Introduction to Blender 3D simple Animation

Q) How to Create and Customize the 20th Fox century logo to your own required Animation.

      Let me show you a simple animation of customization using Blender 3D

The above video is customized version of 20th fox century

REQUIREMENTS TO DO ABOVE ANIMATION

1. A computer with good condition having more than 2GB RAM, Processor speed more than 2.5GHz and continues power supply(UPS).

2. You can download the basic and fundamental templates files from the link shown below. 

http://ballyweg.net/media/files/20thCenturyFox.zip

Download template files for Blender 2.49b

3. Blender 3D software from internet or Ubuntu Software centre.

Instructions

1. First open the template file named " 20th Century Fox Template.blend" in Blender software

• Right click on the text to select it.

• Press the DEL-key and left click to confirm.

• Press the TAB-key to start editing.

• Edit the text

• Press the TAB-key to stop editing.

• Left click and drag the red and green squares to re-size.

• Change to moving mode by left clicking the arrow.

• Select multiple objects by holding SHIFT and right clicking.

• Left click and drag the red and green arrows to move the object.

• Click File, Save As, and save your project file.

• Choose your desired resolution (leave it at Render Presets: HDTV 1080p for best quality)

• Choose your desired output format (leave it at H.264 for best compatibility)

• Click Animation

• Wait for a few hours.

• The file is by default saved to the folder where you unzipped the template files and is called 0001-0600.avi (600 frames).

* Friends the Rendering of the above animation will take more than 12 hrs so have patience since this has 600 frames.

2. Please note if you are using letter "T" in the above template then there will be flickering as shown below:

• To avoid the above case:

- Right click to select your title.
- Press Alt + C
- Left click on "Mesh from Curve/Meta/Surf/Text"
- Do this for every line of your title
- Render
and you will see the flickering has gone and the image will be

3. To move the Title up and down use the options shown below

Hope all the possibilities and techniques are covered.

Happy animation......

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