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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here is an amazing one I discovered today: The Bates Hotel
This one needs to be downloaded to get the whole Shock and Awe factor. Great camera animations (11 different scenes) that include a camera lens filter, movie scenes and somehow changes the colors in the scene to represent a painting. Small file size (relative). Incredible work.
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By mark - 13 Years Ago
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Oh that's sweet! Check me in....
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By BiggsTrek - 13 Years Ago
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Is there a dead old lady in a rocking chair by the window? If so, count me IN! (errrrr, maybe not).
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By mark - 13 Years Ago
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It's all the chocolate syrup in the tub that freaks me out....
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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biggstrek (9/21/2011)
Is there a dead old lady in a rocking chair by the window? If so, count me IN! (errrrr, maybe not).
I am thinking you didn't open the model...
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By mark - 13 Years Ago
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Oooops you got me! Make that strawberry jam...
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By colour - 13 Years Ago
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mark (9/22/2011)
Oooops you got me! Make that strawberry jam... Looks like tomato catsup to me
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here is a very cool diorama of the Town of Leiden in the Netherlands. The model depicts the town as it was in 1929 following a large fire and complete with frozen waterfalls of firehose water. An icy desolate wonderland complete with dozens of citizens doing their thing.
Its fun to meander through the model and find the most dramatic angle and to see all the details the modeler added in. There's even a cool video that comes along with it.
The model is a bit big (7Mg) but its worth opening to see.
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By Paumanok West - 13 Years Ago
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Hey friends, I like this thread and we should have started it about four years ago. Thanks. 
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Try 2004 by Damo - Impressive in its hugeness. Also worth looking at by Damo is his intricate and gigantic Crystal Palace.
Inspired by a documentary. Damo says "A proposal by the Japanese Industrial Architectural Consultency, Schimizu Corporation for a 2km high mega pyramid. The purpose is to house up to 750 thousand workers & inhabitants & ease the overcrowding of Tokyo. It is currently in the research stage since the technology & super-strong materials required to build the structure are currently unavailable. The plan is to develop robotic workers to build the pyramid & nano technology to create the materials. If completed this will become the largest man-made structure ever built. The intention is for the structure to be completed by 2110AD."
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Ive got more suggestions on the arty/weird front for later but for now Im going to shift into models that are more everyday useful.
Rene F has a set of manufacturing buildings that work really well in Iclone. The first one is my favorite. I slapped some glow maps on the light fixtures (admittedly difficult to find in the texture dropdown) and it looks quite nice. About 23K faces but you can play with it to get those down if you like.
Click the model to go to the 3d Warehouse page.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here is an elaborate and excellent Waffle House Model made by a waffle house cook!
"Welcome to the Waffle House! In 1955, Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner opened the first Waffle House (which has recently been restored to its original condition and will become a Waffle House museum) in Avondale Estates, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Today, Waffle House operates over 1,500 restaurants in 22 states. Famous for 'Scattered, Smothered and Covered' hashbrowns, freshly ground coffee, and, of course, the world's most perfect waffle, and serving you 'Good Food Fast' since 1955, Waffle House is open 24 hours daily, everyday. (by the way I do take pride in this model as well as serving food hot off the grill as I do cook at Waffle House, also)."
I'll have a patty melt plate with a double order scattered smothered covered and chopped (yes I spent many mornings and late nights in a waffle house). Awesome.
These images are from Iclone. I added chuck and the lady, ambient occlusion and some hdr (which makes the exterior look worse..sorry) but I didnt spend too much time with the lighting. Its a bit big at 105K faces but I got it into my machine with no problem and you can probably make it a bit smaller if you work at it. I should have smoothed the textures on the light globes in 3dexchange.
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By RobertoColombo - 13 Years Ago
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Can the model be downloaded and imported into iClone 5?
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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RobertoColombo (10/14/2011)
Can the model be downloaded and imported into iClone 5?
Yes, 3d Exchange (a seperate RL application..and easily the most useful tool in the Iclone bag) allows you to convert skp models to iclone props. Converts other types of models as well.
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By mark - 13 Years Ago
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Ah Waffle House, brings a tear to my eye and a little tug at my arteries
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By rgrove - 13 Years Ago
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Excellent thread. I've come across many very good models. Recently, I found a decent model of Shakespeare's Globe Theater. I like the fact that it includes the stage inside. With some texture work, this could look very nice.
