Blender 2.7 Tutorial #81: Star Wars Title Crawl Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Blender (English) - Professional Skills

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welcome our eighty-one of HSN IDs 102.7
in this video we're going to making that
title crawl the very same one that you
just saw on your screen right now of
course this is from Star Wars but you
can customize it with your own title or
with Star Wars whatever you like and you
can write your own title crawl and Oh
making everything that you just saw in
the video the title the crawl the stars
and we're gonna be using blenders
compositing tools to put all those
different elements together into the
same scene and make everything look nice
so let's go ahead and jump in the first
thing I'll point out is that I do not
make that Star Wars text that that font
that you saw in a screen that was my
born CG title at Pemberley Star Wars
there is actually a font that I have on
my desktop here it's the holo version
the empty outline only version of a font
called star Jedi and I found it on a
free fonts website and I'll put a link
to that same font looks like that I have
it on in the description area below this
video on youtube so if you find that
link you can click on it you can
download the exact same font package and
the one that I'm using is called the
holo version that's the H Oh L ending on
that file name so let's go ahead and
bring that into blender I'll click on my
splash screen o to get rid of it of
course the first thing I'll do is I'll
turn on my screencast keys so you can
see in the bottom left other to the
viewport what keys I'm pressing on the
screen most of the time most buttons as
well I do not need this default cube so
with it selected I'll press X on my
keyboard and click on delete I'll press
shift a on my keyboard I'm going to add
a piece of text not a mesh but a text
object now I can customize this but
before I start actually changing the
word I'm going to bring in that font and
so with this text object selected I'll
go to the font tab in the properties
window and under the font heading this
first this first regular section is
where I want to bring in using this
little folder icon that thought on my
computer it might still be in your
downloads folder but for me it's just on
my desktop so I'll go to my desktop
select the font size of it and then dot
PDF and I'll click on open front again
this is the hollow version it's just an
outline and there we go there is the
bond now this lots a little bit funny I
going to press seven on my numpad to go
to my top view and press five to go to
orthographic top view it's a little bit
funny if I press tab to go into the text
objects edit mode and backspace a few
times if I type in lowercase letter so
if I type bo are n CG all in lowercase
no caps lock or anything the letters are
all separate and they're all closed okay
well if I backspace those and I hold
shift or press caps lock and I type Bo
are and CG you can see that that oh
actually that Oh does actually show up
as R so like if there is no capital o RN
C G all in caps you can see that they
are open so normally we're going to be
using unless you have a very specific
reason - we're going to be using all
lowercase letter so I'm going to type
those out o RM g and I'll press tab now
I'm not totally happy with the way this
all looks did I get that first B in
lowercase or uppercase there we go I had
it in uppercase and had little gaps in
it I want to fix a few things here I
actually want to connect some of the
letters especially the N and the R in
the middle of the text so I'm actually
going to convert this into a mesh object
now so with this object selected I'm
going to press alt see all C brings up
my convert to popup menu and I can
select mess from curve Medisave text
great if i click on that it is now a
mesh if i zoom in and press tab i'm now
going into a meshes edit mode and you
can see all the little vertices because
I'm in vertices select mode and it looks
really really messy because when you
convert mesh or a text object to a mesh
you get all these nasty triangles so I'm
gonna zoom out I'm gonna press a a few
times on my keyboard to select
everything and I'm gonna press X on my
keyboard like I was going to delete but
I gonna use limited dissolve which is
right there let me get dissolve will
basically take all the faces that are in
the same direction that are clicked to
one another and it will merge them all
into one face as much as possible so
or it'll merge similarly pointed or
facing faces together that make sense so
there we go
took all those triangles and merge them
together for the most part you see a few
phases here and there that are not the
same or it's not always going to be one
face per letter I'm going to turn down
this max angle though because I want
more detail you can see that if I turn
this max angle down right after I use
let it dissolve I get you know less
chunky letters if it's hot if it's lower
higher I get junkie letters it's at five
by default and then you can still see
some of the polygons there so I'm going
to turn that definitely be two or three
I'll say two point five just so I get
more detail because we're going to see
this title really really close up great
now I mentioned that I want to join up
at the bottom of the R and the N and if
you're making a title that says Star
Wars you might want to join me there
some of the other letters that are not
connected when you use lowercase letters
what I'm going to do here is I'm going
to use my knife tool so I'm going to
press K on my keyboard I'm an edit mode
right now of this mesh so I'll tap K on
my keyboard my mouse cursor changes to a
little knife I'm going to click on that
little vertex right there before I do
that though I'm going to tap C on my
keyboard you can see down here on the
header when I'm in my knife tool C is
ankle angle constraint and it's turned
off by default but if I tap C angle
constraint is turned on which means I'll
be able to cut straight through across
so I'll click there angle straight
across and click and I'll press ENTER on
my keyboard
I'll do the same thing down here I'll
press ok then I'll tap see it's a bit of
paint after that every time I'll click
I'm going to tap e to start making a new
cut I'm going to cut across just to that
point there and I'll press Enter when
you tap e after you've made one cut in a
knife tool and let you make more cuts I
would go too far and do too many though
ok let's go ahead and start joining
things up I'm going to select an edge
select mode these two edges and tap s
that will fill them in same thing down
here
and F and now I can select faces I'll
select these two faces and X on my
keyboard and delete them so now it has
kind of a nice flow to it they are
connected looks pretty good I'll press
tab like keyboards go back into object
mode and I forgot the most basic thing
at the being of this video I forgot to
change my render engine to the cycles
render engine that's very important
don't forget that because lots of things
we'll be doing in this video require
that you have the cycles render engine
turned on in fact let's do that a couple
of times in this video you'll see why
it's going to add that nice golden
yellow material to the used letter so
