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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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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 – keyframes for lights


Next, we'll make keyframes for light color specifically, when in the Properties window using the following steps:

  1. Move the current frame indicator to frame 1.

  2. Select the lamp in 3D View with the RMB. Select the Object data button in the header of the Properties window. It's the button with the lamp, highlighted with the blue background in the following screenshot:

  3. Down in the Lamp subpanel, there is the white Light Color box that you used in order to change the lamp color earlier. Move the cursor over that box and press I to insert a keyframe. There is no menu, but the white box gets a border. In Graph Editor, you now see a control curve for the lamp.

  4. In Graph Editor, move the current frame indicator to frame 20.

  5. In the Lamp subpanel of the Properties window, use the color wheel to make the light a different color. The white box changes color. When you like the color, with the cursor over the box, press the I key to insert another keyframe. You will see...