Dropping furniture into position

[CEJ1976]

Hi,

 

I'm working on a simple animation, where a camera path is going to weave its way around the floor of an office space in a linear fashion.

 

As the camera moves around, the aim is to drop a bunch of new furniture elements around the space in a fun and quirky way. The reason for doing this is to highlight how flexible the furniture systems can be in adapting to any space.

 

Technically I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas (or references) as to how I could place these furniture objects without key framing every element. I was wondering if anyone had tried something like this before by using reactor or massfx perhaps?

 

Any suggestion or references people might have seen would be appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[renderingdesigner]

Use Physics FX, this way you can assign a gravity value and collissions porperties beetwen the floor and objetcs. Youtube is a good source of samples of that.