? I'm not sure if a Mac has them? If no, the arrows keys should navigate.

Hi Rich and thank you for the response. Yes there are pgup and dn keys on the Mac. Never used them much, but will now as they do provide a more stable navigation through the PDF newsletter. I'm still curious if the little hand is a function of the newsletter or this new version of Adoble Reader. Oh, and the arrow keys also work.

Well, I've had time to check out the "Flipping Page" version of Catchup and find its interactive functionality easier to understand, learn, and use. The functionality also makes the layout more understandable where the layout on the the PDF version was confusing without all of the visual references to location and the magazine like animation. I'll probably use the paging flipping version from now on as I don't have time to decipher the void of the PDF version.

Thanks again.

@mknorr said:

Is it just me or are there a lot of images missing in this issue? For example, the cable article has 8 steps in the centre and nothing either side. Also other articles have blank areas amongst the Text that look to me as needing images. I am using an iPad but I don't see these issues in the precious releases.

Thank you for any help provided.
Manfred

Does this look like what you see on your iPad? If so, the space between text would be to line the text with the corresponding graphic example. On my screen, there are eight pairs of graphics. If it's not what you see the problem lies elsewhere.

Lloyd

Hi everyone,

There is some pretty impressive work in all of the CatchUps and it's looking very good. I'm writing a design critique, and since I don't have time to twitter or Facebook, is this the appropriate place to put the critique when it is done?

There are some strange things happening when I try to navigate around in the newsletter. In 3 I don't get the PDF control at the page bottom, I get a little hand with an arrow in it. Is this the "new" interactivity that I thought I saw mentioned? My mouse is so sensitive (maybe I can change a setting) that if I touch the scroll wheel it jumps to the next or next several pages. If I click, and somehow it reads a double click I keep getting thrown into the "redirect" to an advertisers page. All in all, I'm not sure if it's the newsletter or the fact that I just installed Adobe Reader 10.1.0 on my OS X 10.5.8. Any comments?

Hi everyone,

Starting with SU 8 free, I feel like I lead a charmed life; weeks of tutorials to dive into, hundreds of techniques developed, rough spots smoothed, new tools and plug-ins and an international community of intelligent, creative and unusual people. WOW!

I did my first 3-D graphics in 1984 for a Vivitar service magazine cover. The Penguin software could only do wire frame, but it looked very high tech for 1984. To convert the image to a usable format I shot slides with 2-second exposures on high contrast film off of a 1000 line resolution monitor.

I’ve done 3-D on a Mac every chance I could get on the low-end software like Ray Dream and Strata Vision. Never could justify the big ones because I wasn’t making a living doing it.

I did get to do a rotating 3D Time Warner logo for one of our products when I worked at Warner New Media. It was chrome and the B/W bit map I used for the reflection was a rustic French bathroom. I think that was with ArchiCad. It was originally supposed to begin animating as a line of CDs, hence the disc structure. By the time it was done it was just a rotating logo.

Now I do photo illustrations, restorations and regular photography. I started with Photoshop in version 2 and when layers were added in V.3, I started teaching it to all of my friends, and then to clients, and then incorporated it in all my classes. The last one “Interactive Media Product Development and Production” was in 2003 at USC School of Cinema – Television, now the School of Cinematic Arts.

Now I’m part of the working “retired” living on the frontier in the high pine country of east central Arizona. I’m making more time to follow paths through the Internet, one of which led me to SketchUp. The work of the members is so extraordinary that I could spend a month examining all of the models. Even my favorite building in the entire world, Chateau de Chillon in Switzerland, has been done, and quite well too.

One of my first projects is the All-Terrain-Vehicle that I did 22 years ago. The biggest challenge is to make the tire treads. Since I remember a lot about how I did it the first time, it will help me understand how SU works.

I will not be so verbose in the future. I don’t chat much, too much going on, but I will be around. Happy to be with you, rock on!