Blender For Animators : Session 5

About

This session concludes the first phase of Blender training for Animators. Previous sessions are available at the link below

• Session 1 & 2
• Session 3
• Session 4

Agenda

• Animating Cameras in different scenes
• Visualize motion paths for animated objects
• Appending data into a Blender file from another file
• Linking data into a file from various files
• Case study on using the Sequence editor for Storyboarding

Video

This session is broken down into three videos.

Part 1

• Animating Cameras in different scenes
• Visualize motion paths for animated objects

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Part 2

• Appending data into a Blender file from another file
• Linking data into a file from various files

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Part 3 : Case Study

Storyboarding using Images

import bpy
strips = bpy.context.scene.sequence_editor.sequences_all
sortedStrips = sorted(strips, key=lambda strip: strip.name)
for index, strip in enumerate(sortedStrips):
    elem = strip.getStripElem(1)
    strip.name = elem.filename
    strip.channel += index

Final Storyboard Render

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Links and References

• http://graphicall.org/bbb/index.php
• http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/media-gallery/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slsj97n8VTs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZamuodzzqs
• http://blendtuts.com/image_sequences

satishgoda at gmail dot com