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SketchUp ARTISTS is an online friend, philosopher and guide of SketchUp users of all over the world. This website specially created and developed for the 3D folks. There is a large pool of informative database and tutorial on SketchUp ‘dealing with different aspects of post-processing and much of the software used in this process’.

With the aim to show the ‘creative potentiality’ of our favourite designing tool SketchUp, James Hanningan and Mateo Soletic launched this website on 20th May 2009. These two geniuses met over at the SketchUcation forum. Mateo is a top Croratian designer who uses SketchUp in all his workflow. He has carried out some really big projects in his country including the prestigious work like the international airport. And the other man behind this website, James Hanningan came from a construction background. With an experience of 25 years and qualification on AutoCAD, James smoothly introduced SketchUp into his workflow. Both of these two geniuses worked behind the scene in the SketchUcation forums on the development and implementation. After finding out the common ground, these two creative souls thought of to develop a website of SketchUp tutorial of their own. In this way SketchUpARTISTS was born. When we asked James about the inspiration he told us that, “We want to showcase the very best SketchUp talent in the world” and “show that it is possible to achieve these results yourself, with our free tutorials”.

Before creating the website, James and Mateo found out that there are many tutorials, tips posted by the industry experts get lost in the forum. And it is very hard to find out the right tutorial in the right time among numerous forum threads. So they though to create a website where all the SketchUp folks find out all the tutorials and tips in one place. They just want to keep everyone in the forefront and inspire people.  

In www.sketchupartists.org you will find many eminent SketchUp artists are associated with this website. The Spotlight section there is the featured write ups on software, SketchUp modelers, artists, books and authors and many more things. There is also a section for the recent achievements of SketchUp ARTISTS. There is a huge resource of SketchUp Style, Technique and design on the Presentation section. The Tips and Tricks Centre is a treasure house for not only the budding SketchUp artists but also the proficient artists of this industry. But gem of this site is the Tutorial section where you an get detailed step by step tutorial of SketchUp and various other plug ins like twilight, Maxwell, Piranesi, Shaderlight, V-Ray and many other. Names like Alex Jenyon, Mateo Soletic, Nguyen Tran Huy Vu and Snoopywang write the Tutorial for SketchUp Artist.  

This huge repository of SketchUp tutorial and tips has already gotten appreciation of the industry. James and Mateo are trying hard and soul to make it a better place for the SketchUp users of all over the world. According to James, in future the focus of SketchUp Artist is “To be the number one place to come to find the very best artistic professional modelers who can pass on there tips and tricks on how to achieve really remarkable results, with easy workflow”.