I'm going to go to my materials tab with
it selected and I'll click new and I'm
going to call this letters yellow -
title sure it's not a very good way of
naming it it's kind of out of order
but well I don't want this to just be a
diffuse material though I want to be any
mission material because these letters
should not have any shading on the mail
it just be very very bright a solid
bright color so I'll change diffuse to
emission wherever that is there it is
and I'm going to change the color of
course that nice yellowy color now we
might want to later on remember what
color that is I'm going to shoot
something hmm
both there sure if I wanted to know what
that color specifically is for later on
I can go to the hex value over here this
e 7 a 4 0 0 is a hex value hexadecimal
number code for that color so if I want
to copy that I could use that in any
other program like Photoshop or just use
it blender again I can bring it down
that's a good way of knowing what color
it is a hex value by the way it can be
or is a number in hexadecimal that it's
six digits long for a color and it can
contain any digits between 0 & 9 so 0 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 as well as ABCDE and F
so that's what a hexadecimal value is it
keeps track of what the red green and
blue value
in color so of course I can't see that
color on the letters right now because
my viewport is set to solid view I'll
change it to material view great so
let's go ahead and set up our camera our
camera is just in a default location and
rotation I'm gonna press alt art we have
selected alt R or clear its rotation so
now it's pointing straight down and I'll
press Alt key on my keyboard to put it
back in its default location I'm going
to move that up a little bit I'm going
to take my letters and the origin of the
letters are still or is still at the
corner so I'm going to with it selected
to go to my tool shelf and set origin to
center of mass or origin to geometry
actually I'll do that one is dead so now
the origin jumps over to the middle of
the object
ina press zero to go or on my number
path to go through the camera and now I
can move that over and make it centered
we're going to start it quite big on the
screen and as centered as we can so I'm
going to tap s and I think when you
actually see the movie it actually
starts fit to the screen so I might do
that and I might just make it pause and
not start at animation until just a
moment after you first see it so that
they all started just actually I think
I've also it read the beginning but I'll
start it a little bit bigger than the
screen so I'd be right about there and
it just spin it up and down sure
I had to make the background on my scene
black but we'll be using a different
background later on so I made a little
world tab and I'm going to change the
color to black I'm also actually going
to in a moment change the background of
this scene when it renders to
transparent because I'm going to do a
compositing later on to composite in a
different seat that has stars in the
background I will get to that in a
little bit well let's go ahead now and
start animating right now I have a
timeline on my screen but I want a
timeline and a dopesheet window so I'm
going to make this a little bit taller
I'm going to divide this timeline window
into two so I'll grab this little
triangle area left click and drag it
straight down so now I have two windows
where the
one window just was I'm gonna change the
top window into a dopesheet window which
is a basically a advanced timeline that
allows you to change the interpolation
of key frames that means the timing of
key frames using in an easing out of the
animation as well as bunch of other
great things let's go ahead and start
animating on frame 0 I want these
letters to be right where they are so
I'm actually going to with it selected
I'll tap I on my keyboard I when you're
in object mode brings up the insert
keyframe menu and I'm going to insert
only a location keyframe here we're not
rotating or scaling here so just
location great so at frame 0 we have our
letters right there so if you actually
time the time it takes for the actual
title in Star Wars to go from when you
first see it all the way to when it goes
far back and if phase of it's actually
almost exactly 13 seconds but we're not
going to make it nearly that long I'm
going to make it about seven or eight
seconds so I'm going to move my playhead
down to about seven or eight seconds
let's say eight seconds we're running at
24 frames per second over here so I
noticed a math right in this little
window here I'm gonna psych 24 which is
how many frames per second I'll type
shift 8 on Lexi board to enter in a star
which is the times symbol and I'm going
to say 7 and I'll press Enter so now it
says 168 which is 7 seconds exactly
great let's go ahead and move the
letters way back so I'm going to press
actually to divide this window into two
and going to drag this little triangle
area straight down and I'm going to
break out of my camera in this one so I
can move it straight back right to about
ooh about there
sure that looks pretty good to me
we have not done any animation yet
though so we actually what these letters
like to have to press I again to insert
a location keyframe again so now I have
a 168 we told the letters to be all the
way back they are down there so now if I
scrub through go back to frame 0 and I
press play you can see what's going to
happen we have letters going back but
the animation is not playing at a
constant rate this is called
interpolation I mentioned this a few
moments ago interpolation means the
using in and easing out of the keyframes
right now if I watch this if I press
play the letters actually start a little
bit slower and they get very very fast
in the middle and they slow down at the
end as they're getting to their final
resting spot I don't want that I want to
be a constant rate so it with my mouse
in this dopesheet window I'll press a a
few times to select all those keyframes
they're all yellow I'll press T on my
keyboard now and I'm going to select
interpolation linear that means that'll
go at a constant speed so now if I press
play
oops I press play backwards I'll go back
to the beginning
and press play forwards and as you can
see now it's much more evenly speeding
it towards the back of the scene great
let's go ahead now and set up the
material of these letters in a little
bit more detail though because we're
actually going to use the properties of
the yellow material to make these
letters fade out to black if you're
using a video editing program we could
just fade out a video track of that of
the letters themselves because we're
doing everything in blender we're just
going to make a material that feeds to
transparent whenever we want and we can
animate that to go from yellow to
totally transparent so let's change this
upper window I'm actually going to
divide it into two I'm gonna change half
of this upper window into a node editor
window to edit materials in more detail
so when we're when we have an object
selected and we have object materials
selected here or there we can see that
same color and a material output but
you're going to include another material
I'm going to include a transparent
material or feeder as well so I'm going
