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Blender Motion Graphics

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    01a Setup & Previz: FPS & Resolution

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    01b Setup & Previz: Linking Assets for Fast Production

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    02a Camera Control & Basic Cinematography: Basic Camera Movement & Cinematography

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    02b Camera Control & Basic Cinematography: Quick Camera Rig

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    03a Creating the Look: Creating Interesting Lighting with Basic Techniques

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    03b Creating the Look: Procedural Mesh Effects with Modifiers

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    03c Creating the Look: Shading with Modifiers

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    03d Creating the Look: Creative Color Management

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    04a Title Workflow: Quick Basic Titles

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    04b - Dynamic Text Rig

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    04c - Shading the Titles

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    05a - GI & Clamping

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    05b - CPU vs GPU Rendering

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    05c - Batch & Farm Rendering

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    06a - Basic Compositing Tricks

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    06b - Creating Extra Elements

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    06c - Finalizing the Edit

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    T01a - Advanced Modifier Modeling

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    T01b - Shader Detailing

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    T02a - More Modifier Modeling

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    T02b - Particle Scattering

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    T02c - Shading & Scene Breakdown

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    T03a - Particleception

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    T03b - Managing Large Simulations

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    T04a - Particle Tracing

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    T04b - Trail Variations

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Blender Motion Graphics

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Trailer keyboard_arrow_down
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    Trailer - Blender Motion Graphics

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Intro & Reference Videos keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Intro Video (Watch this first!)

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  2. 02

    Workflow Reference (Blenderman)

  3. 03

    Techniques Reference

Workflow 01: Setup & Previz keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    01a Setup & Previz: FPS & Resolution

  2. 02

    01b Setup & Previz: Linking Assets for Fast Production

Workflow 02: Camera Control & Basic Cinematography keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    02a Camera Control & Basic Cinematography: Basic Camera Movement & Cinematography

  2. 02

    02b Camera Control & Basic Cinematography: Quick Camera Rig

Workflow 03: Creating the Look keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    03a Creating the Look: Creating Interesting Lighting with Basic Techniques

  2. 02

    03b Creating the Look: Procedural Mesh Effects with Modifiers

  3. 03

    03c Creating the Look: Shading with Modifiers

  4. 04

    03d Creating the Look: Creative Color Management

Workflow 04: Title Workflow keyboard_arrow_down
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    04a Title Workflow: Quick Basic Titles

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    04b - Dynamic Text Rig

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    04c - Shading the Titles

Workflow 05: Rendering the Project keyboard_arrow_down
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    05a - GI & Clamping

  2. 02

    05b - CPU vs GPU Rendering

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    05c - Batch & Farm Rendering

Workflow 06: Compositing & Finishing keyboard_arrow_down
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    06a - Basic Compositing Tricks

  2. 02

    06b - Creating Extra Elements

  3. 03

    06c - Finalizing the Edit

Technique 01: Tech Tunnel keyboard_arrow_down
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    T01a - Advanced Modifier Modeling

  2. 02

    T01b - Shader Detailing

Technique 02: UI / Hologram keyboard_arrow_down
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    T02a - More Modifier Modeling

  2. 02

    T02b - Particle Scattering

  3. 03

    T02c - Shading & Scene Breakdown

Technique 03: Particles Emitting Particles keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    T03a - Particleception

  2. 02

    T03b - Managing Large Simulations

Technique 04: Tracing Particle Trails keyboard_arrow_down
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    T04a - Particle Tracing

  2. 02

    T04b - Trail Variations

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Technique 04: Tracing Particle Trails

T04b - Trail Variations

3rd April 2017

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Midge Sinnaeve

With the particle trails set up as curves you can split them up to shade them separately. This adds more color and detail to the final result and allows for experimentation for more interesting results.

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David mcsween

1st May 2017 - 07:54

I didn't even know that there was a random select for verts

Midge Sinnaeve

2nd May 2017 - 16:06

@3pointedit: I've since learned you can hit CTRL+L to select all the linked verts on the spline for quicker use. :)

Relja Trajković

4th May 2017 - 15:03

So much ingenious thinking in these tutorials. As someone working with motion graphics a lot, I find this incredibly motivating.

Zachary Zellman

9th December 2017 - 05:34

Thank you so much for this course! I can't wait to start playing around and making some weirdly awesome stuff!!!

Lionel Caruana

24th December 2017 - 22:30

nice tricks ;) very useful

Felipe Lira

25th June 2019 - 19:31

MVI_0184.mp4

Midge Sinnaeve

28th June 2019 - 15:21

*@Felipe Lira* Nice!

Felipe Lira

28th June 2019 - 20:35

*@Midge Sinnaeve* Thank you! :D

David Delgado

16th July 2020 - 22:24

Very nice, thank you !!

Daniel Crane

16th May 2017 - 06:01

Really great series - Thank you! how did you go about achieving that colored haze on the final render of this scene?

Midge Sinnaeve

18th May 2017 - 15:11

@dan.crane2: In the compositor I use an Ellipse Mask that I pipe in to a Color Ramp to colorize it. Then, I blur that result and mix it in over the render with the Add blending mode. You can find the blendfiles in the production assets section of the course to take a look at.

denis wolff

19th June 2017 - 18:01

after the random selection at .025 per cent when i click on ctrl "plus" on the num pad nothing appears

Midge Sinnaeve

30th June 2017 - 19:59

@deniswolff2003: Make sure you're using the "+" sign on the numpad for it to work.

JPCokes

23rd March 2019 - 04:13

how were you able to separate the curves so that you could animate each one. For some reason in the dope sheet I could not animate the curves separately cause they were linked

Midge Sinnaeve

24th March 2019 - 11:03

*@JPCokes* Did you animate them first? If so, you'll have to unlink the animation in the NLA editor. If htey're not animated you should be able to split and animate them separately.

Jeremy Barnes

22nd November 2020 - 22:19

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Jeremy Barnes

22nd November 2020 - 22:33

@Jeremy Barnes all the other videos send me right to the refridgerator LOL. i want to learn blender not fast food lol AH! awesome videos 😎 i know its called blender but i achuly dont need a blender πŸπŸŽπŸ“πŸŠπŸ‰πŸπŸ₯€ maybe i do i have no idea LOL

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