What's happening ladies and gentlemen
this is Minh from Architecture Inspirations
today I'm going to show you the five levels of architecture animations in Lumion
let's get started
Level one
for this level users will go straight to the movie mode and click here to create an animation
here is where I can set the camera view
then I can click this button to set the first keyframe
next move the camera to another position
and click the button again to set the second keyframe
just repeat this process to add more keyframes for the clip
you can also use this small arrow to insert a new keyframe between the clips
if you want to edit a keyframe
you can just move the camera to a new position
then click this button to update it
this button here will let you preview the movie clip
if you want to delete a keyframe then click this button here
I usually use only two keyframes per clip
because it often leads to better results
here I will create a simple forward movement with the camera
you can also adjust the length of the clip here
there we go if you're happy with it then you can export the animation here
but I will first add some styles and effects
for me I can go to one of the folders I already made
and copy the settings then paste it in my animation
if you don't know how to use different styles to create realistic renders in lumion
then I suggest you watch these two videos here
when you're happy with how it looks click here to render the clip
or here to render the whole movie
for the output quality I will set it to 3 or 4 stars
and I'll keep the frames per second at 30
and use 1920 by 1080 for resolution
as you can see even at level 1 lumion makes it really easy for you to create an animation
level two
at level two users can improve their animation by adding some simple animated effects
for example I can add the wind effect
and here you can control the wind speed
direction
and how much it affects the foliage
that looks great
to make this looks even better
I can adjust the sky and clouds effect to add some clouds movement
here I will increase the cloud speed to animate the clouds
I can also use a slider to change the cloud's direction
I will make it go in the same direction as the wind
there we go that looks good
besides the animated effects
there are also animated objects that you can add to your scene
to breathe life into your design
such as animated people and animals like birds
and fish
I'm just kidding this is a swimming pool but you know what I mean
when adding people and animals
I can use the time warp effect
to change people's animation position
for example I can control whether they are facing the camera or away from the camera like so
finally I usually create a new separate layer
to put in the people in animal objects
so I can easily control when I want to see them in my animation
besides people and animals
you can also add animated effect objects
which include fountains
fire
smoke
fog
leaves etc
for the scene I will add some falling leaves
in the properties window
you can adjust its settings such as the color of the leaves
and the wind direction in the x and z axes
if you want to see it easier you can look at it from the top down
then you can adjust the amount as well as the size and type of the leaves
as you can see the falling leaves work great with the wind effect that we added earlier
but as we know leaves usually fall during the autumn
when they turn brown and orange
so I'll add the autumn effect
and turn the leaves on my trees a bit orange
for the materials in my model such as the grass
I need to go back to the build mode and change them
and similar to the people and animals I will put the leaves in a different layer
this will be useful later
level three
at level three users will learn how to animate effects using keyframes
for example we can animate the sun and clouds to create a time-lapse effect
before I do that I will make a duplicate of my animation by clicking these three dots
and copy this clip
then paste it in the next slot
now for the timeless effect
we will use the sun effect to simulate the passing of time
first let's add a keyframe for both the sun height and heading at the start of the clip
and also at the end of the clip
then for each keyframe
we can use these sliders to set the sun's position
that looks good
but having people and the leaves falling in realtime
doesn't really fit well with the timelapse effect
so I will turn both of these layers off
instead of using the sun effects we can also use the sun study effect
which allows you to set the geographic position of your project as well as the date and time
like before we can use the same workflow to animate the sun path in this case we only need to animate our slider
to make this look even better I can adjust the sky and clouds effect to add some cloud movement
there we go that looks good
before I go on I'll make another copy of this clip
now let's go back to the sun study effect
and go to the second keyframe
and change the hour to even later in the evening
so now we have a day to night animation
pretty cool huh
for the next part let's add a layer effect to our clip
then I can create one keyframe here
and another one when it's almost nighttime
then I can turn on the layers for interior and exterior lights
now I have an animation where the lights turn on at night
that looks good but there's a better way to do that
first let's go back to the build mode
then turn on the lights layer
now I will go to the lights category
and then I can hold ctrl and drag the left mouse button to select all of the lights
