Just wanted to drop in to let you know that I’m now hosting the miscellaneous “Blender Tips” series I made for the Sintel DVD on my site.
I’ve been meaning to throw them online, since I consider a lot of these tips ‘time-sensitive’. (Much of this stuff may move around or become deprecated!) But I wanted to wait a few months after the DVD came out.
So if you haven’t gotten around to spinning up that disk of extras, you can check out those tutorials here:
I wasn’t sure whether or not to keep them on my site or put them on YouTube. What do you prefer?
Anyway, this series is a compilation of some of the tricks and features I picked up during my time on “Sintel”. So, some handy shortcuts and slightly hidden tools. Hopefully there will be a nice little feature or two you haven’t seen before!
Thanks for post them Colin.
At the moment they download quick from your site.
The keys [ and ] to navigate hierarchies don’t work in a spanish keyboard but I mapped them to uparrow and downarrow (and also with shift for selecting while navigating). I really missed that in blender. I find strange the use of the key V for zooming at the compositor. Alt + wheel rotation to zoom the image seems the perfect solution.
Yeah man, there are a bunch of pretty weird shortcuts. That’s interesting you had trouble with the brackets [ ] – I wonder how many others have that same issue… thanks for checking out the tuts!
Fantastically informative. Obscure keyboard shortcuts and workflow considerations presented in short high-speed bursts, with the bonus of insight into the thinking of a master animator. I was enraptured. It was perfect timing for the present stage of my Blender learning curve. Thanks!
Note: Occasionally, what you are doing on the screen is covered by your video, but I’d still rather see you talking. It makes learning easier somehow… I don’t know why.
hey collinn great tips, the one for opening and browsing the textures is awsome, HUGE time saver,
so, since in the dvd you said we could ask for some tuts, i was wondering if you could do a Sintel.blend breakdown D:
there is so much stuff going on in there!
i took me 20 minutes to figure out how to move the face bones, not to say the fingers, also the thingy with the mesh modifiers binded to the cage, I mean, the model and rig works beautifully, but I feel some guidance would help tremendously to the entire comunity.
zavigny - So glad this stuff was valuable to you! Yeah, I apologize for those moments where I obscure other stuff. I edited the videos pretty fast.
ivanebeoulve - You’re totally right, a Sintel.blend overview would be very useful. Unfortunately I sortof feel like you do when I open that up. I never had to really do much work in that file and yeah-- it’s very complex! I think Nathan (who rigged her) and Soenke would be the best guys to do a quick overview video for the Sintel.blend. You should email them!
thanks for posting these Colin, they are really useful.
As for posting these videos offsite, I’d love it if you put them on Vimeo it has the best quality player by far, but as was mentioned early they play nicely from your site as well.
thank you Colin I have a question about Sintel, is all the film done on blender, and what is the most principal problems you had, have you integrate any other software? and one last thing what is the story with the Shaman barb ?
ohh yeah “sorry for that” the technique u show us about the bind camera which I was looking for along time and its so usfull but as I see this tip creat a camera popup .what if we can do a fade in between them using this technique it will look awesome, is there any way neither the sequence editor
