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Hey! Thanks for the questions - These 3d models are for Blender, so I am not sure they would work with SketchUp. They were also designed for use as exterior models (no interiors were build for these) so if you wanted interiors, they would need to be custom made. I do provide some wall pieces / wall panels in the kitbash set so you could theoretically make it yourself! For a new 3d user on mac, I would definitely recommend Blender! It is free, there are a ton of tutorials here on CZcams to learn all the steps and it is an amazing program. I would try out different tutorials, but Blender Guru has great introductory tutorials and Ian Hubert has great tips and tricks for when you picked up the basics. And yes! I did make the kit. It took a while but it was really fun for me to make :) Certain elements were made in 3D coat as well (a program good for sculpting). If you are just starting out, start out with Blender though! They have good sculpting tools in the program as well.

Phillip! Thanks dude!!

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!! Ahh so I got some of these cloud brushes a while ago from Shaddy Safadi - I am not sure has still has them available for download. I think there are free brushes you can probably download! John Park sometimes has brushes with his Gumroad Patreon tutorials, for example 'S2 Assassin tutorial' seems to come with brushes

For sure! Glad you like it!!

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!!

Hey man! This is not exactly the same but it goes over some similar stuff - the Stilt City tutorial is much more in depth and covers also the Blender side of things; such as how I model, texture, navigate in Blender, render, etc.

@@kevinjickart thank you

Thanks!! Glad you like it!!

Hahaha, yea thats totally it xD And yea, thats why I havent been using mist pass for masks, I felt like the edges would not be as perfect as I liked - but that is a cool idea with the mist pass you laid out here! I think there is definitely room for the mist pass to be used for masks as well, that is super cool

@@kevinjickart One good thing with the mist for mask, is that you can paint with a soft brush in overlay mode before you contrast the Mist, in order to "bend" it, so it's not a perfect flat plane in front of the camera, but you can push one element so it remains in the mask ect.. Just in Cycles it will display the volumetrics too, so you can do a render with 1 sample where you deactivated the volumes, and save that as exr 32bits. In the world settings you can set the far & near planes of the mist, and the interpolation, to have more data far or near ect.. This way it should be possible to have super clean flexible Z masks, without the banding / dither you have in 8bit.

This is awesome - next level stuff man! I gotta try it out, thanks a ton for the tips with this. Hearing your method really opens up the possibilities with just the mist layer and using it for masks and blending, that's awesome

Thanks! Im glad you like it! It has helped me a ton / saved me a ton of time

:) Glad you liked it!!

Thank you!

Thanks!! 🙏

Hey! I would say even small sketches, such as pen and paper is totally fine even if you are new at it! It can be simple shapes, thats totally okay! If for example you know a bit of 3d, you can block out a space in 3D using boxes and cylinders and then start from there. Another thing you can try is finding a reference, such as a street on google maps or a cool reference photo and then take a screenshot and draw ontop of it. you can use it as a base and change things up a bit based on your story. The #1 thing is practice!

Hey! Thanks for the question! Blender is still in my opinion 99% the same as from 2 years ago, just more powerful, so still relevant if you are interested in it! The biggest differences are now in blender 4.0+ are the Principle BSDF node is slightly different. It still has the same functionalities but it will look different. The rest is pretty much the same! If you have any questions just let me know

Hey! That is awesome to hear you are interested in the course! Unfortunately this modeling style is only for concept - this would not work for a real game environment as this is focused on making the scene only in Blender

Thanks, glad you like it! And haha, yea my computer was definitely feeling it after a while haha

Hey! Thanks for reaching out with this problem regarding the Normals and exporting - Similar to the disclaimer that is on the asset store pages - these assets were designed for use in Blender. This means that in Blender they will work well; however, if they are exported to other 3D Programs there will be issues with them (such as the normals you pointed out) I'm sorry you are having this issue, but please refer back to the disclaimer on the store page for more information!

​@@kevinjickart There is indeed this statement, I saw it at the time, but I didn't pay much attention to it , I understand. Thank you. Through inspection, I feel that in UE, it is mainly due to shaders and textures. In blender, color maps are directly modified to be used as Normal mapping, metal maps, and rough maps. The compression settings of UE maps are specified, so the texture effect is abnormal.

