Hi, my name is Maria Georgiou.

And it's a pleasure seeing you here! I have been a professional 3D Visualizer and Design Educator for many years. I have had the pleasure teaching many Design Students at Australia's prestigious Sydney Design School, following a long career as a High School Teacher. My many private Students through my offering, LearnEnscape.com, come from all across the globe. I've also worked with many SketchUp Design Professionals across the world to help bring their models to life from my Studio, MariaGeorgiou.com.au.

Howbeit, exciting my Clients was never easy. And perhaps you also think the same too, right!? I found I was good at design. But lacked extracting that all-important 'wow!' moment from Clients..

SketchUp models are a fantastic way to convey the design message. But they really lack the 'excite' factor, only photo-realism provides. My Clients were really only interested in what the end design would look like. They really needed to see photo-realistic renders, not just 'cartoon-styled' images from SketchUp models. Renders had to also be done at the speed of a Client, and at the speed of how a Designer thinks. And definitely not take overnight, or even hours, to produce.

I knew I had to do something about it. Not only to improve my Client's reaction, but to also remain relevant in a very competitive market.

In my search for an affordable, yet enterprise-level solution; I quickly realized how this 'shopping around' can absorb many days of research to explore, distill, and decide on what to do. The Internet, online forums, and Youtube may be 'free', but it easily leads to focus-diffusion. I clearly felt frustrated, not knowing if the information I had discovered was useful or even relevant.

Oftentimes, I found myself researching on forums, examining material, viewing videos, and exploring software programs.

Having to learn a whole new skill for bringing my SketchUp models to life, in real-time, was proving elusive.

Then a breakthrough...

After tirelessly researching, I had gathered enough information to decide on how to create quick, photo-realistic renders - with an affordable 3D rendering program!

Enter, Enscape..

Enscape is an affordable, best of breed, enterprise-level rendering program with rich features, rapid performance, and incredible ease of use. Enscape is the real-time rendering tool of choice across the AEC industry. This program ticked all the boxes for me, and integrated perfectly with SketchUp. I just had to learn and master its use! But who was I going to learn from?

Enter many months of self-directed learning, loads of trial and error, and plenty of excitement in seeing my SketchUp models materialize into photo-realistic renders!

The result...

My efforts paid off, leading me to producing realistic, quick, and Client-ready renderings which not only excited my Clients and Designers instantly, but led me to teaching and mentoring many Designers on how they too can now create realistic renders using the power of Enscape for SketchUp. After months of Enscape learning and hundreds of render tests, I've put together something super special. But first, here's a little snippet...