@Dave-R Prima!

@Rich-O-Brien A direct hit! Thanks Rich!

Hi All
I am searching for an older plugin that I used here and there a couple of years ago. The plugin was able to randomly "shatter" a solid into pieces - kind of like broken glass. The result then looked something like my sketch here:

Can someone here please lead me on the right track?

I wanted to add a small note about the used plugin Make Fur by Tak2hata:
When I used this Plugin many years ago when it was released, it worked fine as it was intended to do, but it regularly caused the programme to break completely due to the lack of affordable hardware resources at the time. I completely lost sight of this tool.
Well I reinstalled it for this nutcracker for the first time in years (more out of curiosity) and was almost amazed that it was still available and more importantly that it now ran completely smoothly on the latest hardware and software.
Since today's hardware requirements are significantly better than what I was using back then, this tool runs great and fast and delivers excellent results...
So, thanks to the plugin developer!

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@ntxdave said in Best wishes for the 2024 Christmas Season!:

@HornOxx I like it, would be kind of neat if you could make him walk.

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks and I'm happy to comply with your request with this silly chewing rotation - luckily there's not really much to animate with a guy like that. And if I would move the arms for example, it would look very strange, at least from my point of view from here
Best

Hi All
First Advent - Just in time for the start of the 2024 Christmas season, I wish you all a wonderful Christmas season with this nutcracker and have a good time...
[completely done with native SketchUp 2023 Pro / the hair and beard are made with Make Fur Plugin / only the walnut is taken from the 3D Warehouse: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/.../898798a4-6a88.../Walnut
The image shown is also native SkethUp export, but overlaid with an Enscape render to get a slight sheen to the surfaces and edited in Affinity Photo 2]
Best!!

@Rich-O-Brien said in A small just for fun animation, made with Fredo6's Animator Plugin:

@HornOxx

https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1515505

Took me ages to find it. But I love this type of use of SketchUp. PNG billboards are such powerful assets.

and every age of searching was worth the effort!! What a cool and effect full video with just 3 or so PNGs and this sketchup mask is a so good idea! PRIMA!

@tuna1957 thank you Tuna!

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich!
...which is absolutely right! Well, you know it - I've been around here for a few years now - and yet, it still amazes me what can be done with our tool...

@railwaxking Thanks!!

Hi All
A small just for fun animation, made with Fredo6's Animator plugin.
Although I always struggle with the incredible amount of options and buttons of this plugin from Fredo6 I love this tool. My simple and certainly a bit silly example should motivate other users to consider using this plugin because it´s potential is so huge. It's also a good example of what SketchUp, with the right plugin of course, is capable of...
[SketchUp 2023 + Fredo6's Animator plugin, the video is made with a front-view scene without perspective. Image editing is done with Affinity Photo 2, Video edit is made with CapCut (which in this case only meant to merge 330 JPGs and add some sound mp3s), link to Fredo6´s Animator Plugin on Sketchucation]

Please Watch Video

Best

@Rich-O-Brien said in Snowman:

@Gus-R Come on, Halloween hasn't even ended and I'm seeing xmas stuff!

Halloween or not - here in D they start selling christmas biscuits shortly after the summer holidays. So this is a seasonally appropriate job and a so very nice one on top it !!!

@ Gus R - interesting how you did it with the snow

...thank you all for your kind comments
(I agree with Rich O Brien (above). SketchUp's AO style is a bit strange for me too. Maybe because it's new and I played with it here for the first time. But for sure this AO style can be used in image editing as a standalone multiply layer or something like that. At least there is this additional option).
Best!

...I´ll add another correction of the "trigger" mechanism

...a little Friday afternoon exercise [Victor Mousetrap]

@Rich-O-Brien wunderbar!

this is so good! & great impressions of the steps you took

Prima !!

@Rich-O-Brien
Thanks Rich - I had to google first to remember if I had the same guy in mind

@faust07
Thanks Faust - Yes, I had such a movement option in mind from the beginning. So I equipped each logical joint point (e.g. the elbow) with a corresponding axis of rotation (axial or radial). So I only had to rotate the logical following group(s) (e.g. the forearm and the hand) around the correct axis.
It was all purely manual work here, but it worked very fast with these axes.