Reference for Environment

Once you have 2 approved thumbnails, begin gathering the needed reference for your environment designs. These can include 2D and 3D references.

3d Reference

3D models for perspective elements like buildings, etc. 3D models can also be good for lighting reference so your perspective or 3D elements match the lighting in your scene.

Reference Resources

Sketchup's 3D Warehouse is great for free Sketchup models for perspective reference.

2D Reference

Specific material references like trees, foliage, mountains, rocks, etc.
Photo textures to add depth and realism to your surfaces.
Images found on Google.

Reference Resources

Textures.com is great for high resolution photo textures. 15 free credits per day. You just need to sign up with your email address.

Sketchup Specific to Concept Art

Susan Bonner - Concept Art - Landscape - Using Sketchup to bring a PNG into PSD Part 1

Part 2 - Sketchup for Concept Art Rotating Styles - Part 2

More Sketchup Tutorials:

Atmospheric Perspective Properties - color, space, value and line
SketchUp - Atmospheric Sketching - How to Use Fog to create space
SketchUp- Landscape Painting - full guide

SarahPuettEnvironmentBenchmarkPresentation

Using Sketchup to build a previs of a spaceship attacking a Frank Lloyd Wright House - Susan Bonner

Pagoda Tutorial - Digital Imaging II - Fog and Color in Sketchup - Susan Bonner

Pagoda Tutorial - Digital Imaging II - Fog and Color in Sketchup - then to PSD to desaturate so that we can draw on it. - Susan Bonner

Exploring views in Sketchup using the camera and depth of view. - Susan Bonner

Sketchup for Concept Art

Timothee Meyrieux :Feng Zhu Style - Reproducing Howl's Castle using Sketchup

21:00 moving into PSD

Using Architecture Methods for Concept Art is a good idea - notice the use of Photo Compositing in addition to using the 3D Warehouse for time savings.

Designing Uncharted 2 with Sketchup as a design tool

Interview with a Concept Artist using Sketchup

Cool to be able to 3Dmodel in sketchup too - but use your tool box KCADers which has Modo or Maya to do your modeling to this extreme.

In Sketchup I recommend that primarily use the 3D Warehouse.

ColorPaintAfterGreyScale

This shows the process between student Josh Miller and teacher Susan Bonner to communicate changes.

Nolan Nasser - Library for the Game Of Fate of the Elder Gods by Greater than Games and Dice Hate Me

Nolan used Sketchup, Compositing and Digital Painting to get at his final. While Compositing he used the Color Match technique under image adjustments to make the book photo layer match the color of the rest of the image. Nolan works primarily on one layer after all of the compositing. Dutch Tilting the Camera as the last step was very effective in giving a strange eerie mood. See his work at n3art.com.

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