Good fly through animation example.

[Anonymous]

I am trying to find a good example of a fly through animation using the lightworks rendering engine. If anyone has one they wouldn't mind sharing or can link me to a website where i might find one, that would be fantastic. Going to be creating the animation over the next couple of weeks and wanted to give the client an example. The building is on a man made lake with a pier going out into the water and lots of trees and brush surrounding it, hopefully i can find something similar.

I noticed that there aren't a lot of topics about fly through animations. I'm assuming it's because people prefer true rendering programs. If anyone can shed some light on this as well it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Chad

[Dwight]

You face serious challenges making a good flythrough in
Archicad because camera movement is rudimentary. It is impossible to make a smooth acceleration and deceleration with the tools. Archicad flythroughs must be edited and cross-faded between scenes to not look totally amateur.

Lightworks is up to the task, but it will be slow because you'll need top quality anti-aliasing to keep surfaces smooth in each frame. This setting can only be processed with one processor. Slow.

Furthermore, the consequences of overlapping refractive elements aren't too bad in a single frame, but the extra rendering time multiplies in a flythrough. So eliminate refraction in your clear materials.

Your results will be way better with Artlantis for several reasons:

Speed of rendering: you will have more time to practice and preview your work.
Light Quality: better.
Camera control: better - automatic acceleration and deceleration between end points.

I think the investment will pay back in just one project.

[Anonymous]

This is very late but I have noticed a few topics recently on Fly Through Animations and have recently come across an ArchiCAD Fly Through sample which I happily posted on my blog among other animations......this is the first in my blog which happened to be produced in ArchiCAD. A short piece featuring fly throughs and stills.

Here is the link:

ArchiCAD Fly Through Example

[Anonymous]

I made this one a few years ago.... Not sure I'd call it it good example...

The project is under construction now so I've been tempted to redo the fly-through with the final updates and correct finishes..... It's a lot of work though....

http://grad.cc/portfoliopages/PRICEnet3.mp4

[Stress Co_]

Someone posted THIS in another thread. Anyone know what they used??

[Anonymous]

Dwight, I have just tried recording the animation in Artlantis3, according to this tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA7UqyJk3c

And I must say the "fly" mode in Artlantis (which is very important, because you record your animation in Artlantis by flying trough the model) is a catastrophic. You can not make a decent animation, using the Artlantis3 fly mode.
While Archicad fly mode, is something best I have ever seen. It looks like a fly mode from Counter Strike video game.

So my question is: how can we make a decent animation in Artlantis3, if the fly mode control is that difficult?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Not sure if Dwight will notice that you replied to a 3 year old thread. 😉

Animations in Artlantis are just different from in ArchiCAD ... but... that YouTube video is really unclear. Pages 51 through 63 of Dwight's book ("Artlantis Attitude") explain the process better - along with the how/when/why to animate and some of the things to watch out for in the unique Artlantis interface.

Be sure to review the Artlantis Help file - which has much more information than that video. You have to read it all. Not reading about path manipulation in the 2D window will leave you very frustrated.

If you understand keyframe animation from any other animation products ... then you will see that things are similar between Artlantis and ArchiCAD ... except that Artlantis gives you greater control over editing the path in the 2D window (not shown in the video you linked to).

Each camera placed on an ArchiCAD path is very similar to a keyframe - the path will interpolate from one camera to the next, following a path determined by how you adjust the path handles of the camera/etc.

In Artlantis, each time you press the record button you create a new keyframe in the timeline. But, in Artlantis, it is not just the geometry of the camera, as in ArchiCAD: it is EVERYTHING. Well, almost everything. The keyframe there can include lighting settings (on/off/intensity change), heliodon changes (time of day/sun angle - cloud motion), shader changes (change the opacity of a texture to make it appear that a surface is becoming textured, or changes color, etc) and more.

Of course, if you are used to video editing and keyframe animation, you'll find the interface of both Artlantis and ArchiCAD a bit 'peculiar'. Just have to experiment and learn it.

Certainly, the fact that in Artlantis the clouds can be moving in the sky, water can have gentle waves moving, and you place animated textures - e.g., a video onto a TV screen - to say nothing of illumination by radiosity, believable 3D trees, and more sophisticated shaders ... all these things make an Artlantis animation much more interesting.

The choice just depends on if you want a basic animation (e.g., something like SketchUp) for showing off massing or space, or if you want something more professional for a marketing presentation, etc...

[Dwight]

Well, i did notice, but if someone thinks that Archicad makes a better camera path animation, there isn't much for me to discuss.

Thank you Karl, for clarifying the matter.

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Well, i did notice, but if someone thinks that Archicad makes a better camera path animation, there isn't much for me to discuss.

I don't think he meant better camera path animation. The way I understood it was, he likes the way he can freely navigate in ArchiCAD's 3D window.

[Dwight]

Oh, really? I prefer bumblebee mode myself.