Curving text and blur

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  1. How do I curve my text?

  2. How do I set a blur for something in the background? Like in the lego picture on CJ 5.

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  1. You could warp it with a Lattice or… parent a bezier curve to it and set it follow the curve as a path. There is also a warp function on the Special menu (W key I think) but I have rarely used it.

  2. Zblur plug-in? Others may have better suggestions.

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Section of blender 2.0 guide on the warp command. May be just what you need. Can be seen at:
http://download.blender.org/documentation/NaN_docs/Manual2.0/Warp.html

a bit back elysiun had a thing on focal blur

https://blenderartists.org/tutorials.php?id=2

coves many of the methods, and compares them.
Personally I prefer (at the moment) the motion-blur method, but with more than 16 images.
such as:
what can be seen on my website or at (copy/paste) http://www.geocities.com/z3r0_d/images/megaDof6.jpg

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Make your text.
Make a curve.
Name the curve.
Put that name in the field ‘TextOnCurve’

Play with it.

Jean