October 2011
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Oct 24th
June 2011
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Soft Colored Pencil Line Technique - SketchUp &...
Our latest tutorial by architect Jason Christiansen, a nice post processing tutorial to please your clients with…rendered image from SketchUp and worked on in Photoshop.
Jun 25th
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Exterior Night Rendering:SketchUp to Photoshop
This tutorial will create an artistic night rendering by exporting images from SketchUp to Photoshop. As in some of my previous tutorials no external rendering programs are needed… saving a lot of time!
Jun 18th
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May 2011
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New Tutorial! SketchUp Render using Blender and...
Jean-Pierre Hurel (better known as Orgelf in the internet design communities), a visual artist, explains his simple technique on how to achieve this SketchUp render using Blender and Photoshop . It produces what has been described as a cartoon/comic book effect.
May 20th
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Collection of New SketchUp Styles for May
Some (8) Pen,Ink and Pencil Styles by mega contributor Dave Richards..
May 10th
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Part 2 of Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp
Second part of Nomer Adona’s mini series on lighting with V-Ray has just been published. Light your scenes and SketchUp models with Emissive materials, yes Emissive materials ! You can also check out Part 1 here…
May 5th
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April 2011
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Latest Spotlight Article - Renditioner Pro
The new release of Renditioner Pro v2 has been completely re-written and supports many new features and enhancements. We were interested in finding out more, especially with so many new releases of rendering software hitting the market place in the past few months, we were wondering what makes Renditioner Pro V2 so different? We managed to grab an interview with Bob Mayer, Chief Operating Officer...
Apr 27th
Alan Hook – Film and Television Design with Google...
This week in our Spotlight section we are privileged to host an exclusive interview with Alan Hook, production designer and art director in the film and television industry. Alan managed to take some time out of his busy schedule to share time wth us and give us an candid insight into his professional working experience with SketchUp.
Apr 4th
March 2011
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New Tutorial Daylight Rendering - SketchUp to...
Another superb quick and easy tutorial by Alex. This tutorial will create a daytime rendering by exporting images from Google SketchUp to Photoshop. This means no external rendering programs are needed. This rendering is not meant to be realistic, but instead, provide an option for quick artistic renderings without the ‘SketchUp’ look. Quick and simple!
Mar 15th
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Latest book review on - Google SketchUp Workshop...
Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating is Laurent Brixius’s latest release into the publishing world and is the much anticipated English translation of his first book ‘Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre’. My French is somewhat limited, and to be honest pretty abysmal (not one of my favorite subjects at school I’m afraid…sorry), so it was with...
Mar 7th
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The Bottom Line - Making Money With Google...
The global economic downturn forced Robert Pineo,an Architect from Charlottesville, VA to move out of the office in search for work and there he surprisingly discovered new and alternative ways to sell SketchUp. He talks to Mateo Soletic about Pre-development design and his other experiences: “The lessons I learned opened my eyes to a business opportunity most architects have not tapped: the need...
Mar 6th
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Google SketchUp and Experimental Architecture
Lewis Wadsworth is a designer and artist located in Boston, Massachusetts. He works principally in the field of architecture. Lewis’s architectural projects have appeared in AIArchitect, journal of the American Institute of Architects, and has been honored by the Boston Society of Architects. Being great fans of his “Experimental Architecture”, his unique presentation style and narrative, we...
Mar 6th
February 2011
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Feb 18th
January 2011
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Major SketchUp 8 Update.....
News just in from Google SketchUp blog that SketchUp 8 has had a major update fixing some longs standing bugs that have troubled folks for a while now. Here are a few of those changes: Fixed shadow bug (One of the biggest annoyances), LAA aware (on 64 bit OS), image export size increased, codecs fixed, Toolbar fix fixed and a few other goodies..so this may certainly persuade some of those who were...
Jan 13th
November 2010
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New Tutorial - Interior Scene with Twilight Render...