to press shift a on my keyboard I'm
going to add in a shader it's going to
be a transparent a lot of translucent
the transparent shader so I'll add that
in and click to put it right below and
I'm gonna press shift a on my keyboard
I'm going to add a shader and most of
you know where I'm going here with this
I'm going to add in a mix cheater as
well I'm going to put that right here
we're going to connect these up so now
as you can see if I go into viewport
shading rendered you can see that I can
control I can go completely if I turn
the factor down to zero
completely yellow or if I turn it up to
one I can turn the letter is completely
invisible that's what I'm going to
actually animate here I'm going to
animate the letters and we're going to
start at zero we're an animate letters
starting off at all yellow and then once
they get to read about hmm let's say a
hundred and thirty-five or so maybe a
little bit before them B 140 they're
going to start to state out we're going
to set a keyframe here of this value
minutes very easy to insert a keyframe
of this slider value here at frame 140
I'm going to put my mouse in this little
value box and I'll tap I on my keyboard
I again is insert keyframe and then at
frame 100 and set 468 pardon me I'm
going to turn that factor up to one
making letters totally transparent and
within those of that little value area
I'll tap I again to insert a keyframe
it'll turn yellow and so now I have this
little factor value animating from zero
all the way to 1 and therefore letters
are going transparent as you can see
down here between 140 and 168 so at this
point we are done this scene the next
thing I want to do is make a different
scene believer not with the crawling
floating paragraphs of text now remember
that number value or the hex value that
I had for the color of the text before
I'm going to make sure I have that
so in here I'll click on this box and
I'll select that e7 a four zero zero
I'm going to press ctrl C on my keyboard
to make sure I have that and I actually
make a new scene so this scene up here
we have a duck boat looks very much at
all much on my channel except for making
games in the put our game engine but you
guys should have different schemes in
your blender file so I'm going to call
this title and I'm going to make a new
steam so I'll press this plus I'm gonna
make an entirely new scene so I'll click
on new this new scene I'll break out of
render view just back to soul of view
has nothing in it okay because I
selected new scene not copy settings or
full copy I just made a new scene we're
going to call this one crawl okay this
scene has nothing in it so I'm going to
press 7 on my numpad to go back to my
top view and 5 to go to orthographic
I'll press shift a on my keyboard to the
first thing I need is a camera if I need
a camera so shift a add camera the
camera is at 0 0 0 hopefully yes it is
I'm going to move it up a little bit I
need some text as well so I'm going to
press actually I'm gonna make sure my
cursor is right in the middle so I'll
press shift F on my keyboard and select
cursor to Center but I'll put my 3
cursor back to 0 0 0 in my scene I'll
request shift a now I'm going to add a
piece of text and at this point that I
want to type out what I want my crawl
the paragraphs to be introduce my movie
or my story in my star wars video fence
on whatever you like I happen to have
written my crawl in notepad plus plus
and a separate program I would highly
recommend it doing that way because then
you can actually see it the way that you
want you can edit it and you can tweak
it and then you can once you're done
bring it into blender so this is micro
I'm going to select it all I'm going to
press ctrl C on my keyboard to copy it
I'm gonna go back into blender and then
I press tab on my keyboard and I'm going
to backspace a few times and control V
to paste now by default because I tried
all in notepad plus plus or notepad or
any basic text editing program it does
not have any like indents or lines it
just basically has each paragraph on its
own line you can see line 1 line 2 is
empty line 3 and 4 and 5 so when it
pastes it it just picks it as one big
long line in order to have the text
justified that means having the text
line up evenly on the left and on the
right we actually have to define a text
box for this text object so that's done
under the fonts tab I was it selected of
course and I believe it is under the
text box section hey that makes sense
I'll click on add text box and I'm going
to just find a width here by default is
0 which means unlimited I'm going to
turn that up to about 10 or 11 or so and
as you can see right now it's not
justified on both sides it's aligned to
its left so all these lines don't end
nicely in the same or aligned with one
another so I'm going to select justify
now and justify only works if you have a
text box and if you set appropriate
width of course you can adjust that
later what I actually might do at this
point is go through my camera and see
what the scaling is like so I'm going to
move this over I don't have s on my
keyboard because I know that I want to
be able to read the text as it's going
black so I'm scaling the text I'm moving
the text object of course it's not a
mesh so I can always get it later and
use all these same tools later I
actually think that this paragraph is
too narrow so I'm going to turn up the
with little bit actually scale it down a
little bit first I think the letter
should be smaller than that based on the
sides of my screen so I'll turn the
width up to maybe about 11.5 or 12 sure
I like that so you can't quite read it
until it gets a little bit further back
in the C maybe I'll tap S on my keyboard
now I haven't adjusted my camera yet and
I was actually watching the force
awakens the most recent in the series of
Star Wars movies and I realized that the
cam
does not have a 35 millimeter lens like
this camera does what that means is that
or what I mean is that the lens in the
actual crawl is more white angles more
fish-eyed which means you can see more
of the text and it gets smaller as it
goes farther away so when I change this
value I'm actually gonna want to change
the other camera in the other title
scene as well otherwise it might not
look too good so I'm going to change the
sensor size under the camera tablet
camera selected to something like 25 and
what that will mean is that when we
start rotating the text and when we make
the text go in the back or animate like
it's moving away from us it will seem
more slanted than it would if we had a
larger focal length lens hopefully you
followed that so I'm going to scale this
text down now and I'll move it over I
think I also need a bigger piece of
section at the top so I'm going to press
shift a on my keyboard I add another
piece of text we haven't added a
material to this yet that's okay I'm
going to edit this text it's going to be
episode 81 because this is number 81 in
this tutorial series and was kind of
funny I'm going to move that to the
middle of scale that down a little bit
I'm going to tap s and then Y to make it
a little bit taller because that is
actually the way it is I'll scale it
down and move it to the center roughly
and that over a little bit we haven't
actually pick a font here and the
