Simple animations
Making animations can sound very intimidating, but it is often easy, even for
beginers to make their very first animation without great harassment. This
tutorial is there to show you how to do it.
Making animations can sound very intimidating, but it is often easy, even for
beginers to make their very first animation without great harassment. This
tutorial is there to show you how to do it.
I've noticed that there seems to be one thing that many newbies (myself included) tends to bump into. And that is animating tracks for a tank or the like. I did a quick search a while back and I couldn't find a tutorial that covered this, so I thought I'd try my hand at writing one.
In this tutorial, we'll be playing around with curves and procedural objects a bit. Starting off with only a handfull of shapes, we will make an animation of a ride through an abandoned mine. The technique used will allow you to make changes to the shape of the path easily and not have to worry about recreating stuff like the motion from scratch.
Vector Blur is an interesting solution to go beyond the limitations of regular Motion Blur. It relies on the Composite Nodes Editor to perform. But even if the Nodes Editor could look intimidating at first glance, it's in fact very easy to set up. This short tutorial will go through the basics steps for enhancing your renders (both stills and animations) with good looking motion blur.