Book description
Create stunning photorealistic and artistic visuals of your SketchUp models
In Detail
SketchUp is an amazing and remarkably powerful 3D modeling software used by millions of architects, visualizers, and drafters across the globe. It allows you to create animated 3D drawings and photorealistic renderings that approximate real-life objects easily.
This book is the perfect introduction to SketchUp 2014. It will help you to get started quickly and efficiently to produce and present commercial quality photorealistic or artistic outputs of your designs. It will teach you how to plan and set up the content of your scenes, use SketchUp and professional rendering software to produce stunning visuals and animations, and how to add an artistic touch to your images
What You Will Learn
- Produce a photorealistic rendering of a scene modeled in SketchUp
- Render ultra-realistic soft shadows from multiple light sources
- Master the low polygon modeling techniques that you need to adopt for visualizations
- Work with texturing techniques utilizing PhotoMatch and your own digital photos
- Enhance your models by adding depth of field and other postprocessing tricks in GIMP
- Devise movie-set scenes to digitally photograph your projects
- Enhance your SketchUp scenes by adding lamps, sun, and sky lighting
- Add smooth camera paths for airborne and walk-through animations
- Learn all of the simple tricks to ensure you get great-looking models when rendered
Table of contents
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SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Quick Start Tutorial
- 2. Collecting a Toolset
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3. Composing the Scene
- The importance of planning
- Setting up an arch-viz scene
- Fleshing out your site plan
- Setting up the camera to challenge and impress
- Saving days of toil with ready-made scenery
- Framing the scene with entourage
- Summary
- 4. Modeling for Visualization
- 5. Applying Textures and Materials for Photorealistic Rendering
- 6. Entourage the SketchUp Way
- 7. Non-photoreal Visuals with SketchUp
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8. Photorealistic Rendering
- Why use an external renderer?
- Setting up for photoreal rendering
- Step 1 – Preparing the SketchUp model
- Step 2 – Performing an initial test render
- Step 3 – Assigning materials
- Step 4 – Defining lighting
- Step 5 – Inserting extra entourage
- Step 6 – Production rendering
- Step 7 – Postproduction rendering
- Summary
- 9. Postproduction in GIMP
- 10. Animations
- 11. Presenting Visuals in LayOut
- 12. Interactive Visualization
- A. Choosing a Rendering Software
- Index
Product information
- Title: SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783558414
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