Until now I have used Blender to just render images with Cycles, but I’m curious and want to try some animations. I saw this video about a turnable animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0KsLYr3wA I just wonder how this works, does Blender render an image for each frame and then make an animation of all the images? I guess an animation like this will take a lot of time, but it’s possible to make without a super computer?
If you set the render output to an image format such as .jpg then when you render an animation you will get a single jpg image fro each frame. When you playback in blender it will playback as a single movie. You can combine this image sequence either in blender or externally to an actual movie format such as .mov / .mpg / .avi etc
If you set the render output to a movie format when you render the animation you will end up with a single movie file such as xxx.mpg etc
When you select the movie format you will also need to select the codec you want to use for that format
I guess an animation like this will take a lot of time, but it’s possible to make without a super computer?
It will generally take longer than a single image but many peopel make them and they don’t have supercomputers. Just work within the the limitations you set (hardware / time quality)
Thanks for the info!