@mitcorb said:

Hi.
Kind of a nice idea to use figure profiles as end panels for the bookcases. Does double duty as "entourage" for the model scene. Nice lively colors. Conveys the concept quite well. I understand the use here of non photo real books.
Good work, the both of you.

thanks alot
yes we used book components from warehouse, I know that its not photoreal but to bring the books to be real is alot of work and we were not able to do it now, we started whit brainstorm about the design around 1pm and after 10 hours we had these 3 images

@tomankubik said:

Hi guys, all the best in 2012.
This is my last work. Just finished the post pro. It's concept for book store (focused on youth clients). comments and critics welcome.
Modeling done by Erik ( my co worker) in SU 8free, final touches by me in Vray and Gimp.

please some critics will be great to push me forward

Hi guys, all the best in 2012.
This is my last work. Just finished the post pro. It's concept for book store (focused on youth clients). comments and critics welcome.
Modeling done by Erik ( my co worker) in SU 8free, final touches by me in Vray and Gimp.

Hi to all, and very best for the new year 2012.
Well, I ned an advice. We are small architecture firm, basicly use Intelliocad/Autocad, Sketchup and Vray. I have work station based on Athlon X4 640 overclocked to 3150MHz which is still pretty enough for our job but I need and notebook. I want to use it to work at home, sometimes to bring it to client, sometimes work on it in office when my workstation is occupied by mi colege. Please do you have some good tip for such a notebook? I think I dont need brutal render force and I dont have alot of money, something aournd 600-700euros, will it work?
Thanks.

@frv said:

great news of course. Have been doing paid SU-Maxwell work for a few years now and NextLimit even put a few of my images on their site.
Anyhow, Maxwellrender is great for SKetchup since JDHill has been on it, writing the current plugins. The current plugins for Sketchup are fantastic.

But I have seen the Adventures of TinTin in the cinema a few hours ago, I wonder how they do all that while I am struggling on an 8-core Mac to get decent simple buildings look realistic.

Francois Verhoeven
http://www.fillieverhoeven.nl
http://www.3dfv.nl

off topic: I saw your web sites and have to say that you have great projects in there

@unknownuser said:

Very nice.

thanks
and also thanks to Vali arch. for their great roof plugin

thank you very much for your opinion
yes I have another one

Hi we're slovakian architects. One day came to us client just after his honeymoon in Cape Coral US, and he wanted to have such a house. So here's result C&C welcome.
Modeled 1day SK*pro, render Vray, postpro GIMP

@solo said:

The renders look very clean and crisp (Vray is great at this)I also like the camera positions.

Being married to a CKD (certified kitchen designer) I have developed a keen eye for kitchen design and to me it looks like an Ikea kitchen kit that the contractor who installed it used the existing plumbing and electrical locations and installed accordingly.

thanks solo, I love your job and its great for Sketchup community to have you here.
well the design is limited because:

1. developer of the block of flats gave us limit 3000 euro per kitchen /the project is something like http://www.rnc.sk/
2. I got a sketch from the manufacturer of kitchen cabinets, so the design has to be simple and easy to bulid, because this use to be something like "standard"kitchen for everybody /the kitchen is in the price of apartment
3. in this case I was not allowed to move the plumbings...exactly as you said

Thanks again, any critics will help

PS. sorry for english

@daniel said:

Great looking images, Toman.

thank you very much, still try to improve my work

@mitcorb said:

Hi, Toman:
This is a pleasing scene and a very fine effort. On close inspection, I would ask about reflections. It would seem there would be a bit more reflection/definition of cabinet edges from the flooring, considering the intensity of light in the scene. Also, I am puzzling over the diffusion of color around the cabinet handles. A comment on design: while efficiently organizing all of your tall units on one side, does this not compromise the refrigerator/ freezer energy usage to overcome the heat transfer from the ovens, which by the way, might more naturally be located nearer the range/ stove? Also, ideally you would want to have adequate countertop surface adjacent to each task center for setting objects down. In this scene, perhaps a work surface island would be a possible solution? Would the ovens need a vertical vent that would show in this scene?

Thanks alot.

1. the doors doesnt have fillet /radius/ in my model, I know that its not real but this way it si much faster and I have only about 50$ for the hole thing/design,model, render 3 shots, post pro/ but anyway your right
2. the design is alomost set up by client, I know that theres some heat transfer, but honestly nobory cares here about it, also I will have im my new hose this same setup /fridge next to oven/
3. yes wor surface will be fine but, the shots are for a project where the totoal price of the kithcen is limited and it will come with the apartment so the value of the furniture doesnt allow me to make the work surfe island

anyway thanks again and sorry for my english

Hi I'm new here and also quite new with Sketchup and Vray /until feb. 2011/ this is one of my last kitchen projects. done for firm which produces these kitchen cabinets. C&C welcome /done in SK 8, Vray 1.49, Gimp, render time 15min., creation time 60min./
Add some more pictures

Hi my name is Toman Kubik and I'm young architect.
I have a new mate in office who introduced me to Sketchup. I'm Cinema 4D user for about 7 years. I decided to corssplatform upgrade, mainly because I expect that college will do the visualisation work and I can do the concepts and meetings with clients.
My problem-question is:
1, is it worth to go fof Pro SU vs.free SU? I will not use Layout, I will not use Style builder. I only miss the dwg/dwxf inport a bit.

2.which render is worth to buy? Ihave been using Advanced render form Cinema for some years but I see that results are not enough for me in case of quality. My top spot is Vray for sketchup. But it seems to me like there are big differences in final pictures between vray for 3ds and vray for sketchup? are there any limitation in vray for SU? is there any render wort to think of?

Thank you very much for any advice. Kind regards
PS sorry for my english