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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
SketchUp Pro 6 Review Illustration
An illustration for a Review of SketchUp Pro 6 that I wrote (you'll have to search using the above link.) Based on the Olympic Velodrome Roof model.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
SketchUp 5 Review Illustration
An illustration for a review of SketchUp 5 that I wrote for MacUser Magazine. The idea was to use SketchUp only for this (although a bit of Photoshop was necessary), and to give a feeling of 'hand-drawn complexity'. Using SketchUp's X-Ray mode has added a great feeling to the image
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Starship Troopers Arachnid
A model of the famous arachnid warrior from the famously brilliant/crap film Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven. I built this to illustrate a talk that I gave on metanurbs modelling. Modelling, texturing and rendering done in LightWave 5.5. Texture maps painted in Photoshop 5.0 (I think...it was a long time ago)
Another view...Interestingly, this was done entirely using Planar Texture mapping – LightWave didn't support UV mapping at the time. The eagle-eyed amongst you will no doubt see the joins. I always promised myself that I'd re-visit this one day and do it properly...but no.
And here's an animation to give you a view of the whole model: