Moebius-gear animation

[guest84672]

Ok - it was time that I produce something myself just to prove that even I can do an animation in KeyShot 3. Here is what I did:

• Downloaded the model from GrabCAD - http://grabcad.com/library/11-gear-mobius-strip/download?cadid=b967d46cc8de1faa1e1caf1c7324b841 (Josh cleaned this one up)
• Imported into KeyShot 3.0.96 on the Mac, using the native SolidWorks format
• Applied blue gloss paint from the material library to the frame
• Applied scrateched aluminum from the material library to the gears
• Adjusted the aluminum material: reduced the roughness, reduced the scale and height of the bump texture
• Changed the lighting to the office environment
• Added a rotation animation to the one of the gears, and changed it to 720 degrees
• I copied and pasted this animation as a "linked animation" to every other gear
• I copied and pasted this animation to the neighboring gear, and adjust the rotation direction to -720 degrees
• Set up the camera start point that I wanted under the camera tab and saved the camera
• Opened the scene tab, and selected the camera I just saved as the active camera
• Added an orbit animation - 360 degrees
• I added an inclination animation with its highest point half way through the orbit animation.
• Adjusted the inclination angle until I got the desired the look
• Copied and pasted the animation and inverted it by making the angle negative.
• Moved the copied animation to start when the previous animation stopped
• Added a subtle zoom animation with its maximum zoom value half way through the orbit animation
• Copied and pasted the animation and inverted it by making the zoom value negative.
• Threw the part animations and camera animations into separate folders and adjusted them in the timeline until I got the right look and feel
• Did a couple of single image test renderings using maximum time to determine desired quality
• Once I determined that, I set the time per frame and let the animation rip

Here is the result - 2min per frame for 200 frames on a new 32core BETA-system from Intel

http://keyshot.com/images/animations/Moebius-gears/Resources/Moebius-gears.mov

Enjoy. KSP file is on GrabCAD as well.

[youknowwho4eva]

So um where's the animation?

[guest84672]

Damn forum software - cut my post off. Updated and complete now.

[Ed]

Nice!  Animation certainly adds a new dimension to models.  I'd hate to get my finger caught in that thing

[youknowwho4eva]

Now we need to get you working on your materials and environment. To start those gears are way too shiny.

[feher]

Nice, Alot of stuff going on in there. The average viewer see it as a simple animation but that's just not the case.
Thanks for sharing.
Tim