SketchUp Animation - "Spiral Staircase"

One great feature of SketchUp is how fly-through or fly-over or fly-by animation could be produced on the fly. And coupled with "section plane" function one has no problem producing cool construction sequence at all.

It's been a while since I last made any animation with SketchUp. I used the spiral staircase model I made, which I also shared on that page, throw in a few sections and scenes and here's the result:

This is not a real construction or assembly sequence by all means, I made this to brush up my rusty "section-planing" skill.

Like usual, the scenes are exported as 4000x2250pix PNGs and assembled in VirtualDub and encoded using x264 codec. VirtualDub can be found here, and x264vfw here.

SketchUp Animation - "Erection of a Structural Steel Staircase" [Updated]

The following is a NPR "construction sequence" of a structural steel staircase, of which I also produced a fly-through animation and some 3D renders earlier, on that page.

As this is not one of my drafting works so I don't claim the sequence is 100% by-the-book. The photo of which this 3D model based on is attached at the end of this post.

This animation has better anti-alias quality than my previous ones because I re-sized the animation to half of its original output size from SketchUp, in this case from 1440*808 to 720*405, in VirtualDub. This improved the anti-aliasing a lot.

I also export it to H.264/MP4 format (which has better quality/filesize ratio) directly from VirtualDub using this "hack" instead of converting the AVI export using third party software.

VirtualDub is a free video capture/processing software, which can be downloaded from this page.

Exterior structural steel staircase at Tesco,
Kepong Village Mall, Kuala Lumpur.

[updates]
I also uploaded the model to 3D Warehouse, click on image below to download.

I also share with you the latest rendering of this staircase.

SketchUp Animation - "Newton Pendulum & Gear Cogs"

If they can be output as animated GIF, on this page and that page, why not make them an animation? :-) Proper Animation plugin can be found here. Smooth Step Animation, here. And VirtualDub here.

And below are the 3D models I uploaded to 3D Warehouse, click on image to access 3D Warehouse:

SketchUp Animation - "Assembling A Shelving Unit"

This is a short clip showing how to assemble a shelf. Again, this model was created by SketchUp, animated by Propoer Animation plugin, output as still images by Smooth Step Animation plugin and put together as animation by VirtualDub.

Proper Animation plugin can be found on this page. Smooth Step Animation, that page, and VirtualDub on that page. I also uploaded the model to 3D Warehouse, click on image below to download.

Semi-detached House #166 (Artist's Impression) [Updated]

Here's the "artist's impression" version of rendering for semi-d project #166. Being "artist's impression" means there will be a lot of space and greenery, which may or may not happen in reality. Click on image to enlarge.
 

I'm by training and profession a civil/structure drafter, so I have little regard about convergence lines most of the time. Lately I have been using a piece of software called ShiftN to "correct" the perspective of my renders. It was a one-click process and the results are shown below:

ShiftN can be downloaded from here.


[updates]

I improved the anti-alias and increased the size (middle-click on pic to see full resolution image in new tab).

Proper Animation & Smooth Step Animation Plugins Test (2) [updated]

Here is another clip, which 3D model was created by SketchUp, with animation scenes arranged by Proper Animation plugin, output to still images by Smooth Step Animation plugin, and stitched by VirtualDub.

Proper Animation plugin can be found here. Smooth Step Animation, here. And VirtualDub here.


[Updates]
I uploaded the model to 3D Warehouse, as below:

Proper Animation & Smooth Step Animation Plugins Test

Below is an a model I created to test the above-mentioned SketchUp plugins.

The scenes were created by Proper Animation plugin, by MorisDov, which can be found here. The animation was output as still images by Smooth Step Animation plugin, by Whaat, at SketchUcation forum, though you need to be a member to download. I used VirtualDub to stitch the still images together, download here.

And last but not least, here's the clip:

FotoSketcher

FotoSketcher is a freeware that "helps you convert your digital photos into art, automatically". I run a few of my previous renders through it using the default "watercolor" style and the results are as below. FotoSketcher can be found here.

Click Image to enlarge.