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By colour - 13 Years Ago
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Here's Listowell Race Course in Ireland. The close-up detail is incredible. Pinhead & Dobbin will enter a horse race there next year, when the Pinhead Projects Committee lose the shirts off their backs
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By animagic - 13 Years Ago
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I don't have an example at hand right now, but when I worked on my Pinhead's Dilemma movie and needed to portray 50's Britain, I was amazed at the quality of some of the modeling in 3DWarehouse. People would go back to the neighborhood they grew up in and painstakingly reproduce the buildings, many of which would still look the same as 50 or 60 years ago. I also found that textures were much better quality than they used to be, allowing for closer-up shots.
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (10/12/2011)
Ive got more suggestions on the arty/weird front for later but for now Im going to shift into models that are more everyday useful. Rene F has a set of manufacturing buildings that work really well in Iclone. The first one is my favorite. I slapped some glow maps on the light fixtures (admittedly difficult to find in the texture dropdown) and it looks quite nice. About 23K faces but you can play with it to get those down if you like.
Hi Thebiz.movies!
Thanks for the link to those building props! They're definitely useful for everything from old-fashioned railway relay interlockings to drab socialist buildings of the Cold War era. (See attachment.) I immediately went to work transforming your favorite building into a drab and dreary, Communist East German "HO-Gaststätte" (i.e. a state-run restaurant), the kind you often came across when visiting East Berlin in the 1980s. (Am still busy adding true-to-style furnishings to the interior.) The typical Berlin-style sidewalk and cobblestone street are partly of my own making. The East German "Trabant 601" (1989's "Car of the Year" that's affectionately called "Trabbi") was downloaded from SketchUp, and lots of details, everything from license plates to headlights, lovingly added in iClone 5. 
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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I love the ground textures and the character (pose and general proportions). Good work Hutch.
Heres one I know somebody will have a use for (perhaps a nostalgic PSA, or Adam West inspired comedy). From the 1980s american cartoon, "The SuperFriends", comes...
The Hall of Justice!
81K faces. Rip out the water and the trees and replace them with Iclone elements. The most disappointing part of this model is that there is not currently a Legion of Doom available on the Warehouse (nudge nudge to any sketchup modelers we may have in the forums).
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Anyone looking to do a stoner 70s/80s comedy (or perhaps a Back to the Future spin-off?) may be interested in this model; The Kodak Fotomat. 1 Day Photo Finishing. Drive thru pickup window. That's Hi-Tech!
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By moviemachine - 13 Years Ago
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Very nice thebiz.movies, thanks!
More possible uses minus the logo/signage could be for National Park entrance, toll booth, drive in theater etc.
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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moviemachine (11/2/2011)
Very nice thebiz.movies, thanks!
More possible uses minus the logo/signage could be for National Park entrance, toll booth, drive in theater etc.
A very useful prop! With a different roof, it looks a lot like a control point on the western side of the Berlin Wall, where you had to show your passport to a West Berlin policeman before entering East Berlin (where the passport control formalities were far more extensive, and daunting).
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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An excellent Midieval Island Castle. Replace the sketchup water and your good to go.
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (11/3/2011)
An excellent Midieval Island Castle. Replace the sketchup water and your good to go.
Looks more like Pueblo Indian architecture, posing as "medieval", to me, LOL.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here is a great set of Main Street models from SnowTiger. Excellent textures with nary an obtrusive tree or person in the shot. These work very well as background fodder for your semi-urban flicks...might have to showcase the mayberry models next (no, really).
A lovely pavilion (may want to edit the steps but otherwise wonderful)
The O'Flynn Block. An excellent main street block. I've used it extensively.
A community center:
The TC Barton Building:
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By colour - 13 Years Ago
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Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry nice, Biz. I imagine the band playing in the pavillion, while I relax in my deckchair with a knotted handkerchief on my head, on Brighton sea-front
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By moviemachine - 13 Years Ago
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Echoing Colour's verrrryy nice comment
Thanks Biz, for finding these well crafted models.
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By Paumanok West - 13 Years Ago
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moviemachine (11/10/2011)
Echoing Colour's verrrryy nice comment Thanks Biz, for finding these well crafted models.
Yes, Biz, ya done good--thanks.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here is a little selection of some of my favorite future vehicles from the Warehouse.
The Tucker of the Future - Cool combo of the 1920's and the 2120's. No interior but you can add your own or tint those windows.
