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With Twilight Render, it's now possible to render photo-realistic images inside Google SketchUp!

Render SketchUp models with biased and unbiased methods on an unlimited number of processors.  Continue working in and saving your SketchUp models while Twilight is rendering in the background.  No exporting.  No mess on your hard drive!  Easy to share.

Twilight offers physically accurate materials, photometric (IES) lights, image based (HDR) lighting, a long list of easy-to-choose optimized preset render settings, animation with SketchyPhysics and ProperAnimation, and more!

We welcome you to the Twilight website, and invite you to our forum and on-line shop.

Twilight Render

Rendering SketchUp Sideboard by Dan Stronge - Top 10 Image Award Winner

Interview with Twilight Render 3D Artist Dan Stronge

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Dan Stronge (known around the forums as Dan_ddd) is the creator of this Sideboard model he designed and built in Google SketchUp and rendered with Twilight Render. We recently had the honor of interviewing him regarding the process of creating this image. Dan has created several incredible kitchens and renderings which may be found in the Twilight Render   Showcase Gallery.

If you would like to see the other 9 award winning images, refer to this Twilight Render 2011 Top 10 Images article.

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Top Ten 2011 - People's Choice Awards

The votes are in! The top rendered images for 2011 created with the Twilight Render SketchUp* Plugin have been chosen.

Many stunning images were nominated as "unforgettable" by the forum members of Twilight Render. A few "All Star Artists" emerged in the voting.

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What are people saying about Tech Support for Twilight Render plugin for Google SketchUp?

What are people who bought Twilight Render for only $99 saying about Twilight Render Tech Support?

"Wow,  fantastic, A1, amazing technical support. Thanks very, very  much"

~Charles,from LGM3D, Colorado, USA

"...just want to say support for Twilight is very good. Thorough and competent. Thanks."

~Kix, 3D artist

"Thank you , thank you, thank you! All your suggestions were spot on... and it worked like a charm."

~Timothy Eckmair, Design Principal, HDR ONE COMPANY, Charlotte, NC

"Thanks for the quick help!" & "I absolutely love Twilight Render and use it all the time"

~Dean (a.k.a. Bytor)

 


What are people saying about Twilight Render plugin for Google SketchUp?

What are people saying who bought Twilight Render for only $99? (Students for much less!)

"First of all I want to shout THANK YOU to everyone who gave life to Twilight - this software is pretty much what I had in mind for rendering inside SketchUp, I am amazed!"

~Shura, Stage and club lighting designer, Germany

"For those of you "wandering about" looking for a render program, doing comparisons let me tell you this: We've used them all from the "money is no object" equipment at PIXAR, to 3DS, and V-ray, and all the way down the line.
TWILIGHT by far and away is more bang for the buck than you could ever imagine...you can't beat Twilight...

~Kalli, Leach Industries - Architecture and Planning, USA

"Im a very happy customer indeed!"

Jerome Zaavy, Furniture Designer, Quebec, Canada

"I really enjoy the Twilight material editor and especially the templates, they make the job faster and tweaking them after applying gives good results for my custom made textures."

~Unclebim, Architectural Designer, Bulgaria

"Brilliant - saves a lot of time! Really enjoying the product."

~AndyW

"It really has made my design procedure more enjoyable having some control over the final look."

~sainty

"I searched high and low and TwilightRender was the only plug-in I could find that renders photorealistic animations, so thank you for developing this product and keeping the price nice! I've got some ideas of animations that I want to do, and this software really makes it easy."

~Mary, Graphic and Web designer

"Great product by the way, coming from blender/yafaray I'm really enjoying SketchUp+Twilight"

~pdwyer

"I have a lot to learn about lighting and texturing but Twilight is really easy to use and I'm enjoying my self paced training."

~NVizion

"I am using SU8 with Twilight and have really been enjoying it."

~JHArch

A Day at the Natural History Museum

Click and drag your mouse in the image above to navigate inside of the panoramic image.

Our favorite scene so far this year was quite a while in the making. As far as we are aware, this is the first time this model has been rendered NATIVELY from WITHIN SKETCHUP! The original scene was created and shared by Alvaro Luna Bautista and Joel Anderson.

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