Looking for commercial sketchup service?
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Hi guys,
We've been using SketchUp at our engineering firm in the UK for a few years. We only really use it for very basic stuff.
We'd like to take some of the models we've made and animate a camera path to pan around the model. The plan is to export these animations as videos that will be shown on the product pages of our website.Is it possible to export animations with SketchUp? Or should I export the drawings into something like 3D studio max and animate in there instead?
As a side note, if I wanted to outsource this type of work to someone, where would I look? We have a lot of drawings that need work on them + animations making and I don't have the time to do it.
Thanks!
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I PM'd you, dunklk
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@dunklk said:
Hi guys,
We've been using SketchUp at our engineering firm in the UK for a few years. We only really use it for very basic stuff.
We'd like to take some of the models we've made and animate a camera path to pan around the model. The plan is to export these animations as videos that will be shown on the product pages of our website.Is it possible to export animations with SketchUp? Or should I export the drawings into something like 3D studio max and animate in there instead?
As a side note, if I wanted to outsource this type of work to someone, where would I look? We have a lot of drawings that need work on them + animations making and I don't have the time to do it.
Thanks!
I would be interested in helping you. Contact me, and we can talk. Thanks
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SketchUp Pro exports animations of the scenes you create, there are a few animation scripts from various sources here, that smooth and help with the movie making steps. the scripts cost a few dollars each some are free.
PresentationBundle & PresentationBundle2
http://www.smustard.com/scripts/Keyframe Animation 1.0
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=33417Proper Animation
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=10946Mover.rb
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17459 -
Dear dunklk,
What sort of engineering design? Could you post an example?
Kind regards,
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You can use the SketchUp Web Exporter, found here to export a series of images from a rotating camera. The script will automatically load them into an HTML frame. This is the same script that is used to automatically generate rotateable 3D views in the 3D Warehouse.
The downside is that I believe this can only be used with the standard SU rendering...not in conjunction with a raytracer; so I guess it depends on what you are trying to depict. Engineering parts may suit the 'illustration' style of the SU default render. -
Or there can actually be a circular camera path created and if you need photo-realistically rendered animation, it can also be exported. See an example in this model:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ed6358317ca6c63cf316679995e7e4d8 -
And if ( and you are ) on Mac...try out Sketchers Studio.
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Guys, thanks for all the responses and PMs - been completely snowed under with other jobs! Very useful info! Thank you!
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