Two-Wheel concept car. Worth downloading to see all the custom views with car amenities such as the baggage compartment, on screen display, headlights, rotating side doors and such (not shown in this pic). Innovative and fancy.
The Grungy MagLev - from somewhere out of Fallout USA.
SkyTrain!
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Anyone looking to make a fun little quiz show parody or teaching aide need look no further than Steven Rosenow's Jeopardy Sets. He has three Jeopardy sets available from different periods:
1991 - 1997
1987 - 1991
1984 - 1985
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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LordGood is the king of castles in sketchup but this Italian/Roman City (complete with aquaduct) stands out as particularly excellent with amazing textures and a whole host of little details (I'm a sucker for terra cotta). A lot of faces and a lot of textures. I haven't tried to get it into Iclone yet but surely pieces can be extracted if needed.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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There are surprisingly not a lot of good art exhibit/museum interiors on the Warehouse. This Monet exhibit by ArtDirector is one of the best. Low face count. Add some textures to the floor and walls and maybe delete the people and you should be good for filming.
"This is my reconstruction of the two rooms with the eight walls of the Nymphèas, by Monet, at the Musée de l'Orangerie, in Paris."
If you want to take a virtual tour of other museums Google has a neat application similar to street view (from Google maps) for museums called ART Project. Check out the Tate Museum here.
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By sjonesdc - 13 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (11/16/2011)
LordGood is the king of castles in sketchup but this Italian/Roman City (complete with aquaduct) stands out as particularly excellent with amazing textures and a whole host of little details (I'm a sucker for terra cotta). A lot of faces and a lot of textures. I haven't tried to get it into Iclone yet but surely pieces can be extracted if needed.
I downloaded it and tried to import it into 3DxchangePro, it has over 30,000 polys and 3Dxchange choked(at least this was my experience). But even in Sketchup, it's stunning!
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By sjonesdc - 13 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (11/16/2011)
LordGood is the king of castles in sketchup but this Italian/Roman City (complete with aquaduct) stands out as particularly excellent with amazing textures and a whole host of little details (I'm a sucker for terra cotta). A lot of faces and a lot of textures. I haven't tried to get it into Iclone yet but surely pieces can be extracted if needed.
I downloaded it and tried to import it into 3DxchangePro, it has over 30,000 polys and 3Dxchange choked(at least this was my experience). But even in Sketchup, it's stunning!
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By mark - 13 Years Ago
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Maybe try the "Explode" feature in SketchUp. That should allow you to pick and choose pieces and parts to save and get that poly count manageable...just a thought
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By sjonesdc - 13 Years Ago
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mark (11/19/2011)
Maybe try the "Explode" feature in SketchUp. That should allow you to pick and choose pieces and parts to save and get that poly count manageable...just a thought
Thanks mark for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. Still learning SketchUp.
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By colour - 13 Years Ago
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3DXchange4 PRO wouldn't Open it here, either. Thanks for the SP, Mark. Biz has been verrrrrrrrrry bizzy
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By CallNeg151 - 13 Years Ago
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I was able to open this in exchange, save it as a prop, and then open it in iClone 5. The load time, on the other hand, took just short of an eternity. I walked away after loading it in 3dExchange4, after watching the program seem frozen for several minutes, and when I returned about 20 minutes later, it was there with poly count over 700,000. I then aligned it to ground, exported it, and then opened it up in iClone. Probably fifteen minutes or so of load time, but there it was.
Obviously, once it was opened in 3dExchange4 you could easily exclude a lot of faces to reduce the poly count and limit your prop to a building at a time or something, but it WILL still export and load as a whole. Of course, my frame rate is about 2 fps...
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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sjonesdc (11/19/2011)
mark (11/19/2011)
Maybe try the "Explode" feature in SketchUp. That should allow you to pick and choose pieces and parts to save and get that poly count manageable...just a thought Thanks mark for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. Still learning SketchUp.
Me, too! Without wishing to drift too far off-topic here: anyone know how to round off the corners of objects, or make spheres or oval objects, in SketchUp? Extruding flat, circle-shaped objects with edges is easy, but that's not what I want. Which tool is used, and how? (Can't seem to find it.)
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By wires - 13 Years Ago
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Hutch, Have you looked at the Sketchup tutorials page. The "Follow-Me" tutorial shows how to make spheres etc. Added: There are also a set of updated tutorials on Youtube.
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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wires (11/20/2011)
Hutch, Have you looked at the Sketchup tutorials page. The "Follow-Me" tutorial shows how to make spheres etc. Added: There are also a set of updated tutorials on Youtube.
