Bremser's Fully-Functional GIF Animation Kinematics

[DLuders]

On his Brickshelf gallery, Bremser posted several GIF animations of fully-functional Lego Technic models.

Lego Technic Super Car 8880 (done with Catia V5):

Lego Technic 8480 Space Shuttle:

Lego Technic 8860 Auto Chassis:

Edited December 22, 2010 by DLuders

[Blakbird]

That's officially the largest post (in terms of loading time) that I've ever seen!

I've been corresponding with the gentleman who made these images. Truly remarkable what he has done. There's no LDraw involved here; he modeled every one of these parts in CAD (CATIA V5) from scratch, then simulated all the kinematics. I can't imagine the amount of work involved, but the results are incredible. I'll be asking him to borrow these for Technicopedia because you could not ask for a better demonstration of the functions of these complex sets.

I imagine something very similar could be done with SR3D, but I haven't tried it yet. I know 8480 exists in SR3D already and that non-moving structure can be shadowed. Does anyone care to do a comparison? Can you make an animated GIF from SR3D? I've only seen Youtube videos with screen captures, not animated exports.

[Zerobricks]

Really amazing work right there! Maybe youtube vidoes would be better?