On: Naughty Dog used Google SketchUp for Uncharted 2 development

[aristus]

It's not new. I saw Sketchup demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 12 or 13 years ago, when I first heard about Maya too. At the time I thought Sketchup-style UI would take over the industry. Possibly it hasn't because of this:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6628279

[dan335 → aristus]

Zbrush just came out with shadowbox. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJo-HCg3_A Same type of thing, very cool.

[colanderman → aristus]

How is there no prior art for that? I thought extrusion was a concept that had been around since the dawn of 3D modeling.

[JabavuAdams → colanderman]

Didn't Canoma and other photo-modeling packages do this?

I did some experiments in going directly from concept sketch to textured level geometry using photogrammetry software, some years ago.