Animation query, what is the most common extension to use for a beginner

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What is the most common free animation extension to use for sketchup
Thx in advance
Barry in Oz

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Depends on what you want to animate, in which quality, how much effort you want to put in to it, etc.

  1. Most common (and easiest/simplest) would be Sketchup itself using scenes as timeframes and export to animation/video.

  2. If you want a bit more options but like the sketchup style, you could try Fredo’s Animator. I havent worked with it, so can’t tell a lot about it, just that It’s made by Fredo, so it should be good. I am sure there are other options, just search for ‘animation’ in the extention warehouse or sketchucation website.

  3. Want better and higher quality animations, movie like animations? Then you could try V-Ray which you can use since you already have a Studio plan.
    Other rendering tools are for example Enscape [payed?], Twinmotion [free for non commercial use or payed for commercial use]. These might need some more time and effort to set up, but once published you might need to move to Hollywood. :wink:

Hope you’ll find the one that suits you best!

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Thanks for your quick reply, I might try “scenes” first

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On the Youtube you can find loads of tips&trick videos to animate scenes in sketchup.
Like this basic one with Aaron: Quick and Easy Animated Sections, or this one with Justin: Creating a Construction Animation in SketchUp (step by step tutorial).
There are to many to link to, just search for it!

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Good tip, thanks
Barry Oz