I'm taking advantage of one of the scholarship students fabcity Barcelona project. For this week I've tried to do a small animation on my district of the city of Barcelona.
Barcelona is divided in 10 districts. The district of les Corts is located in the north-east of Barcelona and consists of three areas or clearly different zones or neighborhoods. In the following link you can see a map of the district. Les Corts district
The objective was to make the animation entirely in sketchup to study all the possibilities of this program.
First of all i downloaded a CAD base of the city of Barcelona. Finally I decided to use AutoCAD to prepare the file for import into Sketchup.
You can find the Cad file on page "WikiCity"
I download a couple of aerial images of the city of Barcelona to make traveling from the city to the district of Les Corts.
I did some shapes defining the different districts and I extruded all the polylines to simulate the buildings.
Sketchup programmes the animation according to user defined views. The bad thing is that you can not modify the route camera between the views. The good news is that it is super easy to use and very fast to learn. It's a great program with many options and very intuitive.
Another problem is that the image of google earth has a very bad definition and you can't be used for very small scales.
Once exported the topography could make a small rendering of the model.