Thanks, Gerry, for the links!!
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By Samulis - 13 Years Ago
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There was a plugin that curved corners, if I remember correctly.
The one thing that needs to be addressed is the fact that modeling in Sketchup for iClone is a very specific thing. First off, you need to make sure that every face that points outwards is a front face (white in Monochrome view). If it's a back face, it won't work right. Most people, when modeling in Sketchup, just build in whatever manner they feel like, so you end up with a mix of both back and front faces. You have to manually turn the faces to front faces and re-color them if you plan to reduce the faces by removing back faces (which cuts the face count in HALF).
In addition, texturing in Sketchup for iClone generally utilizes 'placeholder' textures, as you will most likely want to utilize iClone's much better texture engine.
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By hj - 13 Years Ago
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Hi thebiz.movies
here a Iclone 5 Impression
this Italian/Roman City (complete with aquaduct) ]off the Italian/Roman City (complete with aquaduct) from Sketchup
hj
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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I've spent a lot of time this weekend tearing the village model into pieces. It consists of about 7 small buildings that make up 3 different blocks (each used twice in the sketchup model). Once I corrected the faces and excluded back faces the blocks are are each about 30K faces. Then the aquaduct is made up of one column piece repeated throughout. After getting rid of everything I could but the walls and the irregular shaped buildings in the corners the city base is about 90K faces. If I get time to finish this soon I will look into putting it on a page and giving it away to whoever wants it (time willing).
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (11/20/2011)
I've spent a lot of time this weekend tearing the village model into pieces. It consists of about 7 small buildings that make up 3 different blocks (each used twice in the sketchup model). Once I corrected the faces and excluded back faces the blocks are are each about 30K faces. Then the aquaduct is made up of one column piece repeated throughout. After getting rid of everything I could but the walls and the irregular shaped buildings in the corners the city base is about 90K faces. If I get time to finish this soon I will look into putting it on a page and giving it away to whoever wants it (time willing).
Please do! But what the heck is CHUCK doing in an ancient Roman village? Isn't that a wee bit...anachronistic? "Milites! Carolum ad leonem!" ("Soldiers! Throw Chuck to the lions!")
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Ive managed to create a storefront today and figured out how to get stuff up there. Ive uploded the city walls (90K+ faces) and 3 city blocks (about 30K faces each). Later this week I will try to get all the smaller things up on there as well (5 buildings, aquaduct column, fountain, pillar, bench). Let me know if you have any problems as this is my first time offering content. Hopefully this will be useful to someones production.
Credit goes to LordGood for the original sketchup model.
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By animagic - 13 Years Ago
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Thanks for doing that, Biz. I was able to convert and load the original into iClone, but this will make it much easier.
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By CallNeg151 - 13 Years Ago
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Wow. Biz, you are just over-the-top awesome. Thanks for sharing your hard work.
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By hj - 13 Years Ago
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hello hutchartwork
Please do! But what the heck is CHUCK doing in an ancient Roman village? Isn't that a wee bit...anachronistic?
here without CHUCK
i hope you enjoy better
hj
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By hutchartwork - 13 Years Ago
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@Hj Now THAT's more like it!
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By hj - 13 Years Ago
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hj
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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I heart a good old fashioned art-deco movie theater.
This one was built by the 3dWarehouse team and most impressively has a full interior with balcony and two bars. Fun to walk around and explore.
This one from DKH33 would be appropriate for filming. Solid texttures, excellent exterior.
This one is a fixer upper. Some of the photo textures are inappropriate (plants and poles and such) but its not hard to use a plaster white color or texture and you know you want to emulate that neon glow (as seen in this picture of the Tower Theater in its heyday)!
And heres a fictional facade and interior (seperate models) by "Atlantic City Midmer Losh Fan" who specializes in giant organs you might find in one of these theaters in the 1920s.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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They may not be sexy (or they may be) but you gotta have chairs. Here are five mod/bachelor pad seating selections that I like:
A thinking chair for John Constantine perhaps...
For the ample derriere of big bottomed super villains
Super-stylish barber chair for your he-man, steampunk, beauty bar
Who doesn't want to sit in a chair that looks like a comfortable leather pod-racer from star wars (and it has a sports car name as well...make mine a bugatti!)
