Underwater Cable Laying Animation
Makai Ocean Engineering creates very specialized software for cable laying by boat along the ocean floor. The issues of submarine cable laying and the solutions offered by this software are somewhat complex, requiring a thoughtful approach to how we presented each of the cable laying segments. UNDERWATER CABLE LAYING 3D ANIMATION Makai had created many […]
Aircraft Interior Renderings
Trinity Animation is of particular value to the aircraft interiors industry. There are many choices for interior layout and design, but visualizing color combinations or the human-scale friendliness of a design will be difficult for the client if only CAD drawings are available. Adding to this is the heavy expense of changing once the project […]
Cutaway Illustration, X-Ray And Exploded Views
Cutaways vs Technical Animation One of the first applications of 3D animation was technical animation – to explain and illustrate the inner workings of something. It’s possible, though expensive, to cut up a physical mechanical device to see how it looks. But while these are interesting to view, they don’t move. Usually it is not […]
Uncrossing the Wires: Technology Discussion at UMKC
Trinity founder Jim Lammers is a graduate of UMKC’s school of engineering, and was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of technology for UMKC’s “Perspectives” magazine for an article titled “Uncrossing the Wires” which can be viewed on the UMKC web site and is reproduced below for convenience. The experts: Mark O’Renick (B.B.A ’84) […]
Brochure: Creative Advertising Agency Animation
Download Creative Advertising Agency Animation PDF 6 MB Trinity has been providing advertising agency animation and imagery for a wide variety of marketing visuals. Everything from pasta to washing machines, cars, and barbecue sauce. If it doesn’t exist yet, we can make animation real for your advertising agency’s imagery needs. If it needs to do something […]
Car Commercial – Animated ’67 Corvette Rebody
WATCH THE FULL HD CAR COMMERCIAL MOVIE AT BOTTOM – OR DIRECT LINK TO VIMEO! Classic Reflection Coachworks (CRC) company was designing a complete “rebody” for a modern Corvette to make it look like a 1967 edition 427 Sting-Ray and needed an animated car commercial to start marketing it immediately. This limited run design allows enthusiasts to have […]
Brochure: Architectural Visualization
Architectural Visualization: Build your ideas with us. Photorealistic 3D renderings Download the Architectural Visualization Brochure [8 MB] * all images are completely computer generated except for Wendy’s and Regal final construction photos. Commercial Building Renderings “Trinity’s focus on visual quality and accuracy resulted in a set of stunning renderings that helped with our project’s success.” -Rose […]
Car Animation Goes Viral!
About the Car Animation 3D Model Design To date, Trinity’s 3D car animation on YouTube has garnered over 500,000 views. Thanks to Jalopnik, Motor Trend and Yahoo News for making our C7 previz a front page item! Origins of the Car Animation In November 2011, Jalopnik posted drawings of what they claimed could be the actual, final […]
Hi5 Furniture Renderings
In 2012, Hi5 Furniture began production on a new full color catalog of their product line. They would use all architectural 3D interior rendering rather than photography, so many unique environments and many detail close-ups would be required. Working with art direction from Iconic Revolution (Chicago), Trinity developed and fine-tuned each unique environment to match […]
Crafting Animated Backgrounds for FXX’s Archer | Trinity Animation
(As written by Jim Lammers for Animation Magazine, November 2011) ©2011 All rights reserved. Building a Multi-Dimensional Spy’s World Mixing traditional animation with 3D-generated backgrounds allows for cinematic directing in FX’s animated hit series Archer. Super spy Sterling Archer lives in a timeless netherworld that is part 1960s-style cold war and part pop art intermixed […]
Sunlighten Saunas Product Visualization
This 3D product visualization project for a sauna manufacturer had many goals: a series of stills displaying individual white room “beauty shots” realistic still images depicting the saunas in a variety of popular settings exploded view animations which illustrate specific features built into different locations within the sauna a full presentation on the benefits of far infrared heat and other Sunlighten features. The […]
