Tuesday 16 October 2007

Last Studio today!

Attendance WILL be recorded!

See you there!

Tuesday 11 September 2007

Friday 24 August 2007

3 Rectangular prisms in sketchup!




This is a few varying views, of two different iterations, of three intersecting prisms, done in sketchup.

Subtracted Prisms!


Here's some real quick rough sketches, in parallel projection, done on a scrap of paper.

Tuesday 21 August 2007

Saturday 11 August 2007

Seamless tiling tutorials

Here's a couple of sites with tutorials on making seamless tiles, for texturing your models:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/weekly/aa080499p2.htm
http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/photoshop/seamless-tiles.php
http://www.sketchpad.net/tiling2.htm
These tutorials are mainly dealing with coloured tiles, but the same techniques can be applied to you own black and white tiles if you want to have seamless textures on your models. Remember to save your textures as 512 x 512 pixel ".tga" files.

3D Warehouse Model

A simple platform made in Sketchup, to test the upload functions of 3D Warehouse.

Click Image to download model!

Saturday 28 July 2007

More Hatching!

Here's another good site:
http://www.artyfactory.com/pen_and_ink_drawing/ink_drawing/pen_and_ink_drawing_5.htm

this is page 5 of the site, if you go through the other pages there are good tutorials on how to do it all.

Hatching Techniques

Here's a couple of very basic sites, concerning hatching techniques on about.com.

http://drawsketch.about.com/library/blinktexture.htm
http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawinglessonsandtips/ss/crosscontour.htm

I'll bring in some nice images of pen drawings to the next tutorial in some books I have.

Wednesday 11 July 2007