Classic Corbusier.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Paul Palamara (Paulwall) has created a plethora of excellent house models but these two caught my eye as you dont see a lot of houses in the process of being built. Cool models.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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The Star Wars/WWII mashup is relatively popular though I have no idea who originally came up with the idea (is it a battlefront 1942 thing?) but no matter! The outstanding moddeler JIHS provides super cool X-Wing and Tie-Fighter WWII crafts for your perusal. There's a WWII ATAT model available as well.
JIHS has a bevy of excellent models including the coolest car/motorcycle ever made, the Morgan SuperSport, and much much more (but we can save that for later posts).
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By toonarama - 13 Years Ago
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Thank you so much for posting these wonderful examples, much appreciated. But how do you find them? Is it just hours of trawling through them or do you have some "secret" method Thanks again Toonarama
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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toonarama (12/1/2011)
But how do you find them? Is it just hours of trawling through them or do you have some "secret" method
No secret method, just time spent looking at models. I get a lot of inspiration for my own works from putting words in the search box and seeing what comes up. Then I keep a couple of different collections where I keep my favorites or the most useful or the most relevant to whatever project I'm working on at the time.
Anywho, glad you are enjoying seeing all the good works of the Warehouse modelers. Here is another...
Gotta send a dame out of town before the whole shebang blows up in your face? A visit to your local greyhound station is in order.
Della is apparently modeling the whole of Evansville Indiana with excellent photo textures. File size gets a bit at times but you can find some excellent quasi urban buildings in Della's collection.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Continuing in the transportation vein here is Denver's Union Station with a pretty cool interior. The interior is mostly single plane and probably wont look that great in a production (though I may be wrong, will give it a try this week) but it surely serves as inspiration for a set worth building and the exterior is pretty fancy as well.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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And even more transit station models....
This first modern subway station from shane is excellent in many ways and faulty in but a few easy to fix ways (first change the camera to perspective when you download, the 'redline' signs are backwards on one side of the tracks). The bend in the tracks makes for full stage use in a production.
Next up is this Victorian Era railway station by Daniel Papen. Immense and detailed interiors include underground walkways between the tracks and 2 sitting rooms. There are a lot of faces so you might want to rid yourself of the sitting rooms. Also a lot of the railing work and benches (and the train) are simple planes. Might remove the benches and train and add your own for better effect. Still an excellent set for your victorian melodrama or Harry Potter fanfilm.
More from Daniel Papen in the near future as he is a genius at interiors and good interiors are pretty rare in the warehouse.
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Let me say up front...You will not get these next 2 Roman models into Iclone as is (does that sound like a dare? Perhaps it is.). They are enormous and detailed. If the devil is in the details then this guy is Aliester Crowley. That said, you might get elements of them in and they are certainly worth the download to experience in a 3d space. Complex, beautiful, well crafted. In fact all of L.VII.C.'s models are incredibly well made. These two just happen to be my favorites.
Imagine staging a chariot race at the Circus Maximus (see following 2 images)!
Or perhaps staging a meeting of thespians or of orators (or something equally romanic or such) at the Theater of Pompey (see following 3 images).
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here comes the awards season....
An Oscar to present to yourself upon completion of your latest and greatest dancing chimpanzee music video...
Incidently, I used this model in my Oscar Stage Model Here.
An Emmy because your too humble to accept the oscar...and it makes a super cool ashtray
The Vince Lombardi Trophy for your online fantasy football awards presentation (I'm seeded second in my league right now...Yay me!)
And finally, Johann Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum cause it sounds fantastic!
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By moviemachine - 13 Years Ago
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And the OSCAR for helpful star in the iclone forum goes to..... thebiz.movies!
Thanks for the pointer to that 3D oscar, just what I was after
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By Samulis - 13 Years Ago
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That Roman Chariot Racetrack is better than mine by just a little. 
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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Here's a solid, low face count jungle/desert Tomb by John Perron. Good textures on the interior and exterior (though a bit glowy) and a perfect fit to match up with ChristyO's gloriously free JimmyToon Explorer Character (which is what I spent the evening playing with while waiting for my four year old son to finish up a script....). The adventure motion pack would work nicely with this as well I thinks.
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By colour - 13 Years Ago
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Listowell Horse Race-course in Ireland. Impossible to show the close-up detail in this pic. Pinhead & Dobbin will enter a race sometime next year, as million £ to one, rank outsiders, when the Pinhead Projects Committee lose the shirts off their backs, following a Stewards Enquiry The BBC Sport TV Commentator will be me - Peter 'O' Sullivan, eat yer heart-out. That's the plan, anyway 
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By thebiz.movies - 13 Years Ago
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3 phototextured buildings and a monument from Savannah by 37th Street Town Planning and Urban Design. Solid!
