Scale Model Archviz animation [Update: bottom page1)

kwistenbiebel

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

I like it very much.
Great work as usual!

reymond

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

remus

Stunning

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

princedragoncok

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

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

@reymond said:

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

Thanks, the music is: Gabriel Rios - Angelhead

marked001

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

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

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

kwistenbiebel

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

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

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

@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

thankyou kwistenbiebel
cheers

kwistenbiebel

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

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

kevsterman

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

kwistenbiebel

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

princedragoncok

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