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Blender 3D By Example

You're reading from   Blender 3D By Example Design a complete workflow with Blender to create stunning 3D scenes and films step-by-step!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285073
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Straight into Blender! FREE CHAPTER 2. Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object 3. Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting 4. Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details 5. Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene 6. Haunted House – Putting Colors on It 7. Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles 8. Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation 9. Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence 10. Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing Index

Introduction to the Video Sequence Editor


The VSE or Video Sequence Editor is a method of video editing in Blender. It is really simple to use and could be very powerful. The best way to use it is to use the Video Editing layout located in the menu bar. We usually don't use the Graph editor here, so we can join it back. We have now an interface with two Video Sequence Editors and the Timeline at the bottom. On the head of the VSE, we have three icons that are used to display Sequencer, the place where we edit strips, and Image Preview, where we see the result of our editing, or both. In Sequencer, we can add different types of strips with Shift + A. We are mainly using Image, Movie, or Sound. We can import Image Sequences with the Image option. You can select a strip with RMB and move it with G. When you have a strip selected, you have access to two buttons to the left and right represented with arrows that define the start and the end of the strip. You can cut a strip by placing the timeline...

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