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It's good, but the field of vision is off, the trees or the track up close needs to be out of focus.

I know this is a bit of a bump, but not all cameras focus shallowly, you can have a large depth of field on a quite a few cameras.

However, in most cases, there's going to be some DOF in such a big scene. Plus, why would you not want DOF for this picture? It would make it look even nicer than it already is.

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BGanimations wrote:
Cartoonkid98 wrote:
BWJCLego wrote:

It's good, but the field of vision is off, the trees or the track up close needs to be out of focus.

I know this is a bit of a bump, but not all cameras focus shallowly, you can have a large depth of field on a quite a few cameras.

However, in most cases, there's going to be some DOF in such a big scene. Plus, why would you not want DOF for this picture? It would make it look even nicer than it already is.

Exactly what I was going to say.  There is no such thing as an unlimited depth of field,  There will always be one for real cameras, so adding one, even a big one, will make that picture look much better.

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There is no such thing as an unlimited depth of field,  There will always be one for real cameras.

Your eye is in essence a camera. I don't know about you but I can focus for as far as I can see. So an unlimited DoF camera would be possible mini/smile

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Cartoonkid98 wrote:
BWJCLego wrote:

There is no such thing as an unlimited depth of field,  There will always be one for real cameras.

Your eye is in essence a camera. I don't know about you but I can focus for as far as I can see. So an unlimited DoF camera would be possible mini/smile

No. I hate to break it to you, but you most definitely can't focus as far as you can see. Your eye is a lot like a camera, but it doesn't work at all like that Cartoonkid. I am 100% sure that you can't focus with everything in literally perfect detail using your eyes. And the mechanics of a camera make it inevitable that you have a DOF. It's not physically possible to make a camera without DOF.

And even if you could somehow magically have perfect focus with a camera, DOF is a must-have in a large CGI scene.

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Well with a lot of pictures and a gracious amount of post pro, a pic mimicking unlimited focus would be possible, but lets stop this.

I am doing a 52 week CGI trek.  I aim to get much, much better and actually learn how to use blender.  Week one is a bit late, but released today on my blog.  Really didn't like how this turned out, but the P took longer to mesh than I thought, so it was a tad rushed. 
I will only be putting some of the models in this thread so as not to clutter so if you want to keep up with my endeavours I suggest following my blog.

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Stan the lego man could i suggest not having motion blur on the train, but on the environment? This would make it look like the camera is tracking the train and draw attention to it.

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Awsome car, roRyL!

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Here's some CGI i've been working on recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOe62ngiJA

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The arms and the hands look a bit strange, but apart from that the fig is nicely modeled, and well animated.

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Here's some CGI i've been working on recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOe62ngiJA

yeah, i'd say the arms and hands look a little funny.  other than that, though, it looks great.  you might want to check out my blender minifigure that i modeled.  you can use it for whatever you want (you don't have to credit me mini/wink )

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How do you export a blender animation? I've been trying to figure it out for weeks.

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In the output panel, select what drive and folder you want your animation to go into, as well as change the render settings to a ".avi" type. Then render out your animation.

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Oh,thanks!

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Has anyone gotten the smoke in Blender 2.56 working, and by that, I mean rendered. I've gone and followed this tutorial, and the most I can get is a very small cloud of black pixels some distance from my flow object.

It looks great in the 3D view, though. Besides not rendering, it's working 100%.

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That tutorial used blender 2.50, there have been a lot of changes and improvements since.  this one is much more updated.

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Here's the body and legs of a LEGO minfigure I modeled yesterday.

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I may resize the waist today when I model the hands and arms. Also, I did NOT steal, or modify, or use Littlebick's minifigure. One difference is, his is much better than mine mini/tongue .

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Okie-dokie, I've followed the more recent tutorial for setting up smoke in Blender, and it still isn't rendering. I get to the point where you apply the Voxel Data texture, and nothing works after that; when I apply the Voxel Data texture, nothing appears in the texture preview window, and nothing renders. Apparently, I'm not the only person having this problem.

EDIT: Actually, it seems to work. The voxel data texture preview still doesn't show up, but it seems to be rending fine. I'm trying a high-res render now. However, this is from a file I got online; I haven't been able to get one of my own files working just yet.

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Here's a frame from a CGI backdrop I'm working on. It's about... 50% done.

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Looks great!

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