Product Intro Video
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Further to a post from last week to the Gallery using black fog to punch out the design from the rest of the image I though I would post this video that I dug up from my system that actually gave some ideas for myself toward the previously posted images!
This Intro video for a self assembled domestic bouldering wall (artificial climbing wall) I was working on the concept for. I never went further with this for several reasons, one being someone registered a company under the same name! Buggers!
I thought I would post it to give others some idea of exporting video from SketchUp using the Fog feature for a nice effect.
All animation including the panel movement was done in SU and the final compiled in Windows Movie Maker. I had to compress the video a great deal to get it in a sub 2Mb zip for posting - so please excuse the lower quality!
Interestingly this animation in SU I did even before ruby scripting was included as an option!
Hope someone gets some ideas from it!
BTW the V12 name is a reference to the grades for Boulder problems which currently tops out at about V15 - until humans evolve claws!
Movie file
http://www.mediafire.com/?zondmztwjyq
Will post the Vimeo file when converted.
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Good work. Actually I have some experience with SU animation now and I can tell that SU is good for very simple animations but not for large scenes.
Btw that fog effect You are using is really cool.
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Really cool Richard. Nice use of simple sketchup features. It integrates well within the video production.
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Thanks guys for actually downloading it to have a look! I just cant seem to get the Vimeo video embedded - tried the correct script though it still doesn't work.
I did this some time ago (years) and would probably do it different now as the fog settings can change from scene to scene where it didn't in earlier versions of SU.
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Once being an avid plastic-puller (contrary to popular befief, this is not a dirty term!) I was drawn to your movie. I think that in New Zealand we don't use the V-grade, but purely numeric, and can get past a 25 on the wall.
I really liked the way the panel moved onto the wall and was trying to do a similar with a wall in a building, may I ask how you managed it?
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@crazy eyes said:
Once being an avid plastic-puller (contrary to popular befief, this is not a dirty term!) I was drawn to your movie. I think that in New Zealand we don't use the V-grade, but purely numeric, and can get past a 25 on the wall.
I really liked the way the panel moved onto the wall and was trying to do a similar with a wall in a building, may I ask how you managed it?
Mate New Zealand follows the same grading as here! The John Newbank scale which is currently up to around 33/34 though that rating is for routes not boulder problems which again you guys have the same V grade that we share with the states as opposed to the Euro's who follow a Font Grade which developed from the famous bouldering area of Fontainbleau in France!
The animation of the panels mate was done long hand (very long hand) - the panel was copied in a linear array and then each consecutive panel allocated a layer that turned on then off with each consecutive scene / page representing each frame of video. As the movement was only short it didn't take long and I can recall it to be about 30 frames! Luckily this could now be done with a few of the rubies out there!
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Ah, right, that explains that then, both on the grading and the animating. Thanks for sharing.
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Richard
The movie won't open for me. What codec did you use to compress the movie?
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