Concept Buildings with Google Sketch up and Kerkythea
Posted by Benny on August 08, 2010 in 3D modeling tagged with 3D, kirkythea, models, renders, sketch upI work in a marketing department for a Modular Building Company that specialize in Data Centre Facilities and Healthcare Facilities. A big part of our department is writing proposals for prospective clients and providing concept drawings and building plans. I have worked with quite a few 3d modeling packages in the past, mainly high end applications, these are usually expensive and require a certain amount of training.
I have found that Googles sketch up provides a very basic but highly effective solution for creating all types of 3d models and has a great library of open source plug ins and components that can be found on the google sketch up market place.
The only thing lacking in the default version of sketch up is any kind of rendering engine, after looking through many options I finally stumbled upon kerkythea, this is a high quality rendering engine that is very easy to use and works with both Sketch up, Blender and other popular 3d applications.
The model pictured with this article is for concept Data Centre created for the company I work for BladeRoom Data Centre Group
and was rendered up in only 3 hours at a resolution of 4646px wide and 3638px deep.
In the next few weeks I will be working on a quick start tutorial for using sketch up files with Kerkythea.
The BladeRoom Data Centre
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