This week I wanted to discuss our group
project in studio so far. Many
of you reading this probably know about our studio project already from
previous blogs, so I won’t bore you with all the details. It case you don’t know, our project is
to design a new legacy plan for the Olympic site in Barra de Tijuca,
Brazil. For finals week our group
will present three things: a model, printed posters, and a digital
presentation. Part of our digital presentation
will consist of an animated video of our master plan design. I will share a link to this
animation at the end of this post.
The
most frustrating thing about doing animations is knowing all the hours you put
into making a video that only takes a few minutes to watch. Many people don’t understand all the
work that goes into such a short presentation. Although it may seem like a waste of time it’s all worth it
in the end. A video can give
someone a good idea of what your project is about without even talking about it. A video can produce much more meaning
that one still image. I’m going to
explain all of the software I used to make the animation and also how long it
took to be produced.
The six programs used in the animation:
· SketchUp
· Photoshop
· AutoCAD
· Revit
· 3ds Max
· Lumion
Even though I used six programs, this could still be done
with only two or three programs. I
just used the ones that I could perform the task with quicker. I used SketchUp mainly for the topography of our site. SketchUp uses Google Earth which uses satellite to receive the correct land
elevations. It only allows you to
import a (1 mile x 1 mile) plot of land at a time, so I had to do this about 50
times because our site was so large.
It also has a watermark on each plot so I will have to Photoshop that out (you will
notice the watermarks in the preliminary animation). From there I went to modeling our site that our group
designed. We designed our site two-dimensionally
in AutoCAD. I took the AutoCAD file and imported it
into Revit. I used Revit to model the buildings and
pathways three-dimensionally.
Anything that was too difficult to model in Revit was done in 3ds Max. So far, the only things I’ve modeled in
3ds Max were the sloped pathways.
The final program that I spent the most time using was Lumion. This is the program that I used to make
the animation. Once I imported the
topography and site model, I started to add trees in the right location. The topography shows the satellite
images from Google Earth so you can
see exactly where the existing buildings are located near our site. Up to this point I have spent between
75-100 hours (maybe more) in all the programs to create a one-minute
video. This preliminary video
animation will only show a few pathways on our site and the rest of the
surrounding site. Towards the end
of the semester I will share the complete video animation with our entire site
designed. Enjoy!!!
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