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It looks great BG, but I'll be more impressed if you manage to render that out in an animation using anything other than a white background!

What are you using for the eye material?

Haha, I think I'd have to turn off ambient occlusion if I did anything more than a white background!

For an eye material I'm using a cloud texture, and I have the emit value on the red set up to 1. However, I don't really like how the eyes turned out compared to the rest of it, so I might change the texture.

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It looks good, but the panels don't really look like they're firmly on at the moment, and the mirrors look a bit odd. Might want to change that, but I think you're doing good so far.

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im guessing you used the blendercookie tutorial
I love them
Good job

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QUESTION: how do you make a cgi background in a stop motion scene? I know that I have to green screen and all that stuff.

That is right .. where is the problem?

You have to take a look on these things while creating the CGI background:
- (smoothing the edges of the bricks)
- camera properties
- position and angle
- colour of the stones
- lightning
- focal distance
- texture

Here is an example for a CGI background in a stop mation scene:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Peiler/Brickfilms/UFO/making_the_szene_8.jpg

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Mutuceba wrote:

im guessing you used the blendercookie tutorial

Yep. I changed the spoiler a bit though cause I didn't like the huge one from the video

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Piet wrote:

Here is an example for a CGI background in a stop mation scene:

Great post Piet, really enjoyed that. I was not aware of your work before now, but it looks like you are doing some cool things.

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Great post Piet, really enjoyed that. I was not aware of your work before now, but it looks like you are doing some cool things.*Subscribes*

Thanks a lot .. I trie my very best. But I done some cool things, the movie is already finished.

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Thanks a lot .. I trie my very best. But I done some cool things, the movie is already finished.

Yup, I went and checked it out after your previous post. mini/smile

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Used a tutorial to figure out how to make the 'glass'

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wow .. it's pretty cool! The distortion seems to be realy realistic. Can you post the link to the tut?

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In Blender 2.55 whenever I select anything and try to move it it rotates. Is it just a bug or something I'm doing wrong? It never happens in older versions.

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g-grab
r-rotate
s-scale

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http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BGanimations/ninjabganimations/bglogopart1.png

I'm proud. mini/cat

Epic. Really, how the hell did you manage to make that? Awesome stuff dude! mini/mrgreen

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I managed it with great skill and patience. That's how. mini/tongue

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Wow BG!  mini/jaw

will you get mad at me if i completely copy your idea?       jk, but seriously, you inspired me to do something like that.  I never thought of making letters out of cgi legos.

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very convincing BG
great job

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Piet wrote:

wow .. it's pretty cool! The distortion seems to be realy realistic. Can you post the link to the tut?

Sorry for not getting back sooner, here it is.  I tweaked alot of settings afterward though.

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I'm proud. mini/cat

And proud you should be. I can't even animate a frikin cube on that damn Blender.