First steps in animation (update page 2 )

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:34 am

Kram1032
VirtualDub's "Temporal Smoother" does just that. -It's very effective too.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:02 am

great

@ kwisten: try it, especially for the first anim

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:09 am

ZomB wrote: EaseIn & EaseOut are your friends, Disney's rules of Animation are still counting, your flythrough are changing direction way to "hard".

blame SketchUp. It does not have this feature. Animation support in SketchUp is VERY limited.

cpfresh · Post by **cpfresh** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:20 am

the best way to make smooth transitions in sketchy seems to be by making your camera paths from bezier curves. there are plugins around for this. with proper segment count and length your transitions can be very nice!

awesome animations kwistenbiebel, keep it up!

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:28 am

Awesome. Would be better if you could let each frame cook for longer, esp on the tripod one. It was long but it was low quality. Me wants to see high quality

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:30 am

Thank you all for your nice comments

Anthony wrote:Awesome. Would be better if you could let each frame cook for longer, esp on the tripod one. It was long but it was low quality. Me wants to see high quality

I'm on a laptop which is a slow render cow....Since these are my first steps in doing animation, I prefer experimenting with views and ways to build up an animaton. That's why low quality is more useful.
Once I get the hang of it, I will try to render one out in full quality.

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:12 am

A new animation experiment:
BALLS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4Jo_d7kDU

Bit noisy but again fun to make

And the sequel to the first Tripod experiment:

Tripods part 2: "Where is Bryce" (Sketchup + Skindigo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkMOjYx4sXA

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:55 am

Nice

In the tripod vid, you still can see a lot of repetition in the trees

But ok, you have so many of them, it surely is a lot of work to get them all a tiny bit differently orientated...

(btw, no, I didn't see him...

)

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:18 pm

Kram1032 wrote:Nice
btw, no, I didn't see him...

He pops up at 0:49

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:21 am

That red thing?

The compression artefacts are annoying

sth · Post by **sth** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:33 am

I like your tripods animation

It'd be much easier to see "him" with higher framerate i think

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:35 am

I had some more fun and made a new short animation of some silly objects

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LINK TO VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HugTI3_b8mA

About 150 frames.
Total render time took 200 minutes in total on my core2duo laptop.

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:42 am

Lot of fun, thanks !

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:48 am

Thanks CTZn

,

I tried to improve the 'Chick' animation and optimised it so it renders cleaner within the same time frame.

Also, I added a bit of a 'difficult relationships' theme to it

CLICK LINK TO WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SughGn2584U

Below the video at the above youtube link , you can choose 'watch in high quality' so there is no quality loss when going fullscreen...

I hope you like it.

Regards,
Kwistenbiebel

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:15 pm

thats a shitload of geometry for the trees and plants! looks amazing! how did you manage that within sketchup?

i find anything over like 10 trees in Blender makes the thing uneditable, itd be cool to have forests n such!

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