thought that they use in the actual Star
Wars movies is Franklin Gothic and I
believe that's usually include though
most computers I think so I'm going to
go to my font tab and I'll go to my font
regular if I click here I can access
star Jedi hello but that's not what I
want
let's go back to blender default font I
don't click on the open fonts folder
again in my case I'm on a Windows
computer so I'm going to go to my window
folder and then in Windows I'm going to
go to my fonts folder where all my fonts
are a help on a Macintosh computer if
you go to your main Mac hard drive and
then you find the libraries folder in
that libraries folder is your fonts
folder so if they easy to find on a Mac
or Windows PC I want to preview these
fonts actually no I don't need to
because I'm looking for a Franklin FR a
all fr a fonts that one that one and I'm
going to pick F R a DM I'm not sure with
the DM stands for but I've used it
before looks pretty good at the Franklin
Gothic foot and I'll click on open so
now that's going to be my phone I'll
scale that a little bit differently and
scale it on the y-axis as well let's go
ahead and select that same thought for
this one as well so I can just click
here and Franklin Gothic Timmy sure now
if I'm not happy with the number of
letters on each line or the spacing of
the lines or how close the words are I
can adjust all of those things and if
you're finding that you have some funny
lines that only have like three words
and a lot of spaces between them you'll
want to adjust this you can adjust the
letter spacing okay it'll still say
mostly justified you can adjust the word
spacing so the number of or amount of
space between each word in this case I
think that's way too much so I'll turn
that back down and as you can see now I
have some really big gaps so I might
want to adjust the spacing between the
letters a my senior that's looking much
better at least up here if I go down
doing amazing funny
I know it's actually looking pretty good
pretty happy with that I think there's
too little gap between each line so I'll
turn that up just a little bit maybe to
just one point one I'm liking that and I
think we're doing pretty good let's go
ahead an ahead and add that yellow
material back I think I still have the
color selected perhaps if I don't I can
recreate it so I'm going to make a new
material but because I made a new scene
that we're back to the old blender
I have to make sure that I have to
change to the cycles render engine
that's very important and I'll make a
new material once I've gone to the
cycles render engine so new and I'm
going to call this one yellow crawl text
sir material sure and I'll click here
now did I copy the hex value no I did
not so I'm going to go back to the other
scene I can't quite recall what that
color is e 7 a four zero zero I'll copy
that I'll go back to crawl I will paste
in once I change my shader to emission
right there I'll change my color to be
seven a four zero zero and now let the
same color okay let's go ahead and
change this one as well of course I can
just pick the same font again yellow
crawl text material just like that I can
change my view for over to
material so you can see that now in this
case we're not going to make a more
fancy material with that transparent
shader as well because when these
letters fade out it's not fitting out
all at once like these are Wars with a
boring CG title as it goes to the back
it's not all fitting out at the same
time in this case whether it's basically
fade out once each row gets to a certain
point in the back and the way we're
going to be doing the effect we're only
like one line at a time we'll start
fading out is we're going to make a mask
so we'll get to that in a few moments
once we animate and tilt our text I want
to make sure that this episode 81 title
is parented to my main crawl text so
I'll select the episode 81 title and
I'll hold shift and I'll right-click on
the main paragraph text and I'll press
control P and I'll set the parent to
object so now if I move the main
paragraph text the episode 81 flows
along with it of course I want to make
sure that a text is Rosia nicely for the
camera so in this upper window I'm gonna
make these ones a little bit shorter in
the upper window if
my sideview I'll press three on my
keyboard to go to the right ortho view I
can now rotate my curl text and it
should go to about fifty degrees or so
forty to seventy depending on what you
want so I'm gonna go to me about that's
about sixty right there I think I might
go a little bit deeper than that maybe
sixty five or so and I want to do this
precisely I can once I click I can
change the amount of rotation here so
sixty five and oops it should be as
negative sixty five part of me there we
go
that's looking pretty good I don't think
my camera is wide enough so I set my
camera focal length that I change it
down here instead 34 yeah that's what I
did I didn't I think I changed it the
wrong way
oh pardon me the default is actually
thirty-two I should be changing the
focal length and not the camera sensor
size maybe you caught me and I'll do
that earlier in this video
so the focal length in this case is not
going to be thirty five that's how soon
that are zoomed out you are I'm going to
zoom out more so I'm going to change
that to maybe twenty and I'll press
ENTER so now the text is too small so I
can scale it up and I'll scale up to
maybe right about like that and I'll
move it over and I think it's actually
too steep at this point so it's going
back be too quickly and you'll scale it
down so it fits the width properly
that's actually it's looking pretty good
I'm pretty happy with that now you'll
notice that your gizmo these transform
manipulator arrows are pointing with the
world that Z blue arrow points straight
up and down and the arrows don't point
with the direction of the object that's
because of this transform orientation
here if I change that from global to
local with the main paragraph crawl text
selected you can see now that the
transform
arrow points with the text so this is
how I can easily grab and animate that
crawl text so it's looking really really
good actually I think I like that quite
a bit but see how readable it is you can
get to right there and you can read it
it's made a fourth and that is cause for
celebration
around the galaxy okay so that's pretty
legible I think I think we're a little
bit off-center though so over just a
little bit and I think we're doing
pretty good let's go ahead and animate
this of course when the scene first
starts this is off-screen I want to stay
off-screen until that born CG or Star
Wars logo has got off-screen when did it
actually get to the back of the scene so
when can we actually start this this
cross line go back to my title and I'm
going to look to see my frame number at
frame 140 the title starts to fade and
it frame 168 it's totally gone so maybe
at about frame 155 I think I'll start to
crawl coming in so I'll go back to my
crawl scene and on frame 155 I think it
was I'll set my first keyframe so with
just the paragraphs look at I'll tap I
on my keyboard we're inputting only
location key from here or not rotating
or anything else and then I need to go
much later on and you can play around
with the value that you like but imma go