KC Studio Article on Trinity Animation Studio
[An article from the magazine KC Studio from Jan/Feb of 2011, featuring Trinity Animation Studio in Kansas City and their history and work on the Archer series.] BEING REALISTIC TRINITY ANIMATION: BUILDING A NEW DIMENSION OF SUCCESS Jim Lammers, and his firm, the Trinity Animation Studio, nestled in a quiet business strip in Lee’s Summit (southeast […]
Brochure: Aircraft Interiors
DOWNLOAD AIRCRAFT INTERIORS BROCHURE PDF [1.5MB] AIRCRAFT INTERIORS – PHOTOREALISTIC 3D RENDERINGS If you can think it, we can make it. High realism aircraft interiors rendered to your exact specification. Benefits of 3D Renderings Images can show aircraft interiors that don’t exist yet – or you can visualize the future look of a restoration project. Clients […]
Kansas City Animation Studio Draws Growth
The Kansas City Business Journal wrote a feature on Kansas City Animation Studio Trinity Animation in 2010, discussing the company’s history and recent growth, in a section of the newspaper called “growth strategies.” The feature also touched on recent work for Floyd County Productions in creating background art for their hit series on FX “Archer.” GROWTH […]
3D Imagery and Rendering Services Brochure
[Download 3D Imagery PDF brochure, 5 MB] Creating 3D Imagery is what we do. Some call it virtual photography or photo simulations. We call it art. We offer the finest production services in photorealistic 3D architectural rendering, animation, industrial design and visualization. We service companies worldwide with top quality workmanship and second-to-none customer service. Our animators are highly skilled professionals with […]
Surfacetech 3D Furniture Photography
This is the Training And Conference Catalog created for Surfacetech (a/k/a Surface Technologies Furniture) – a Kansas City based manufacturer of premium design tables. To produce a broad spectrum of furniture photography on a limited timeline and budget, the entire catalog was produced with 3D digital imaging rather than furniture photography. Furniture Photography vs. 3D rendering […]
Forensic Animation with 3D Computer Graphics
Note – This is an article on forensic animation written by Jim Lammers and published in the Kansas City Metro Bar Association’s magazine KC Counselor in September of 2004. Powerpoint presentations, excel graphs and digital photos come to mind as typical courtroom computer graphics, but there is a higher level of sophistication that lawyers […]
3D Printing Service for New Mizzou Basketball Arena
As the design for the new basketball arena for the University of Missouri took shape in 2003, R&D Prototype asked Trinity Animation to help develop a model that could be made to a physical “rapid prototype” via the laser sintering machines available at R&D. The process required a skilled animator to go through each element […]
It’s a virtual world now for Disney museum
[Note – this article describes an early attempt to create a virtual world for interactive game-engine style online viewing, circa 2003. The virtual tour had to work on a web browser on a MAC or PC, and require no other software besides the Shockwave plug-in. The user was able to navigate and view any part of […]
Maya 4 Fundamentals book published
Trinity Animation Founder Authors Maya 4 Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Alias|Wavefront’s Maya version 4 with Lee Gooding in 2002. Lammers noticed that with the new, free, learning edition from Alias|Wavefront (called PLE for Personal Learning Edition) there would be a lot of interest in using Maya 3D software with little helpful documentation […]
Starship Troopers and Trinity Animation
The Kansas City Star’s Robert Butler featured Trinity Animation on the front page of the Kansas City Star Arts section for Trinity’s work on the just-released Sony/TriStar film Starship Troopers (wiki). Technical background: With no broadband, it was complicated to work on large files for a far away client. Film was scanned to 2048×1536 TIFF files […]
3D Studio For Beginners Book Published
Trinity Animation Founder Authors 3D Studio Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Autodesk’s 3D Studio version 4 with Michael Todd Peterson in 1995. Partly due to 3D Studio 4 being the last DOS-based version (and the new “3DS Max” requiring Windows NT, a 3D accelerated video card and considerably more resources) this […]