Gala Dinner
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- Date Completed:07 July 2006
- Days/hours spent:1 day, 2 hours
- About the company:Fitness Professionals
- Software used:SketchUp 5, Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS
- Tag:PDF, SWF, TIFF
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Designed the 3D floor map for the Gala Dinner as FitPro's Middleweight Web Designer.
1. Floormap
Created the floor map using Illustrator so that it would be easier to build in SketchUp.
Using Adobe Illustrator to create a 2D mockup of the floormap.
2. 3D
I realised it would be important to use a tool which was specifically built for architectural design. From past experience, I found the perfect tool SketchUp (now Google SketchUp), as this had pre-built components to allow 3D modellers time and space to concentrate on serious parts of the architecture.
The floormap wasn't complex and consisted of square and round tables, walls, fire exits, dance floor, stage, and bar. I tried to keep it simple so that users could easily navigate around the two floors.
I imported the floormap (Illustrator file) into SketchUp and applied it to the top view so that I could trace around the walls and tables.
Perspective view of the imperial suite floor.
It came to my attention that in the imperial suite floor there were small staircases leading onto a stage and another onto 4 tables. I need to create these new levels in the floor as well as attach staircases to them. The staircases also need to look like they're attached to the new level.
Adding new panels to the staircase so it looks part of the new level.
The second had four square pillars and a bar. I made sure they were made in scale and look with the floormap.
Creating the bar on the second floor.
3. Formats
These 3D floormaps were going to be displayed on Plasma screens, printed out onto leaflets, and emailed to clients.
Plasma Screen
Plasma screens have a minimum of 720i (720 lines across) with each line containing rectangluar pixels (PAL widescreen is about 1.422:1 ascept ratio), unlike conventional monitors which have square pixels (1:1 ascept ratio). Therefore, I needed to go into Photoshop and convert the the two floormap images PAL widescreen pixel ascept ratio size. This stretched the image a bit but would look fine once displayed on screen.
Leaflet
The leaflet is slightly less complex, as I remembered to export the SketchUp images at 300dpi and about A4 size. As it's better to scale down rather than scale up because I'd lose quality. I also converted the images into CYMK format to make it ready for the graphic designers to use.
I made the images into a PDF (easier to print and read) and scaled them down to 72dpi. It was important to make the file size as small as possible. So I tested a couple of JPEG compression rates before I converted into a PDF. This was to see if it might be a better solution to send JPEG's instead of a PDF. Luckily it turned that the PDF was only 52KB.