to frame I'm going to say about 1600 or
mm I've split the difference and go to
maybe 1800 the first time I tried this I
only did a thousand and it went way too
fast so I think I actually will do a
2,000 will display that in here mm and I
now can drag that all the way back to
rate about I'll make it fade out to read
about there so I've moved it back there
I'm not a keyframe yet so if I mouse in
this window I'll tap I on my keyboard
and insert the second keyframe at frame
a 2000 location keyframe only so now we
have that nice crawl of course the
interpolation of this animation is not a
constant for animating at a constant
even
so if I'm out in the dopesheet window
with everything selected I'll press key
on my keyboard and select linear so now
the text plays at a nice even constant
speed or constant rate so there we go
episode 81 and this is where we can
actually see the speed although the
timeline is cutting off our animation I
have to change my end value of the
timeline to mm actually to 2100 just so
we have a little extra time at the end
and I believe I'm playing in viewport
shooting material it's not going to play
at full speed you can see it's only
playing at 16 or 17 frames per second so
I'll change it to a wireframe let's go
ahead and see what this looks like oh
it's still playing it at about 16 or 17
frames per second so we can kind of
assume that it'll play a little bit
faster in this it's made to fourth and
that is cause for celebration there on
the galaxy to honor the occasion born CG
has created this tutorial on how to
create Star Wars or Star Wars opening
crawl will be creating okay you can read
it for yourself and I'm sure you already
have I think that's a pretty good speed
so I'll press escape and I'm going to do
a quick save we haven't saved this file
at all yet so file save and then on my
desktop
I'll save this as Star Wars born sea key
title crawl - 0 8 1 - 0 0 1 sure let's
go ahead and press save blunder file -
is it on the desktop
so as this text goes towards the
background we want it to fade out and
the way we're going to get the text to
fade out kind of as it gets to read
about just below this lines would be to
wait about there sort of fade out
gradually it's like I disappear a
line-by-line or very harshly want to be
a nice kind of fade out we're going to
use a mask now if you're not familiar of
masking in blender this is more of a
compositing tool I've used math several
times before the most basic use of it is
when I made a VFX tutorial on making a
split screen effect where I feel myself
twice and when I combine the two takes
of me sitting on my couch
in the same video this is how you can
make a twin of yourself I'll put a link
to that video on the screen right now in
case you wanted to learn how to do a
visual effects on thunder and masking in
blender there you can go ahead and learn
that but in this case we're just going
to have a static mask on that means a
non moving non enemy and mask just like
in that split-screen example actually
but we're going to make that in a UV
image editor window so right now I have
this load as the window in fact I'm
going to move the dividing line over and
I'll press T and N and then and I
believe so I have a bigger window over
here I can divide this window into two
I'm going to make everything a little
bit bigger so I can see that we do a
little bit more nicely I'm going to
switch this window into a UV image ever
window now we're in the View mode of
this window but I'm going to go into the
mask mode of this window because in the
mask mode window I can make new masks
and we can use that later on when we're
compositing so I'm gonna make a new mask
and I can actually start drawing a mask
hero but it'll be more helpful if I
could actually see the actual dimension
of the frame of my video as well as the
object in my idea that I actually want
to mask out so I go to my camera tab I'm
gonna change the resolution of my render
up to 100 I'm gonna change my compute
device to my graphics card my GPU and I
think I'll change my because I'm using
my GPU I should be changing my other
performance tab the tiles that it's
rendering out to a higher value like 512
by 512 don't worry about that if you
don't understand that if you watch I
felt my video on how to use your Nvidia
based graphics card to render out in
blender faster I'll put a link to that
on the screen right now but in this case
I'm just gonna click on render so I can
get a nice render out of my scene and I
can create a mask while looking at the
image so there it is
I'm in mask mode still what I want to do
is I want to hold ctrl + left click
where I want to create a mask I have
make a rectangle
as you can see that properly so I'm
gonna hold ctrl and click once there
I'll hold ctrl still and click right
down left clicking I can hold ctrl still
and last click there and then there now
this is not a cyclic or circular mask
because it's not closed and I'm not
actually going to close that manually
instead I'm going to go down to mask and
toggle cyclic so now I have a mask that
is a closed rectangle approximately and
it as it stands though it has a very
harsh line not seeing any effect here is
we haven't use any completing tools yet
but it will have a very harsh line so
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
hold shift on my keyboard and left-click
and drag one of these points outward so
I'm going to hold shift and left-click
and drag one of the points outwards and
that brings out another green line
outside of your main mask area and this
is the federer mount so the mask will
actually fade out from totally making
the letters go away to right about there
to starting them making them go away so
it'll start to fade out right about
there and you can adjust this so I know
maybe these up a little bit more cuz I
don't want to fade out until totally
until they be read about there so I'll
move that one up we don't want to I can
align you want it to go straight across
when I try to match that as best as I
can
so that's looking pretty good I'm going
to call this mask crawl mask and I'll
press Enter the F is already selected
that means that there is already a fake
user of the mask so I can press this X
and the mask will still be in this
wonderful even if I close the file after
I save of course let's go ahead and jump
back into our scene I think I'm pretty
much done the crawl I think it's looking
pretty good I have my letters are going
back to the right speed the last scene I
want to make our life stars and started
actually pretty easy to make in the
cycles render engine but we're going to
make a new scene for this as well so I'm
going to click on this little plus and
I'm gonna make an entirely new scene my
thing has nothing yet because brand-new
so I'll press shift a on my keyboard
I'm going to add a camera first thing my
camera is rotated in a funny way for
some reason so I'll press alt R and
algae to clear out its location and
rotation when you want to make stars in
the cycles render engine for the world
background of your scene it's pretty
much entirely done in the node editor
window first thing though I should
change my render engine in this new
scene to the cycles render engine yes
whenever you make a new scene you have
to reset or choose your render engine
