Hi there, inspiring work. If you don't mind, what render setting did you use to accomplish the shot around 0:30 ? It is just black and white outlines with the shadows intact. I would love to try this look for a project. Thanks.
One simple question.. can I take a picture of a back yard and add a custom patio to it? I install exterior kitchens and pergolas. Please help me out on my business!!! Thanks!
When you made this, how long have you been using Sketchup? I just downloaded it and I'm hooked but definitely found your design and attn to detail inspiring! Thanks! -Neal
I had probably 200 hrs (at least) of trial and error before I started that project. It did take a while. It's all in the amount of detail you choose to add.
I probably had 100 hrs plus into the program before I started that project. I did take a while. It's all in the amount of detail you choose to include. Thanks for checking out the video!
what i see now that one has to learn everything thats a couple of softwares to come up with something, i thought i could use only one for everythinh..
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I made the sky lime green in SketchUp so that I could cromakey (green screen) it out in Sony Vegas. Then I put the sky, sun and clouds in as layers 'under' the SketchUp layer.
I used a demo version of IDXRenditioner which allowed for a (low resolution) rendering with lights. I did the moving skies by first rendering using a lime green sky that I could chromekey (greenscreen) out in my movie program, Sony Vegas. I put the house on the top layer and moved still images behind it to simulate the moving clouds and sun.
For the first part, I made camera ‘scene’ locations like spokes on an inclined wheel and rendered 4 flyarounds with the four different styles. Because they all used the same wheel you intersperse any of the four.Then I used photos that I had taken the of house and used them ‘stopping points’ along the flythrough. Finily I greenscreened out the sky in Sketchup to be replaced by moving stills of real clouds and the sun for the ‘time lapse’ section. All the raw footage was composited in Sony Vegas.
ok !!!! thank you for you're answere really good technique at all it's really hard to find expert technique for sketchup always tuto for beginners i have to go on a basecamp on sketchup .
This might sound a little odd, but where was this house built? Just the general area would do, because this looks so familiar to me. Especially with the photos.
@WeakEndProductions Funny, I think I drive by it everyday, cause there's a road on the hill above it. The trees kind of hide it though. Anyway, thanks and nice video and model.
can u help me design my building i have the sketch of the building i could send u please reply i have to do it for school. I just donno how to do it. please help. just need a exterior perceptional design thanks alot .
Hi, I am an architectural technician from Ireland and I love this animation. I have a just setup a design website and was wondering if it would be ok to post this animation on my page? as I am hoping to do sketch-up as part of my designs. Thanks
I did build the interiors. I didn't populate the interior with furniture or anything. Wanted to keep the file size and render time down. You can kind of peek in at various points in the video. Thanks for checking it out.
The model was built from plans and my recollection of the real house. I did actually build the deck in model form first using an ancient program called Virtus Walkthrough which I had an exported autocad (.dxf) file of. The program had a very similar look to SketchUp.
Use 'Scenes'. Set up the camera where you want it Click the '+' button. Now change you camera view and press the 'plus' button again. Click 'View' -'Animation'-'Play' and it will cycle through the Scenes over the time that you specify in 'Window'-'Model Info'-'Animation'. Use 'File'-'Export'-'Animation' to render and save your video.
Easily the best SketchUp video I've seen to date! Truly remarkable. Can you tell me how to get those kind of animated skies into my drawings? I didn't even know that was possible!
Thanks for the send up! I think it's all the detail that makes the video work.
What I did was to render the SketchUp animation with a uniform green (greenscreenable) background. That way I could chromakey out that green in my movie editing program, Sony Vegas, and replace the background with real sky images. That helps in making things a little more realistic. It works great with still renders (jpg) as well. It looks like you know your way around SketchUp, give it a try.
@WeakEndProductions your right about the detail & thanks for helping out. I only have imovie at the mo but I think there is some green screen function in there that might work ...you need to put down the guitar for a while and get back to sketching for a bit. inspirational stuff! thanks again.
Thanks for checking out the video! I'm unfamiliar with Curien Mansion, but SketchUp has a free version of it's program. As you can see, it can do some pretty cool things. Download it and give it a try!
I'd really like to know how you craeted this video. Suck an awesome presentation. I am searching for ways to present my 3D model to a few clients of mine and I think yours has been the best Ive seen so far. Any pointers??? cheers
Excelente introduccion, excelente edicion de vide, felicidades, son de los pocos video que me gustan que hacen con sketchup... excelen intro, excelent video edition, congratulation, this is one of the many videos that i like it who made with sketchup!
¡Gracias por mirar a mi modelo. Gracias por tus elogios. Eso significa mucho porque puedo ver que su trabajo es muy bueno. Que realmente sepa lo que está haciendo en SketchUp. Su canal se ve bien.