Nice short tutorial to get you into Twilight Render! French interior designer Frederic Moro has been using Google SketchUp for a number of years now and enjoys using Twilight Render for his renders. In this brief tutorial Frederic will take you through his process of creating this great interior scene. al
Nov 26th
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October 2010
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More Google SketchUp Styles!
We just published another three new Styles for your presentations, take a peek…
Oct 14th
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New Tips and Tricks Just Published..
Oct 14th
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Batch of New SketchUp Styles Published
Another collection of six useful fun Styles by Dave Richards in our Styles Section under Prensentations.
Oct 5th
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New Tutorial - Kerkythea – take a deeper look at...
In this tutorial Majid goes further into the more advanced techniques in making materials, understanding their settings and then using them as a saved templates which can be edited later to suit your needs.
Oct 5th
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New Tutorial - Create a tile imprint
The idea behind this tutorial is to help you to achieve a tile imprint design from scratch. Modeled in Google SketchUp, the textures are prepared in Photoshop and Pixplant, and finally rendered in V-Ray for SketchUp. Learn new skills with this nice little tutorial by Nomeradona.
Oct 5th
September 2010
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New Tutorial...5D!
Yet another innovative approach to art,design and presentation by Jim Leggitt. Check this new tutorial out on 5Dthink: Merging 2D and 3D Visualization… 
Sep 1st
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Dozen new SketchUp Styles!
Just published a whole new load of SketchUp Styles and they are ready for download, check them out!           
Sep 1st
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SketchUpArtists at Google 3D Basecamp
Mateo is on his way to Boulder Colorado for the Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp and hopefully he will be able to keep us updated on what is going on there. He is looking forward to meeting all the Google folk and those SketchUp users who have traveled from all around the world to be there. He will be representing SketchUpArtists their and hopefully gathering the news as it happens and learning new...
Sep 1st
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July 2010
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Texture Workflow with SketchUp, Photoshop & Podium...
In this short tutorial I will show you my work-flow in texturing this scene using Podium, SketchUp 7 and Photoshop. The methodology has been discussed before, but I would love to share it again for those of you who may have missed it.
Jul 12th
June 2010
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New! - Modeling in SketchUp to Match a 2D Image
This is the second in a series of three tutorials by David Macdonald concerning the exporting of SketchUp models to other applications as 2D graphics. Each tutorial is complete in itself in as much as you can stop at the end of any of them having acquired a new technique that is complete in itself, without being obliged to finish the series.
Jun 19th
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New Tutorial - Using HDRI in V-Ray for SketchUp
Fascinating informative tutorial on HDRI in V-Ray by our friend and regular contributor Nomerdona, just published today!
Jun 19th
May 2010
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Great New Tutorial by Scott Baumberger
Scott has kindly contributed another one of his great tutorials to SketchUpArtists. In this detailed tutorial  Scott shows us his work-flow in producing a digital watercolor using a SketchUp output image and Photoshop.Its a must read……click on the image to see the full tutorial.
May 28th
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New Spotlight Article - Robh Ruppel SketchUp in...
Robh Ruppel works in Art Direction and Visual Development at Naughty Dog based in Santa Monica, California. Robh is a highly skilled, 2D/3D professional with many years experience in using digital and traditional media. Robh worked as Art Director and Production Designer for Disney Feature Animation for nearly 12 years. Robh recently commented on us saying “your SketchUp...
May 17th
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New Tutorial - Creating Fog and Night Effect Using...
Matthew L. Facundus  sent us a super easy tutorial for creating the effect of day time fog aerial view and then using that same effect for a night scene. This method is used to create the illusion of fog for an aerial perspective using GIMP. See here…
May 17th
April 2010
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Some Free High Resolution Textures
Pack 02 of various high resolution textures from Aqueous Sun. These fifty free textures can be used for both personal and commercial use.The link for Pack 01 is also there…nice!
Apr 1st
March 2010
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Another great tutorial by Architect and Author Jim...
Drawing Aerial Perspectives With SketchUp This tutorial demonstrates the way to draw a quick aerial perspective from a site plan. What Jim does is construct a simple SketchUp massing model, establish an aerial view and then trace the perspective from a print of the scene.
