SketchUp 3D House Animation in HD
(Note: This version is available in High Definition but the audio sync is a little off. If that kind of thing drives you nuts then watch the ‘Wide Screen’ version instead.) 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 (www.freesound.org) used under a Creative Commons sampling license.
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Tags: animation, Blogs, deck, house, Model, Ray Dream, ray dream designer, sketchup, time lapse sequence, virtus walkthrough
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
congratulations for the video , i do work with sketshup also.
eduardo from barcelona
neat…
how do you put a sky background please tell me! i ask many ppl and they wont answer…
That’s really cool!
The animation looks better.
Hey This House is amazing but where can I download it?
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.
does the house got any interior?
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.
Was the house built from the model, or was the model built based on the house? thx really cool
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.
very nice…but how i can animate the camera in sketch up ? or u used another program to animate?
@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 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.
Very nice. Only just tried SketchUp after a few years since the last time and I’m addicted.
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 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 would like to see the Curien Mansion from the first House of the Dead one of these days with this wonderfull program
your models are awesome 10/10
can you download this house?
Thanks for posting it on your channel. I’m honored!
Thanks a lot! I’m honored.
Thanks!
i would live in this house anyday