BSG #9 is out!
New episode centered around the theme of cerating a “flying photos” animation in 3D. Lots of good techniques and useful tips. The project files are included.
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- Found a vastly improved algorithm for conversion of Glossiness from Studio to Reality. The first tests are very positive.
- Fixed bug about keyboard entry of numeric values in Reality. Will be part of the 1.01 update
- Reality is now available to the general public. 38% off for limited time: http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/reality-1-0?item=11203&_m=d
- 64 bits version of Reality passed first round of tests. Sent it to the beta testers and DAZ for additional verification.
Thank you for another great lesson! Every week I look forward to the next BSG video!
It’s a great thing for the Blender community!
Succes with the making of the next video
Thank you Giovanni, very much appreciated.
Love these! Keep up the fine work! When will the DVD be available?
Thanks again,
Paul
Thank you Paul. The DVD? I’m waiting to see if there is a need for it. I’d love to make one.
Paolo,
Once again, you’ve done a fabulous job. Your tutorials are stress free and I’m always sad when they end.
On #9, I ran into something I thought was a bit odd. I wasn’t getting a shadow from the the key light when it was using shadow buffer, but it worked with raytrace. Then I learned I had to move the light closer to the photos. This solved the problems. The other solution was to play with the bias value, reducing it almost to zero.
in unrelated news, I started playing with 2.5. WOW!!!!
Cheers,
Sterling
Hello! Great tutorials! My question: Is it able to make objects sharp and blur the background using camera lens parameters? If I use a digital camera and zoom an object, the background isn’t sharp. I want to simulate this effect in blender.
with kind regards
Uwe
Hi Uwe.
What you are describing is called “Shallow Depth Of Field” where basically the objects away from the subject are progressively blurry. You can achieve this is several ways. One of the simplest and fastest method is to render the subject and background separately and compose them in After Effects and apply a “Camera Blur” effect. Another option involves using the composite nodes of Blender, not too difficult but just a bit long to explain here. A third option is to render via LuxRender (http://www.luxrender.net) , which fully supports Blender, and use the Depth Of Field option of LuxRender. It behaves very similarly to your still camera.
Hello! That’s it! Thank you. I use AE primary. But I want to get more know how in real 3D, too. So I’ll try Luxrender.
And many thanks for your AE Importer infos! I have a lot of fun with it, because I like ULTRA. So I can make my own studios …(:-)
Another corker! Thanks Paolo.