Another Week, another Blender Survival Guide

by | Mar 30, 2010 | News, Video Tutorials | 7 comments

It’s that time again!
The glorious conclusion to our book promo is available! The Blender Survival Guide is online, at Creative COW.

I’m particularly pleased by this episode because it highlights a series of tricks that are at the same time simple and useful.
In setting up a scene or animation one of the most important features of the program is how you manipulate the objects, how you change their position, how you move them in the right spot. This week’s episode addresses all that.

Blender includes a bona-fide Non-Linear Editor (NLE). Nothing to threaten Adobe or Apple but a very handy tool that can be used at any time, on any machine, and that handles sequences of images with extreme ease. BSG #8 shows you how to enable it to add music to your Blender animation.

Lastly you might wonder how to set up a shot that uses two or more cameras. All covered in this episode of the Guide.

We are approaching the end of what I call a “Survival Guide” but more Blender tutorials, more topic-oriented, are scheduled to be released, here at Creative COW. The development of Blender 2.5 is finally reaching Beta status, and soon I’ll be busy planning a new set of video tutorials using the new version of Blender. It’s gonna be fun!

The Blender Survival Guide #8 is available here.

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7 Comments

  1. Paul Rainville on March 31, 2010 at 3:54 am

    MORE, MORE MORE!!!! I LOVE THESE!!! Keep up the nice work!
    Paul

    • Pret-A-3D on March 31, 2010 at 6:46 am

      Thank you Paul. More are coming 🙂

  2. Kotin Karwak on March 31, 2010 at 11:59 am

    Excellent conclusion to BSG. One item I was puzzled about at first, since you used two camera rigs, I assumed both would be “transfered” to AE or does it mean only one can be?
    Once again, thanks for this great resource, now very eager to change shift to Blender 2.5/6 (all the talk of simplified operations and all makes me want to jump in there with similar tuts!)

    Kotin

  3. Pret-A-3D on March 31, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Thanks. Yes, at the moment only one camera can be exported to AE so I selected to use the first one because with the second clip I didn’t have any 3D addition in AE.

  4. Kotin Karwak on March 31, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Thanks for clarifying this item.

  5. Gabriel on April 30, 2010 at 11:13 pm

    Paolo. Just wanted to say thanks again. I tried to learn blender about six months ago but I put it down after a few weeks. It seemed so complicated to do just the simplest things. I was looking at getting cinema 4D when I came across your survival guide. Right in the knick of time. Looking forward to more posts. Maybe one day I can return the favor. Thanks again.

    • Pret-A-3D on May 1, 2010 at 7:36 am

      Hey Gabriel, you’re very welcomer, I’m glad that you found the BSG at the right time.

      Cheers

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