I tried posting a comment on your channel page (I think that is where I went) and it said had an error and didn't post it. How do I send you a message?
Go to my (or most anyone's) 'Channel' page. Scroll down below their featured video and you'll see a box with the yellow 'Subscribe' button (not the one at the top of their page). It should also show 'Add as Friend', 'Block User' and also 'Send Message'. Click that and you can send a message beyond the 500 character limit. That will go right into my 'Inbox" as a private message.
It looks like Sony Vegas is kind of expensive, at least Sony Vegas 9 which seems to be the current version.
Regarding Kerkythea, I remember recent notice on a plugin for Sketchup that use the Kerkythea engine to do renderings from within Sketchup, reportedly has a very simple interface and it was pretty cheap (somewhere between $50-100). I can't remember the name.
Sony makes a 'consumer version' called 'Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9'. The 'Studio' part of it means less than $50 at Amazon. You're limited to 3 video tracks and 2 audio tracks. I think. I have version 4.0 and it allows me to import still jpegs at .05 seconds each. Works out to 20 frames/sec. Might work (I haven't tried it). Might be worth looking into.
I tried selecting File>Export>Animation, then click Export type dropdown menu and select jpeg
This gives a series of jpeg images. The quality of the images looks better and when I hand animate them with Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, it looks better.
Do you know anyway to combine these jpegs into a video file?
I use Sony Vegas, which can import a series of images. If you select a time duration for a still (jpeg) in Vegas that works out to something like 30 stills (frames) a second, you've got yourself a movie. There's a great free (though somewhat complicated) render only 'engine' called "Kerkythea". It renders animation as a (numbered set) of still images as well. Still, you're faced with the shortcomings of video compression codecs that will degrade the quality of your rendered video.
The HD version has 3 times the resolution of a 640 x 480 movie, so that's got to help when in the lines only movie segment. I believe the frame rate was 29.97 fps. In SketchUp, I render to .avi files using the Cinepak Codec by Radius with the quality set to 100. I seem to get the best results with that codec.
I put the movie together in Sony Vegas an render to .wmv with settings suggested by a search on youtube for best quality uploads. (continued)
I have no idea what all the .wmv settings mean. (I wish that I did) And I'm not all that crazy about the quality that I'm getting but It seemed to produce better results than other ways that I've rendered. Some videos on Youtube look absolutely great! Things on Hulu look fantastic. I wish I knew all the ins and outs of that. That's the Holy Grail, I guess!
I think I discovered why the flickering line problem occurs. A thin line at a slight angle across the screen steps down to the next row of pixels as it crosses the screen. In some places a grey surface next to the line may be white for a short distance at the step. When the image moves, these steps move. Where 1 row of pixels is black and in the next image the next row is black, your eye may put them together causing them to appear to be 2 pixels wide. (continued)
This is the animation I'm having problems with. Lines on the buildings flicker. It is most evident viewed full screen or in the original .avi from Sketchup.
I hope you dont mind my asking a lot of questions.
For example: Did you produce the animation directly from Sketchup with File>Export>Animation? When I do that I get flickering on the lines and the lines are not uniform in intensity.
Also, the shrubbery on the hillside was nice. How did you model the shrubs?
Id like to ask more but I dont want to bother you.
Yes, I use 'File>Export>Animation'. It's hard to know what's happening on your end but here's a couple ideas. If your video resolution is small (say 320x240) there aren't enough pixels there to reflect what is happening so fine lines will tend to disappear. Try changing the 'Style' to change to thicker lines. Put color and/or textures to faces and objects to make them stand out better. Choose a background/sky color that makes objects pop out. Video compression also degrades detail.
For some of the shapes I used a plugin called 'Soap Skin & Bubble'. It can generate complex organic shapes as well as objects like boat hulls, for example. Complex curves that building in SketchUp alone would be tough.
In fact there are a good number of free plugins (ruby scripts) that really enhance the capabilities of SketchUp. Google "Ruby Library Depot" for example.
I checked out IDX Renditioner Express Free. It says it supports a maximum resolution of 640X480. I think you mentioned rendering at a higher resolution. Is 640X480 what you used on the night scenes?
Also, didn't you need some kind of Video editing program to put all the animations together?
Yes I rendered the HD version of this video at 1280 x 720.You're also right in that the Free version of IDX max's out a 640 x 480. I just sized up that image up to fit the movie's format. You can see that the resolution isn't as good. I did that at the end of what was a long project. With more time, I might have tried to set up 4 overlapping shots and stitch them together. I've also used Kerkythea which is a high-powered free render engine that let's you use lightsources way beyond SketchUp.
