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Creating Renderings from Sketchup with Podium
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Creating Renderings from Sketchup with Podium

Create Inspiring Photoreal Renderings from your SketchUp Models with Podium, an inexpensive and easy-to-learn program.
Created byDiane Dieterich
Last updated 5/2017
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand all the myriad of settings in Podium,
  • Create a detailed rendering in a time-efficient manner.

Course content

3 sections • 14 lectures • 2h 26m total length

  • Introduction to Podium and Podium's Website4:52

    Learn how Podium integrates with SketchUp to produce photorealistic renderings using ray tracing. Access the Podium website for tutorials, guides, a 30-day free trial, gallery, and forums.

  • The Podium Toolbar4:42

    Learn to use the podium toolbar in Sketchup, enable it via view toolbars or extensions, and master rendering, materials, environment, and lighting with the podium browser and light system panel.

  • How Does Podium Work?3:34

    Podium uses ray tracing to simulate how light interacts with model surfaces, including reflections and material responses, guiding you to balance natural and artificial light with rendering settings.

  • Light Properties and Natural Light7:43

    Discover how natural and ambient light, skylight, and material properties shape Podium renderings, and how processing and output settings affect render time and image quality.

  • Light Properties: Artificial Light and LEM's8:40

    Create a light emitting material in sketchup, paint it onto faces, adjust light power for warm glow, and render with podium to balance artificial light across the model.

  • Creating Light with Podium Light System and Using Podium Light Fixtures22:13
  • Material Properties16:09

    Explore Podium's material properties in SketchUp, adjusting diffused and reflection, transparency, bump depth, edge smoothing, and cast shadows to control how light interacts with textures.

  • Processing and Output13:57

    Master podium's output presets—from interior preview to high—and use the compare presets tab to preview results, then apply materials, adjust shadows, and choose output sizes.

Requirements

  • You should be fairly fluent at SketchUp. You create your model to render first in SketchUp and then create the photorealistic image using Podium.

Description

Podium is a photo rendering program that you can utilize to create beautiful photo-realistic images.  Podium is an inexpensive, easy-to-learn program that works within your SketchUp interface. 

Since Podium runs within SketchUp, its somewhat intuitive to learn.  It has a simple interface and versatile presets to speed up your learning curve.

However, you still need a basic understanding of the various settings in Podium.  We’ll talk about light and material properties and how to accurately define them.  We’ll discuss using sunlight, artificial light, and pre-made light fixtures most efficiently.  I’ll show you the Podium browser and how to utilize this resource most effectively.  And I’ll help you determine the best output settings to efficiently move from base renderings to your final project.   We’ll then work through a series of projects to understand how to use all this knowledge to make the best workflow to quickly create beautiful renderings.  And finally, we’ll talk about Post-processing and where to find more resources.

Podium provides a free trial version to work through this class and determine if it’s the right software for you.  Check out their website for more examples of images created with the program.


Who this course is for:

  • Designers, Architects, or anyone interested in creating renderings for a variety of purposes.

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