Projects

1. Penguin
This video is part one of 4.

3. Design a modern house
How to makes eaves or a roof overhang for the roof @http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=SP2i_2VkLpQ&NR=1

How to make a gabled roof with eaves. How to use the protractor tool to make an angle. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litSmVYVVlI

To make a hip roof: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv_f2vde7YI&feature=relmfu

This shows use of the tape measure to help place windows and other details. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_3K4hVLCc&feature=player_embedded#!

To start with your rooms on the first floor: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LITHG5e3Hlo&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Making floor plan with walls. Same as above, but speed sketching. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cno17Lg4siE&feature=related

Interesting shapes. Speed action. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYaD_me4MHQ&feature=related

Make a Helmet
These instructions are in Italian, but I think you can get the idea from the pictures. These instructions were made by the teacher who assigned the Trojan War animation. Elmo Greco means Greek Helmet (not a character from Sesame Street). You will need to activate "Hidden Geometry" in the **view** drop down menu. The line that begins: **Attenzione**, translates as: **Warning**: A line or arc can not cross a dashed line. You have to stop on the dotted line and then continue with another line or arc.

See the animation page to link to the video.

@https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzeB-tsM98NVMThlZmVhNmMtYzU1MC00MDBiLTgwOGEtNTAyMmRkYjQ2OTI5/edit?pli=1

Make 2-D people or characters for your SketchUp scene.
You can make your own people to populate different settings that you create in SketchUp. You can even make a SketchUp you! You can make an animal or a cartoon character. When you make the image into a component, it will be flat, but it will always face the computer, just like Sang or Susan.

This first video shows the technique of importing a picture into SketchUp. Then you trace it and erase all the background. Explode the picture before you start tracing. This step is very important. Explode the image first. Then trace with the freehand tool. The more you zoom in, the easier it is to control the freehand tool. If you do not explode the image first, when you try to erase the background, it will erase your entire photo. It leaves you with a blank outined person, If that does happen, use the techniqes in the last video. Import the picture a second time and anchor it. Then scale it to the blank silhouette. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKOY7WFtrA&feature=related

These two videos combine photoshop with SketchUp. The first is by Artistic Gurus who is animating a story called //Tears of the Sun//. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shWc_I4OSG8

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlroywBmCdM&feature=related

Tell a Story
Create a story. Who are the characters? What is the setting? What will be the problem? How do the characters solve the problem?

Artistic Gurus is interested in telling the story of North Korean people. His project is an animated story called //Tears of the Sun: Jin's Story//. Artistic Gurus explains his project and his inspiration in his blog. The July 6, 2012 entry explains the start of his project. Other entries show the settings and the characters.

@http://www.artisticgurus.com/search?updated-max=2012-07-08T20:44:00-07:00&max-results=5

Advice on developing characters using photoshop: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZg4uMSRqXY&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Model for Google Earth
Create 3D models using Google SketchUp and add them to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. This is called Geomodeling. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TpFf_TOuhU More information at: @http://www.google.com/earth/yourworldin3d/index.html and @http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=167458