A SketchUp Egret

[Terry]

Time for my semi-annual post.

The background is a snip from a photo offered on the web as Windows Wallpaper, and it purports to be sunset in The Everglades. The image of the egret was created by me using Google SketchUp, rendered with Podium, and combined with the background and shaded to suit the lighting with Xara Xtreme 4.

The second image is an in-process screen capture from SketchUp, and the third image is a direct SketchUp export to JPG.

The ability to create smooth organic shapes in SketchUp became available this year with the release the "Subdivide and Smooth" plugin, in case you're wondering...