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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A groovy ready made campfire by BiGSiD complete with pit, embers and such. Just add fire.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Here is an excellent interior model of McDonalds. Includes everything that real McD's has (bathrooms, kitchen, drive through window area, registers, menus, fountain drink station, eating area) except the grease, customers and pimply faced kid working the grill (that was me about 15 years ago). Its big but I managed to get it into Iclone at about 150K faces after removing the table and chairs and adding them back as separate props. I'm loving it!
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Here's a wonderfull Wells Fargo Stagecoach for your next adaptation of...StageCoach! Or keep the horses and driver and stick it in a museum set piece. Its actually pretty lite on polys and faces and such. A very good model.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Fred Bartels is one of the warehouse's most experimental modelers. Whether deconstructing family photos and renowned works of art, creating bizarre architecture of the future or just playing with colors and shapes, his collection is good viewing for those looking for ideas and inspiration.
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By Paumanok West - 12 Years Ago
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Hey biz, is that Fred Flinstone's house? I can't use it, but it certainly ought to appeal to some of us tooners.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Paumanok West (1/23/2012)
Hey biz, is that Fred Flinstone's house? I can't use it, but it certainly ought to appeal to some of us tooners.
Its Bartel's version of a Dr. Suess House. He has an entire Suess Landscape here:
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Benz Patent-Motorwagen by ireallyfeellikesomecheese - Widely considered the first motorcar (not a steam powered vehicle) from 1886. Nifty.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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SciFiLicious is an excellent modeler whose models often nudge past the 10MG realm on the warehouse.
Here is a pretty cool Mid Evil Town model (10MG) that features a very cool terrain, pleanty of camera facing residents, animals and trees and at least 3 very good building models (of decent file size with great textures) that you can save out of the file.
SCIFILicious has also made some very cool photorealistic apocolyptic vehicles that may not be good enough to drive but could definitely serve as props.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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No pretty pictures in this post. Instead here are some links to Skydomes. They may not look amazing as a prop but they are amazingly useful in iClone if you want to vary from the default iC skies. In my opinion they generally look better than the default iC skies and they can be easily rotated from the midpoint of your scene to have the sky/clouds slowly float along (a nice effect I think). In some cases you will want to delete the ground/terrain in the model or simply lower the dome bottom under your scene.
Anonymous has a set of 11 here
DBSketch has 4 skydomes here: Day, Night, Sunset, Cloudy
Here's another Night Dome which are much more rare than their daytime counterparts. Effective? You tell me.
Apocalypse by Rockhead
And here are a couple of otherworld (StarWars?) skydomes from Eaol. Felucia, Geonosis,
Hoth
Here are a couple of scenes I did using skydomes from the warehouse (well I lied, there are pictures indeed, pretty is debatable)
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By Paumanok West - 12 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (2/2/2012)
Here are a couple of scenes I did using skydomes from the warehouse (well I lied, there are pictures indeed, pretty is debatable)
I hate to contradict you, but there's no debate that these are GREAT renders. All of our users ought to be striving for results like this. 
Are you using image-based lighting?
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Paumanok West (2/2/2012)
I hate to contradict you, but there's no debate that these are GREAT renders. All of our users ought to be striving for results like this. Are you using image-based lighting?
Thanks Pau, you are kind. I don't think I'm using IBL (these two scenes were made a couple of months ago so I'm not sure). IBL is definitely a tool I need to get better acquainted with as I don't use it beyond the default setting.
I suppose the point was that the sky domes in both pics really added something to the scene instead of settling on the default iC sky.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Here is an excellent Mansion Ruin located in the Philippines by engr_juancarlos_g_ayeng. There's a lot of info that can be found on the web about this particular building if you are so inclined.
Kill the terrain (in Sketchup, right click and unlock, then select and delete) and have fun.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Sticking with the Ruins theme here is a model of St Leonards Hospital by G3FX (an excellent modeller who focuses on buildings and structures in York), apparently the largest medeval hospital in England. A lot of cool nooks and crannies, pillars and gated doors and windows in this model.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Here we have a Bamboo Shelter (presumably located in a garbage dump) by Gonzalo Raymundo. It was a finalist in Google's (cosponsored by the Guggenheim) shelter competition from a few years back. It reminds me a lot of the Roshamon Gatehouse in which all the characters take shelter from the rain. Cool model with approximately 36K faces.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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I love the way this tiny Italian Church by Antonello Buccella comes alive with the inclusion of the bicycle and the priest. The angle he uses for the screenshot is excellent.
