

Animator however offers the option to record or play animation outside context (i.e. This means for instance that if you record an object Moving right, then further in the timeline, you can record the Movement Left for the same object in the context where the object is already moved Right. Movement and cameras are recorded in Animator with their exact parameters (say direction / offset for a translation), so that it is possible to modify these parameters interactively.Īnimator allows to record animations in context, which is easier in most cases. if later you wish to add extra animation when the car moves, say a rotation of the brake pedal at the end of the car movement, you will have to do it once only, and it will apply to all car move instances.Īnimator is parametric.By encapsulating these unit movements into a Clip, you can re-use the Clip to move the car forward and backward by any amount, without redoing the body translation and wheel spinning each time. if you design a car movement, you will create a translation for the body and spinning for the 4 wheels.Clip -> Component containing other components (so both instance and definition underneath)Īlthough this may be abstract to you (as it is where you are beginner in Sketchup), this recursive hierarchical model the base for re-usability and for isolating pieces of animation.Clip Element -> Component Instance (so one or several).Sequence -> Component definition (so reusable).This is quite similar to the Sketchup hierarchical framework for Components think of: By convention the topmost clip is called a Film.Īnimator is based on a recursive hierarchical model, so that a sequence can contain other sequences and sequences can be freely re-used to create one or several clip elements (e.g.A Sequence can contain other Sequences, by grouping.

You can create several clip elements out of a single sequence. When you instantiate a Sequence as a Clip Element, you can then change a few of its parameters, such as duration, easing.

#SKETCHUP MAKE ANIMATION SOFTWARE#
Sketchup Make, the free version of the 3D modelling software that we use in school, is available for PC or Mac download here.Animator is a script dedicated to the animation of Sketchup models. Humans from earth have tried to capture them and do experiments on them to see what they’re made of inside their body.īrian Muirhead, Chief Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is sitting, eating loads of chocolate, in the passenger seat of a supercar that can fly and has machine guns (ak-47). In the desert on a different planet two Iron Men and twenty- four grey, metal transformers are fighting back for their world.In the desert on a different planet two Iron Men and twenty- four grey, metal transformers are fighting back for their world.

Then there's the book of the film - Robot Revenge. Then came the trailer, storyboarded in iMovie, along with a soundtrack created in Beatwave. Mixing his own models with those created by other Sketchup architects, Kian animated his desert planet environment and in the process imagined a science fiction story. GDPR- The New Data Protection requirements.
