This animation project was created as an introductory slide to a powerpoint presentation for a client,  giving a general overview of the massing of the project withing it’s immediate context.

The process of creating it was as follows:

  1. Open Sketchup and Google Earth (Pro is better for exporting high resolution stills)
  2. Locate the project site in Google Earth
  3. Go back to Sketchup and click ‘Get Current View’ from the ‘Tools’ menu
  4. Create model with the context added from Google Earth
  5. GO back to Google Earth save the current view as an image (as high resolution as possible)
  6. Import this as an image in Sketchup, scale to the same size as the black and white image
  7. Explode the group to make it a texture and paint-bucket this new texture onto the old black and white context (you will need to right-click and unlock it first)
  8. Create a circular path in animate, looking at the center of the model and render all scenes.  ( I discussed how to do this in a previous post here)
  9. Now wait! This was 600 scenes, which equates to a 20 second animation @ 30 fps.
  10. Combine the images into a mov file in Quicktime Pro using ‘Open as Image Sequence’.

There are many tutorials on how to do the above, I heartly recommend the Sketchup School ones that are found on Youtube.

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