





Everything here is modeled in Sketchup and rendered in Indigo Render. Items like chairs and tables were downloaded from Google 3D Warehouse.
The next one I did was this liquid flowing through an opening to an invisible pool.
Another feature about Vue that I liked is its ability to animate clouds to provide dramatic time lapse scenes.
When we are not busy at the office, I always play around with AutoCAD. One day, sometime in August of last year, I decided to try animation. The previous releases of the software does not have any animation capabilities. Every year a new version of AutoCAD is released. Each release has new features not found on previous releases. The latest version we have at the office had animation function in it.
I started out by using simple geometric objects like balls and cubes. I then tried a 3d terrain. Lastly, I did a 3D model of one of the projects we are working on and inserted it to the DEM (digital elevation model) file we have. On this last test animation, I was able to convince our boss that this 3d modelling and animation can now be done in-house rather than having it subcontracted to animation studios.
I did a scene with heavy geometry on it to find if it work. It did work!
I again tried a more geometry heavy scene. This time I placed four transmission towers and dozens of trees. It worked again!