Today we're going to model a piggy bank using only quads. Quads are planes that have 4 vertices. Plugins I used are Quadface tools to edit the simplified proxy geometry and plugin Artisan to subdivide the surfaces. This kind of modeling is called Subdivision surface modeling and although it’s more suited for other 3d modeling software like Maya, 3Dmax or Blender, Sketchup is still able to achieve very acceptable and nice results with the use of the Artisan plugin.
If you want to follow along with all the steps, and recreate this exact model yourself, I suggest you set the speed of the video to 0,5. That way you can follow the tutorial with no problem. But If you’re just here for the speed build timelapse, just sit back and enjoy the video as is, or you can even double the speed.
In the lower right corner of your screen you can see what I’m typing but beware, I don’t use Sketchup default shortcuts as you ll probably notice, but I’ll list all my custom shortcuts bellow. Also, be aware that my key logger displays my Shift shortcuts as CAPITAL letters, so if I type Shift + A, my keylogger will display Capital A, and if I type just A it will display lowercase a. That said: here is the full list:
Shortcuts:
Ctrl+1 - Select tool
Ctrl+Q - Draw line
Shift+A - Draw arc
Ctrl+W - Mirror tool (plugin)
Ctrl+Shift+X - Move tool
Ctrl+Shift+A - Offset tool
Ctrl+R (or R) - Rotate tool
Alt+Y - Hidden geometry (on/off)
Ctrl+D - Tape measure
S - Scale tool
E - Eraser
C - Draw circle
Y - Draw rectangle
V - Paint bucket (Alt - Eyedrop tool)
A - Push pull
The rendering is done with Vray plugin for sketchup, but I keep it extremely simple. I just decrease the intensity of the light, increase the size of the sun to get that soft shadows effect and work around refraction and reflection of the materials.
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