SketchUp | Minecraft and How It Effected Me Getting Into Architecture

I've made many buildings in a video game called Minecraft, and recently I decided to convert one of those into SketchUp

I decided to do this because I noticed that the 3D models I created with SketchUp from scratch didn't look very good, so I decided to go from Minecraft to SketchUp. If you have played or have seen Minecraft you know that Minecraft is made up of blocks, and those blocks are huge, 1 square meter. I couldn't re-build it exactly the same as I had in Minecraft but similar enough that you can tell that they are alike.

Here is a picture of the minecraft version (on the top) and SketchUp version (on the bottom)

A little bit about Minecraft and how it effected my getting into Architecture

I have played this game, Minecraft for sometime now and I think that's actually what got me into architecture in the first place. I have built many many things on Minecraft, anything from a small cottage to a multi millionaire mansion. I built a lot on Minecraft and I enjoyed it very much so I was thinking I could learn how to design houses on 3D modeling programs and that could be my future career. When I was younger maybe 6 or 7 I was always wondering what my talent would be, my older siblings had theirs and I felt left out, my oldest brother used to have coin collecting, second oldest used to want to be a doctor, and third oldest was working toward being a programmer. None but one of them actually ended up with what they started but they all had their interests. I was always wondering what I could do, then my Dad started reading me this book called "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" and another book I forgot the name of. After that I started using some of the things I learned in the book in Minecraft and my buildings that I created got better from there.

A little after this my Dad got me this book called "Complete a Sketch" and I went through and completed that. By this time it was around 2014 or so. Then I heard of this Program called SolidWorks, and my Dad said I could buy the student version of it when I finished the Complete a Sketch. When I got SolidWorks I began learn how to use it. After that I make this website and started bloging about it :)