@unknownuser said:

So every country is warned, HOLLAN****D will get the CUP..

My money is on Germany!

@xrok1 said:

i kinda like this one, from the same place:

Same place? As what?

The youtube vid was by Mitchell and Webb- a very funny duo, and also interestingly once also "Mac and PC", except that whole Apple "Mac and PC" campaign really bombed over here, because it really wasn't very British in humour. Can you guess who was who? Pretty easy really.

Yes. I thought some people would like that link.
I found it useful when trying to write scripts for Flash in the latter part of my degree.

Martin,

this site has some interesting maths that could be applied for speeding up and slowing things down;

Table of Contents

(www.motionscript.com)

I know exactly what you want Martin, and you are on the right track too (no pun intended). This kind of plug-in is exactly what I would like, so keep up the good work!

If you could get that (controlled) SteadyCam look, but with an air of simplicity in the interface design (Mac and PC too), this plugin would do very well.

@pbacot said:

It's a well-done sequence. But is there sympathy for the poor cougar's cubs who will now go hungry?

Yes, I thought that too!

Ahhh. How nice! Humanising a Grizzly bear

Bears? Are you guys nuts?? Natural born killers!

You need to put things in to perspective! Go watch Werner Herzog's brilliant, (but grim as heck) documentary about Timothy Threadwell, "Grizzly Man";

Grizzly Man - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

"The Bear". A very well executed film, but hardly a 'documentary' about nature, do you not think?

Martin, this looks interesting, but I can perhaps see where Jan is coming from? The exponential speeding up and slowing down, as opposed to a linear motion? A bit like the old Steadycam effect?

I can also see perhaps where Xrok1 is coming from too. Things may get horribly tedious if camera positions have to be entered as a string of numbers. (Unless those numbers are feet or inches, or metres?).

But as I said, it looks like an interesting plugin that I may have to play with

Tom

PS, and sorry for the 2nd post, The moral of this story is;

"Don't give up"

Just because someone else tells you, you can't.

@unknownuser said:

[I didn't even make through the first selection round.

That could have been for a number of reasons. For one, it is a legal requirement that companies must advertise jobs, even though they know full well that the person who is going to get the job already works as an employee, even a volunteer. I got the work to do Coleshill, because I was a volunteer, and a colleague in the same room got another post, because he was a volunteer, even though three of the applicants were better qualified than he was.

You could have even been overqualified, or even, and this is terrible- but it has also happened to me, been called a liar, because my experience outshone the post (a salesman in a photographic shop).

BTW, I used to freelance, as a photographer, for The Independent and The Guardian in the early 1990's. (The days when the internet was known as 'the wire' and cost about the same price as a house!!).

@solo said:

hmmm...

I've always been hesitant to apply when they ask for 'expert' or 'mastery' of any app, heck I do not even consider myself any of those titles with sketchup even.

...but then again my wife says I under sell myself.

This is exactly my point in my Coleshill Church thread. Essentially I think, it is lack of confidence, and all us creatives get it.

What you tend to find mostly, is that those employers advertising for the work, generally are clueless to what is actually needed. They just print this, because actually they don't know themselves (as you are the 'expert' anyway ), and are told to write it this way (usually by university PR departments and/or government business advisory services).

Thanks leedeetee

It was kind of a bit of both. Essentially I'm a photographer, I've also been recording my own (electronic) music for a while. I needed a break from it all and decided to do a BSc in product design engineering "for fun", and because I didn't have a degree. While I was volunteering for a local community magazine, it just happened that an architect was across the way in the same building. We got chatting, and he said that the Vicar needed some help persuading the parish members that this was a church conversion worth doing. I turned up with my Leica Disto, my camera and mapped out the inside of the church. I just "got on with it" if you like. The architect wasn't taking much interest, until I showed him a basic mockup of the building. It was there that the interest started to grow. He then gave me the plans to the church and the conversion. So it was a mixture of a job and 'off my own back' so to speak. But having this, is already excellent fodder for getting more work- even if it's basic. It's work. 'Money in the bank', so to speak.