@@yantingye1677 Ahh I see. Honestly that sounds really cool that you tried taking these assets into UE. UE5 is such an amazing program; unfortunately my modeling and texturing skills are not ready to make assets for Unreal Engine haha. I hope one day to be able to optimize my assets so they can be brought into UE! Sorry you ran into this problem man.

@@kevinjickart that is fine,blender and UE are very powerful engine,I love them 😁

@@yantingye1677 Would baking out PBR textures from Blender solve this issue? There are some very reasonable PBR export plugins available for Blender.

Hi Craig - thanks a ton for the kind words and feedback!! That is a great idea to have had voice overlay with talking more about the 'why' to use it - I will be keeping this in mind for future asset packs or videos :)

Thanks a ton Walter!! :)

🙌Hey man! It was so fun putting this together, excited to finally release it!

@@kevinjickart I love it man, gonna buy it

@@humble-aleksandrpronin3160 🙌would love to know what you think man!!

Hey! Thanks for the question! Yea I model everything here (buildings, props, assets, environment) using Blender and I show off the process for it in the tutorial :) Thanks for the interest in this!

Thanks so much for the kind words! Glad you like it!!

Hey, thanks for the question! The majority of the course focuses on Blender, probably about 80% of it, so if you are interested in Blender, I bet it can be helpful to you! I like to use photoshop to paint over my renders to give them that last level of polish :)

That is super nice of you to say! Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words! For this stuff, it is all about the process and building upon the basics bit by bit :) If you like concept art, check out FZDSchool here on youtube, really great concept art videos that cover some all aspects of concept art

That is awesome to hear! There are lots of great free resources here on youtube you can check out since you are interested. I highly reccomend FZDschool's videos, they cover all aspects of concept art!

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Thank you :)

Thank you man! I hope to make some videos like this for youtube in the future :)

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Oh awesome xD

Hi Yash! Thanks for your interest in the course! Unfortunately since the course is focused on showing my workflow process for Environment Concept Art creation, reference images and exercise files are not included. If you are trying to follow along, I encourage you to get PureRef and look on places like google and pinterest to get your reference images from! Tons of awesome reference out there.

​@@kevinjickart Okay ... Is it possible to share the pureref image collection file? Please That will help a lot.

@@eduardohernandez6075 there is no blender files provided...which is not the objective of the course. The guide is good he explains the workflow very well.. its just that the reference gathered would help a lot and you wont have to go through all those hassle if it was provided.

Thanks Joe!

Hey! Glad to hear, enviro concept art is so fun! Depending on how you approach it, there are a few ways. CZcams channels like Feng Zhu Design, Tyler Edlin, Trent Kaniuga are all great! They have gumroads as well. You can check out Foundation Patreon gumroad, they are awesome for fundamentals and cheap. Then the overall best way is to take online art classes at schools like Brainstorm, CGMA etc 👍

@@kevinjickart thanks Kevin got some ideas and where to look for learning 😃 ..🙌

🙌Thanks Bardai!

Haha thanks Phillip!

Hey Joss, thanks! Really glad you like it! So I would say that learning how to draw / design is really important for concept art! I can definitely reccomend looking at some of the free drawing content here on youtube to get started first! There are also other great gumroads / affordable tutorials that can help with this stuff! For youtube - Feng Zhu Design, Trent Kanigua, Tyler Edlin, Proko and many more. For Gumroad: Foundation Patreon Grumroad has amazing fundamentals of design and drawing!

@@kevinjickart Wow...that's actually pretty useful! Thank you so much!

@@kevinjickart Thanks Kevin!

All the segments (sketching, 3d kitbash build, 3d blockout, paintovers, etc) total to 3 and a half overs. I have commentary over all of it since I find commentary on this stuff really helpful 👍

@@kevinjickart thanks for the answer, I think I'll buy it next month since I gave a lot of money already on the spring sale, but there aren't many tutorials that use Japanese style architecture at this quality level. One last question, do you show some of the modeling process as well?

@@AutumnRed No worries, and yea! A portion of the tutorial goes over the whole modeling process in blender and how I assemble the scene in blender 👍

@@kevinjickart cool, thanks a lot, I will definitely buy it next month, this tutorial could definitely help me a lot with my project, have a nice day 🙂