In addition to SketchUp I used a plugin called IDX Renditioner Express Free for the night shot at the end. I had to render the main flythrough scenes in three separate parts (about 7hrs each!). The rendered .avi files were assembled in Sony Vegas 6. The 'timelapse' sequence was also rendered separately. I made the sky green to chromakey it out in Vegas and replace it with the clouds, sun and whatnot I also composed the soundtrack using Cakewalk Sonar 8 and added that to Vegas as well.
Yeah, it did take some time to make the model. And to render it. But I think the details (and the time it takes to make them) are what make it come out so well.
Awsome man!!! Great model, as well as great video with all the real house pictures and infal scene. Just great !! Can u tell me which software did u use for making the video. Since i can only make scenes and export them as video :) And its boring. I want to make smooth video of mt models. Also if that software is expencie maybe u have some advice for some freeware one :))
I built the house in real life. I still had the plans. They gave me the basic dimensions, window sizes and whatnot. All the rest came from my knowledge of construction, memory, and what pictures I have.
I'll admit that building the CAD model took some time. But getting all the details right and built to scale help to make the model look as realistic as I could make it in Google SketchUp.
Yes, it does take some time. I'll admit that. But it's the details that make the difference. Apparently it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who said "God is in the details." I'm sure he spent quite a bit of time just making a freaking chair! "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier."
I'm a sketchupper too and this was great! I gotta ask: how did you make your house lit up (at the end when it got dark)? I've been trying to do that forever, but can't. Is this something only the pro version offers?
I used a (free, low Rez) plugin called "IDX Renditioner Express Free" for that final scene. You place lights in your model and render a still image. Also try "Kerkythea". That's a free render engine. You export your model to that and you can add lights. In fact you can use IES light profiles. They describe the light cast by real tubes, bulbs, etc. That's what the 'big boys' (real architects) use. Kerkythea can render photorealistic images. Some, you can't tell that they aren't real! Awesome!
I built the house in real life many years ago. I still have the plans but they only tell the basic measurements. The rest is from memory and my knowledge of material dimensions and standard components like doors and windows. Most doors and windows in the 3D Warehouse are to (American) scale, if that helps. Search there for "trusses" and you will find some framing models. Download them and you can reverse-engineer them for your model. Does that help?
I'm assuming you're talking model size. The model weighs in at 7.8mb. The uploaded video (HD, windows media .wmv) came in at 715mb, BTW.
I haven't uploaded any models to 3D Warehouse so I don't have Warehouse Name but now that you bring it up I should probably put some models up there. I'll look into that.
The 'Morning to Night' sequence was done in Sketchup. I set up 7 scenes, each with a progressive change in the time of day. I made the 'sky' monochromatic green to 'chroma key' it out after rendering the animation. I put the animation on a layer in Sony Vegas and panned and scanned the clouds and and sun and whatnot from stills on layers below it. The final 'night' scene is a still render using the free 'IDX Renditioner' (SketchUp plugin) from IDX Design. You can Google it. Also try Kerkythea
In SketchUp, I rendered the animation with a nice lime green sky that I chromokeyed out in Sony Vegas and replaced with panned sky pictures that I had taken. I checked out your channel. Good stuff. I think I might try that SU podium. Where did you get the 'dynamic components'? Is that a Ruby plugin or something?
ty, I started from the bits so you can see some progress =D
Dynamic components are a part from SketchUp 7 and yeah, podium is something you just got to try. Its easy to use and the efect is quite good. I'm working on a fully rendered animation with some high poly carsatm, but I guess the rendering is going to take some weeks ^^
looks that your quite good with sony vegas, maybe you could help me with some things?
know what you mean as far as rendering time. Rendering this project's clips in SketchUp alone, in total, probably took something like 28 to 30-something hours (with shadows on @ 1280x720). I can only imagine how long using a more realistic rendering engine. It would be cool if they had some affordable internet render farm. (I'll have to look into that)
As far as the Sony Vegas thing, let me know what you have in mind and I'll see if I can help.
Thats just so true about the rendering, it takes up to 10 minutes to render a scene on my laptop. But having a quadro core would definately speed things up, as podium now supports multithreading.
Whell what I wanted to know about Sony Vegas is that when I open my renders( for the animation I mentioned before) in the explorer they are 5 seconds long. How could I change the lenght of it to a precise value? And is there a way to scale down all the parts of a video at once and evenly?
I use Vegas 6. Let see if this helps. In 'Preferences' , click on the 'Editing' tab. Look down and it (mine) says, "New still image length (seconds)". Change that number to what you want them to come in at. You can grab either side of the image or video in the time line and drag it to change the length. Now if you hold down 'Ctrl' while dragging you can change the playback speed. Up to 25% of original playback speed. I use this feature to re-time the playback speed of SketchUp scenes.
Hi there, inspiring work. If you don't mind, what render setting did you use to accomplish the shot around 0:30 ? It is just black and white outlines with the shadows intact. I would love to try this look for a project. Thanks.
