Blender Tutorial F Curve Noise Modifier

There are times when you don't want a smooth transition between your animation keyframes. When you need a flickering light, or an earthquake; manually creating all those keyframes is painful and often looks unnatural. But in Blender 2.5, you've now got access to F Curve (formally IPO Curve) Modifiers. With the Noise Modifier, you can add noise to a curve with just a couple of keystrokes.

Check out my website for the .blend file and a detailed .pdf going through the steps covered in this tutorial.

http://glenndusting.com/2010/09/04/blender-tutorial-f-curve-noise-modifier/

Video Credits:

Music:
Kevin MacLeod
Sovereign
http://www.incompetech.com
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Sound Effects:

Taken from
http://www.freesound.org

FreqMan
Bell System Ringer Model 687A (8-70).wav
(Above credit left out of video credits)

BenKoning:
FilmFlopping.wav

espectral:
Proyector16mm-1.wav

orehek:
TVonoff.aif

pcaeldries:
CountrySideSummerEvening.wav
boing_raw.aif

nextmaking:
Foot step on carpet.aif

Effects licensed under Creative Commons "Sampling Plus 1.0"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/

TV Footage:

Timelapse sunset field Italy
http://www.openfootage.net
Licensed under A Creative Commons License
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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Blender Tutorial
• Blender
• 3D
• F Curve
• F Curve Modifier
• F Curve Noise Modifier
• Noise Modifier
• Noise
• Earthquake Effect
• Ringing Phone Effect
• Graph Editor

[Brijanoslav]

is there a way to apply a noise modifier in blender 2.60 for the cam movement and then to import it to blender 2.49b? thx

[GlennDusting]

@Brijanoslav I am not aware of a way to do that unless there is some way to convert the curve to keyframes (which may be possible). Best bet would be to ask on blenderartists,org. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[videofountain]

Interesting and Useful.

Your sense of zoom and placement of your video is quite nice.

Did you use camstudio ... camtasia or other?

The keystroke display was helpful as well.

[GlennDusting]

@videofountain The program I use is called ScreenFlow and is only available on the Mac platform (10.5 or later). It's not exactly cheap but it's small and has a heap of features.

[Brijanoslav]

@GlennDusting no problem :D still thanks a lot

[TactilePortraits]

Thank you, this is very helpful. (I think that Blender 2.6 actually added a start- and stop-point to the Noise Modifier, so that now you can actually choose at least one pair of start- and stop-frames. Although an Empty would still be required for multiple starts and stops, such as the telephone bouncing as its ringing.)

[BLUYES422]

i like your videos i just dont like the noise canceling function on it it makes me feel like im in an airplane

[Jeff2207xx]

Very helpful, thanks