Meet Dbox, AKA The Best Rendering Instructors Ever

Today we’re launching our second Skillshare class with Michael Golden. Michael, an expert at rendering and visual technologies, has won won the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize for distinguished work in architectural design (among other accolades) and works as a visualist at the Emmy-award winning creative and branding agency Dbox. When Dbox was founded, in the early 1990s, the architectural landscape was almost unrecognizable: Most firms still used watercolor proposals, and rendering wasn’t quite yet rendering. Dbox, which stands for dialog box, attempted to use CGI’s enormous potential to create narratives and build immersive environments for architectural visualization. Today, DBox is a premiere design agency, with three international locations and an expansive network of cutting-edge professionals. They’ve realized projects by Richard Meier, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Sir Norman Foster. In many ways, the innovations of Dbox are responsible for the most awe-inspiring architecture of the last 15 years. While architects have built these projects, Dbox have enticed buyers to invest in them, wooed developers, and convinced the critics. Need proof? Here are just two of our favorite projects from Dbox. Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero In 2012 Dbox won an Emmy for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design …

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Architectural Design with SketchUp: Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting

“… the book is wonderfully illustrated with full color and descriptive images that complement each tutorial or exercise. Alex’s teaching background really rings through as every item is nicely structured and very informative.  Overall Alex’s  book is a winner. Well structured, illustrated and most of all easy to read and understand. While the overall theme is based in architecture, the techniques can be applied to any discipline and the wide range of topics covered are excellently delivered.”
-Richard O’Brien, CatchUp Editor, the official SketchUcation newsletter

The one-stop guide to SketchUp for architects, designers, and buildersSketchUp is the tool of choice for architects, interior designers, and construction professionals. Though the basics are simple to understand, getting the most out of it requires deeper instruction and guidance. Architectural Design with Google SketchUp uses easy-to-understand tutorials to describe both common and advanced process, illustrated throughout with full-color renderings.
Handy sidebars throughout the book cover fundamentals and background informationEnd-of-chapter exercises help readers master new skills and techniquesA robust companion website includes helpful videos, sample files, and plug-ins

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