I had the chance to do a minor study course focusing on Construction Drawing at Aalto University's department of Film, Television and Scenography this week. It was the second part of the course and it focused on virtual set design using Sketchup while the first week was mainly about doing technical drawings by hand which I also attended. I've never really used Sketchup so it was interesting to give it a shot finally. While simple to use I think Sketchup has some pretty handy features: The Push/Pull workflow is really intuitive and I like the extensive use of keyboard shortcuts. But then again for example the lack of bezier curves makes it good for drawing pretty much architectural shapes only. However, it was fun and I learned a lot. We used an extension called Layout for Sketchup which allows you to export 3D scenes into various 2D layouts. Here's my final layout presentation:
We had sketched our own inital set design ideas that we then translated to Sketchup. I put a lot of effort into my work and was pretty satisfied with it overall. It was also fun to play around with animating the scene.
I made different setups inside Skethup with section planes that cut the entire model in half based on an axis. The final animation was made by interpolating between these views.
Anyway, here's the finished piece:
Until next time.
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