SkIndigo test animation

[Jeff]

Rendered a test animation during the long weekend. The whole scene including the vegetation was modeled inside Sketchup. The 12 sec. animation at 30fps took 90 hrs. to render. Each 720x480 frame took an average of 14 mins. to render. Compression made the video blurry. It should have been as clear & crisp as the screen grab below.

http://www.vimeo.com/10696634

[StompinTom]

Nice man! That looks awesome!

How many different types of trees are there? What kind of machine are you using? It looks very clean for 14 minutes/frame!

[Ailig]

Impressive. Your work with Sketchup, Indigo and homemade vegetation is very inspirational...

[ENSLAVER]

Awesome.

[Jeff]

Thanks a lot guys!

Tom,
There are 3 different trees on the scene. The tool used to scatter them was set to randomly rotate and scale up/down the objects to give more variety. I'm using 32 bit windows xp on a Q8200 core 2 quad @2.33 ghz w/ 3 gb ram. Each frame was set to render at 200spp. BidirMLT was used and MNCR=1000. Supersample was set at 2.

[Pibuz]

Jeff
Your organic modeling skills with SketchUp are definitely on a high level!
Any chance you do a small tutorial on how you do the trees?

...or any chance you can share them?

[fenerolina]

Nice one Jeff.
Su animate plugin?

[Jeff]

Jeff
Your organic modeling skills with SketchUp are definitely on a high level!
Any chance you do a small tutorial on how you do the trees?

...or any chance you can share them?

Thanks a lot Pibuz! I might prepare some short tutorial on this one in the future. I attached the SU file for your reference. Cheers!

[Jeff]

Nice one Jeff.
Su animate plugin?

Thanks a lot fenerolina! The animation is done within SkIndigo. This is the thread where I got to know of this animation http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/vie ... php?t=3916

[Pibuz]

Thanks Jeff!

[fenerolina]

Oh! how could I miss it.
Thanks!

[djegoo]

Hi
I downloaded you file. Your Trees are really UBERquality. leaves, shapes, etc... perfect.