View a sample slide show created using many of the tools mentioned in this article. You can also view Ed Goldberg's Autodesk iDesign seminar on Using Architectural Desktop and VIZ with the Web. Be sure to check out all the other Inside Architectural Desktop columns. They say that 3D is too difficult, or that presentations are too expensive and take too long to make. This month I'll give you my insight into multimedia and digital presentation for the architect, engineer, and designer.
Multimedia means many things to many people.
To me, a multimedia presentation is one that uses any digital program or combination of programs and digital components to get one's ideas across in the most exciting and expeditious manner. Save every twentieth frame in your VIZ animation to get a series of images. Visualizations, in my opinion, are best used for presentation, not necessarily as an aid in the production of a project. I am not a big fan of animations or fly-bys. Fly-bys are interesting, but they don't let the viewer digest the essence of the structures.