BFTFH: Compositing

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• Freak1088 Posts: 4,361Member

  August 2009 #2

  

  Thanks Sphynx, this will be very helpful.
  
  This coruse, is it for Blender, and if so, is it a night class?
• BrianSzep187 Posts: 115Member

  August 2009 #3

  

  Hi,
  
  Can't wait to check it out.
  
  Thanks,
  
  -Brian
• Sphynx195 Posts: 461Member

  August 2009 #4

  

  @Freak: still early days yet Freak - no idea of what format it will take as it will need to revolve around other big things that we are doing in the section. If the worst comes to the worst, my company will be running it as a stand alone, but that will take a little more work as we would need to organise resources like machinery and locations.
  
  I'll PM you when more details come to light.
• Freak1088 Posts: 4,361Member

  September 2009 #5

  

  Thanks Mate appreciated that.
• Aardvark11110 Posts: 0Member

  September 2009 #6

  Thank you very much for this tutorial! Went through it and learned a lot, then went on to create a similar animation to the one you made. Not much I could add to it to make it much clearer for other students, oh great Sensei, except for maybe two places:
  
  I was using 2.49b for the tutorial. When I selected the "Stars" scene and went to the World settings, there was nothing there at first. I clicked "Add New" and made the settings as per the tutorial, but for some reason, when I did that, World settings were also created in the "Planet" scene, which caused stars to appear over the planet. To fix this, I went to the "Stars" scene World settings and made the World material a single user by clicking on the number of users button by the material, which was "2," since the World material had two users, and then I selected the "Planet" scene and deleting the World material there (clicking the "X" button).
  
  If you want to continue on and make the animation, as the tutorial states towards the end, the camera in the "Stars" scene should be linked to the camera in the "Planet" scene, so the stars appear to move as the camera moves. The tutorial suggests that the "Stars" scene be created as a linked scene. Now, at this point, the student could delete the "Stars" scene and start over with a linked scene, redoing the World work and so forth again, but there is an easier way. Delete the camera in the "Stars" scene, then go to the "Planet" scene, select the camera there, go down to the Object menu (not the Object bar) in the 3d window, select "Make Links" and then select "Stars" as the scene. This will create an identical camera in "Stars", linked to the camera in "Planet", which will move as it does.
  
  To complete the animation, of course, one only need parent the crosshairs object to the camera in "Planet"and move the camera (either one) around while setting keyframes.
• Polaris 004199 Posts: 752Member

  October 2009 #7

  

  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
  
  I tried to learn compositing so many different ways. But everything I found either just dealt with some little aspect of Compositing, like blurring or using it to change color aspects. Other turtorial were hard to understand, or just told me to do stuff without explaining why. This tutorial gave me the broad theory I was looking for, while at the same time giving me a very particular task to accomplish. It still took me hours to work through it, but I'm finally getting it.
  
  I bow in gratitude to you, sir!