Scale Model Archviz animation [Update: bottom page1)

kwistenbiebel · 28 Aug 2008, 03:03

Hi friends,

A new experiment using HDRI environments in animation.[Fry Render]
The house model is borrowed from 3dWarehouse 'Modern House in Guayaquil'submitted by 'Andres' and re-textured to appear as a scale model.
Render time: 2 minutes per frame @640X480

I hope you like it. Can't wait for Whaats 'ease in/out animation' plugin, as the traditional SU cam motion isn't that smooth.

http://www.vimeo.com/1615430
[flash=640,480:3mjogn4e]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1615430&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 "[/flash:3mjogn4e]

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsBv5-nWy0
[flash=480,360:3mjogn4e]http://www.youtube.com/v/sKsBv5-nWy0&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:3mjogn4e]

Thanks for watching,

Kwistenbiebel

boofredlay · 28 Aug 2008, 03:24

I like it very much.
Great work as usual!

reymond · 28 Aug 2008, 06:51

sensationel, it is great. waht`s that for a musicgroup?

remus · 28 Aug 2008, 08:36

Stunning

Im guessing it was a bit of a beast to render?

princedragoncok · 28 Aug 2008, 09:46

That was on the verge of being totally realistic. The animation was much smoother than usual as well, how many fps? The combination of the HDRI and the ease of setting up the scale model look is very effective indeed. How long did it take to render in total, looks pretty long. great job anyway

kwistenbiebel · 28 Aug 2008, 13:49

Thanks guys.
I rendered the animation in 2 parts. Each part rendered for 9,5 hours, so that would mean about 19 hours in total (on a Mac Pro). Initially @20 fps, but I managed to stretch it to a 30fps animation by using a temporal smoother in Virtual Dub.

kwistenbiebel · 28 Aug 2008, 15:33

@reymond said:

sensationel, it is great. waht`s that for a musicgroup?

Thanks, the music is: Gabriel Rios - Angelhead

marked001 · 28 Aug 2008, 16:33

nice..that HDRI totally makes it look real...very cool.

how do you export these to render, anyway? sorry if you explained this in a previous thread..

kwistenbiebel · 28 Aug 2008, 16:37

In Sketchup, you open the Fry 'environment' panel and you get to assign a HDR image.
I needed to do some test renders to see how the HDR background would match the model realistically (offset and rotation values). That part was trial and error.Actually the background wasn't a real HDR but a plain 8 bit image used as lighting+background.

marked001 · 28 Aug 2008, 17:13

no no...sorry, i wasnt clear.. i meant the animation portion..

kwistenbiebel · 28 Aug 2008, 19:22

To render the animation, I open the 'Fry render settings' panel in Sketchup, click on 'full animation' and hit the render button. Is that what you mean?

Frederik · 28 Aug 2008, 19:54

Excellent animation, Chris...!! I really like it a lot..!!

I assume that Jason is asking about what application you've used to assemble the video/animation...?!
You already told you've used VirtualDub to assemble the jpeg's Fry is generating, but you also seem to have used a video editor app. to add some effects...
(Going from BW to color etc...)

Well - I'm only guessing... <--- genuine wink

JuanV.Soler · 28 Aug 2008, 20:10

you know what kwistenbiebel,
why dont you cut off the four walls, THE ROOM that trapp your model
And Let IT FLY ¡¡¡¡
AND lAND IN A MEDITERRANEAN BEACH
and then, once landed, make a new animation in that opened blue sun light sea and see what happens ?

marked001 · 31 Aug 2008, 19:35

@kwistenbiebel said:

To render the animation, I open the 'Fry render settings' panel in Sketchup, click on 'full animation' and hit the render button. Is that what you mean?

haha..yes, this is exactly what i meant... thought maybe there was something more complex about it.. haha..

JuanV.Soler · 1 Sept 2008, 05:55

thankyou kwistenbiebel
cheers

kwistenbiebel · 1 Sept 2008, 08:39

Thanks guys

@juanv.soler said:

you know what kwistenbiebel,
why dont you cut off the four walls, THE ROOM that trapp your model
And Let IT FLY ¡¡¡¡
AND lAND IN A MEDITERRANEAN BEACH
and then, once landed, make a new animation in that opened blue sun light sea and see what happens ?

Not exactly what you had in mind, but I did give it a completely different setting in this video:
http://www.vimeo.com/1642220
[flash=640,480:24cgpi5a]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1642220&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1[/flash:24cgpi5a]

(youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_9HOCsym20&fmt=18 )

Rellora · 2 Sept 2008, 10:46

Excellent rendering! Must have taken you a long time to do it.

kevsterman · 2 Sept 2008, 12:24

Just great Kwist. Whats the music from your latest render, the nature scene?

kwistenbiebel · 2 Sept 2008, 13:30

Thanks.
The song is 'You Don't Know' by Milo

princedragoncok · 2 Sept 2008, 15:16

Fantastic once again. Interesting the way you change the shadows during the animation.. is it merely a matter of changing the sun position when creating each new scene tab? And a somewhat off topic, but is it possible to scale the size of the HDRI background or is it only possible to scale the model to suit the HDRI? Thanks for the great animations