Proper Animation - Building Progress

[Fletch]

Testing a concept here... a building that you see sort of 'coming together'.
>>>Download .avi 1.2Mb video (xvid codec)<<< (right-click, save-as in order to open the file on your computer and watch at original resolution.)

Proper Animation plugin for animation of the building parts.
I render the whole sequence in Twilight Render.
It renders a still image in .jpg format (or whichever format I choose) for each frame of the animation.
Then I open the sequence of images in Virtual Dub. v1.9.4 seems to work best with my particular machine setup (Vista 64bit, corei7)
I set up the audio and apply xvid compression, then save from Virtual Dub as .avi.
Xvid works great, and on my machine encodes very fast, while maintaining good quality. (your video must be in dimensions multiple of 4 if you wish to use xvid or some other great codecs) So when you render your animation, keep that in mind.

Render setting used: High+Object Animation - exposure 1, gamma 1 (defaults) but the spherical sky is what is giving good lighting in the indirectly lit areas. The spherical sky adds a lot to the realism as well. It is of the actual site for the project.

This was rendered out of SketchUp/Twilight at 30fps for 14s of animation. I changed this in Virtual Dub to be 15fps for 28s of animation.
I needed 2 more seconds to match the length of my audio clip. I made copies of the last frame rendered and renamed them each with the next number in the sequence in order to add them onto the length of the video.

[Sepo]

Bravo...amazing piece of work....love the tempo and choice of music....

[sshiffermiller]

Very cool.

[alvydas]

Work is for the Discovery Channel. Simple and perfect.

[Fletch]

Thanks for the comments, here's an updated version. Slightly higher frame rate, different music, but fixed motion of right skywalk, and color of trees.
>>>Download .avi 1.2Mb video (xvid codec)<<< (right-click, save-as in order to open the file on your computer and watch at original resolution.)

[fymoro]

Wow Fletch, very nice...

[Frederik]

Well done, Fletch...!!

[d12dozr]

Very nice, Fletch

[tomyong]

Niceee

[Ecuadorian]

I keep looking for the "Like" button... he he he...

I like this.