I am Juan Carlos Uribe, CG Architect/Artist from Guadalajara, México. I love the fact that I can seamlessly integrate my modeling application with Thea. I model, texture and set up my cameras and illumination all inside SketchUp, but it is when I export to Thea when I feel true freedom to setup materials and illumination. I really enjoy the fact that Thea has 32 and 64 bit binaries, because I can merge several split files and have a much more detailed and integrated scene avoiding a slow viewport, also importing high-poly models in my scene.

Material setup is quite easy, I use SketchUV and Sketchup standard mapping to set up my textures and then, in Thea, enhance them in the material lab where I use multi-layered materials. I like instancing too, since now I can have millions of polys in my final scene, something I wasn´t used to but now I am really enjoying. That, along with interactive render has not only helped me to improve the quality of my images but also to speed up my workflow.