GIF In Photoshop From Rhino Animation

I eventually have time to start to work on my blogs...:D

I actually got inspired from an presentation animation from COBE's proposal on NordHavnen. They ran a very cute animation .What I like most is from about 1'15" to 1'25" - they moved the camera and blended a conceptual white mass model into a colored rendering.

I want to try to do something like that. But this time I am doing a GIF instead of a video.

First things first, I need a model to play with.

So I grabbed an old model I did for a competition. It is an typical floor interior in an office building. I rendered this view before so I already got the materials/lighting ready. I used the Vray for Rhino.

Step 2, yes, how to make a video from Rhino...

I have seen many ways of doing this: I have even seen people writing a python to create a camera ( which I will study soon). But for an easy start, I found a very handy plug-in for Rhino, called "Bongo".

So download from http://bongo.rhino3d.com/.

And Install.

And I got the Plug-in. The interface with Bongo is like this - I got a timeline bar.

Step 3, How to use it?

I am not worried about the miscellaneous functions, as a starter I only focus on basics.

Bongo explains quite very clearly how the timeline works.

Basically the timeline sets up a " timeframe", and I insert some keys to store the location/forms/views of objects. When I play the animation, the timeline slider passes through different keys and the the status of the objects will be showed therefore the scene is animated.

In my case I will only work on the views, the yellow keyframes. Before inserting Keys make sure the I am in the "Open Office View" and in Bongo window the "Open Office" is enabled. It means I am going to animate " Open Office" View.

And click " animate" , the timeline turns red, it means it starts to record the changes of the objects and I can insert Keys.

By move the Time Slider and then rotate the view, a yellow key will appear on the Timeline.

So play around, hit " play " to play the animation and see it is ideal.

Step 4, Export JPEGs. Go to Bongo - Render Animation.

The export window is quite straightforward.

And make the Batch render in Vray Global switches is ticked! Otherwise the Bongo won't work!

Yes I got a bunch of images. In this case I got 5 images.

Step 4, Open Photoshop.. Go to File - Scripts - Load File Into Stacks. Choose the files and I got the images loaded into Photoshop and they are separated by different layers automatically.