I would love to see SketchUp evolved so that the scenes could more easily include people in action, but that’s probably asking too much, and if such a feature were added it would be quite unlikely to be included in the free version.

The only solution I know at the moment is to export an animated SketchUp scene to a video, import the video in to Hitfilm, and then layer an animated 3D character on top of the SketchUp video.

I could be wrong, that’s just my best understanding at the moment. You seem to already know that.īut as best I can tell you can’t animate parts of a character such as arms and legs to create real walking. I can see in Justin’s videos that in Animator you could animate a character sliding down the sidewalk for example. But I’m not sure that would help in regards to SketchUp. You can add a skeleton to a character in Mixamo, MakeHuman and probably Blender too. I was trying to see if there was a way to create a character and then animate it in SketchUp with Animator.

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