Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Why Is It Awesome?
This project offers a few nice aspects to learn from. First, we'll be reusing objects produced
previously by using Blender's Append and Link funcionality; second, we'll be working
on creaing a studio setup using a very simple, yet efecive method; third, we'll be using
Blender's sequence editor, which offers a small but very useful suite to edit and produce
videos. All of that together can give us a very good idea of how cool is it for Blender to offer
such a variety of funcionality packed together; the best of it all is how well integrated all
the editors are, which certainly helps in reducing the usual ime involved in moving the data
from the 3D package to the video composiing package, and back, and forth, and so on.
Now, if we start considering the many different editors that Blender has, we definitely start
seeing how useful and powerful Blender can be when used to its full capacity. If we think about
it, we'll noice that we can start from a single vertex in Blender and end up with a composited
video, including post-processing, all done without any extra package. Isn't that cool?
Your Hotshot Objectives
This project will be split into just four tasks; since we won't be producing complex objects
now, the complexity of it will lie mostly in organizing the scenes and assembling the final
product. Here is the outline of the tasks:
1. Creaing the intro and closing image.
2. Creaing the studio setup.
3. Creaing the individual scenes.
4. Composing the final video.
Mission Checklist
For this project we will need a font file. A good place to find fonts is
www.1001freefonts.
com
; let's browse to that URL and download the font named "SF Electrotome" (located in the
Modern
secion). Ater the package is downloaded, extract its contents into a folder named
font-package
inside the project's main folder.
A very important issue to keep in mind when using resources such as fonts
or images, is licensing. This specific font package has an accompanying
ile staing that it's "freeware", so it should be useable in a reel (which is a
commercial work).
