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Google SketchUp for Dummies videos

Aidan Chopra, the author of Google SketchUp for Dummies has an entire series of accompanying videos on YouTube that help show you how to use SketchUp, Google’s free 3D drawing program. I’ve tried SketchUp, but found it unintuitive, and these videos (and I’m sure the book, too) truly help. The program has the potential to be invaluable to illustrators and cartoonists, as it allows you to quickly (and cheaply!) create models to work from — especially of different views of imaginary interiors.

  • http://www.jamietucker.com/ tucker

    I’ve used this for drawing backgrounds. I found it frustrating to use… but I see now that I wasn’t using the tools to their potentials. These tutorials will help a lot.

  • http://www.jamietucker.com tucker

    I’ve used this for drawing backgrounds. I found it frustrating to use… but I see now that I wasn’t using the tools to their potentials. These tutorials will help a lot.

  • http://aaroncostain.com/ aaron

    SketchUp used to offer similar tutorials for free, back when they were owned by @Last. I guess those disappeared when the company was bought by Google; it’s nice to see they are back in some capacity (I taught myself to use the program four or five years ago mainly using these online tutorials). I find that this is the easiest and most intuitive modeling/rendering program out there; it particularly shines when I have to make fast, last-minute changes to a design. It might not be the best in its field in terms of image quality, but it certainly is better than its analogue equivalent: the cardboard sketch model.

  • http://aaroncostain.com aaron

    SketchUp used to offer similar tutorials for free, back when they were owned by @Last. I guess those disappeared when the company was bought by Google; it’s nice to see they are back in some capacity (I taught myself to use the program four or five years ago mainly using these online tutorials). I find that this is the easiest and most intuitive modeling/rendering program out there; it particularly shines when I have to make fast, last-minute changes to a design. It might not be the best in its field in terms of image quality, but it certainly is better than its analogue equivalent: the cardboard sketch model.