Rendering Animation

So today, I worked on the paper for a little bit. Then, I worked on adding two more cameras into the 3D model. So, now there is a total of 5 cameras throughout the model., two on the outside, and 3 within the model showing of the interior. I've have started rendering the first two videos in 720x480. One should take about 19 hours to complete and the other one is saying it should take about 26 hours two complete, so this is going to be a while. So, tomorrow, I am going to continue working on the stop-animation video. I have decided to make each pic the length of .3 seconds. So until tomorrows update.

Stop-Motion and Computer Animation

Today, I will be working on both the stop-motion video and the computer animated video. I am currently importing the pictures for the SM (Stop-Motion) onto my second computer. Once that's done, then I will be working on putting the video together using Windows Movie Maker. There will probably be two separate videos done. One for the ground floor and one for the top floors because the amount of photos I took while putting the model together. I hope to have a preview to be able to upload later on. On my other computer, I am working on capturing the camera motions to create the computer animated video. I decided the it'll be at 15 FPS (Frames per Second) to make the video a little longer. I've also decided to do a wire frame to run side by side of the realistic video so you can see some of the things these programs can do and how it is that they are helping architects. I guess that's it for now until later on today.

Good & Bad News

The good news first, I finished the 3rd camera walkthrough of the 3d model. So now I have to just record the camera animations and edit the video to that the compiter animation movie done. The bad news, I can't find a movie maker program that I can use. The only one that is good for what I need doesn't work on my computer. So tomorrow, I'm going to try another computer and continue to look for other programs. I plan to get some writing done this weekend also, so that will help with the content on the website. Other then that, until next time.

Lego Model

The Villa Savoye Lego model is now complete. It was actually kinda fun putting together. Now I am going to upload the pics to my computer and trying to find a good video maker software out there because Windows Movie Maker doesn't want to work on my computer anymore. Will probably update later on tonight with what else I get done today.

Steps in the Right Direction

Today, I started building the Villa Savoye Lego model. Its not as bad as I was thinking it was going to be. I finished the ground level for the model. I've also finished the Camera 1 Page for the website. I download Windows Movie Maker because that is what I am going to use to make my movies for the website. Its an extremely simple program to use. By the end of the night, I will have half the movie done for the stop-motion movie done and I will try to upload it to the blog for you to see what it looks like. That's as long as the program will stop crashing every time I try to use it.

Giving the Website Body

So, I wasn't able to get much done today, and I won't be able to work on the thesis tomorrow because of things in my life at the second but I did take to time out to transfer everything that I have written in my paper and transfer it into the website. It now looks like something worth looking at. I've also started another page for the website for the camera shots that I've rendered last week. I've uploaded the first 10 frames and will upload another 10 before I call it a night and send what I have done to my adviser to get some feedback on how things are coming along.

End of the day!

At the end of today, I have created all of the main pages for my website and have linked everything together. I was also able to link the blog into the site. Everybody will be able to see what I was writing as I was putting everything together and see what I was doing and the process I took to get there. I've also started transferring some of the written work on the paper into the website. Still not sure if I am going to put everything that I write on the paper into the website.  Tomorrow might be an off day, but if I do work, it'll mostly be working on the paper.

Writing Mostly

So far today, I've been pretty much just working on the paper/transcript. I've done some work on the web pages but not a lot. I think I want to finish as much as possible before I put it onto the web pages, therefore I won't have to do to many changes to it afterwards. Gonna take a couple hours break to eat and then head back to the library to continue working.

Almost Done Rendering...For Now

So, after two days of constant rendering, I'm almost done. There are about 11 more frames for camera two, and then I'll be done with the frame shots for the two cameras. I'll let my computer stay on overnight so it can finish up the process while I sleep. While everything was rendering, i started working on the pages for the website. I haven't done much yet, the layout is done and the sidebar where all of the buttons to hypelinks is done. I have three pages started, which are the home page, the about page, and the what is... page. I've also wrote more to my paper today too. The paper is pretty much everything that is going to be on the website, so I'm treating it as a transcript. Hopefully, by the end of tomorrow, I plan to have started all the pages and started to write the content for each of the pages. I also plan to start the walkthrough of Villa Savoye.

Still Rendering

So I've finished with camera 1 frame shots. I've started with camera 2 shots and hopefully I'll be done with them tomorrow. I've also just downloads Dreamweaver CS5 because I was having a problem with CS4. Once I finish rendering camera 2, I plan to start the layout for the website and the stop-motion for the lego model. I may also add another camera to the computer model to make the walk-through longer. If that's the case, then I will be rendering another set of frames for the traditional animation page. This might be the most time consuming part of the project.

Rendering

So, I have finished rendering all the perspective shots. Now, I am currently rendering all of the frames in the two cameras that I've set up so far in the Villa Savoye scene. This process is turning out to be a very time consuming process. Each rendered frame is taking at least 5 mins to do on my Dell Laptop. On my Gateway laptop, each frame is taking about 30 mins to render. There are 100 frames for each camera, so this may take a while. While rendering, I plan to work on the text that is going to appear on the website, which will also double as my paper for this project. Might be back with an update late as to how many frames I was able to render today.

Here is just a photo of one of the frames:

Today, I worked some more in Studio Max.I rendered multiple shots of Villa Savoye at every angle. I've also set up cameras throughout the scene and created paths of which they can move on, therefore helping me with creating an animated movie of the building. What I've decided to do for the traditional animation page of the website along with creating a flip book, I am going to render every frame from the cameras in Max that are on Villa Savoye so I will be able to show what the process is for traditional animation is to be created, while throwing a slight twist on it because it will be computer animated instead of hand drawn.

Update

I have finished applying the materials to Villa Savoye and now I am going to begin work on creating a realistic 3D scene for the building.

Over the last couple days, I have been going back and forth between Revit and Studio Max, fixing minor details with the materials of the building for Villa Savoye. Hopefully by the end of the today, I will have all of that complete and I can begin to work of creating an animated scene with the building.