If you want to engage the wardens, you could point them to this video if you want. I highly recommend a Leica Disto and a copy of QCad! (I bought my Disto off e(vil)Bay for £50).

Mike, thanks for the nice comments!

A refreshments lounge? I should cocoa! My father-in-law provided the harpsichord piece (it's quite handy to have such a talent in the family!). One night last xmas, after Alan had played organ in a local church, the vicar took us back to the largest collection of single malt whiskey, I'd ever clapped eyes on. I think there is quite a lot of truth in the Father Jack experience!

All of Mike Potter's architectural plans for the design were hand drawn, so these had to be redrawn in 2D CAD. I used QCad for this, where the resulting dxf files were imported into SketchUp, the free version. I did all the resulting editing in iMovie and the stills were taken by me on my Lumix G1, and then manipulated in Keynote to make further Quicktime movies. The film was edited to fit the piece by Handel, that Alan provided.

I think another point worth mentioning, concerning the video presentation, is that despite there being no rendering, most people who I've showed the presentation to, rendering was the last thing on their minds. Just having the ability to 'walk around' and see the changes that are proposed, in a 'rough sketch' were enough to excite the parish members. I even got a standing ovation! I think parallels could be drawn in any presentation, where it is easy to over-produce the final result (music production is one that springs to mind). Sure, it looks great when an animation is rendered well, but this is so time consuming, and I think many of us here would be a lot better off if we all spent less time procrastinating over the detail.

Get it out there I say, and get what is owed to you!

@pbacot said:

That IS cool.

Yes. Read Architosh's article here;

AutoCAD Sledgehammer for Mac in the wild

Autodesk appears serious about releasing AutoCAD for Mac. The rumors have spilled over to screenshots. But we think its more than rumors and screen shots this time.

Architosh (architosh.com)

@kxi system said:

Nice! Can you post it so we can walk around it?

Okay (sort of).

I loaded the video up to the Toob a few days ago, for you all to scrutinise. It could be a lot better (especially in the rendering dept), but the budget was extremely limited, and this was my first SketchUp model!

Now can I get YT to display properly?

[flash=425,344:p73aloct]http://www.youtube.com/v/5PtmSWXwfU0&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/flash:p73aloct]

Yes!

(PS, Vicar kindly played by Father Dougal! He was the only Vicar I could find! The kitchen and bathroom fittings also came courtesy of the 3D Warehouse. Thanks to all those who submitted them )

@pbacot said:

For the Mac use PowerCADD. (Of course that is not reliably compatible with AutoCAD either.)

Yes. PowerCADD is really good, but if Autodesk do pull it off, ACAD for Mac will be really good too- because as it looks, ACAD Mac is being built from the ground up in Cocoa/Obj-C!

Yes, I couldn't agree more.

I'd really like a computer that isn't a Mac Pro (with the price) or wasn't an iMac (ghastly glossy screen).
I've got this new Mac Mini, but I really need more memory in it. 10.6 was supposed to speed things
up. I don't notice any difference. I think Leopard was a better OS as well.

@solo said:

Times are a-changin'.

They certainly are. Today it was announced that Apple have overtaken Microsoft in market value!! This is a first, since the early 1990's! Stevie J now being worth $1billion more than Stevie B!! All that effort of Apple being so cut throat in recent months has obviously paid off!

More here

Dave, are you sure it's SketchUp? I've noticed that since upgrading to 10.6, the overall speed of my computer has become overtly s-l-o-w

Make sure you disable Flash too. Flash is sucking power out of my graphics, big time.

Mike,

You must have missed the post I made last night;

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=28501

There's some YouToob footage here;

It's exciting (because those with Mac's can get more work without having to readjust to PC's), and not so exciting, because after all, it's just AutoCad! I'm personally more impressed with Rhino, as at least Rhino aren't shoving it's own interpretation of what they think your desktop should look like!

Tom