Joel Metzger, our resident cartoon movie maker, is in the process of making a DVD containing his ‘Treasure Inside ‘ Short Movies about Inner Discovery’. The DVD will also contain ‘Behind the Scenes and Credits‘, a movie showing how these movies are made and who has helped. Following Joel’s simple straightforward cartoon techniques could bring out [...]
Act-3D has just released a new Lumion3D version: Service pack 2, Build 7. Beside the usual, smaller bug fixes, some new features have also been added: You can now place objects a lot further away from the center of your scenes. If you press F9, all trees and plants in the viewport will be rendered [...]
Adam Billyard, one of our forum members and the Developer of LightUp is finishing up a Timeline Editor for SketchUp. Adam tells us that “you can trim, split, change animation and delay times and re-order Scenes as well as scrub camera animation”. I imagine this is one thread that many members will want to keep [...]
“A new & easy tool for architects and their clients, discover how fast you can create high quality movies.” Certainly a bold statement, but given the pedigree, Act-3D™ B.V. have delivered a product designed from the ground up for creating breathtaking 3D visualizations. With Quest3D already under their belt Act-3D™ B.V. has released Lumion after months of [...]
Last week I posted about Muvizu, an easy animation application. Here is a tutorial explaining a workflow between Google SketchUp and Muvizu, part 1 here and part 2 here. Muvizu even has collision detection.
Animation in Google SketchUp remains a much requested feature (and it probably will remain a ‘request’ until it’s developed not solely for Google Earth). Whereas animation in SketchUp remains tedious, whether through faking it using Layers and such, or using XML or with Ruby, some people just take their models into another program and make [...]
You don’t need complex setups with showing and hiding of Layers and whatnot to animate in Google SketchUp these days, as there are quite a few offerings by different developers. However, animating models can also be done through Ruby. This is the first time that I have seen someone using XML to animate in SketchUp [...]
Simlab 3D Plugins Beta testing has started to import OBJ/Wavefront, Solidworks, STEP and FBX files to Google SketchUp. These currently work on Windows but Simlab Soft is working on a Mac version for the OBJ, STEP and FBX importers, too.
SketchUcation Community member “Speaker” posted an excellent animation of Luxo in the classic Pixar Animation studios logo remade in SketchUp, animated with Sketchy Physics and finally rendered with Podium. “I began this by finding a great high poly model of Luxo in the warehouse which I then remodelled and grouped so it was then about [...]
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