Lewis Pictures

Last night I was up late working up on the SketchUp Program. After struggling along trying to get used to the interface, I started to question the plan of using this for animation in my film. I decided to wait before making my final assumption, and go on google to find some tutorials to help get the program working. To my dismay I found that I could not access google, or any domain related to it. I contacted my brother on IM and found that he could get to google just fine. So before making my final decision about this program, I would have to wait for several hours. Now I'm actually glad google wasn't working for me, it gave some time for me to think, even if it was only subconsciously.

When I finally got on google, to my surprise I found several models of starships, each very cool and professional. So after this with the help of a few tutorials my final decision is that Google SketchUp Pro is an amazing program. I can't wait to begin to construct animations for my film.

I have to export these models to SoftImage (an Avid program, of which I don't care much for) though. This way I could animate the model flying away from the camera, or other things.

I plan on showing you updates of my ships and animations online, this way you can see my progress towards my goal of a really cool sci-film, with animation.

Sincerely,
Jack Simmons



Metal Texture Links
I don't know the first thing about textures, but I found these to give
me an idea of what to put on my ship, but from looking at other ships
from other films and movies, these wouldn't work at all.

http://resurgere.deviantart.com/art/Package-Metal-5-50451055
http://resurgere.deviantart.com/art/Package-Metal-7-61597938
http://resurgere.deviantart.com/art/Package-Metal-4-22094621
http://resurgere.deviantart.com/art/Package-Metal-2-9616681
http://causticstock.deviantart.com/art/Metal-Stock-1-54237700