http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx Forum - How Do I ...? - Group Movement - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:09:27 GMT Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:09:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:09:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx then I keep it warm (french expressive), imagine a group of planes or cars or... ect....


"to make it look like the objects were all animated at the same time"
is it possible to copy ans past the time line of one abstract ?
@+]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:36:25 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx
Animating groups of objects isn't currently possible. You can animate each object individually and then line up the movement blocks on the timeline to make it look like the objects were all animated at the same time. Object movement in groups is something that we're looking into but it's another one of those big challenges with the systems we have in place at the moment. Watch this space.]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:22:20 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx Animating a group of objects is not possible in Muvizu

They would all need to be animated separately]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:21:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx i am not sure to be at the good place for this question but,

how to move a group of abstracts ?
in a vidéo i make a chessbord whit 64 cubes, 32 with pictures, i group it and impossible to edit a time line.

is it possible?
@+]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:04:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx
Thanks again for your speedy advice. I really appreciate it. If only all forums were like this one.

]]> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:57:14 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx
You will come across a bucket load of these kinds of stumbling blocks.

Problem solving in Muvizu reminds me of the old Hollywood movies and the level of inventiveness they had to employ to create the special effects of the day -

They used back projections to give the illusion of movement (eg driving down a street)...
..and we have backdrops

They had miniatures to give the illusion of great distance...
..We have scale options.

etc, etc.

If fact Muvizu is a digital modern day equivalent of the early days of film with movie enthusiasts seizing a new technology and squeezing the life out of it to create their own little masterpieces.

Years ago moviegoers would watch a film with outstanding special effects and think "how did they do that?"
Nowadays it is just assumed (and rightly so) that it's all down to computers. For me, something is lost from the experience because of this. I want to be initially in awe at the effect, then find myself scratching my head in confusion at the mystery technique. I want to feel that the effect is clever and not that the magician has merely pushed a button.

This is what some Muvizu users (Jonbez, UkBerty etc) have managed to do..and ironically with a computer program!

I have played around with this software since August 2010 so I think I'm fairly familiar until I watch a shiny new Muvizu cartoon with some mystery special effect included and think "how the feck did he do that?" and sometimes when the solution comes to mind it leads me to think of a different effect that could be used at a later date.

Yes problems can be a great thing when it comes to Muvizu


Cheers
D]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:05:47 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx You've run slap bang into one of those areas where you have to think a little outside the box as for the minute Muvizu won't let you move grouped objects.

The easiest way around this problem is to leave the car, effects and lights static and move everything else around them. The simplest method is to employ an animated image on a backdrop

A second alternative is to move the camera as opposed to the objects.

By adding a moving backdrop and moving the camera a little more realism can be added.

Another alternative is to shoot everything on a green background and use a video editor with a chromakeyer to 'Greenscreen' the effect.

There are some great animators out there,,,and I'm thinking of Mysto and Drychalice here, that have a knack of moving props and objects independently yet at together.

For my latest project I needed to have a witch fly on a broomstick through my scene. In the end I ended up modelling a whole new prop of a character and broomstick as one unit to get around the grouping problem.

The simple answer is to basically...CHEAT! To be honest Muvizu has the odd idiosyncrasy but then finding a way around them is part of the fun.

I hope this helps
Tim]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:02:41 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1596-group-movement.aspx
I have a police car with lights and effects all grouped together so that I can move them around as one object. I wish to animate this moving down a road, preferably with static scenery so that the scene is illuminated by the headlights. I have tried but Muvizu won't let me animate the group.

Please help me great gods of animation in the cloud. ]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:18:22 GMT