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Show your design in its best form using Sketchup - Part 1

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Overview

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This course is laser-focused on showcasing your design in its BEST form, with Sketchup. The purpose of this course is to captivate the viewers of your projects AND to boost your creativity using Sketchup's full potential.

This complete 3+ hours course goes beyond the technical capacity of this amazing software. In fact, as an architect-photographer, Nizar Bredan shares the essence of his photographic learning and combines it with a 10-year experience designing with Sketchup.

Sketchup's flexibility also allows for your creativity to be expressed, so you will get some pretty useful ideas you can apply directly into your current or next project.

Your feedback is more than welcome. Please share your thoughts, which part you liked the most, what kind of advice you wish to be deepened, or simply if you enjoyed the content.

PART 1 : Texturing and playing around with materials

By the end of this first part of the course, you will be able to pick and edit all kinds of textures to match your desired result, and even getting creative ideas for your projects, without using any third party editing software.

Check out PART 2: "Adding Life to Your Model" to learn how to create more believable models by using components in very specific ways,

and PART 3: "Achieving a Captivating Perspective View" to learn hidden photographic secrets for choosing the best angle of view, as well as to create your own visual style to communicate your intentions in a very personal way.

Syllabus

  • Intro - Show your design in its best form using Sketchup
  • Textures Resources
  • Choosing and importing the right textures
  • Editing Textures
  • Scaling Textures
  • Tiling Layouts and Alignments
  • Customized Aspect Ratio
  • Advanced texturing
  • Creative mapping - Part 1
  • Creative mapping - Part 2
  • Bonus 1 - Dealing with textures on warped surfaces
  • Bonus 2 - Dealing with annoying white edges
  • Outro - Don't miss out on the next parts!

Taught by

Nizar Bredan

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