Paper Clip Scene: animation

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:25 pm

Hi Indigo bunch,

A paper clip animation.

Some stats:
- render time over all: 7 hours
- 180 frames @10 fps.
- each frame rendered 2.3 minutes
- system: Mac Pro 8 core running Vista 64
- version: (Sk)Indigo 1.0.9
- lighting: HDR

The last part of the animation contains two panning stills which were rendered using Fry render (sorry for that

).

The link to the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7jnxlsRuE&fmt=18

I hope you like it.

Regards,

Kwistenbiebel

PS: Could we have embedded Flash support (video hosts) on the Indigo forum, ppppplease?

matsta · Post by **matsta** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:03 pm

lol "mac pro 8 running vista..."

BURN THE BLASPHEMER

i cant get the vid to work its not hosted anymore, no matter how many times i refresh :/

sigh embedded flash support please

i will take for granted that it is "nice work"

greetz
mat

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:29 pm

Try this lower quality link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7jnxlsRuE

...or the Vimeo link:
http://www.vimeo.com/1481582

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:24 pm

It's nice, but the camera movement is a bit abrupt, as in your previous animation. Is there no way in SU to smooth the camera's IPO curve or draw less angular paths?

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:04 am

BbB wrote:It's nice, but the camera movement is a bit abrupt, as in your previous animation. Is there no way in SU to smooth the camera's IPO curve or draw less angular paths?

+1 to that

I really like the music though

Paper clip looked real too no crits on that.

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:18 am

Thanks for your comments.
Camera control is a difficult thing for animation in sketchup.

There is a plugin around where you can set up a bezier curve that defines the camera path (Flightpath.rb) but it is not intuitive to use.

matsta · Post by **matsta** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:32 am

wow thanks for the vimeo. that was great! perhaps a song without words :/ i feel like just as im getting into the song, the animation is over :/ qhich is always a bit of a killer

anyways great work. those paper clips really do look 100% covincing.

great work
greetz

mat

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:05 am

Thank you

You are right about the timing of the anim and the music.
I didn't have the right inspiration on music at the moment I composited the video. I'll spend more time on that in a next animation.
Good observation , thanks.

Paper Clip Scene: animation

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