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Extreme Artlantis Animation

Tim Alatorre — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:18:27 +0000

Never content until I’ve reached the limits of possibility, I created this rendering as a way of testing more of Artlantis Studio’s capabilities. This is a simple animation of the SloArch logo but there is a lot going on in 34 seconds.

The modeling was all done with SketchUp. As I did with my previous animation each piece was modeled and then converted to an Artlantis Object. This allows each piece to be animated.

I tried animation just about everything in this clip. Besides some very complex paths, objects are rotaing and pausing in their motion. The clouds, sun paths, and water all all being animated.

In order to create the wave effect I animated the water material to change wave size over time. This allowed the movement at the beginning of the sequence.

There is definetly room for improvment. Not being able to animate the infinite ground plane was a problem, and the cloud animations are not as smooth as I would like.

This animation was reduced for putting on the web, the full resolution animation was rendered with the following parameters:

Frame count: 625 frames
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Anti-aliasing: Low
Radiosity: Low
Render Time: 29:36:16

The background audio created with samples from www.freesound.org.
Additional software used: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere

First Impressions of the Artlantis Revit 2010 Add-In

Tim Alatorre — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:12:16 +0000

First off, if you haven’t downloaded the beta add-in you can do so by going to the Artlantis download page. I had the Revit 2009 add-in installed so I first had to uninstall this add-in. The install process for the 2010 add-in is very simple and just a standard installation. After you confirm you will get the Windows UAC alert if you are running Vista, just click Allow and the installation will start. After install you open up your favorite Revit project, in my case I just dropped down a couple of walls, doors, windows, and roof. I chose a wall type with multiple materials and I set up two additional camera views, one view was a perspective and one was a orthogonal prallel projection. You need to be in a orthogonal non perspectibe view to export, which is pretty much any view except for a camera view that has been set to be a perspective. It should be noted that the instructions Artlantis provides states that you must create a new orthogonal view to export, but the default {3D} view is orthogonal a parallel projection and you can export from it or any of the floor plans and elevations. To export your model make sure that you are in a orthogonal non perspective view then go to: Add-Ins -> External Tools -> Export to Artlantis Render-Studio 2 Choose where you want to save your file. The export for this simple model was near instantaneous. I then opened up the newly created .atl file in Artlantis. Upon opening my project location was already set to the location I had specified in my Revit project and my Perspective and Orthogonal other camera views were imported and set up just as I had them. The materials for the project were also imported and a nice list was created. Unfortunately, Artlantis still doesn’t bring in the material properties, textures, ect. It only brings in the Shading RGB value and it appears to set everything else to some default values. Because all the materials come in a nice list it’s very easy to add your own textures or replace the materials with ones from the catalog but Artlantis bring in the textures from SketchUp models so I really think they should do the same with Revit. Besides the material import being at only 50% I’m really happy with this beta release. So far everything seems to be working. I was excited about the release of the 2009 add-in but with all of my projects moving to 2010 I now have no reason to keep RAC09 on my system!

Artlantis Releases Revit 2010 Plugin

Tim Alatorre — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:54:54 +0000

Great news! Artlantis anounced this morning the release of a beta export plug-in for Revit 2010 32bit and 64bit versions to Arlantis 2.

The plugin is available from their download page.

I will be installing it and giving it a test in the next hour or so. I’will post more later today.

Using Artlantis to Bring the ReZist-It Panel to Life.

Tim Alatorre — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:15:55 +0000

Here is a short video of my first animation using the Artlantis software package to show how the ReZist-It panel system is assembled.

The model geometry was created in Google Sketchup and each piece was imported individually and saved as an object. Each object was then individually placed and animated.

Render time: 20:11:29
Frame count: 1050
Resolution: 640px x 480px.
Anti-aliasing: Low
Radiosity: low