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By colour - 12 Years Ago
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Ah! - "The Vicar's Bike"thebiz.movies (2/17/2012)
I love the way this tiny Italian Church by Antonello Buccella comes alive with the inclusion of the bicycle and the priest. The angle he uses for the screenshot is excellent. 
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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tas_1985 has a professional architect vibe straight from the pages of Dwell Magazine in many of his models.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Koen Jespers is a fun modeler who focuses on familiar television and movie sets.
Here's a certain steamboat...
An original Wild West town (one of the better ones on the warehouse me thinks)...
and Moe Sizlack's Tavern
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By aknzrdude - 12 Years Ago
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nice find thebiz - i like that tavern...with a little texturing could be made really cool
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Here's a lovely Art Deco Bar prop from Rene (who has some other solid models in his collection).
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Limburg Monastery Ruins by Aerilius
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By animagic - 12 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (3/13/2012)
Limburg Monastery Ruins by Aerilius Exquisitely textured; nice find! Keep 'em coming...
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Shellhouse from (the previously highlighted) Daniel Papen. Three story interior with wooden floors and a batpole/elevator tunnel access on the bottom floor. Easy to imagine this model attached to sea cliffs in some Miyazaki style flick.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Thanks Eric but all the models that I have listed here are the work of others. Glad your enjoying it though.
Here are three Sci-fi future models from Beisswenger Design
Autonomous Ornithopter Falcon Spy Drone
Turbine Powered Jet Bike
Oban Star Racer - Inspired by a manga series/show but seemingly wholey original
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Drafting Station by Paul H Manning.
A bit heavy on the faces (100K+) but could serve as an excellent throne or command seat amongst the industrial/steampunky interiors.
Paul also has a full collection of Transformer Robots if your looking for that sort of thing.
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By thebiz.movies - 12 Years Ago
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Moriarty's Machine by Rubicundo. Surely someone will want to retexture and animate this steampunked, 4-armed robot helicopter in 3dExchange. And dont call me shirley.
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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Its been a while since I've updated this thread but I'm still keeping an eye on my favorite sketchup models. Here's a pretty cool mid evil town from SCIFI LICIOUS. Its a bit large but you could strip it down to get the various houses, walls, trees and terrain out without too much fuss. Click the pic to go to the sketchup model.
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I'll try to keep this thread a bit more updated going forward. Theres plenty of free sketchup models to love.
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By Popeye - 11 Years Ago
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Seen this one. It's a beauty! Inspired me to recreate this!
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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And I just realized I had already featured this one a ways back (it really has been a while). So lets look at another awesome model.
Here is a really solid industrial city setting. Fully enclosed and some of the buildings have basic interiors. Feels like a video game level. I managed to get it into iClone whole without too much coughing and sputtering. Definitely to be of use for some.
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By Peter Blood - 11 Years Ago
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biz. I can spend way too much time just browsing the warehouse and I am always amazed by something I come across. This is one of my very favorites. It's small and simple but has an elegant design and brings back many fun-filled hours at Joyland Amusement Park in my hometown. (Shut down after 55 years but is in a restoration at the moment.) 
pete
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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That's a great looking model Peter. Do you remember who made it? Im looking around the warehouse and cant find one that lovely.
I love bumper cars. Going to be taking my son to the Bump yer *** off ride in Coney Island this year (he was too short last year).
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By Peter Blood - 11 Years Ago
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biz. That sounds like it's gonna be a great time and that place looks like fun. Kids love the bumper cars. Grown-ups too!! I downloaded it about a year and a half ago according to the properties. It doesn't appear that I kept the original zip file. I had thoughts of using it as a way for Jimmy Toon to get around town, but I never got around to it. I've searched both warehouse and sharecg (just in case I got it there and forgot) but couldn't come up with anything. I'll play around while watching commercials and see if I can locate it. pete
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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The first post in this thread was an excellent model based on the Movie Psycho packed with fun little scenes to discover. This model (by Sketchmaster Toth) features something similar done to John Carpenter's 1982 classic the Thing. Worth downloading and clicking through the scenes. You can here the arctic wind blowing and the eerie chill over everything.
