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Well, I started blender a week ago…and it’s great fun! Just tried out a tutorial on BlenderCookie.Com

So far, this is what I have :

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I have just reached the compositing stage, and went through it, but, personally I couldn’t see any significant advantage over the original render - I wondered if this was due to my sky Texture (?), and didn’t know where to post it really. Any Help would be apprieciated!

Also, anyone know a good website for absolute beginners with tutorials? :slight_smile:

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Good work so far.

For tutorials you could try:

blenderunderground.com

www.blenderguru.com

http://blenderart.org/

Also look around in deviantArt: www.deviantart.com

Unfortunately there is really no central location for tutorials. it’s spread out all over the net.

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Hey! I really like this! (It worked for “Up!”, didn’t it? :yes:) It’s fun, and it looks good.

On an image such as this one, well, compositing may or may not be a particularly beneficial technique, because the scene is relatively simple: a brute-force computational render (a la “The Big Fat Red Render-Button”) might work just fine. But this is, nonetheless, a fine image to practice compositing on, “what the heck, just to see what happens.”

When I say, “I really like this,” I really do. It’s a clean composition, good materials on the balloons, all nicely done. It really looks like an artist’s depiction of a bunch of balloons against the sky.

In my (very limited…) experience, compositing really “shines” in situations that might be a bit more complicated than this. For instance:

  • When you want to break down a truly complicated scene so that you don’t have to deal with everything at once … when you can “get ‘this’ done and then concentrate on ‘that’ and ‘that.’”
  • When the effect that you want to achieve is one that can best be expressed in terms of combining several simpler effects, especially when you want to be able to “mix-down” these effects at the end, without having to start over on any one of them.
  • When the amount of change between frames is comparatively small (e.g. “most of it isn’t moving”), and you don’t want to waste time recalculating.

There’s a very good chance that none of these concerns really apply to this scene. But it’s still a good idea to experiment with compositing because you will be using it heavily, soon enough.

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Thanks for the kind words, and the location of some more tutorials, the only one I had heard of before was Andrew Prices’ (BlenderGuru.com), so I’ll have a look at all the others, and see what they have to offer!

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those ballons are certainly nothing to laugh about, they look great for someone who at this point wasnt used to blender :slight_smile:

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The balloons look very nice, amazing work for being so new to Blender!
Nice work!

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Hehe Holy Thread Necro Batman!