Animation experiments

kwistenbiebel

A QUICK GUIDE TO SAVE THE BATCH.EXE FILE

Actually, rendering animations is a hidden feature.
To use it, go to the render settings screen of Skindigo ---> 'options' tab.
Double click on the words 'output options'.
A window will pop up that lets you save the batch.exe.
It will ask you which framerate you want.
I chose 10 frames per second, but for a really smooth animation consider 25 fps (if you have a render farm )

Whaat inserted this 'easter egg' in his last Skindigo version.
Funny guy ....but very talented.

HOW TO SETUP RENDER TIME PER FRAME

Easy: go to 'render settings panel' ---> 'Advanced' Tab.
Set the time you want each frame to be rendered at 'Halt'.
For instance 60 seconds.

remus

Now if you could save s sketchy physics animation as a series of scenes...

Good stuff kwist, ive jsut started a really quick animation of my own going. I'll never have a spare rendering moment left now!

pilou

Cool
Some frenchies will say : "Lelouch Style"
(a specialist of the moving camera

For the fun an old task
(here the camera is fixed

Frederik

Looks much better than your first attempt, Kwist...

In particular I enjoy the camera path and angles...!! Very stylish..!

solo

Used straight SU model quick animation 15fps 11 minutes to render sequence as .gif in Vue.

kwistenbiebel

11 minutes ...
That puts things in perspective

I was already happy to have a video done in 5 or 6 hours ...and it is noisy as hell

Lots of fun though.

Solo,
What about a full scene (yep, vegetation included) rendered in Vue?
That would be interesting to compare.....

solo

What size output?

I will set one up tomorrow (got two renders running at moment).

I will add vegetation, mountains, moving water, and moving physical sky(clouds and sun going from day to night) which should complicate things enough.

solo

Did a quick one with Vue 6 Xstream.
Procedural terrain with vegetation instancing, 15 fps, 91 frames, 430x320, on Imac g5 intel, 21 minutes.

[flash=423,320:952z38d2]http://www.youtube.com/v/SlDe934bj8A[/flash:952z38d2]

Whaat

hey biebel,

I love your tests. The house one is my favorite so far. short but very sweet. I need to do some more animation experiments myself.

solo

Did a quick one this morning, using a procedural terrain with water. The animation is just a camera fly-over.Vue xstream at final setting, 180 frames, 15fps, 500x420, 12 seconds, on a G5 imac, 1hour 21 mins.
Too bad about the youtube quality as original is crisp

[flash=500,420:20fif7ie]http://www.youtube.com/v/QhzYURSjGbY[/flash:20fif7ie]

a terrain of this size would be a tough customer in SU to navigate.

remus

Wow, good stuff pete. Render times are a lot more reasonable than indigo as well. How aobut some more close up stuff? like flythrough in a rain forest?

solo

Thanks.

I need to wait for my quads to be free before trying more complexed models (use all cores).
here is another done on a dual core G5 Imac.
This time I used a Phillipe Bouyer scene, inserted a SU 3D SCF Model. Notice the sun rise and the wind effects on the trees, as well as the camera is effected by wind as it tracks the sun.
15fps,121 frames total 8 seconds, 640x400, Final settings, 42 minutes.

[flash=600,420:1hjmvq6k]http://www.youtube.com/v/-SqjW7NX8BQ[/flash:1hjmvq6k]

bubbalove

These videos are great! Wonderful inspiration for the newbies out there that have yet to master the video aspects of rendering! Awesome job Kwist and Pete!

solo

This one took 67 minutes to render, has been looped once, The sky changes, snow falls, leaves disapear, leaves and grass change color, new trees grow, camera on circular rotation, SU built logo is stationary. based on Phillipe Bouyer's tutorial.

[flash=400,300:1w010gxj]http://www.youtube.com/v/3qiarXzehDA[/flash:1w010gxj]

solo

It was just a matter of time until you started playing with your balls.

I have one that I had to rerender as I got an ominous reflection (looks like the virgin Mary ) I will finish the one I am on right now and post it, I will also see if I can get a frame freeze shot of the reflection....just wierd.

solo

This is the animation, done with Vue, 10 seconds, 150 frames. 600x400, done with quad core, 27 minutes.

[flash=600,400:258qsjht]http://www.youtube.com/v/YwLoUeSYz5s[/flash:258qsjht]

However from frame 97 to 101 appears a strange reflection on the glass (from one of the legs) that looks almost like something one can sell on Ebay to a religious nutcase for a fortune.