San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain Video

Screen shot of the San Sebastian - Donostia model video

A bottle has floated ashore on SketchUp Island with a note from SketchUpper "gipuzkoa3d." He writes

I'm working on my new blog, and created a promotional video of my city. I think Sketchup Island is one of the best sites to display and disseminate the qualities of SketchUp and Google Earth. It also promotes community of 3D models and opens up many future options.

Well, thanks, gipuzkoa3d! 

Check out his blog here and the video of San Sebastian-Donostia as seen in 3D/Google Earth here. (Note: If the video link does not work, refresh the browser window).

SittingDuck's Masterpiece

Check it out:

SittingDuck has this to say about this model:

It's a small chapel in Brussels.  More than a year ago I modeled it in the traditional way.  Now a few weeks ago I remade it in Building Maker.  Now I decided to take the best of both worlds.  It took me about 8 hours in total, but I manually combined the photos I took with the Building Maker textures, and very painstakingly corrected all the geometry flaws in the model.  You can see that the colors and shading are still unified, but the textures have increased many times in sharpness/detail.

Cool stuff.

Google Snowmobile

OK, now they've gone and done it. Google Street View for ski slopes! My favorite thing is the Google Street View character (that little orange guy) appears on skis in the bottom right corner of the map.