A Fly-by using Sketchup, Animate and Podium…

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This little number was my first test of how a sketchup model comes out when animated using the plugin Animate 2.0 alongside the ‘render all scenes’ option of another of Sketchup’s plugins, Podium. Quick and dirty (especially the blue cars???) but hopefully full of promise…

The process involved:

1. Create a Sketchup model, this was done by importing Cad files.

2. Create an Animation path with a 3D Polyline in Cad and import into SU

3. Download SU Animate and Podium if you don’t already have them.

4. Create a group of the object to be animated and call that group “Target”

5. Divide the Path into as many segments as you want frames (This was 600 which eqautes to roughly 30 frames per second)

6. Save file and then ‘Make Scenes’ from the Animate drop down menu.

7. Set a low resolution (640 x 480) and render all scenes in Podium

8. Finally compile all jpegs into a movie file… I did this in Quick Time Pro using the ‘Open Image Sequence’ tool.

9. Now wait! This animation was 600 images and took approximately 3 hours to ‘Render All Scenes’…