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FEATURE IN BETA STAGE - THIS DOCUMENTATION IS STILL IN PROGRESS

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Whilst Studio was not created to be an animation application , just a basic 3D layout scenario where you can drop objects and setup up your lighting, materials and environment –similar to a photographer's studio– so it doesn't (and therefore does not include all the animation tools typical on any animation application. But sometimes it can be you would typically find on an animation platform), it is useful to have some a few easy tools to produce at hand for producing some quick, simple animations quickly –like - such as turntable or time lapses– without leaving Studio. To do solapses -without having to leave Studio to do it.

For this purpose, Studio includes an Animation tool with which makes it is very easy to generate simple animations on with a scene, directly from Studio. The Animation panel is accessible from the toolbar. 

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Once opened, the Animation Parameters panel allows you to generate a sequence of frames from your scene animating the camera, an object, the environment or the sun.

• Output path: indicate  indicates the location for the MXS files that will be generated 
• Output name: set sets the name for the exported frames 
• Frames: number of frames for the animation 
  
• Target: set sets the item the active camera will be aiming pointing at. It can be a particular object in the scene, the origin (-origin-), or the current target of the camera (-keep-)
• Render after export: this option automatically launches automatically the animated sequence to be rendered by Maxwell after the export is finished 
  
  

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Generating an animation in Studio

Once you have set the output settings and number of frames, you can proceed to define the animation of the camera, of any objectthe objects, of the environment or of the sun, or any combination of them allthese. 

• Animate camera: you can define a travelling rotation traveling of the camera around the target set in the previous step. You can set the rotation arc (in degrees), the animation direction (clockwise or counterclockise) and its speed (constant or easy in/out). Motion blur could can be calculated regarding from the rotation of the camera. Great This is great to display an object from all aroundangles. 
• Animate object: you can define an object that will to be rotated around its own axis. You can set which the object, the rotation arc (in degrees), the rotation axis (X, Y, or Z), the animation direction (clockwise or counterclockise) and its speed (constant or easy in/out). Motion blur could can be calculated regarding from the rotation of the camera. This option is perfect for producing turntable animations for showing objects. 
• Animate environment: you can animate the active environment –sky or IBL– describing a rotation around the scene. You can set the rotation arc (in degrees), the animation direction (clockwise or counterclockise) and its speed (constant or easy in/out). 
• Animate sun: this option allows you to easily produce a time lapse animation on your scene, from an begin to an with a begin and end time. You can also define the animation direction (forwards or backwards) and its speed (constant or easy in/out). 
  
  

How does the Animation tool work? 

Take a look at how this feature works in this video overview. 

Animation tool overview