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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
Book Image

Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – preparing a scene in Video Sequence Editor


Now, you're going to lay in an audio track and two video tracks, and then do a dissolve between the video tracks:

  1. Open a new file in Blender.

  2. In the Dimensions subpanel of the Properties window, set Resolution to X: 512, Y: 512, and 100%.

  3. In the Blender window header, just to the left of where it says Default, click on the button with the three boxes and choose Video Editing from the drop-down menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. In the Video Editing layout, there are four windows: the Graph Editor window on the upper left; Video Sequence Editor on the upper right, set to display the video preview; Video Sequence Editor in the middle row, set to display the video layers; and the Timeline window at the bottom, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. In the header of the Video Sequence Editor – sequencer window, click on the Add button and choose Movie from the pop-up menu.

  6. Find the Chapter 12/Images/Video Strips/ directory from your...