Also really liking this tiny Babylonian Fortress by LordGood. Not so crazy big as some of his other fortress/city models but chock full of great textures and cool knick knacks.
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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Adzillah2038 has created a set of clothes both hanging and folded that work well in closet scenes or inside your dresser. Take a look through his/her models to see the full array (and a nifty cheesecake). I have run into a need for such things on more than one occasion. File it in the back of your mind under useful stuff for a proper occasion.
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By Peter Blood - 11 Years Ago
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Hiya biz. Here's a cool hoverbus I got off sharecg for a cameo in my pinhead ad. It's by Gabriel Montagudo. pete
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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Here a rather nicely modeled Ruins of Persopilis. A bit heavy on the faces but manageable.
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By animagic - 11 Years Ago
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That's a nice one.
I've found that by importing a large model in pieces (if possible) it becomes more manageable. I wanted to import a walled city once, and it was simply too big. But it could easily be split up and the parts could be imported that way.
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By Peter Blood - 11 Years Ago
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Here's a snazzy little car I found at Google Warehouse. "antique car" page 2. The artist is Redrevolver52. 
Cute huh? pete Yay!! My forum works again.
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By colour - 11 Years Ago
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"peterblood (12/8/2013)
Here's a snazzy little car I found at Google Warehouse."antique car" page 2. The artist is Redrevolver52. Cute huh? pete Yay!! My forum works again. " Isn't that "Noddy In Toyland's" car, Pete?
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By Peter Blood - 11 Years Ago
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Wow colour I think you nailed it! I had never heard of Noddy so I looked it up on YT. Cute show and for sure the car looks like a spitting image of Noddys. Well, he probably wouldn't mind if Jimmy borrowed it once in a while. pete
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By colour - 11 Years Ago
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"peterblood (12/8/2013)
Wow colour I think you nailed it! I had never heard of Noddy so I looked it up on YT. Cute show and for sure the car looks like a spitting image of Noddys. Well, he probably wouldn't mind if Jimmy borrowed it once in a while. pete" Here's the background music for you, then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wga6eucUlT0
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By thebiz.movies - 11 Years Ago
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I thought I had added this one before but perhaps not. Daniel Pappan's Art Deco Hotel Lobby is awesome. Full interior with excellent textures. Its about a 100K faces but works well for me in IC 64bit. Probably one of my favorite 10 sketchup models.
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By thebiz.movies - 10 Years Ago
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Heres a nice realistic warehouse model by mugenjohncel . A little heavy on the faces but doable (40K).
This guy is interesting in that he is using sketchup to create backgrounds for his manga visual novels. Here is an example: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?p=226871#p226871
These various models that he is using here can be found in the 3d warehouse. Pretty cool stuff.
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By animagic - 10 Years Ago
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While looking for suburban dwellings, I came accross a collection called St Pete's Village, by markiatnet. It consists of 32 different houses: 
It would serve well anywhere where a suburban setting is required, such as the latest Pinhead project. Each model is quite detailed, with an interior layout as well. Components such as windows and doors are separated out, so you can make them into subprops and animate them. The size per model is around 25k polys. Because of those details, the total scene size is almost one million polys (part of which must be streets, sidewalks, and landscaping) This is a bit unmanageable, so what I did was open a second instance of Sketchup and then copy a single house into it, which I then saved as a new file. I then imported the file into 3DXchange. The scale is not quite right, but when I reduced the size to 80% it was OK.
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By Peter Blood - 10 Years Ago
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I came upon this sweet little creation on warehouse the other day. It's called 'The Morgan' and it's by a modeler named Apollo. I painted it and chromed everything that needed it, but other than that it's straight out of the warehouse. Hey Jimmy Toon! Check out photo #3...it's a pedal car!!!
pete
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By thebiz.movies - 9 Years Ago
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Well, Im realizing that a lot of the images here are not showing as they are direct links to the old google site. The redirect on the urls seem to work for now though. I will try to go back through old posts and replace the images and links with the new urls on the new trimble pages as time allows. In the meantime....
Check out this collection of models from ixllrxi: Hes got a very cool future retro theme going on with lots of cool vehicles and a few retro computers to boot. Worth a look!
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By thebiz.movies - 9 Years Ago
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I recently needed an ancient grecian/athenian setting and didn't want anything too taxing on the system. LordGood has a very nice Roman Forum prop that you can get down to 40K faces if you remove the trees and the back faces in 3DX. Solid fast solution.
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