
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sandy and Blender

Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Movies as Backgrounds in Blender
When modeling in 3d, typically you'll use an image as a template. But what about animating in 3d? Blender can use a movie as a background. Just import the movie in the same manner as a background image:
Clicking Auto Refresh is important as that advances the movie when you advance frames in Blender's Timeline.
- Select View->Background Image...
- Click Use Background Image
- Click Load
- Select your movie from the File Browser
- When it loads, click Auto Refresh. I had to move my Background Image window to get it to show the loaded movie.

Flash Mouse Wheel Shortcuts
Here's some Flash CS 3 shortcuts I just discovered while exercising my curiosity, they are pretty useful:
Shift-MW moves the playback head to the next/prev
Ctrl-MW move the playback head to the first/last frame
Ctrl-Shift-MW zooms the view
Shift-MW moves the playback head to the next/prev
Ctrl-MW move the playback head to the first/last frame
Ctrl-Shift-MW zooms the view
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