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ebaysmy 1 month ago
nice u model you own house
MICROKNIGHT3000 1 month ago
I loved the fact that you added in snapshots from the actual house itself. Great looking model!
rylowry 2 months ago
Sweet.
MetaHughdo 3 months ago
somebody needs to import this into the cryengine
JustCauseMan1 3 months ago
nice man!
ZegieZeg 4 months ago
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vik3601 5 months ago
Wow, I see I need to study much more. Great job!
xpaul777 6 months ago
Wow. I am terrible with sketchup.
jcookonbass 6 months ago
did you make the trees or import them
GoldenGamers100 7 months ago
One simple question.. can I take a picture of a back yard and add a custom patio to it? I install exterior kitchens and pergolas. Please help me out on my business!!! Thanks!
luigimex123 7 months ago
When you made this, how long have you been using Sketchup? I just downloaded it and I'm hooked but definitely found your design and attn to detail inspiring! Thanks! -Neal
condustasanchez 8 months ago
I had probably 200 hrs (at least) of trial and error before I started that project. It did take a while. It's all in the amount of detail you choose to add.
WeakEndProductions 8 months ago
@WeakEndProductions hey, when u were flipping through graphics, how did u do that? mine is stuck on just lines, no color or anything
MrRalgoman 3 months ago
I probably had 100 hrs plus into the program before I started that project. I did take a while. It's all in the amount of detail you choose to include. Thanks for checking out the video!
WeakEndProductions 8 months ago
Good one...
nusoftwaretech 8 months ago
Tutorial Please?
Louis3Design 8 months ago
what i see now that one has to learn everything thats a couple of softwares to come up with something, i thought i could use only one for everythinh..
jagenz1 8 months ago
A fantastic journey !
Music.
This music is outstanding.
This video transports me to a very different beautiful world.
This is is a really a good video production.
joeelipo 8 months ago
Wow this is really great! did it take you a lot of time? This is truly fantastic work!
MyLewisH 8 months ago
Nice house
712maggot 8 months ago
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3danimationstudio1 9 months ago
Wow thats really a nice work cool i like it!
1TalentedG 9 months ago
great intro with the old school drafting board zooming into the animation
jelDesignWorks 10 months ago
really a piece of art both not only the drawing but the house also
hassansafdarmalik 10 months ago
Hey thanks a lot!
WeakEndProductions 10 months ago
@WeakEndProductions Can you tell me what cause sketchup to not to make scenes??? Its saying that TEMP folder is full!!!
1TalentedG 9 months ago
I'm afraid that I can't answer that.
WeakEndProductions 9 months ago
@WeakEndProductions Ok then, am wondering if its because i download furnitures and put in it!!! :-(
1TalentedG 9 months ago
This more than wat I think I can do...
Texbway 11 months ago
if thats where u live ur fking rich and u are amazing at sketchup
stickyfingers320i 11 months ago
amazing ;-)
MrOngeldige1 1 year ago
i also made my house in sketchup, how do you get blue sky, clouds and sun ?
Lucasdeboer 1 year ago
I made the sky lime green in SketchUp so that I could cromakey (green screen) it out in Sony Vegas. Then I put the sky, sun and clouds in as layers 'under' the SketchUp layer.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
wow at the end it was awsome. is this your real house or someones real house?
braydobudd 1 year ago
I built the real house and lived in it for about ten years. Thanks for checking out my video!
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BBallPlayer1011 1 year ago
Proffessional
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fawadarch 1 year ago
wow dis is so cool,so professional
fawadarch 1 year ago
Great job!
wolfpaw69 1 year ago
the night rendering is fantastic...what plugin did you use? and how did you incorporate the moving skies with the animation? tahnx very much. ^^
kababert 1 year ago
I used a demo version of IDXRenditioner which allowed for a (low resolution) rendering with lights. I did the moving skies by first rendering using a lime green sky that I could chromekey (greenscreen) out in my movie program, Sony Vegas. I put the house on the top layer and moved still images behind it to simulate the moving clouds and sun.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
Animation is better than the real one(:
totymedli 1 year ago
In virtual reality there are no warped studs or de-laminating sheets of plywood. And the subcontractors show up on time!
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
That is amazing!
Pizzaguy100TV 1 year ago
this is BA
dazzedproductions 1 year ago
hello weekend production really nice vid !!!!
i have a little question
you make these vid just by playing the scene ? can you tell me a tip thanks a lot
videmiatrix 1 year ago
For the first part, I made camera ‘scene’ locations like spokes on an inclined wheel and rendered 4 flyarounds with the four different styles. Because they all used the same wheel you intersperse any of the four.Then I used photos that I had taken the of house and used them ‘stopping points’ along the flythrough. Finily I greenscreened out the sky in Sketchup to be replaced by moving stills of real clouds and the sun for the ‘time lapse’ section. All the raw footage was composited in Sony Vegas.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
@WeakEndProductions
ok !!!! thank you for you're answere really good technique at all it's really hard to find expert technique for sketchup always tuto for beginners i have to go on a basecamp on sketchup .
thanks a lot i try it ^^
videmiatrix 1 year ago
if also got sketchup but you ar eway bether than me can u watch my vid and tel me what i can do bether ty
7249xxl 1 year ago
what program did you use to make the 3d house?????
