Modeling with SketchUp for Interior Design Now Shipping!

 Modeling with SketchUp for Interior Design Modeling with SketchUp for Interior Design – $36.95

This textbook contains step-by-step projects that show how to create stunning interior spaces in SketchUp. Starting with modeling an empty room, you’ll learn how to find and modify furniture models, model furniture and accessories from scratch, work with colors and materials, present comparative design options, model cabinetry and kitchens, and create labeled and dimensioned working drawings.

Boris Continuum Complete 9 AE Now Shipping!

 Boris Continuum Complete 9 AE Boris Continuum Complete 9 AE – Academic Price $294.95

Boris Continuum Complete 9 AE delivers the most comprehensive VFX plug-in suite ever created for Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. A whopping 200+ filters include 3D Objects such as Extruded Text, 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares and lights, keys and mattes, 3 Way Color Grading and other color correction tools, time-based effects such as Optical Stabilizer, warp and perspective effects, and blurs, glows, and cinematic effects. All filters take advantage of either multi-processing or OpenGL hardware acceleration for an interactive effects design experience.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 Now Shipping!

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 – Academic Price $99.95

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 delivers a set of powerful and easy-to-use applications to help students and educators with illustration, layout, photo editing, web graphics and website creation.

Includes: CorelDRAW X7, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, Corel PowerTRACE X7, Corel CONNECT X7, Corel Website Creator and Corel CAPTURE X7.

Sibelius 7.5 Education Now Shipping!

Sibelius 7.5 EducationSibelius 7.5 – Academic Price $295.00

Sibelius 7.5 is the world’s best-selling music notation software, trusted by top composers, publishers, and students alike around the world. With Avid Sibelius 7.5, you can express, accelerate, and promote your creativity in more ways, enabling you to deliver scores faster and share audio and video versions of your work with stunningly realistic phrasing to make your talent stand out.

Dragon Dictate 4 Now Shipping!

Dragon Dictate 4 AcademicDragon Dictate 4 – Student & Teacher Edition – $124.95
Dragon Dictate 4 – Academic Price $159.95

Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4 merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work. Dictate and edit documents, send email, transcribe voice memos from your smartphone, and more with just your voice.

Shaderlight Pro 2014 Now Shipping!

Shaderlight Pro 2014Shaderlight Pro 2014 -Academic Price $99.00

Shaderlight is an interactive rendering software plug-in to SketchUp that lets you create high quality images, quickly and simply. Now with even more simple to use features, Shaderlight now gives you even more control over how you render your SketchUp models, with the ability to animate your SketchUp scenes and render to the cloud.

Modeling with SketchUp for 3D Printing

Modeling with SketchUp for 3D Printing Modeling with SketchUp for 3D Printing – $24.95

This book contains step-by-step projects that show how to design and print dozens of different models you can then create in any 3D printer. From downloading and modifying ready-made models to creating your own simple and intricate models, this book demonstrates tools, techniques, and essential plugins that every 3D print modeler needs to know about. Start with a basic name plate, add some fun puzzles and tiles, finish with complex models like Lego bunk beds and DNA!

SU Podium V2 Plus Now Shipping!

SU Podium V2 Plus

Academic Price – $90
SketchUp Pro 2014 Teacher 1-Year License with SU Podium Plus V2 Bundle – $80
SketchUp Pro 2014 Student 1-Year License with SU Podium Plus V2 Bundle – $129

SU Podium V2 Plus is a photo-realistic rendering plug-in for SketchUp. SU Podium will turn your SketchUp model into a photo-real image. SU Podium V2 Plus employs advanced rendering technology but sticks to its original intention of making photo-realistic rendering for SketchUp an easy and rewarding task. The user interface is simply and does not require advanced knowledge of rendering techniques.

SU Podium uses ray tracing and global illumination to create photo-realistic images. Although the user does not have to be aware of what technology is being used, it’s important to note that you can obtain high quality images with realistic reflection and lights, quickly. SU Podium uses multi-threading of your CPU so much of the rendering process will use all your processors (Dual/ Quad/ Eight).

SketchUp Pro 2014 Now Shipping!

SketchUp Pro 2014

 $49 for Students
Lab and Laptop licenses
Free for Teachers

What’s New in SketchUp 2014?

SketchUp 2014. Now with more oomph.

Everyone wants SketchUp to get faster – especially us. That’s why we tweak the code every version to speed things up. This time, we supercharged shadows in big models and made vector rendering in LayOut more than ten times as quick. Learn more »

Models galore, easier to find and use

SketchUp’s universe of free 3D models is almost infinite; the improvements we’ve made to 3D Warehouse make that universe infinitely more useful. From fully-interactive model previews to an entirely new UI, the changes in 2014 are huge. Learn more »

BIM classification and interoperability

With SketchUp Pro 2014, you don’t have to sell a kidney or go back to school to start adding elements of BIM (Building Information Modeling) to your models. We added features for classifying objects and exporting files according to some of the industry’s most common BIM standards. Learn more »

Time-saving tools for documentation

When designing things that you will not be building yourself, it all comes down to the documents. LayOut in SketchUp Pro 2014 takes care of dates, page numbers, and repetitive text so you can focus on what matters: making better drawings. Learn more »

Rick Baker 3D Prints, Paints Popeye

Link via MakerBot Stories

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Baker persevered. “I do makeup effects, but I like learning new things,” he says. Before long, he started making figures that met his high standards. The piece he’s spent the most time on is a 3D print of his wizened Popeye; his digital rendering of the sailor man has become popular icon since he designed it seven years ago in ZBrush. “People have gotten tattoos of it,” he said.

MakerBot 3D Printers available from Creation Engine.

ZBrush is available at an academic discount price of $449.95