Harnessing the Power of SketchUp in Garden Design: A Complete Project Workflow

In the dynamic world of garden design, capturing the essence of an idea, translating it into a tangible concept, and presenting it effectively to clients can be challenging. As a designer, you need tools that can handle this intricate journey with finesse and efficiency. Enter SketchUp, a 3D modeling software that’s revolutionized the design landscape,…

Why Garden Designers Should Try Twinmotion 2023: Unleash Your Creativity

As a garden designer, staying ahead of the game and creating stunning outdoor spaces is essential for success. Twinmotion 2023 offers an impressive range of features to help you design, visualize, and present your projects like never before. In this blog post, we’ll explore the top reasons why you should try Twinmotion 2023 and how…

Top 5 Reasons Garden Designers and Landscapers Should Learn SketchUp and Layout

As a garden designer or landscaper, you’re always looking for new ways to improve your skills and bring your clients’ visions to life. SketchUp and Layout are two powerful tools that can help you do just that. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the top five reasons why you should learn SketchUp and Layout, and…

SketchUp: The Essential Tool for Garden Designers

Are you a garden designer looking for a tool to help bring your designs to life? Look no further than SketchUp! As a powerful and intuitive 3D modeling software, SketchUp is the perfect tool for garden designers looking to create detailed and accurate plans for their clients. One of the things that set SketchUp apart…

Open AI, a ChatGPT conversation about Garden Design

The following conversation is an ongoing talk, my first, using the chat GPT at Open Ai, a free research resource at the moment that you can try on, be aware that you need to register and give your mobile number. When talking about artificial intelligence I’m 50% amazed the other 50% totally scared, it’s incredible…

5 Reasons you should learn SketchUp if you are a garden designer or landscaper!!

SketchUp is one of the most versatile, user-friendly software. With a particularly good entry-level cost with the PRO version, the most used by professionals, for only €300 a year on a subscription basis. With this software, you can do everything from the 3D modeling of your garden project to the 2D plans for planting, construction…

FREE PDF: The Garden Rendering Checklist

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SketchUp Basics for Garden Designers course updated

The online course SketchUp for Garden Designers as been completely updated for SketchUp PRO 2021. Like all my courses the they are video based and using a Windows PC, if you have Mac the differences are not very significant and you can still do this course. Check out the full curriculum and preview videos on…

When to use Vegetation Paint in Twinmotion 2020!

The Vegetation Paint tool that can be found in the Context menu in Twinmotion 2020 it´s an amazing way to create an interesting background for your Twinmotion renderings. Check out the renderings at the end of the video! 🖥Online courses here: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/ #gardendesigntools #lumionforgardens #twinmotionforgardens I’m preparing for a Live Stream on Lumion PRO 10.5…

How to get 3D high-quality plants in Twinmotion for FREE from Megascan??

Megascan amazing library od 3D assets and textures are free to use for Twinmotion users, an amazing plus for the fans of this amazing program that it’s becoming Twinmotion. Some of the #D assets are fairly simple to upload and apply the textures that come with it, but some like the 3D plants you need…

From 2D to 3D Garden Demonstration!

Are you currently working in 2D, plans or hand drawings? Are you curious about how your project would look in 3D? I’m going to pick up a 2D project and transform it into a 3D rendering animation, are you interested? Send a jpg image from your project to our email, if you are interested, gardendesign.professionals@gmail.com. …

My first Live Stream! Comparing renderings Lumion PRO 10 vs Twinmotion 2020!

My first Live Stream! Celebrating more than 400 subscribers on YouTube and 4700 followers on Instagram! Thank you, everyone! Check out Twinmotion Public Roadmap: https://portal.productboard.com/epicgames/3-twinmotion-public-roadmap/tabs/4-under-consideration Lumion Forum: https://forum.lumion.com/ Online courses: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/ What to learn more about Twinmotion, check out my online course here: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/courses/twinmotion-intro-for-garden-designers #gardendesigntools #twinmotion2020 #lumionpro10 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garden_design_tools/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gardenprodesign Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gardendesigntools LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/garden-design-tools/…

Mediterranean Planting challenge inside Lumion PRO 10

In this video, I gave myself a challenge, inspired by the work of Olivier Filippi in dry gardens and Mediterranean gardens. I wanted to recreate that atmosphere inside Lumion PRO 10 even knowing that I didn’t have a lot of the plant material available in the Lumion library. Check out the rendering images at the…

Next week’s a Planting Design challenge 💡

Normally 3D renderings can be challenging regarding the vegetation library available for garden designer’s and landscapers. To demonstrate that it’s possible with some tricks to have not only a sense of the vegetation you want to propose in your design but to recreate a more naturalistic imagery I decided to give myself a challenge! A…

How to Start 3D Modelling if you a Garden Designer!

So you want to start exploring the 3D world but don’t know where to start? This video is for you, it’s really important to don’t compromise your design ideas when you explore the 3D world of modelling and rendering, make sure you stay true to your design concept. If you need help regarding 3D modelling…