Ira Krakow's Animated 3D Text Blender 2.49b Tutorial

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create animated 3D text in Blender 2.49b. You can use this type of effect to create, for example, rolling credits in your video. Or, perhaps, you can do something like the Star Wars introduction..."A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away...".

The techniques are based on Paolo Ciccone's excellent Blender 3D Survival Guide, which you can find at CreativeCow. Specifically, you can find how Paolo creates animated 3D text in Parts 3 and 4. The URLs are at:

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ciccone_paolo/blender-survival-guide-...
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ciccone_paolo/blender-survival-guide-...

You should watch Paolo's tutorial as well, because he discusses many other features of 3D text animation, such as lighting and camera positioning. Blender has so many features that it's impossible to cover all of them in one or two videos. The purpose of this tutorial is to show you the basic steps, a recipe for doing animated 3D text in Blender.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• blender
• 3d
• tutorial
• 2.49b
• animated
• text
• cg
• modeling
• curve
• rolling
• credits
• star
• wars

[MikeHornett]

Yep cool stuff. Was just playing with text the other day. A cool thing to do is animate it through a lattice to deform it.

[irakrakow]

@MikeHornett Yes, lattices are totally cool.

[blenderCGartist]

noo i just made a tutorial for that!!!

[irakrakow]

@blenderCGartist Great! The more the merrier.

[FATALLICxVENOMx]

i got up to changing the colour but i have a new type of blender and i have no idea where i can change the colour

[FATALLICxVENOMx]

how do u make Blender in 2d screen thing

[EclipsEventsSD]

Precise tutorial very easy to follow and extremely well supported with info, 10/10 good job.

[madcow455]

@SyKmGl you have to render it

[SyKmGl]

I don't get how to save the file. I can only save it as a blender file or a JPEG, not as a video.

[sidahmedima]

I DON'T understand anything ! :!

[century3horizons]

AAAAAARGGGH!!!! You left us hanging at the very final stage of exporting our .blend project to .avi! What is the final step once I've made all the resolution and file type settings and I've chosen my directory path? How do I initiate the actual 'save to .avi' action?

[DKAkuYaenko]

oh and btw: its much better if u use (for example) textures of gimp or whatever else. i think you can convert the text in a editable mesh and use the uvimage editor.

[DKAkuYaenko]

thank u !

[oMrHDx]

THANKS YOUR AMAZING!