will view cycles of course and then
under the world tab I'm going to click
on new to make a new world material and
I believe if I make this node every
window bigger I need to now select the
material for the world in order to see
the same grain material so we have a
background shader as well as a world
output node what I do here is I want to
bring in a texture it's called the
Voronoi texture so I'm going to press
shift a on my keyboard I'm going to add
a texture it's going to be the row my
texture and I'm going to put it actually
I need it to be on the other side of
this background so I'm just going to put
it right there I'll move this one over
I'll move it over there I'm going to
plug the color of a Ron texture into the
color of the background now if I go
through my camera so I'll press 0 mouse
down here it'll go into the camera view
if I now go into viewport shading
rendered we now have a default for on.i
texture as our world and as you can see
it goes either side is actually a giant
basically ball that we're inside now so
you can animate and move your camera
around and you'll see a nice starry sky
or in this case we haven't ended it yet
so it's just a foreign texture doesn't
look like stars much at all so we're
going to edit this for my texture of the
colors and the scale the first thing
I'll do is I'll change my scale up to at
least I would say 30 I'm going to use 40
I think no it's gonna be way bigger in
that I think I actually need to make you
do be a hundred or so play even bigger
than that eventually maybe 120 sure if
look looks pretty good to me so far but
right now we have black dots on a white
background we want white
on a black background and we want--we
fewer dots so the first thing I do is
I'm going to take this for a texture and
before it gets assigned to the shader
the background world shader I'm going to
invert the colors so I'm going to press
just a on my keyboard in a note of every
window I'm going to add the color invert
note I think I put that right in the
middle of this noodle so now our colors
get inverted now again we have way too
much white all the starters are kind of
running into one another and it too big
and blobby so when I press shift a on my
keyboard and a couple notes of Psaltis
I'm going to add a RGB curves note so
I'm going to add that to that same
noodle things will get expanded out and
in order to use this what I want to do
is I want to cut off the white in the
scene I would add more black to the
scene and make much less than the scene
white so I'm going to drag this bottom
point over and you'll see what that does
it makes the white stars shrink
essentially so I'm gonna make that and I
even a drag in the middle to make that
sharper or less less contrasty
but I'm going to move this over quite a
lot route that got I went too far I
think so I'm going to go over more and
more more almost all the way to the edge
this top point or in the corner so that
is where it should be and I really
really want a little tiny tiny tiny
stars and they are all just white and
gray right now I'll be making them kind
of a more random II like blue color in
just a moment but we want to make them
the right size first so I'm going to add
a brightness and contrast so shift a on
my keyboard a color brightness and
contrast mode and put that in there and
I'm going to turn out the contrast a
little bit to make this Dara's just
let's blurry on the outside and how to
have brightness know that makes them all
bigger I'm going to my contrast down a
little bit maybe how is that looking I
there's too many stars here still so I
can drag that bottom in
and that's looking really really good I
think let's go ahead and do a quick
render in the scene I have my cycles
render engine setup let's go to the
camera tab and turn my resolution up to
a hundred percent and I'll click on
render
okay so the render is done but over here
I'm put my mouse in this window and
press control up arrow on my keyboard to
make that window full screen of course I
can press the same control up arrow to
make that not that we do not maximize
but for now I want to view the image at
its full size at one to one so I can see
the size of the stars and the small
stars and I think these guys are too big
still I'm being quite picky here because
it really will sell this is looking very
amateur or very professional if your
stars look good right now I think I have
too many evenly bright big stars so
let's go ahead and tweak that I believe
I can do that with contrasting the
contrast is too high so check treasuring
it down brightness first after 0.2 and
then my contrast I'm gonna turn that
down to maybe 1.5 and then I'm going to
turn down the light a little bit here
yeah I don't want to be quite as bright
as it was
okay I'm going to see what that looks
like I've tweaked the Stars and I can't
really give you the values because I'm
just playing around of it myself but you
can play around with your stars as much
as you like I can click on render first
of all change my compute device to my
graphics card my GPU and I'll change my
samples actually voltage or example
change my tiles to 512 by 512 let's go
and do a quick render
okay I think it's finished rendering
let's go ahead and make that window full
screen control up arrow
I'll view this as image at one to one
and that's looking a lot the stars are
not too bright not too blobby they're
sort of spaced out from our ink lump-sum
are not I'm quite happy with that but
again they're just black and white
there's no coloring I want there to be a
little bit of blue eNOS random color
eNOS so I'm going to add another layer
of nodes here I'm gonna add some clouds
actually so I'm gonna press shift a on
my keyboard I'm gonna add a texture I'm
going to add ice it's kinda want or is
it yeah you know I think it's actually
I'm no way so I'm going to add in a
noise texture node and I think I'm going
to add in in fact I'm going to try
plugging that into the background so I
can see what looks like a ha that's what
that would give me so basically I'm
going to take clouds in fact I'm gonna
plug factor into or what I could do is I
can press shift a I could add a
converter and I could say RGB to black
and white and plug that in there so we
just get black and white like clouds are
noise basically I'm going to overlay
this with color overtop of my stars so
that some of the stars make them a
little bit darker and if you don't get
any color added to them but white areas
will add will be colored more brightly
and they will be affecting the stars
below with it with a blend or alpha
layer on or blending mode I think that's
what you call it in Photoshop or GIMP or
graphics programs we're blending on top
using a multiply blending mode to
influence the color of the stars that'll
make it look really nice and
professional your stars really will sell
this opening kind of crawl so I'm going
to it just connect that because I want
to add a mix here but actually I want to
add a color first so I'm going to add a
color mix RGB node and I'm going to plug
in the value of RGB to black and white
to one of my colors actual
leave that plugged in there for now the
scale is wait way not enough and I
believe this is not going to help up
being a gray color so I'm going to add
in a I believe I believe that about 0.5
