This past summer, Supermodeler Arkadiusz Pawlowski (a.k.a. Arek, a.k.a. aroo) decided to hold a SketchUp workshop for students at the Nicolas Copernicus University of Toruń. He partnered with fellow Toruń alumni Radoslaw Golba to teach the course. I asked him a few questions about the experience:
Arek alongside the workshop participantsWhy did you decide to hold a workshop?
It was like an impulse I had on my way back from the 2010 Google Mapper and Modeler Summit held in Zurich. I came to the conclusion that it would be a good thing to organize classes for students to teach them what I knew about geo-modeling with SketchUp.
So the purpose of the workshop was to teach students how to geo-model?
Yes, but I also wanted to increase the students’ knowledge of modeling tools and have them practice visualizing objects in a digital 3D form. I encouraged them to work independently and to further develop the skills that they could use beyond geo-modeling.
Workshop in sessionWhat was the schedule like for the workshop?
Since most of the students had never used SketchUp before, the first day of the workshop was used to let them familiarize themselves with the program. On the second day, students went out to collect photographs of selected buildings, and then later edited the images to make textures for the model. The third day of the workshop was for actually modeling the buildings in SketchUp and then texturing them with the previous day’s photos. All of the complete models are in a collection on the 3D Warehouse.
The workshop was also supported by the Department of Cartography, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems of University of Toruń, who handed out certificates to participants at the end of the workshop... and Google provided t-shirts. :)
Workshop participants sporting awesome Google shirtsSee more photos of Arek’s workshop, and download the placemarks of all the buildings created in the workshop, then view the models in Google Earth.
10 comments :
Good work Arek!
Awesome event Arek! Glad to see that something is going on in Poland to increase number of people who make geo-models.
That was good to organise all that Arek. Looks like your delegates were really enthusiastic. And the more they practice the keener they will get.
Congrats Arek ¡¡
That was a great experience for us!
Thank you.
Very good work
Congrats Arek ! :)
恭喜Arek !希望未來有機會台灣也能舉辦~
WOW, Arek - you're the best guy I've ever known in 3D modeling. I hope you'll find a way to organize such classes once again - this time in advanced SketchUp modeling!
Nice work:)
Congrats Arek !!!!
Hi Folks,
Big thanks for your comments!
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