Rotating Emblem: GIF animation made with Blender

Support Lighting and Rendering
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Seeing that there’s a lot of real advanced stuff here, I’ll be showing you some mediocre thing I made to test my Blender skills (I’m a beginner)

Its made using a combination of Blender and GIMP, Gimp to put it together as a GIF, blender for everything else.

Here it is:

http://student.vub.ac.be/~pbronder/images/TIG_logo12.gif

Anyway there are still some problems with it you guys might be able to answer:

  1. The Anti-Aliasing ain’t working, The above image has an Anti-aliasing of 16 in Mitchell but its still aliased :frowning:

  2. I’d like it to have a more metallic look, but if I alter the specular (like to 25%) it seems more like a ceramic to me and not like a metal…How to solve this??

  3. I think its rather ok, but still: The colors (darkred and gold in the animation) were added by using an UV-map by assigning darkred to the wings and head front and back. Gold was assigned to the borders. When I dont subsurf the emblem the colors stick to their assigned part but when i set the subsurf (in rendering) to 4 the colors start to blend (I mean the border become jagged and arent straight anymore). How to solve this??

Thnx in advance

Reskaillev El Mimonok

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It needs to have something to reflect to look metallic. Maybe put some random objects behind the camera with a pure white material set to shadeless.

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This might be a really easy thing to do but I can’t get it work.
The Emblem itself is rendered with level 16 Mitchell but the edges are still jagged.

Might this be because of the alpha layer which the anti-aliasing doesn’t use? Or doesn’t recognize?
Anyway how to get anti-aliasing on this animation??

Anyway here’s the emblem:

http://student.vub.ac.be/~pbronder/images/Emblemv.1.2.gif

Thanks in advance,

Reskaillev