or so because basically I'm mixing in
with this node blew into my clouds and I
believe if I change the blending mode
here to multiply or add or subtract we
can change the colors and we can make
different effects with the colors and
it's really just up to you to play
around I'm going to go with multiply or
add I kind of like add out of scale
let's play over that little bit I'm
going to drag in that to make that
little bit smaller and maybe change the
amount of detail like that and I think
I'm happy with that so far but now I
want to actually overlay just like I
overlaid this color on the blue color
onto the clouds I want to overlay the
output of this section that are my color
clouds into the stars so I'm actually
going to move things a little bit over
here and duplicate this add a node so
I'll select it and press shift D on my
keyboard I'll plug that into there and
I'm going to plug the stars into my
other one now I can't see anything
because I'm going to change my blend
mode to multiply and if I turn that
factor up to one you can see hopefully
now that I'm getting some blurriness if
I do another render at this moment I'm
getting it spotty and intermittent and
in a cloud formation or cloud pattern
random out the blurriness in my scene
and I think I'm going to be happy with
that I might try playing around with the
order of those let's go ahead and do a
quick render out
let's go ahead and see how it looks so
maximize that window
do we have much blue I know we don't
have very much blue so I actually to
pause the video now and check my
reference I'll come back in just a
moment
aha ok I'm back and I just changed one
little thing I made my render window no
longer fullscreen and I changed the in
the mixed note up here I had this mixed
blend mode set to multiple multiply the
before and I changed it to mix and now I
played around to the value if I turn up
the factor two one you can see my render
here getting very very blue but if I
turn this down of course it's not going
to be adding that blue at all so we have
totally black and white so the factor
matters as well as this blend mode here
I'm going to leave it at mix and I'm
going to turn my factor out maybe to 0.6
or so so now if I do a quick render and
it went there's done so I'll make that
window full screen you can see that
other stars are quite nice looking and
they are a little bit blue so I'm happy
with that let's go ahead and continue on
we are done all aspects of the scene
that we're making except for putting it
all together we have a title with
animation we and it's mask is made that
we haven't made its mask work we have
the crawl and it's animation we have the
stars I actually know what I have to
render out these stars for every single
frame though so I'm going to just save
this image to my computer so under I'm
going to change my mode actually back to
view I'm going to take this image I'm
going to save as image onto my desktop
I'm gonna call it stars dot PNG I'm
happy with that save as image I'll make
that window not fullscreen anymore it'll
go back to my other seams because I want
to make sure that's there render
settings are all set up properly in the
title scene I want to make sure that my
render is set to the right resolution in
this case I want 1080p 1920 by 1080 but
not 50% 100% these settings are all by
individual scenes you have to fix them
for every single scene
um my camera is fine I'm okay I'm gonna
change the focal length of my camera I
think it's fine I think everything here
else might be okay because I want to
render out with my GPU have to select
that here and every separate scene as
well I also have to make sure I change
my tiles because I'm going out with a
GPU to larger tiles to use our happier
with larger render title so I'll also
use to 512 by 512 I think I'm pretty
good with that sampling we're going up
to 120 examples I'm okay with that so I
think I'm good there I want to copy all
those settings over to my other next
scenes we'll do that manually I'll go
over to my crawl scene we have already
changes to a hundred percent size I want
to make sure that my samples are good
128 my render assets' GPU and my tiles
are the 512 by 512 so it all looks good
to me
the stars are already rendered out so
I'm not gonna worry about that scene but
I want to make one more scene here scene
that's just there to composite
everything together so I'll do a quick
save doe control s and click I'm going
to make a new scene so I'll press the +
and new I do I believe need to have a
new camera in the scene so go back to
the port shading solid and I'll press
shift S on my keyboard and cursor to
Center just a on my keyboard and I'm
going to add a camera I'm going to
choose a add menu it's rotated and its
default funny way so alt R + alt G to
put it back where it should be and clear
its rotation and at this point we want
to start using planners compositing
notes and so those are located
of course the node in your window but
under the second tab or obviously
material nodes here we're using a
compositing notes I'm going to click on
use nodes as well so when you're
rendering from a 3d scene or compositing
from a 3d scene you should have at least
two notes to start off with you should
have render layer or render layers note
this is actually the dough that
brings in stuff from your 3d seams and
then we have at the end always always
always we have a composite note if you
don't see any nodes that means you're
not in compositing notes and/or you're
not in cycles I can tell where the
cycles in the seam it's very important
to do and make sure you're using
material or not material on those but
compositing nodes okay so we want to
make sure we're compositing up to a full
1080p resolution I want to make sure
we're using I'm using my GPU let make
sure that I'm using the right size of
tile in this case
bigger is better for a GPU and so 512
and 512 and I'm pretty happy with that
so in this case this render layers node
is bringing an only one scene at a time
seeing zeros or one is this scene that's
empty I don't want that so I'm going to
bring in my title scheme and in order to
see the scene I'm actually going to make
another output viewer called a viewer
nodes that's very appropriate so I'll
press just a on my keyboard and under
output I'm gonna bring in a viewer milk
and I want to split this off so it's
outputting to the composite as well as
the viewer and this view let me actually
see my movie in the background of this
window so I'm going to hold shift on my
keyboard and I'm going to left click and
drag let's shift held down through that
noodle to make a new little divider or a
splitter a little tiny node there and
now you can connect that up and I'll
check backdrop so now I'll be able to
see what's going on in my scene but we
haven't rendered anything yet we have
our render layers here and this will
render out just that first title scene
so if I click on render right now you
will see the beginning the first frame
or frame one of the title scene and so
you can see the render out there and
because it's finished rendering we now
have in the backdrop of this window the
render of the fear or the composite it's
being cropped or the background is too
big
so I can actually zoom in and zoom out
and move the backdrop of this window by
