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Some 3d Animations I’ve Made for Work
I haven’t been on here to chat much in a while. But I still lurk sometimes.
These are just a few of the ones I’ve done. I now have a bunch of still images we’ve used for all types of purposes. Some trade show booth planning etc. I’ve been bad about keeping them organized. Maybe one day I’ll get around to it. These were done to show how a new product my company released this year works.
Anyway, hope some of you find it interesting. It’s no Pixar of course, but they are fun to do.
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Great work Simon, interesting stuff mate.
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Thanks!
Some of it I’m a bit slow as I’m still learning as I go. The modeling part is relatively quick. Some of the modeling I do from scratch and then there are a few parts that I get a 3d file that was already modeled by one of our Industrial Designer / Engineers. Mostly for the injection molded plastic caps. I’d say the modeling usually is anywhere from 2 – 6 hours typically. This includes all the texturing and applying materials and lighting.
The animations can take a few days to get down. If I had experience doing them more often, setting up the animation would probably only take a few hours. It’s a lot of trial and error as I’m mostly teaching myself, with the help of the application forum and YouTube that is. Some of the sign products I’ve already modeled. So it makes it easy to reuse them again when needed.
The actual rendering can take a while. I think some of those took around 12 to 14 hours each. It would go faster if I had an Nvidia card running CUDA, but I’m jut using an iMac. Which has a decent enough video card, but not really optimized for rendering. I only do a few videos every few months though. So leaving them to render overnight isn’t too bad. I’ll just leave the machine on and hope the power didn’t go out.
Hope everything is going well for you these days. The wife and I are wanting to make it over to Britain hopefully in the next year or two. A good friend of mine and his fiancé just made a two week trip to Ireland and loved it. I haven’t been back since 1996. So I’d love another trip.
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Nice work Simon.
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Thanks Simon, it’s greatly appreciated!
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I do 3d work myself but this is much more impressive what programme do you use ?
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Thanks Jack! :smiles:
I mostly use Cheetah 3d, but lately I’ve started using MODO. Cheetah is a Mac only app, so if you are on Windows or LInux, it won’t be an option. It is really easy and pretty powerful. Only around $100 and sometimes it goes on sale. I’ve used Blender some too, but the interface isn’t my favorite. Although I’ve started learning the keyboard shortcuts, and that’s where the real speed and power of Blender comes in. I’ve slowly been working at it for about 6 years. Not constantly, but every lit bit helps.
What application do you usually use? Is it mostly sign work as well?
Here’s a new one from last week done in MODO. We’re redesigning our conference room and do several tests in 3d to get better idea of which way to go.
Cheers!
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I use sketch up.
I try not spend to much time on it but I find it really helps when selling the project and even better for the build process.
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