Learn How To Get Effective Architectural Animations and 3D Fly-Throughs From Your CGI Visualizer

1. Amazing
Architectural
Animations
Your Essential 5-Step
Check List For Producing
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2. Follow These 5-Top Tips and You Won’t Go Wrong
Let’s Run Through Your Check List Now

3. 1. Meet-up, Get Creative
Describing the way you want your designs to look and
feel in your animation is sometimes more easily
conveyed in a meeting.
If it is mutually practical to do so, meeting your
visualizer in person or remotely using free video chat
[Skype] will enable you to highlight specific project
requirements and explain your main ideas.
For example; an important feature you may want
your client to see could be how the light and
architecture interact.
Meet virtually or face-to-face to help your visualizer
understand your primary wants and needs.

4. 2. Provide Preliminary Information
Notify your visualizer of your animation requirements
as early as you can, perhaps even before your design
process has begun.
This will help both parties to understand the scale of
the project and therefore the potential workload
required, effecting both design time and production
cost.
Share your preliminary ideas, sketches, plans and 3D
models, making your project collaboration more time
efficient for both parties, especially if deadlines are
tight.
Forewarned is forearmed.

5. 3. Visualize Your Vision
Think about how you want your designs to “look and
feel”. Specify particular areas of the project that you
want to focus on.
Does your presentation need to be factually
informative or more conceptual in nature? Is it to be
used purely for marketing purposes or to win a design
competition?
If you want specific atmospheres portrayed,
describing these is perhaps best illustrated by
steering your visualizer toward specific animations
that you like.
Communicate your project purpose, ideas and vision.

6. 4. Format Your Design
Most design professionals can recreate their ideas
and concepts in a three dimensional format.
Providing complex designs to your visualizer as a 3D
model may reduce the time it takes to complete the
all-important early stages of animation production.
Delivering intricate designs as CAD plans and
elevations will also help but just like many architects
and designers, not all visualizers use the same
software.
Check which file formats your visualizer can import
and use before you assemble your design package.

7. 5. Creative Storyboarding
Architectural fly-throughs don´t usually require
storyboarding given their camera flight paths are
typically linear in nature and illustrated on a 2D plan.
If you envisage something more cinematic, or require
your audience to experience enticing lifestyle
opportunities, then storyboarding is a useful process
to help you understand how best to promote [sell]
your ideas and concepts scene by scene.
So if you need to show your audience some key facts
and figures, would prefer to see something more
creative, or receive an animation that combines these
elements and more, ask your visualizer for story
board advice.

8. Your Animation Check List Re-cap
Meet-up virtually or face-to-face
Provide preliminary design information
Communicate your project purpose, ideas & vision
Check which file formats your visualizer can use
Request story board advice
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