going down to view and there we can see
backdrop zoom out is the V key zoom in
is all tree and backdrop move is alt
middle mouse so if I tap V on my
keyboard it will zoom or scale down the
render of my background if I hold alt
and press my mouse wheel down like a
button and drag I can move that backdrop
around that's great now when we're
stacking different sources of video or
rendering a rendered video or a rendered
3d scene one on top of another in other
words we're going to stack the title
video on top or behind doesn't really
matter of the crawl and they won't going
to put these stars in the background we
need to use a node called alpha over so
I'm going to press shift a on my
keyboard and I'm going to go to color
and alpha over I'm going to add that
right in the middle of this big noodle
section and it all turned white there
because these two inputs the image and
image are not in the same order that you
might think the bottom image port is
what goes on top and the top port is
what goes underneath or behind so in
this case the white is going on top of
or in front of our scene so I'm going to
switch that input and that will switch
back but as you can see the Bourne cg
text has a black background in the
render I don't want that in fact I think
I forgot to change it for both of my
scenes I basically want to have these
scenes render out to a transparent
background so that I can layer in the
stars behind both of those scenes so I'm
gonna go and name this scene first I'm
going to call this scene composite and
press Enter
I'm gonna change scenes now to my title
scene and the way you make your
background transparent when your
rendering is under the camera tab in
each scene you have to go down to film
and check transparent Valley when you
render out a scene it will have a
transparent background that's as easy as
it is so I'll go to my crawl scene and
connect trance
and now if I go back to composite scene
and do another render under the camera
tab render we will be entering out you
can see there as a checkerboard pattern
that means that we're entering out to
transparent and because this second
upper input is white we now have a white
background I don't want a white
background no I want my stars background
so I'm going to press shift a on my
keyboard and I'm going to input an image
we're not importing a scene this time
we're importing a static image that will
save on our rendering time so I'm going
to plug that into there I'm going to
open up an image we'll click open I'll
go to my desktop and there in our stars
image so open that up and you can start
to see how things are looking here if I
scrub through through a different time
of course I can click on render and it's
going to render out at 285 well before
ncg is gone so I'll go back could be 119
and will render out and we'll see
hopefully ygg is way in the background
it's looking pretty good
so this clump of three nodes here the
render layers from our title scene these
stars in the Alpha over are all now kind
of one chunk and down on top of that
chunk we're going to add another alpha
over and we're going to layer on top of
that our crawl okay and it will make our
mask work as well yes I haven't
forgotten about the mask yet so I'm
going to select that alpha over node I'm
going to duplicate it so I'll press just
D on my keyboard I'll put it over here
I'm going to add another render layers
no before bringing in more render from
another scene so I'll duplicate that one
shift D I'll put it right there I'll
plug it into there and we're not
bringing in the title anymore or
bringing in the crawl okay so our crawls
right there I think I rented it up
before that's why has a black background
so if I click render again aha we're at
frame 119 still and the crawl has not
started to show up yet so I'm going to
go to a later frame where I know the
crawl is there 423 yeah it'll be there
and I'll click on a render aha so there
is the crawl you might have noticed
there that it did render out
the born CG scene which had nothing in
it at this point and they have it quite
quickly and then it rendered out the
scene with the crawl in it okay we're
doing pretty good here we have
everything composited together the one
thing we are missing is the mask that I
made a little while ago that will make
the crawl text and I'm going to orbit or
pan that over so you can see that mass
should be cutting off the crawl text as
it gets to the top so if I go to later
on and I click on render once the crawl
gets to the top it should be
disappearing and fading out as it stands
right now that no is not at all faded
because there is no fading at all it's
just the same color so in order for that
to happen I need to bring in a mask mode
so I'll press shift a on my keyboard I'm
going to bring in an input mask node
right there we want the mask to be a
factor in this off over when we're
finally adding the crawl text so I'm
gonna plug that into there the mask but
I want to use is the crawl mask let's
try doing a render here okay it's
working but the mask is inverted it's
fading out quite nicely it's cutting off
some text but it should be flipped it's
keeping the stuff that we want to get
rid of and it's getting rid of the stuff
that we want to keep so I'm just going
to add in I'll press shift a I'm going
to add in a color invert node because a
mask is basically a black and white or
grayscale image that's telling the
compositor where to keep things and
where to get rid of things in this case
the black and white er are flipped so
I'm going to insert that invert color
node right there and as you can see now
it's feeding out quite nicely if I go to
a layer frame where things should be
already kind of faded out and gone and I
render out the scene again it is quite
nicely a faded out so you know what I
think we're pretty much done here I'm
gonna do a quick save the very last step
here will be to do a few test renders
but also it'll be to set up our
rendering our output location and our
render settings resolution set to 1920
by 1080 at 100% I've got my render
engine set to cycles it's very important
I'm outputting in this case not to a PNG
but I want to output to an h.264 video
that's the correct the video codec
that's used very commonly on most
devices and most websites like YouTube
YouTube or most video streaming sites
use h.264 which is the video codec we
want to encode the video not as an avi
but as an mpeg-4 video so it'll end in
mp4 and bitrate I'm going to turn that
up a little bit just maybe 8,000 or
10,000 sure I'm happy with that we want
to make sure our samples I said
appropriately I think 128 for this video
is fine my performance I need to make
sure that my tiles are set high because
I'm going to be rendering out with my
GPU the tiles did say 512 X 512 I'm a
GPU is set up you know I think we are
good here actually I have not set my
output location I want to output to a
video file on my desktop so I'll select
my desktop I'm going to call this Orin
CG Star Wars title crawl - 0 0 1 and
I'll press Enter and accept so I think
we are now good to go here the last
level B of course - click on animation
and wait for all of my frames to render
before checking out that video file on
my desktop what that will be if this
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