@marian said:

Tha maiden part of the pun wasn't as easy to figure out, with all the chinese lettering and a musical connection....

It actually was "made in china" in chinese, but I was not hoping that someone would uderstand it It would have been too easy if I had just written it in english, so I wanted everyone to think about the conections. Also I thought that the words "music group" would be pretty obvious to spot, but I got "Sing Ying " instead

Here's an easy one

@olishea said:

iron maiden

Darn too easy for music lovers

1. yes they are usable

2)In the component diolog box push details and open or create a local collection.

I hope you have SU 7.1,it actually has a back button

@marian said:

Singing iron? is there some company name Sing Ying that produces quality iron?

Think more carefully about the clue and the phrase. The iron is made from really heavy metal

@ultimatez 32 said:

standing iron?

standing japanese iron?

sinking boat hull?

nope

@ecuadorian said:

Chnese FireWall?
Chnese Iron regime?

good thinking, but no. The writing is in chinese, a very popular phrase actually throuout the world.

I guess you'll need some clues

Here's one from me. Just made it for this thread.

Tip: pay attention to detail I hope this wont be to much of a problem for you guys

@fletch said:

Also, sometimes I notice the problem of drawing a line or copying something, it will look like it's locked onto the right point, say an endpoint... but will 'jump to some endpoint in the "background" instead of where it's showing locked onto in the preview of the point... so the line or object is not ending up being drawn in the right place. So, again, I'm just overcompensating by being 'extra' careful and 'taking no chances' when drawing, but again, a small price to pay for faster vid. performance.

I also have this issue in SketchUp 7, so perheps this problem is not caused by SketchUp.

Looks great. It's a pitty the transformers in the 3d warehouse are either not transformable or grouped so badly they can't be modifyed so they could. Because I would like to try to make an animation of the transformation some time.

Very great renders! I especially love the interiors

Thanks! I wasn't expecting so much comliments

I was wondering if is there enought detail or would it look better with the cabinet you can see in the attachment to replace the one by the window. And should I use a solid color for the walls, or maybe I could just add a filter to this one to lower the opacity of those lines?

Thanks for the tip stefan! I could't figure this myselfe, so I just blured the edges of the shadows a bit in PS.

I chopped a bit off the top of the image so the grain on the ceiling wouldn't be visible. Any ideas how to lose it?

heh.. Ok maybe it really wasn't the best idea, but this time I'll just blame it on the lack of alternatives I had I guess I should start drawing my own wallpaper or bringing my lazy ass up to start looking for something rather than staying with what I have already

Hey!

I just started learning v-ray for SketchUp to add some more realism to my little hobbie. So this is my first render, a small kitchen lighted in the morning sun. I really love the mood I got in the end. Added some god rays, adjusted curves and put some blur here and there for pp in photoshop. C & C apreciated

Sounds great, can't wait to see my work in the daily CatchUp again I promise to keep my vids coming if I keep getting such good replys . Just if anyone has any great ideas of what to make my next video about please share your thoughts

Thanks!

Just imagine the things people do to get in The Daily CatchUp...

Ok.. I began this by finding a great high poly model of Luxo in the warehouse which I then remodeled and grouped so it was then about 8 times smaller in size and with many adjustments to allow me to move and rotate diferent parts of the model. After that I inserted an omni inside the bulb with some extra geometry to lead the light and added some transparensy to the bulb itself (needed some time to figure out how to make this work because at diferent parts of the animation the transparensy had to change, the reason is that at a sertan angle of view the light will break from a different side of the face).

Next I made Luxo fully functional in SU physics and saved him at different positions that served as templates. Then I put them on a path that was devided in segments to match the disired fps rate and rotated Luxo's head and the base plate for each copy (100mb file in the end :smile: ). The process was kind of simillar for all the animation. 

Brought the models in the "stage" with 8 omnis for a softer shadow and rendered them one by one. There were more than 250 frames in the end with an average rendering time of 3 minutes, with optimal presets and  1216 x 676 reselution. 
The final step was to put all the frames in Sony Vegas studio and synchronise them with the audio track and add the signature.

Frederik,
I really love the original Pixar logo so I wanted to stay as close as possible to it. But thats a great idea , maybe if I had thought of it earlyer...
I was making this animation slowly from july and added the finishing touch just today.

Hi,

So I have just finished my third animation starring Luxo in the classic Pixar Animation studios logo remaked in Sketchup. It's made in stop motion tehnique and rendered with SU Podium. I'll show some details for this animation soon on.

Enjoy!

[flash=820,485:2pcaa21w]http://www.youtube.com/v/3t9BwuWc8YA[/flash:2pcaa21w]

Nice render Pete!

Just started having fun with Vue 5 and I'm amazed how easy it is to make natural enviroments only in minutes. And Vue really works great hand in hand with SketchUp.
I'm definitely looking forward for your tutorials. But are there already any SU to Vue related tutorials around or maybe something useful for material editing?

Heh.. nice I even saw my animations posted on some vietnamies SU forum Nice to know that someone likes my work. By the way this is my first animation I mentioned before.
[flash=820,485:33vn4i3g]http://www.youtube.com/v/jZ-37h7wz0s[/flash:33vn4i3g]

Wow, I really didn't expect to get in The Daily Cachup Thanks for the appretiation. I sure would love to spare more time for SketchUp when my exams and practice is over. At least 2/3 of my Podium short term goals are done- the time lapse and orbiting, now just for the biggest challange- object animating. I'm still thinking how to work around this with podium and I hope I'll get a quite decent rusult from it