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Post by thescottishbloke // Jan 14, 2009, 10:25am
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Hi,
Whats the most simple and best way to do an animation of a spin round of a house?
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Post by v3rd3 // Jan 14, 2009, 1:46pm
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Forgive me but would you please clarify the phrase "spin round"... do you mean a tour of an interior or an exterior shot of a house following a large circular path? |
Post by TomG // Jan 15, 2009, 4:50am
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If the latter (outside of the house, spinning around it) - create a camera, move its axes to the center of the house. The rotate command now makes the camera spin around the house. So place camera in start location, record keyframe. Move to next keyframe (remember that 30 keyframes equals one second at the usual 30fps rate). Rotate by 90 degrees (type this in the Object Info box for accuracy), and record keyframe. Repeat 3 more times until you are back where you began.
Render :)
HTH!
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Post by Norm // Jan 15, 2009, 7:19am
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Once you have camera set with axis in middle of house, use the "look-at" tool to point the camera at house. This ensures the house will remain in the middle of the camera's view at all times. |
Post by trueBlue // Jan 15, 2009, 7:25am
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And... following Norm's solution:
You could have your Camera Look At a dummy object (Cube) set to Invisible. This way you could put the Cube (Animate too) anywhere for instance in the center of the house. |
Post by RichLevy // Jan 15, 2009, 8:05am
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And adding on TB's tip, which adds on to Norm's tip :)
you can make the cube and camera encapsulated 3D and that locks the 2 together so that moving the cube (rotating it) will also move the camera in relation.
I learned that last week :)
Rich |
Post by trueBlue // Jan 15, 2009, 8:11am
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Nice one... you could animate all three objects for some really cool Camera shots. |
Post by Lippi // Jan 17, 2009, 2:35am
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Anyone have a small example animation of this? Would like to see the result! |
Post by Ospreyluvr // Jan 18, 2009, 6:23am
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Well, I guess I could render something up that is like what they are talking about. Give me a couple hours, because I am going out in a bit, then I will try to post a animation like what they are talking about. I make no guarantees on a livable house, if a house at all:D |
Post by Ospreyluvr // Jan 29, 2009, 7:35am
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Sorry about the long response. Been really busy. Well, here is the example, using a ICBM I made real quick for practice. Sorry for the watermark, TS exported it as AVI, so I had to convert it. I also decided to do mine at a angle, just to show what can be done. |
Post by Lippi // Jan 29, 2009, 10:40am
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Thanks for this example. It inspires me to many other things to do. :)
Well, and I know how it is about to find time. Same problem here, thousands ideas but never enough time. |
Post by Ospreyluvr // Feb 8, 2009, 3:38pm
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Yeah. Well, my family has had health problem after health problem, so I am constantly balancing school, and going to the hospital to visit, and take people to their doctors appointments! Life can be REALLY crazy! |
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