Animated Presentations Imminent: Suggestions?
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Hello there,
Long time reader, occasional poster
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I find myself now at a crossroads. My massive project is going to hit rough times soon if I don't find a reasonably priced animation and presentation software program to display my year (thus far) of work. My previous attempts on animation have been shotty digital stop animation which takes.. sooo.... long to do.
http://youtu.be/ZL-HvrLU-OM
The link above takes you to my youtube channel, which atm is exclusively sketchup presentations of mine. That video is one example showing how so very limited one person can be using my current method. That video took me nearly 3 days to take all the still pictures and then run them in fast succession via windows movie maker... Yes, I am extremely outdated and thus I am pleading with this community to give me some actually good recommendations: as all the suggestions I got via youtube are either ferociously expensive or no better than what I'm currently doing
So please help me decide on what my next purchases will be.
I need a good, cheap rendering program, and a good, cheap sketchup animator.
By cheap, I mean no more than $100 USD.
Thank you very much for viewing.
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For architecteure
For me the more funny and easy is Lumion but in free
Max (1280 x 720p) and a very little logo watermarked
it has a crazzy terrain Modeler, ocean, skyes... and accept any sort of file!
Direct file from SU + material with DAE format
[flash=560,315:3ln87lp0]http://www.youtube.com/v/pYHVVtdeCas[/flash:3ln87lp0]In animation you can animate directly objects 'start to end' and put some animated charateres or animals
Depending on what you need exactly
By Pierrearchi (look it in full screen)
By El azul estudio
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Thank you, Downloading now, have about an hour left till it's done downloading. From the descriptions I read when I was checking out the page it looks fantastic, although I'm not sure yet if it lets me animate my own model's objects (aka water wheels, moving carts, moving bridges etc.) or just the items they provide with the program...? Still very much looking forward to using it for a while to see how I like it though
.Does anyone else have any ideas or suggestions? Are there in existence any animation programs that are actually $100 USD or close to that which work with SU? Or is that impossible without watermark?
I appreciate anything that anyone has to add, thank you
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Wow! Lumion is amazing. I wish I had the money to buy it, so bad
I think I'll start up a kickstart page or something, lol.
thank you for the point to Twilight Render, i'll get that as a nice temporary till I can find the money for lumion. -
You can animate your objects inside SU itself with Mover by CMD and maybe render them with something like Twillight (99$) (to verify because it's written "animation with SketchyPhysics and ProperAnimation, and more" !
But if you don't want a render animation, Mover is sufficient!
OK : verified yes you can! page 48
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Lumion is great option…I have tried their objects animation tools and I am afraid it is quite limited. It works for basic stuff like moving cars for example.
My favorite plugin for animating objects inside SketchUp is “SimFonIA Animation Tools”. It provides a record video option that compiles all the individual frames to a video automatically and you decide the resolution which is good. There is more than one way to animate for example you can use key frames for recording multiple component and subcomponents positions which enables you to keep layering animations one on top of the other to achieve a more complex animation easily. Also you can record vertex’s positions for animation using the Deformation option inside the key frame editor to create more organic animations. For more options you can animate using the “Transformation Processor” which has lots of options in itself.
From the video you have posted correct me if I am wrong but it seems you have “LightUp” for rendering?
If so the “LightUp” can display the first component layer animation but sadly not the subcomponents animations but I have received feedback saying they are working directly with LightUp and Twightlight to have more compatibility with the plugin, fingers crossed.
Overall the tools inside “SimFonIA Animation Tools” will enable you to animate your Bridge very easy plus you can maybe add moving water, trees, clouds, birds and so on. The best part in my opinion is that somehow the animation stays with the object so you can share it with other people or reuse it in another SketchUp project, don’t know how that is possible but it is. The learning curve took me a couple of hours to figure out that in order to activate the animation input for the key frames you had to assign a name to the animation inside the transformation processor
but after that it was all good.
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