MrRaymundo23 1 year ago
I used Google SketchUp. You can download and use it for free! Get It; it's fun!
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
@WeakEndProductions
This might sound a little odd, but where was this house built? Just the general area would do, because this looks so familiar to me. Especially with the photos.
ObamaFansAreIgnorant 1 year ago
It's out in California, around the Sacramento Area.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
@WeakEndProductions Funny, I think I drive by it everyday, cause there's a road on the hill above it. The trees kind of hide it though. Anyway, thanks and nice video and model.
ObamaFansAreIgnorant 1 year ago
You don't say. It IS a small world after all!
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
can u help me design my building i have the sketch of the building i could send u please reply i have to do it for school. I just donno how to do it. please help. just need a exterior perceptional design thanks alot .
springlightgirl 1 year ago
Hi, I am an architectural technician from Ireland and I love this animation. I have a just setup a design website and was wondering if it would be ok to post this animation on my page? as I am hoping to do sketch-up as part of my designs. Thanks
MyLardlad 1 year ago
congratulations for the video , i do work with sketshup also.
eduardo from barcelona
latindondo 1 year ago
neat...
Kevbox2008 1 year ago
how do you put a sky background please tell me! i ask many ppl and they wont answer...
Flash8Games 1 year ago
That's really cool!
iRaceAllDay 1 year ago
The animation looks better.
TaiCheeze 1 year ago
Hey This House is amazing but where can I download it?
Sub2Me4ASoop 1 year ago
does the house got any interior?
lolich75 1 year ago
I did build the interiors. I didn't populate the interior with furniture or anything. Wanted to keep the file size and render time down. You can kind of peek in at various points in the video. Thanks for checking it out.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
Was the house built from the model, or was the model built based on the house? thx really cool
birdpoo01 1 year ago
The model was built from plans and my recollection of the real house. I did actually build the deck in model form first using an ancient program called Virtus Walkthrough which I had an exported autocad (.dxf) file of. The program had a very similar look to SketchUp.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
very nice...but how i can animate the camera in sketch up ? or u used another program to animate?
normixxxx 1 year ago
Use 'Scenes'. Set up the camera where you want it Click the '+' button. Now change you camera view and press the 'plus' button again. Click 'View' -'Animation'-'Play' and it will cycle through the Scenes over the time that you specify in 'Window'-'Model Info'-'Animation'. Use 'File'-'Export'-'Animation' to render and save your video.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
Very nice. Only just tried SketchUp after a few years since the last time and I'm addicted.
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Easily the best SketchUp video I've seen to date! Truly remarkable. Can you tell me how to get those kind of animated skies into my drawings? I didn't even know that was possible!
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CloudHippy 1 year ago
Thanks for the send up! I think it's all the detail that makes the video work.
What I did was to render the SketchUp animation with a uniform green (greenscreenable) background. That way I could chromakey out that green in my movie editing program, Sony Vegas, and replace the background with real sky images. That helps in making things a little more realistic. It works great with still renders (jpg) as well. It looks like you know your way around SketchUp, give it a try.
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
@WeakEndProductions your right about the detail & thanks for helping out. I only have imovie at the mo but I think there is some green screen function in there that might work ...you need to put down the guitar for a while and get back to sketching for a bit. inspirational stuff! thanks again.
CloudHippy 1 year ago
I would like to see the Curien Mansion from the first House of the Dead one of these days with this wonderfull program :D
your models are awesome 10/10
sandro108 1 year ago
Thanks for checking out the video! I'm unfamiliar with Curien Mansion, but SketchUp has a free version of it's program. As you can see, it can do some pretty cool things. Download it and give it a try!
WeakEndProductions 1 year ago
can you download this house?
peppie132 2 years ago
i would live in this house anyday
greatwpzz 2 years ago 2
Thanks a lot! I'm honored.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Es muy bonito!!!!!
kaitoukidkun 2 years ago
excellent job!!! awesome
tomislay 2 years ago
Thanks!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Hi there!
