Dave_R is right. Object animations are feasible in SketchUp, thanks to dynamic components or current plugins from AntonS and Fredo6. Animating people or other creatures in SketchUp is a bit more complicated, especially if it's about going beyond repeating simple movements ...

After reading all this, I think rather ambiguously about the many opposing and the few for-opinions.
Besides, I'm too dr... again ...
At some point I got stuck for my day work on SUp8 Pro, because it was pretty good. Then a few years later on SUp16 Pro ascended, because it was probably also stable (it actually runs ...). For my private animation fun I use SUp17 Make now because it is required for MSPhysics and also runs very well.
Since almost all plugins have reached a high level and I can sometimes even reprogram something myself, I am quite satisfied.
I think, for the visualization of my architectural designs, I will come up with the "old" program versions for a while (even with the few remaining errors).
I've been flirting with Blender, Unreal and Unity for years, never really found the time to go into it. Also, because I find SketchUp so original (rudimentary), spontaneous and somehow artistic. Here I can still hammer around on a natural stone plate with the hand ax ... and other SUp fans think that's great ...
I think that I still stick to SUp24 like this. (At work, we had a hard-to-follow flow from AutoCAD to BricksCAD to Revit within a few years, leaving SketchUp a stable component)
Peace, friendship, pancakes!

The good old VirtualDub works perfectly under Windows 10 - and it's free …
And another recommendation is Shotcut - also free.
I use VirtualDub more for filtering and composing individual frames from animations or exporting image sequences.
Shotcut is good for overlaying video tracks, filters, audio, (titles) and the final cut.

Krass, that's what I call productivity …

Want to have one!

@ function: No way! That would be the ultimate end.

In the PluginStore is a version RamTools_BmpMats_v0.3 from 2017 - don't know if it is improved compared to the version in the original post of Rami_Ipm.

Great! Looking for a way to render MSPhysics animations with EEVEE...

En premier lieu, la désintégration pourrait être une conséquence de la géométrie concave de certaines pièces.
Par exemple, les pièces avec des trous oblongs devraient être composées d’éléments convexes individuels. Il y a un plugin pour Fredo6.
Vous devez activer "Collision Wireframe" dans l'interface utilisateur de MSPhysics sous Debug Draw et tester la précision géométrique de votre modèle.
Bonne chance! (Google Translator)

In the first place, the falling apart could be a consequence of the concave geometry of some parts.
For example, parts with slotted holes should be composed of individual convex elements. There is a plugin for Fredo6.
You should activate "Collision Wireframe" in the MSPhysics UI under "Debug Draw" and test your model for geometric accuracy.
I wish you success!

Nice rendering - How did you do the lighting effects and the motion blur?

Yes of course. Please post improvements.

Much work for a little bit fun… But top detailed model - looks professional.

The same here with edge (Windows 10 Pro) - but with IE (Windows 7 Pro) not..

Thanks HornOxx,
hope this WIP comes to an end soon ..

@ pilou
The connections are controlled via a kind of timeline for each character in a script.
I have predefined several types of movement, which can then be modified and combined as desired.
Since several people are to act in a complex model, a real-time control via mouse or keyboard in SketchUp is not controllable.
For smaller environment models, however, it is possible to control a figure via mouse and keyboard in MSPhysics in real time ..

@ Mike
Thanks Mike.
There is also a bit of enthusiasm for MSPhysics behind it.
I do not want the interest in it breaking off.
Maybe there will eventually be a further development that is even more user-friendly ..

23 joints, 2 beautiful eyes and the movements of the cloned model are halfway liquid ..
Lost in character animation again - endless test series, felt 250 set screws.
Each joint with at least 5 settings, each body part with position, mass, collision and friction properties, a little script, a bit of practice as Frankenstein and some time ..
Sorry for the GIFs with that massive reduce of load time.

da did, did did da, Kasperle ist wieder da ..
Please a translation of the Morse code ..

Great work! Scenery for "Babylon Bad Dürkheim" ..

I have often tormented myself with it, but never investigated it more deeply. I always thought that the walls are somehow slightly interwoven. That was not the cause ...

Shape of the ground: Static Mesh (The hill has concave areas)
Material of blocks: Concrete (More weight for the deformation)
Stiffness of Hinges: 0.95 (The geometry is otherwise too stiff, because the connections allow little lateral twisting.)