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nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:23:48 GMT

Quite a nice animation from Richard Murphy architects- one of the leading architectural practices in scotland.

its a big download though - be warned.

http://www.richardmurphyarchitects.com/files/Jesus_College_Movie/20080731jesus.avi

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Link — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:51:45 GMT

Uh-oh, don't let Dwight see it. He'll give you the 'Don't-use-one-long-camera-path' scolding he gave me a few years ago!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:11:36 GMT

Link wrote:
Uh-oh, don't let Dwight see it. He'll give you the 'Don't-use-one-long-camera-path' scolding he gave me a few years ago!

Cheers,
Link.

do you have a link to that thread, i searched for it but found nothing?

Adon

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Link — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:11:13 GMT

It was in real life. Sometimes I merely serve as an example to others.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Dwight — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:00:41 GMT

Link: You are one of my heroes.

I can't connect to the latest animation - it might be fine, but:
re-scolding, for the record, on why any single, long animation is bad in lieu of a comprehensive, "storytelling" approach:

"If you look at any piece of professional media, they spend a lot of time "storyboarding" their project so that their media bit has pacing and information at as fast a rate as can be presented. This pacing builds to a climax and ultimately, a resolution. A building has a story - salient places you want viewers to remember, and plenty of long ugly corridors you want them to forget. You need to decide the hierarchy of ideas presented to support selling the project. A long animation defies this and shows everything at the same pace and can't skip the crap. These long clips also bear striking resemblance to a "first-person shooter" video game. And there's no Archicad ShotGun object at the bottom of the view. I can now criticize this approach without being sexist. It used to be said that women hated animations, but now I'm old enough to know that anyone over fifty hates them, too. Queasy. They don't make story points fast enough. It is self-indulgent and bad movie-making.

The best animations are a carefully orchestrated series of short clips that speed up the storytelling, and make the points communicating building design to SELL THE IDEA. Like an essay, not a drunken ramble.

I hate animations in general, because for me, architecture is about details. You spend hours setting up an animation path that doesn't collide with walls, send your machine off for a long time to render a rough and tiny, jiggly mess and it fails the story. Even a series of short animations needs editing and assembly. This is slow work. The same effort could go into making a series of meticulously-composed, highly resolved, finely illuminated and entouraged views. They are placed in a multi-media application like PowerPoint, serenely cross-faded, [no gorpy effects, please, altho they are tempting - nothing like "sparkle"] alternating plain views with captioned views to convey your story point to the less-visual - and maybe one or two short animated clips - if they add to the story. Good architectural communication needs many kinds of imagery.

I believe that architecture is "reflective memory." [Except for Disney's Space Mountain Ride where architecture is "not throwing up."] We merely want to give viewers fine work to favorably fix their memory of the building like a photo album of a trip taken years ago fixes memory of the trip. You forget the time that Granada taxi driver over-charged €10 from the Airport to the Alhambra because you were arguing with him so hard you didn't take a picture.

So, call me an old guy, but architecture is stills, diagrams and text, not simply the novelty of motion.

Archicad users interested in better multi-media should read the screenwriting bible "Story" by gruff [he yelled at me, the geezer] Hollywood screenwriting guru Robert McKee.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:49:52 GMT

Hello,

I would add that animation is not architecture anymore. It's a film director work. Customers with good view need "just" good hand drawings even. It is up to the architects to stop this dispersion.
So Dwight, I believe no book about animation in the future ? 😉
Best regards
Jean-Luc

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Dwight — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:44:26 GMT

The Artlantis Attitude will have a segment on animation - it still has its uses.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:24:54 GMT

HI EVERYONE
I HAVE AN ANIMATION MAKING WITH ARTLANTIS STUDIO MAKING FOR TV Ads,
CAN ANYONE tell me what is a best type I rendered by for example avi or quicktime and what is a perfect size ,is 1280*720 HDTV is good or i should choose 1920*1080 HDTV or any thing about.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:48:14 GMT

the most important is your architectural project not the rendering.
If your project is good and if your customer is not able to understand it
then it might be better to invite him to ....house.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:06:53 GMT

That was trippy! Where did they get those 3D people, I like the karate chop guy before he sits down. This must be a rough edit because it would have been nice to have titles and integrate several stills with text explaining of the spaces.

Bravo!

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:02:52 GMT

HI Lennox CAN YOU THAT IS A NICE ANIMATION CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS THE PROPERTIES USED IN THIS ANIMATION RENDERER.
THANKS

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:30:53 GMT

Here is an example of a QuickTime movie we presented to our clients last year. A couple of things I should mention:

1. The background music is cheesy, but license free and it came off OK.
2. We spent very little time on this since we were still trying to get the commission to land the real job. We were not paid to do more than basic DDs (plans, elevations, some interior shots). But ArchiCAD is a great tool to accomplish all that PLUS a little more.
3. This shows good use of ArchiCAD and Artlantis Studio (versions 11 & 1.0)
4. We spent less than a day on post editing, using Apple's built in iMovie and iDVD programs to make the final product.
5. While this appears dark on your screen, it was calibrated for a LCD projection system and would "wash out" if not for a high contrast.
6. Dwight is right about short sequences to tell a story. We actually did a story board as a team to discuss what shots were more important and how we wanted to "tell" them.

Link to .MOV file:
www.box.net/shared/static/4xx07sho9b.mov

+pablo

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:12:00 GMT

Sorano

I wasnt involved in this project, or am part of this company. Im not even sure they use archicad (although there a lot of macs in their office- so there is a chance they might) .

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:22 GMT

CrazyHorse the Beach Town project is a perfect example of ArchiCAD's strengths. The design process was 3D, which helped everyone at the firm develop a strong solution. The presentation convinced the possible client, you get the contract. Now the model works it way thru CD's with tweeks from structural, etc. It survives, gets improved each step and helps to produce the drawings necessary. Great example of work.

Re: nice animation from richard murphy

matthewjj — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:16:20 GMT

Very nice work! Architecture is about experience for me and to the end that animations can help immerse clients into your design in ways that stills cannot. I do agree with Dwight though that too many animations are focused on slick 'fly-throughs' with anemic camera paths that do nothing to create an immersive experience (and a lot to cause upset stomachs). Tastefully 'ken-burns effected' stills that transition from space to space can be more immersive, intimate and detailed.