I'd really like to know how you craeted this video. Suck an awesome presentation. I am searching for ways to present my 3D model to a few clients of mine and I think yours has been the best Ive seen so far. Any pointers??? cheers
mikewebb121 2 years ago
Thanks for posting it on your channel. I'm honored!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
this is a great rendering. i like the fade-ins, transparency, and fade to image!
jimmy3dartist 2 years ago
Excelente introduccion, excelente edicion de vide, felicidades, son de los pocos video que me gustan que hacen con sketchup... excelen intro, excelent video edition, congratulation, this is one of the many videos that i like it who made with sketchup!
yosoymemo 2 years ago
¡Gracias por mirar a mi modelo. Gracias por tus elogios. Eso significa mucho porque puedo ver que su trabajo es muy bueno. Que realmente sepa lo que está haciendo en SketchUp. Su canal se ve bien.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Belle réalisation. Great job. Merci - Thank you...
toufixmf45 2 years ago
Merci d'avoir pris un coup d'oeil à ma vidéo. Continuez votre bon travail avec SketchUp. (Deep Purple rocks!)
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
HOLLY SMOKES!!!!!! Wow dude that's awesome! Great job!
2NeedForSpeed2 2 years ago
how did you make the skechup background blue? I've been trying to change it from grey... looks very bad with my models.
arthurgurfleheimer 2 years ago
wow!
gamealogic 2 years ago
I tried posting a comment on your channel page (I think that is where I went) and it said had an error and didn't post it. How do I send you a message?
huckrorick 2 years ago
Go to my (or most anyone's) 'Channel' page. Scroll down below their featured video and you'll see a box with the yellow 'Subscribe' button (not the one at the top of their page). It should also show 'Add as Friend', 'Block User' and also 'Send Message'. Click that and you can send a message beyond the 500 character limit. That will go right into my 'Inbox" as a private message.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I tried to post the rest of this comment but I don't see it here, so I don't know if it will appear?
huckrorick 2 years ago
Yeah, I don't see it either. Send a personal message (from my WeakendProductions channel page) if you want.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I tried selecting File>Export>Animation, then click the Export type
dropdown menu and select jpeg
This gives a series of jpeg images. The quality of the images looks
better and when I hand animate them with Windows Picture & Fax Viewer,
it looks better.
With QuickTime Player Pro I usedFile>Open Image Sequence, which will play
the jpeg images. They are way better than the .wmv files I generated from Sketchup. (continued)
huckrorick 2 years ago
It looks like Sony Vegas is kind of expensive, at least Sony Vegas 9 which seems to be the current version.
Regarding Kerkythea, I remember recent notice on a plugin for Sketchup that use the Kerkythea engine to do renderings from within Sketchup, reportedly has a very simple interface and it was pretty cheap (somewhere between $50-100). I can't remember the name.
huckrorick 2 years ago
Sony makes a 'consumer version' called 'Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9'. The 'Studio' part of it means less than $50 at Amazon. You're limited to 3 video tracks and 2 audio tracks. I think. I have version 4.0 and it allows me to import still jpegs at .05 seconds each. Works out to 20 frames/sec. Might work (I haven't tried it). Might be worth looking into.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I tried selecting File>Export>Animation, then click Export type dropdown menu and select jpeg
This gives a series of jpeg images. The quality of the images looks better and when I hand animate them with Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, it looks better.
Do you know anyway to combine these jpegs into a video file?
huckrorick 2 years ago
I use Sony Vegas, which can import a series of images. If you select a time duration for a still (jpeg) in Vegas that works out to something like 30 stills (frames) a second, you've got yourself a movie. There's a great free (though somewhat complicated) render only 'engine' called "Kerkythea". It renders animation as a (numbered set) of still images as well. Still, you're faced with the shortcomings of video compression codecs that will degrade the quality of your rendered video.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
All these changes combine to display a flickering line. Well, that is my guess.
However, I dont know why this wasnt evident in your animation. I would expect it to be especially evident (but it is not) in the wire frame sequence.
What frame rate did you use?
What Codec did you use? (I hear Sketchup wont actually use any of the alternative codecs in its menu).
huckrorick 2 years ago
The HD version has 3 times the resolution of a 640 x 480 movie, so that's got to help when in the lines only movie segment. I believe the frame rate was 29.97 fps. In SketchUp, I render to .avi files using the Cinepak Codec by Radius with the quality set to 100. I seem to get the best results with that codec.
I put the movie together in Sony Vegas an render to .wmv with settings suggested by a search on youtube for best quality uploads. (continued)
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I have no idea what all the .wmv settings mean. (I wish that I did) And I'm not all that crazy about the quality that I'm getting but It seemed to produce better results than other ways that I've rendered. Some videos on Youtube look absolutely great! Things on Hulu look fantastic. I wish I knew all the ins and outs of that. That's the Holy Grail, I guess!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I think I discovered why the flickering line problem occurs. A thin line at a slight angle across the screen steps down to the next row of pixels as it crosses the screen. In some places a grey surface next to the line may be white for a short distance at the step. When the image moves, these steps move. Where 1 row of pixels is black and in the next image the next row is black, your eye may put them together causing them to appear to be 2 pixels wide. (continued)
huckrorick 2 years ago
I think that you are on to something there.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
This is the animation I'm having problems with. Lines on the buildings flicker. It is most evident viewed full screen or in the original .avi from Sketchup.
