For the genuinely confused.
The human mouth is kind of a bastard. Animating it frame-by-frame requires a patience that I just don’t have. Blender has shape keys that can help you mold lips into different configurations for each sound, but you still have to set keyframes to match up with a particular word at each and every frame.
Or you can be lazy. Like me.
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GAP stands for Gimp Animation Package. It’s the way that I make gifs out of MP4 files. Here’s a breakdown of how you can install it into your version of Gimp in six steps.
After a long vacation, a wedding, a bad flu, and a whole mess of planes, trains, and automobiles, I’m back to talk about textures. I love playing with transparency in scenes, but scripting transclucency is a bit unusual in Processing. The normal Processing canvas doesn’t support an alpha channel, so it requires something called PGraphics().
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Animated textures in Blender is a thing! Immediately after finding that out, I set out to script a grid crawler texture in Processing. Because no one in their right mind would want to draw that by hand.
A Bit Of Everything has a post with the logic for a static grid, but somehow getting an animated version ate 3 hours of my life. All in all, it took about 12 tries. What I love about Processing is that even bad guesses can have pleasing results.
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I’m generally opposed to functions that overload on parameters. But seeing as how Blender functions do it all the time, I figured I’d go nuts for this updated text animation function.
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I’ve been reading Code Breakers by Rudolf Kippenhahn. What hooked me into it was the part about the Wheel Cipher, a device envisioned by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1700’s. You can see Jefferson’s note about the wheel in his very own, genuinely awful handwriting here.
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This is Bob. Bob is a gelatinous organism from outer space. He’s also a bit of a diva, so he requires that he be announced by text that drifts upwards in a graceful and organized fashion.
So that’s how I spent the first chunk of my long weekend—figuring out text objects in Blender. For the sliding script, just scroll to the bottom. For more description, keep reading below.
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Shortly after I spent hours in Processing figuring out how to map coordinates onto an image, someone mentioned that what I REALLY want to be using is QGIS.
Alright, this is the last of the circle functions. That’s a lie. The sine/cosine thing took me so long to wrap my head around, I’ll be using these functions in every animated scene I make from this point forward.
Today is less of a how-to day. It’s more of a blind hate rant day because everyone needs those on occasion.
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