Visualize ComplexCity 21.02.14 3D Animation Software [email protected] - 3D Animation Software in your Architecture Workflow - 3D Animation Pipelines - Architectural Visualization Workflows in the Past Decade - NURBS vs Meshes - Overview on 3D Animation Software Packages - Blender: the open source project - Coding (in) Blender 3D Animation for Architects What you can learn from it Storyboard / Animation / Concept Art Modeling Rigging Rendering Post followed by many others crushdigital.co.uk/ secondpicture.com youtube.com wikipedia.org Sculpting mango.blender.org cghub.com/ 3D Animation Animation Pipeline Example Storyboard / Animation / Concept Art Modeling Rigging Rendering Post followed by many others crushdigital.co.uk/ secondpicture.com youtube.com wikipedia.org Sculpting Baking Geometry to Normalmaps: reducing the number of polygons mango.blender.org youtube.com Normal Map 3D Animation Animation Pipeline Example Drawing Modeling Rendering Post 3d Animation Software 3D Animation Software in Architectural Workflows Development in the past decade Drawing Modeling Rendering Post 3d Animation Software 3D Animation Software in Architectural Workflows Development in the past decade Drawing Modeling Rendering Post 3d Animation Software Rhino 5 with UV-Mapping, ArchiCAD 16 with MORPH tools 3D Animation Software in Architectural Workflows Development in the past decade Drawing Modeling Rendering Post 3D Animation Software in Architectural Workflows Reasons why architects still use it Drawing Modeling Rendering Post 3d Animation for freeform modeling Software ? —> Nurbs vs. Mesh Modelling 3D Animation Software in Architectural Workflows Reasons why architects still use it overarching category for Bezier-Curves, NURBS (non uniform rational b-SPLINES) Meshes (also Polygon / Polymeshes) B-Splines in one or two dimensions - a surfaces defined by curvestechnical - Points (called Vertex, Verticies)Artists - a section results in a curve - Edges (straight, no curves at all) - math. equation to generate meshes - Faces made up by edges - flexible resolution: low res on screen, - smooth surfaces with Subdivided high res in 3D print Surfaces (CatmullClark 1978) Nurbs & Mesh Two different approaches to 3D modeling - Don’t mix it up with smooth shading !! - Smooth Shading happens on the screen - NURBS / Subdivision Surfaces: Dynamic generation of high-res meshes Smooth Surfaces NURBS vs. Subdivision Smooth Shading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMgjVJogIbc Mesh Modeling: Smooth Shading vs. Surface Subdivision Example using Blender’s „Suzanne“ Mesh Modeling: Smooth Shading vs. Surface Subdivision Example using Blender’s „Suzanne“ Nurbs vs Mesh Modeling Example: - chair Softimage,AutodeskMicrosoftAvid Co NewTek ! OpenNeoNaN Source Geo Autodesk Alias|WavefrontAutodesk Luxology Side Effects SoftImageSoftImage XSI3D VideoLightWave3D Toaster Cinema4DFastRay Blender3D 3DS MAX Maya modo Houdini 1994200020081988 19901994 19931991 200219981994 1990 20051998 2004 1996 1995 $Mio500 Silicon Graphics 1982 - 2009 WaveFront Alias Research 1984 1983 OBJ 3D Animation Software Comparison of Selected Packages - wikipedia.org Autodesk NewTek ! ! Autodesk Autodesk Luxology Side Effects SoftImage 3D LightWave3D Cinema4D Blender3D 3DS MAX Maya modo Houdini student price: free $195 free free free free €180 Personal Learning Edition Python, C#, Python, Python, Python, C++, Python, Perl, Python, C Python, C Python, VEX C++ C.O.F.F.E.E, C++ MaxScript, C++ C# Lua, C++ 3D Animation Software Comparison of Selected Packages - wikipedia.org.