Huck
huckrorick 2 years ago
Very nice job.
I hope you dont mind my asking a lot of questions.
For example: Did you produce the animation directly from Sketchup with File>Export>Animation? When I do that I get flickering on the lines and the lines are not uniform in intensity.
Also, the shrubbery on the hillside was nice. How did you model the shrubs?
Id like to ask more but I dont want to bother you.
Huck
huckrorick 2 years ago
Huck,
Yes, I use 'File>Export>Animation'. It's hard to know what's happening on your end but here's a couple ideas. If your video resolution is small (say 320x240) there aren't enough pixels there to reflect what is happening so fine lines will tend to disappear. Try changing the 'Style' to change to thicker lines. Put color and/or textures to faces and objects to make them stand out better. Choose a background/sky color that makes objects pop out. Video compression also degrades detail.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Shrubbery...
For some of the shapes I used a plugin called 'Soap Skin & Bubble'. It can generate complex organic shapes as well as objects like boat hulls, for example. Complex curves that building in SketchUp alone would be tough.
In fact there are a good number of free plugins (ruby scripts) that really enhance the capabilities of SketchUp. Google "Ruby Library Depot" for example.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Hi,
I checked out IDX Renditioner Express Free. It says it supports a maximum resolution of 640X480. I think you mentioned rendering at a higher resolution. Is 640X480 what you used on the night scenes?
Also, didn't you need some kind of Video editing program to put all the animations together?
huckrorick 2 years ago
Yes I rendered the HD version of this video at 1280 x 720.You're also right in that the Free version of IDX max's out a 640 x 480. I just sized up that image up to fit the movie's format. You can see that the resolution isn't as good. I did that at the end of what was a long project. With more time, I might have tried to set up 4 overlapping shots and stitch them together. I've also used Kerkythea which is a high-powered free render engine that let's you use lightsources way beyond SketchUp.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
huckrorick,
I put the video together using Sony Vegas 6.0.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Would you mind saying what software you used to produce the video? I'm assuming it wasn't just Sketchup.
huckrorick 2 years ago
In addition to SketchUp I used a plugin called IDX Renditioner Express Free for the night shot at the end. I had to render the main flythrough scenes in three separate parts (about 7hrs each!). The rendered .avi files were assembled in Sony Vegas 6. The 'timelapse' sequence was also rendered separately. I made the sky green to chromakey it out in Vegas and replace it with the clouds, sun and whatnot I also composed the soundtrack using Cakewalk Sonar 8 and added that to Vegas as well.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
ive got 2 word for you:
FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!
MrEvonyGuide 2 years ago
Thanks for stopping by and checking it out!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
dang, how long did that take?? its beautiful!!
LzySims 2 years ago
Yeah, it did take some time to make the model. And to render it. But I think the details (and the time it takes to make them) are what make it come out so well.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Uhm.. sorry for spelling mistakes, I was typing fast, I think you got it :)
kaskalo2 2 years ago
Awsome man!!! Great model, as well as great video with all the real house pictures and infal scene. Just great !! Can u tell me which software did u use for making the video. Since i can only make scenes and export them as video :) And its boring. I want to make smooth video of mt models. Also if that software is expencie maybe u have some advice for some freeware one :))
kaskalo2 2 years ago
Damn fine work there! Did you have the actual drawings to work on, or how did you do it?
jipasd 2 years ago
I built the house in real life. I still had the plans. They gave me the basic dimensions, window sizes and whatnot. All the rest came from my knowledge of construction, memory, and what pictures I have.
I'll admit that building the CAD model took some time. But getting all the details right and built to scale help to make the model look as realistic as I could make it in Google SketchUp.
Thanks for checking out the video!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Pro! ;)
BruBksnPKxP 2 years ago
wow this is pretty amazing
xRockaJoJox 2 years ago
superb....
dondi823 2 years ago
Amazing. How the fuck do you create such detail.. just hours and hours of wrist labor?
defsownds 2 years ago
Yes, it does take some time. I'll admit that. But it's the details that make the difference. Apparently it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who said "God is in the details." I'm sure he spent quite a bit of time just making a freaking chair! "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier."
