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Rendezvous with Daniel Tal
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SketchUp UR Space Question (1)Hello Daniel - Welcome to the space of SketchUp. Please introduce yourself to our readers. Hello. Thank you for including me in your publication. My name is Daniel Tal. I am a landscape architect by education and practice. I have worked in the architectural, site design and planning field for over 13 years. I have spent most of that time working as a project manager and have worked on projects around the world including China, Egypt, the UAE and the United States. (2) You are an architect by profession. How do you find SketchUp? I am a landscape architect by profession which is very different. I focus on the built environment; the world beyond the skin of a building. I have a specialization in doing Urban design work: working on plazas, campuses, parks and open space large communities planning, transportation oriented developments, etc.. I have been fortunate to work on a large variety of projects. I have had the chance to work on many architectural projects as well. Due mostly because I can model buildings quickly. I have had a diverse career. I love SketchUp. It has allowed me to develop and represent ideas in ways that extend the designs we create. (3)How do you incorporate SketchUp in architectural designing? In the offices I worked at, we used SketchUp animations to great success when representing projects to clients and the public. We use SketchUp for massing studies, energy modeling analysis and understanding terrain. It has been a diverse tool allowing us to study a project constraints and opportunities quickly and effectively. (4)How and when did you think about writing a book? She asked if I was interested in writing a book. My initial response was no way. I knew it was a great deal of work. I went home and talked it over with my wife and changed my mind. It was a rare opportunity. I did not know if I could do it and I liked the challenge. (5) Tell us something about “Google SketchUp and Site Design”. (6)Can you share something on your upcoming writing project? The goal is to inform new SketchUp users or users who have not dabbled into rendering how to get started and get good results. For people who already render with SketchUp and would like to learn more, we hope the book will be useful as a reference guide as well. It's a long task and in many ways more involved than the first book. The publisher would like me to continue to write into the future. My hope is to introduce others to the publisher to write books on the topic as there are so many knowledgeable amazing people using SketchUp. (8) Till date how do you see the evolution of SketchUp? I think the trend will continue with many more user created tools and the expansion of how SketchUp can work. I think we will see cloud-based integration into SketchUp at some point - maybe by Google or by people in the community offering something. Either cloud based rendering or modeling. I hope. That would be a great step and will have the potential for expanding what people can do with SketchUp. Cloud based rendering would be amazing: it would have the potential of creating photoreal animations out of SketchUp with ease. Combine that with Keyframe animations and SketchUp will be able to create complex scenes with moving people, cars and objects. It can be done now but without a cloud-render it takes a great deal of time to produce clips. We'll see. Some of this is my own wishful thinking. (9) According to you what are the specialties of using SketchUp in architectural designing? Michael was at the recent AIA conference in New Orleans doing demos for Google SketchUp and showing layout. It was amazing to watch. He is currently working on a book for Wiley and Sons on this very topic. (10) Please tell us your opinion on SketchUp. I can keep going and naming names. It would be impossible to name everyone. But SketchUp is alive and well and growing and expanding in what it can do because of this community. I know I would not be able to do the work that I without the dedicated community. (11) In future what are the features you will like to add with SketchUp or how do you like to see SketchUp growing? (12) Apart from designing and writing what are the things you like to do in your free time? (13) Please give some advice to the budding architects on how they incorporate SketchUp in their work? (14) What is your advice to the team of Sketchup ur Space? Thank you for the chance to be a part of your publication.
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