Blender Survival Guide – Part 3. 3D Text!
Part 3 of the “Survival Guide” is online. It’s finally time to stop messing around with the workspace and start working on a real scene. While traditional lessons about a 3D package would start with the principles of modeling I know that, as a AE user, one of the first things that you want to see is how to create 3D text. The Blender Survival Guide, only found here at the COW, is specifically tailored for the AE artists. It’s “Blender for After Effects”, in the shortest time possible. While we create the...
read moreBlender Survival Guide – Part 2
The second part of the Blender Guide for AE artists is out. As usual you can find it at Creative COW. In this episode we see how to complete the customization of the Blender desktop and how to save our preferences so that they become the application’s default. Enjoy!
read moreThe Blender Survival Guide – Part 1
I just released the first part of a series of video tutorials dedicated to introduce Blender for the new comer, especially the After Effects artists who wants to add 3D to her comps but never used Blender before. This series is going to run for probably 4 or 5 episodes and can be considered the “Bear Grylls” of Blender: all the necessary stuff without the “geeky” bits. We learn by doing and we work on real examples, drawn from everyday experience. The plan is to release a new episode each week. The tutorial are hosted...
read moreBlender After Effects Exporter v.1.04
Thanks to the great feedback received for the AEE we caught a few bugs. Bartek Skorupa found a workaround for some rounding that was happening at the Python/JavaScript level, hopefully the fix will make the dimensions of those Planes/Solids more accurate. Give it a try a let me know in this thread. Bartek also pointed out that the Empties/Nulls were not exported. That one is also fixed. Other things that are in there: the name of the Null created for tan Empty or an Object was not set correctly, it’s now preserved as expected. I also...
read moreBlender After Effects Exporter: new version 1.03
Hi. It’s just two days after releasing the AEE but I got a new version that fixes a couple of issues. Thanks to the great sleuthing by Bartek Skorupa, we found a couple of bugs that escaped my testing. Here is what’s been fixed in version 1.03: Camera lens animation. Animating the focal length is not something that should be done lightly and even when you need it, Blender 2.49 makes it very hard to do. Nevertheless it’s now working and After Effects will work with the new data. Parented objects not animating. The AEE tries...
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