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
damned. good jobs! very nice work!
cquiec 2 years ago
Merci de regarder mes vidéo. Le travail que vous faites va bien pour moi.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
thanks for your french, really. I read your comments above to learn a litlle bit from you. i hope to have one day the same results. thanks to you.
cquiec 2 years ago
Realy good
jeroenhut1995 2 years ago
Thanks for checking out my video!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I'm a sketchupper too and this was great! I gotta ask: how did you make your house lit up (at the end when it got dark)? I've been trying to do that forever, but can't. Is this something only the pro version offers?
markiemarkstyle 2 years ago
I used a (free, low Rez) plugin called "IDX Renditioner Express Free" for that final scene. You place lights in your model and render a still image. Also try "Kerkythea". That's a free render engine. You export your model to that and you can add lights. In fact you can use IES light profiles. They describe the light cast by real tubes, bulbs, etc. That's what the 'big boys' (real architects) use. Kerkythea can render photorealistic images. Some, you can't tell that they aren't real! Awesome!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
what a beautiful house!
verbintherain 2 years ago
Thanks for checking my video out.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Yes, architects use SketchUp. But I think that they give the program away is that so future architects like you will be familiar with it
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I built the house in real life many years ago. I still have the plans but they only tell the basic measurements. The rest is from memory and my knowledge of material dimensions and standard components like doors and windows. Most doors and windows in the 3D Warehouse are to (American) scale, if that helps. Search there for "trusses" and you will find some framing models. Download them and you can reverse-engineer them for your model. Does that help?
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
I'm assuming you're talking model size. The model weighs in at 7.8mb. The uploaded video (HD, windows media .wmv) came in at 715mb, BTW.
I haven't uploaded any models to 3D Warehouse so I don't have Warehouse Name but now that you bring it up I should probably put some models up there. I'll look into that.
Thanks for checking out the vid.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
Was the last scene (at night with lights on) also made in sketchup? Can you please tell how you did that?
d12dozr 2 years ago
The 'Morning to Night' sequence was done in Sketchup. I set up 7 scenes, each with a progressive change in the time of day. I made the 'sky' monochromatic green to 'chroma key' it out after rendering the animation. I put the animation on a layer in Sony Vegas and panned and scanned the clouds and and sun and whatnot from stills on layers below it. The final 'night' scene is a still render using the free 'IDX Renditioner' (SketchUp plugin) from IDX Design. You can Google it. Also try Kerkythea
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
This is great...I definitely learned some new presentation techniques from this. Thanks for posting!
d12dozr 2 years ago
Marvelous.
whereitallstarts 2 years ago
Thanks for checking it out.
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
impresionante el video en sketchup mis respetos exelente es el mas bonito que he visto, muy bien realizado.
alvertjas 2 years ago
Gracias por apreciar mi vídeo!
WeakEndProductions 2 years ago
very nice, rated 5 stars =)
how did you make the sky in the time lapse?
latvietis1234 3 years ago
In SketchUp, I rendered the animation with a nice lime green sky that I chromokeyed out in Sony Vegas and replaced with panned sky pictures that I had taken. I checked out your channel. Good stuff. I think I might try that SU podium. Where did you get the 'dynamic components'? Is that a Ruby plugin or something?
WeakEndProductions 3 years ago
ty, I started from the bits so you can see some progress =D
Dynamic components are a part from SketchUp 7 and yeah, podium is something you just got to try. Its easy to use and the efect is quite good. I'm working on a fully rendered animation with some high poly carsatm, but I guess the rendering is going to take some weeks ^^
looks that your quite good with sony vegas, maybe you could help me with some things?
latvietis1234 3 years ago
know what you mean as far as rendering time. Rendering this project's clips in SketchUp alone, in total, probably took something like 28 to 30-something hours (with shadows on @ 1280x720). I can only imagine how long using a more realistic rendering engine. It would be cool if they had some affordable internet render farm. (I'll have to look into that)
As far as the Sony Vegas thing, let me know what you have in mind and I'll see if I can help.
WeakEndProductions 3 years ago
Thats just so true about the rendering, it takes up to 10 minutes to render a scene on my laptop. But having a quadro core would definately speed things up, as podium now supports multithreading.
Whell what I wanted to know about Sony Vegas is that when I open my renders( for the animation I mentioned before) in the explorer they are 5 seconds long. How could I change the lenght of it to a precise value? And is there a way to scale down all the parts of a video at once and evenly?
latvietis1234 3 years ago
I use Vegas 6. Let see if this helps. In 'Preferences' , click on the 'Editing' tab. Look down and it (mine) says, "New still image length (seconds)". Change that number to what you want them to come in at. You can grab either side of the image or video in the time line and drag it to change the length. Now if you hold down 'Ctrl' while dragging you can change the playback speed. Up to 25% of original playback speed. I use this feature to re-time the playback speed of SketchUp scenes.
WeakEndProductions 3 years ago
Thanks alot. This will spare me a big headache that dragging would have cost me =)
Good luck with your future projects man
latvietis1234 3 years ago
nice =)
TurbonizeR 3 years ago