Sheffield sounds good to me, I would love to get some hands tutorials with experienced pros.

PS I'm based in Sheffield too.

Has anyone seen other alternatives to this?

Render Plus Systems

(www.renderplus.com)

Bac-a-fleurs.pdf

Hi Gaieus, the project explores the idea of growing food (urban agriculture) in inner city areas and what it means to the community - with rising oil prices and other factors such as China and India's rising demand for meat, food prices are being driven up. It may become a necessity to grow your own within the next 20 years, so the project looks at how it can be done. The building pictured is an old victorian school, which I have stripped out and inhabited with another building. The idea is that food grown within a 10 minute radius of the building will be brought there and it is stored and consumed. I modeled the school and my additions in Sketchup based on a measured survey and photos (I'm pleased I wasn't that far off without entirely accurate information). I basically use the model to do all my drawings with, from the visual above to exploded isometrics (I need to find an axonometric view script).

Hi I'm Jay and I doing my masters in architecture. I guess I joined to learn more about sketchup as I use it everyday but I don't actually really know a lot about it - something I want to get good at this summer. Here is something I am working on now. It's a SU model taken into photoshop (I got round to learning how to use photomatch!), with rendering with the paintbrush tool/graphics tablet and some textures.

Take it easy!