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Hi, I was just wondering if there are any good tutorials on keyframe animating in Blender and changing the camera angle. I only want to animate simple stuff like spaceships so all tutorials about how to construct characters and stuff are pointless to me. Can anybody please help?
Also, do you put a picture into blender as a background or do you chroma-key it in later. Thanks
There aren't really any tutorials on keyframing. All you do is hit I and choose what kind of movement it's going to be doing in that keyframe. And to change the camera angle you just move the camera like any other object, and use keyframes if you want to animate the camera moving.
And for the background, use View>>Background Image to be able to view the image in Blender, but to render it go to the Texturing subpanel and under world textures load the movie/picture that you want as a background, then go the the World subpanel. Switch the mode to paper and switch from Blend to Hoizon in the Map to subpanel. Hope it helps!
Thanks, this was really useful! 
An EXTREMELY helpful keyboard shortcut is Ctl+Alt-0 (the 0 is numpad 0) it snaps the camera to your view.
Also, Shift+F is really useful, too, it lets you fly around the scene, move the mouse to rotate, and use the scrool wheel to go backward and forward.
Awesome, thanks, I was wondering how you did that
Also, is there a keyboard shortcut for swithching objects since I'm finding it quite difficult a the moment. Aswell as that, how do I resize something to be really giant, like a mini-carrier ship compared with a full size space ship?
Thanks again
Last edited by HappyFaceStudios (May 28, 2010 (12:47pm))
To resize, hit 'S' and type in a number
Our favorite hot-key in CGI is probably Ctrl+Z... 
Ctrl+Z
The greatest invention of all time
Cool, thanks
BuilderBrothers wrote:Ctrl+Z
The greatest invention of all time
I couldn't agree more.
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