Chapter 10. Animations
In this chapter, you are going to learn the basic skills you need to produce animated walkthroughs and flyovers. SketchUp is an ideal piece of software to produce these types of animations. In fact, the film industry uses SketchUp as a previsualization tool. They work out the basic shots, camera angles, timing, and so on within SketchUp before they shoot it for real. And that's how we're going to use it too!
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- What to include in an animation
- How to create a simple walkthrough in SketchUp
- Using paths for a smooth flythrough
- Stitching animated sequences together into a video
- Photoreal animated renders
- Video compositing, file types, and compression settings
Using the same principles ...
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