SketchUp 3D House Animation in Widescreen

(Note: This version has the fixed audio and better color. See the 'HD' version for smoother playback and high resolution viewing)
This is a model of a house that I built (in real life) a number of years ago. I wanted to see if I could rebuild it with what plans, photos and memories that I still have.

I built the deck model years ago using Ray Dream Designer and Virtus Walkthrough (neither program is around anymore) to visualize what the deck would look like before I built it (in real life) as an addition to the house. I built the deck model to scale and it imported (.dxf) nicely into SketchUp after all these years. That was the starting point of this recent modeling project.

I did the time lapse sequence at the end to showcase SketchUps ability to set time and date for determining location of shadows. I also used its watermark (picture overlay) capability to see if I could line up the angle and lens settings of the camera snapshots that I had taken back in the day. I think it worked well.

Incidentally, I also composed and produced the accompanying soundtrack over an excellent beat by Zajo called "loop39.wav" from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org) used under a Creative Commons sampling license.

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[dweatherley766]

How did you do the time lapse at the end plz reply

[WeakEndProductions]

I used 'Scenes' to make the subtle movement and to change the position of the (sun's) Shadows. I made the sky in SketchUp green.and rendered the file. I brought the video into Sony Vegas, chromakey'd out the green and replaced it with still images of clouds and so forth that I animated for movement.

[greenberett88]

hey mate its amazing work, mind blowing...but this animation u done in google sketch up or for animation u have used some other softwares ?? will u help me ?? coz i have done with my 3D model on sketch up but when i m converting it into animation its not giving me good quality

[WeakEndProductions]

I rendered (and uploaded) the SketchUp animation at two different resolutions. 1280 X 720 and 640 x 360. I believe I rendered the Sketchups as .avi with a Cinepak codec. I did get some sound sync problems at the higher resolution for some reason. Who knows. I used Sony Vegas to pull everything together. For the faux timelapse sequence, I chromakeyed in the sky backgrounds. I rendered that using .wmv. So there's two bouts of compression but the HD version looks pretty good to me on Youtube.

[TheEastmans]

I'm a home builder in Austin TX and wanted to ask if I could post the video of your sketchup on my website as an example of what can be done using such animation software. Thanks so much.

[WeakEndProductions]

Yeah, I've got no problem with that. Let me know what I can do to help.

[Yaka200496]

Sick

[torinthehedgehog]

I think i should make a model of my house ;D

[DontHateOnMyCommentZ]

Wouh thats not easy

[jair1699]

muito bom, parabéns

[trex521981]

wow that is amasing

[sarah12527]

interior?

[1BlubeTube]

Very nice... master-artist!

[MegaSpeedy67]

man this is a awsome house! good idea on getting the pictures from the real house and using them to make your own improvements on the google sketchup model.im giving this a 10/10 with everything you need a sub,like and fav