Mar 20th
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The River Runs Through It - by Jacques Cleghorn
Another new tutorial by Jacques Cleghorn - ‘The River Runs Through It ’ Jacques pushes SketchUp to the limit again in this model. Check it out!
Mar 17th
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New Tutorials Published at SketchUpArtists This...
New tutorial by Ibon Enriquez called - Making of Hillside House. Ibon is an architectural student from San Sebastian in northern Spain. In this tutorial he uses SketchUp, TwilightRender and Photoshop. A must read! Also we have a IES Light Tutorial using V-Ray for SketchUp by Nomeradona. Check them out!
Mar 8th
February 2010
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New Tutorials by Jim Leggitt
We have two great new tutorials by the author and professional illustrator Jim Leggitt.
Feb 23rd
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Our news blog The Daily Dispatch is online now!
For all the up to date news on SketchUp and 3D modeling check us out now…The Daily Dispatch for daily news from SketchUpArtists!
Feb 23rd
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New Tutorial by Jacques Cleghorn
Some extreme SketchUp by Jacques Cleghorn, ‘The Making Of Black Hawk’
Feb 13th
New Content This week!
Some extreme SketchUp this week, so stay tuned and check our site out…
Feb 1st
January 2010
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Great Free 3D Models
Some free good quality 3D models in Autocad, 3D Max and SketchUp file formats. Find them here on the Formfonts site - click on image
Jan 12th
December 2009
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Happy New Year
Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year from SketchUpArtists!
Dec 31st
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New Tutorial by Author Jim Leggitt
Just published a tutorial on our site by architect, illustrator and author Jim Leggitt. Click on Image to see complete tutorial…
Dec 30th
Happy Holidays From SketchUpArtists
Have a very happy peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Dec 22nd
New Rotoscope Effect Tutorial
How to achieve a rotoscope effect with your rendered image. Click on image below for full tutorial.
Dec 22nd
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Great Selection of New Hand Drawn Fonts
Some new artistic free fonts here: http://www.paper-leaf.com/blog/2009/12/10-awesome-free-hand-drawn-fonts/
Dec 16th
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New Tips and Tricks
We have some more new Tips and Triks that will help you in your daily workflow. Check them out here.. http://www.sketchupartists.org/tips-tricks/ Lighting in Photoshop and Creating an Interior Scene With 3D Studio Max.
Dec 16th
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New Tutorial - The Quasi-Clay Style by Oliver Shea
We have a new tutorial onsite called The Quasi-Clay Style bt Oliver Shea. Pretty cool effect for your presentations.. See it here: http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/the-quasi-clay-style-by-oliver-shea/
Dec 10th
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Easy Watercolor Painting Effect – In Photoshop
Great little effective tutorial on turning an image into a watercolor. Have a look in our Tips & Tricks section, its worth it.. http://www.sketchupartists.org/tips-tricks/
Dec 7th
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Books Now at SketchUpArtists
We now have a book area at SketchUpArtists. We have chosen categories that will be of interest to our visitors. Architecture, Drawing,Construction Plans all types of design,software, Photoshop and other specialised areas. Check it out. We have hand picked a lot of the titles available and there are 1000’s to choose from, many have been reduced in price too. Here is the link: ...
Dec 4th
Finished Images from Tutorials
Check out some of our best images from our tutorials here on Twitpic http://twitpic.com/photos/SketchUpArtists More to be added soon…
Dec 1st
November 2009
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Realistic Watercolor Effect with Photoshop
Realistic Watercolor Effect – In Photoshop by DesignSpot.net Even if its name might suggest it, it’s not always sufficient to apply the “Watercolor” filter to obtain a realistic watercolor effect. Here is a simple technique that gives you more control on the painting and texture parameters. Check it out: http://www.sketchupartists.org/tips-tricks/
Nov 30th
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New Line Art Watercolor Tip
Experiment with this one ‘Line Art Watercolor Tip’ basic but useful http://www.sketchupartists.org/tips-tricks/
Nov 30th