Month: May 2021

Transparancytext.Blend
Used this as basis for Good Morning America

00:52 Tutorial Start
:58 Add the text
– center the text
– Text – data properties – spacing
– change font
duplicate the text in place
— select first text
01:45 Fill Mode = none
02:05 – geometry – depth – 0.02

— select 2nd text
02:17 – set fill = none
– extrude geometry = 0226
– align vertically
—- select first text
– select materials tab
– add new material
change surface type from BSDF to Emission
– change the text color and save the hex value

— select second text
open shader editor
-delete BSDF
– add emission node
– paste in the hex value previously saved.
– add a mix Shader
set transparent bsdf
– add transparenct BSDF node
– settings
– Add color ramp node
add gradient node
select gradient node and pess ctrlT (need node wrangler)

Flowers

wave modifier – see wavemodifier.blend

01:31 start of tutorial

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Space Spider
https://youtu.be/35ckJh6GBbk

00:10 create gird – 50 x 50 x 1

Camera Setup

Installed 2.93 beta today

Blender Animation Basics

Blender Animation Basics
https://youtu.be/o19U-yPGdyY

12:10 Adding Aucio or Movie to Sequencer

Animation Curves

Creating an animation loop is fundamental in making complex animations, or just for short actions that must be repeated over and over.

Prerquisites
Blender Basics -> Video Sequencer Basics

Basic Looping
Open Default Scene ->

Looping Tunnel.

Looping Textures

Object morphing

Blender Fluid Particles

00:35 overview of Fluids

06:30 Reverse animation in Video Sequenced

HDRI
HDRI. HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Imaging, and is basically an image format that contains from the deepest shadow up to the brightest highlight information.

HDRIs are fairly large, a 4K HDRI is about 25mb
Add HDRI to world

Suggested Prerequisites:
Blender Basics -> Shader Basics

Where to get a HDRI backgrounds:
HDRI Haven – probable the most often mentioned and recommended site for downloading HDRI images.

Reference Videos
How to add HDRI w/o going into the Shader Editor
Olav – https://youtu.be/sbAj3IFlBL0 youtube site

Olav – 2.91 good explanation of how to download and install w/o Shader Editor

00:00 Downlead HDRI from HDRI Haven
– select and ldownload an HDRI
00:55 – go to world settings
-set texture to environment texture

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How to import a HDRI and use Shader Editor to add to background

The CG Essentials – 2.81 https://youtu.be/qtvD59m8tv4?t=140

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How to hide the HDRI background (make it transparent)
In many cases you want the HDRI lighating, but do not want the background to show. This video shows you how to do it.

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How to add any image as an HDRI background
– For EEVEE just go to render tab, film section, and set transparent.

CGMatter – https://youtu.be/6VBkj_I-ONk