on the property window we can turn the knight activation mode to on
now let's go back to the movie mode
and turn off the layer because we don't need it anymore
as you can see now the lights automatically turn on at night
you can also set the knight activation mode to random so the lights turn on in a random order
pretty cool huh
next let's copy this clip and add some rain to our scene
to do that let's add a precipitation effect to the scene
here you can switch between rain and snow with this slider
then let's go to the beginning of the clip and add a keyframe for the precipitation phase
and particle size
then set both to zero
now move to the next point on the clip
and add another keyframe for both settings
then we can increase these so that it looks like it just started to rain in the scene
for a better look I will change the real skies background to one of the overcast skies
just make sure the sun effect is turned off
or it's below the real skies effect and you're good to go
this also works for the snow effect too
but the snow on the ground takes a while to build up
so I will make the small tweaks to the settings to create this animation
for this new clip I will add the depth of field effect
which is a good effect to control the focus of the camera
first let's use these sliders to make the camera focus on this part of the foreground
by adjusting the amount and focus distance
this will be the first keyframe
now let's move to the next point on the clip
and add another keyframe then adjust the focus distance to make it focus on the house
we can animate the other settings too but I will only use the focus distance because that's all we need
now let's talk about animating effects in Lumion
I will first add a car to our scene
then we can add a move effect to our clip
next click on the pencil icon to start editing
here we can set the starting position of the car
then click this next arrow
and move the object to the ending position
now we can click here to preview the animation
there we go that's super easy
however this will take a really long time if you have lots of objects in the scene
here you can see that I have applied the move effect to the people in the scene
but as for the cars we can animate multiple at once using the mass move effect
then we can click on the pencil icon to edit
next let's fly up high and create a path that follows his road
here we can adjust the width of the path
and click here to preview the animation
the cars are moving a bit slow so let's increase the speed here
now we need to do it for the other direction as well
but instead of adding another path
we can reposition this path so that it's in the center
then increase the width so that it fit all of the lanes
then I can click here to make this path two directional
there we go that works
you can also use the move effect to animate doors like this
however you can see that the sliding door is attached to the whole building
so I need to go to my Sketchup model
and export the door as a separate component
then while using the Livesync plugin
I will hide this door
which will also hide it in Lumion
now I can import the door model
and move it to the correct position
you can see that importing the door might make it lose its materials
so we just need to copy and paste the material from this door to our new one like so
now let's add the move effect and make this door move in this direction like so
there we go that's how you can create an animated door
when you have learned all the basics you can get to level 5
where you will use all of these effects in combination with each other
to create animations such as the summer to autumn to winter animation
first I will add the auto effect and change the leaves color to orange
this will be at the 4 second mark
while at the beginning of the clip it will be summer so the leaves will be green
and at 8 seconds it will be winter so the leaves will be a bit less saturated
or if you like you can even replace these trees with winter trees using the layer effect
next I will add the precipitation effect
for this effect I I'll skip to 8 seconds and animate the snow like so
as for the grass and hedges I'll change them back to a green color for the summer
but if you remember the autumn effect doesn't affect them
because they are materials of imported objects
to animate this we need to select the imported model
and click here to create a variation for autumn
you can see a new variation of the model is created
now we can change the color of the grass and of these hedges here
then I repeat this process for winter
for winter I'll make the grass a bit shorter and less saturated
next let's add the variation control effect
then click on edit
and now we need to choose our building model
as we slide through the slider
you can see the model switching between the variations one two and three
now we just need to animate this effect
so that it switches at the right time
finally I will use the layer effect
and animate it so that the leaves will only fall in the autumn
and I will also turn off the layer for the people and animals
and those are the five levels of architectural animations in Lumion
after all animation is about telling a story
so if you want you can use post production softwares like adobe premiere
to make simple edits and add sound effects in your animation
to really show viewers how it feels to be on that space
whether it be a bustling street
or calm interior space
and that's all for today guys leave a like if you enjoyed the video
comment below if you have any questions
stay inspired guys and I'll see you
next time