How To Render Sketchup Models
I was in need of some purely right-brain thinking, so I decided to skip modeling and V-Ray altogether and see what I could turn out with a half-baked SketchUp.
Free Rendering For Sketchup
Simple Ways to Get Beautiful Sketchup Images Without Plugins or Software • •, A major point of modelling with sketchup is to generate imagery for presentation. Of course, you can learn how to become a phenomenal designer and modeler with our, but chances are you’ll need to know how to get awesome sketchup images as well. In this session you’ll learn how to get beautiful images out of sketchup without using those costly rendering plugins, additional software, or other post-production techniques. 
There’s a lot of control in how you display your models in sketchup.
As the image shows below, the quality can vary drastically. The left image is a useful aesthetic if you’re trying to create an 8-bit town, but in this tutorial you’re going to learn how to get something like the image on the right. So we’re starting here Since this is our starting point, it makes sense to take a moment and critique it.