 Okay, this this is just just to change things up a little bit from our current series Just gonna throw this video out there on blender 3d, and it's going to be using I'm using blender 2.75 at the time of recording this and I assume that you already know the basics of blender So let's go ahead and jump right in the concept is I was watching a YouTube video the other day this one here from Brit Lab and They have this backdrop behind the gentleman With and made little icons moving around in a grid So I was like can I make something like that in blender relatively easy? Let's go ahead and give it a try because the answer is yes. First thing we need is to create these little Icons in the background these little images. I think the easiest way to do that is With a font so I just googled Scientific font icons and the first one that came up is one that is totally free and you can see what the Images are so I downloaded that and saved that font to my computer. So we will use that Momentarily, so let's go into blender. This is my project right here that I've already created We need a 12 you can see the final product as far as it's still, but we're gonna make a video I'm going to create a new file delete the cube and go into the top view here with seven on my keypad and I'm going to Spacebar type in plane add plane scale with s 10 Enter and then I'll hit Z to go into wireframe mode tab to go into edit mode with that plane selected and I'll hit w to Subdivide and I'm going to put the number of cuts up to I think the max value is 10 And then I'll hit w again and subdivide a second time and that looks like a pretty good grid right there Tab to get out of edit mode, and I'm going to control alt zero on the number pads move my camera up here so we can see and I'll go back in the tab mode with the plane there so you can see the grid looks pretty good lined up with the camera right now So what I want to do is I want to With the plane selected go to the modifiers tab, and I'm going to add a modifier that is Wireframe mesh wireframe right there. There we go, and I'm going to turn the thickness down to 0.002 If I f12 now to render out you can see what it looks like Okay, so we got a good grid now. Let's work on the coloring for everything that we have so far So what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose my world settings here and I'm going to choose the horizon color and this will change our background color and Choose hex here and the values. I'm using our 26 a3d Zero to enter that gives us a bluish color Then with our grid selected I'll go up to the materials tab, and I'll hit new material, and I'm going to hit Here under diffused and again, I'm going to click hex and the value I'm going to give for the grid is one e nine seven C5 I don't have that memorized. I do have it written down. I'll hit enter and we'll hit f12 And there we go. We have that and just to keep a consistent look on the grid I'm going to choose here shadeless I'll hit f12 again, and you can see it has now lightened up because we don't have the shadows casting on it Great, so we have our grid. We have our background. We're almost there We just need to add in our little icons and animate them So Make sure that I'm not in edit mode for the plane I'm gonna hit spacebar and type in text and choose add text and Then with the text selected I'm going to go to the fonts tab here and under font regular I'm going to go here, and I am going to choose a file, and it's the True type font the ttf file that I downloaded from the website earlier from my Google search And there you go. You can see that we have some icons here I'm gonna hit with my cursor over the 3d view three on my number pad, and I'm going to select our grid here And I say gz and move it up just slightly so it's in front of our icons I'm gonna hit zero. I'm a number pad to go back to my camera view here And so there we have some our icons. I'm gonna hit f12 here. You can see what they look like and You can see that we don't have the material on them. There's casting some shadows You can see shadows from the grid like that dark line right there So what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose materials new material and Again, I'm going to choose color under diffused hex and I'm going to give this a value of 45 B zero D 6 and hit enter and I'm going to make that shadeless as well There we go. We have our little icons colored properly now with that slide down hit tab Backspace and then I have just one icon I'm going to scale that up a little bit and I'm going to move it someplace like right there Then I'm going to shift D to clone it Move where I want it hit tab Backspace and then choose a letter on the keyboard. Oh, there's you know, that's Q for this font shift D Move it over here tab backslash. I'll try W No, okay little skull with E there add a tab tab to out of it mode and just shift D So we're just going to keep on doing this choosing different keys on the keyboard each time to get different icons That we may want There we go D put one right here There we go And just until you get it how you like it. There we go Okay So we have a still now Let's do an animation now now if I was to set key frames for one of these because it's a font the Center here is a little off center. I can hit R to rotate and it's going to rotate like that Which isn't horrible. They much rather rotate our items Centered so what I'm going to do is with this one selected. I'm going to hit alt C And let's convert it to a mesh so mesh from the curves now to mesh and now I can say Control shift alt C So all three of those modifiers and see and we're going to move the origin to the geometry so that centers it up So now when I rotate it, it's rotated like that So now I can start animating each one of these Now in reality, I could have animated these all kind of the same and clone them afterwards But I decided just to do it this way So I met my first frame here. You can make sure you get the first frame by hitting shift and left arrow I'm going to hit I rotation Shift right arrow I Rotation and this will make sure that our animation starts and ends with the same key frames That way you can loop the video over and over again without any jerkiness to our icons And then at this point I can just choose somewhere and what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on our little recorder here So the little red icon right here, and I'll record any movements we make so I'm going to say are and then go a little bit further Are and a little bit further and rotate it back like that So now I'm going to go on to the next icon do the same thing choose it I'll see enter control C enter and then I'm going to shift left arrow I enter shift right arrow I enter and then I'm going to go somewhere randomly in their key frames here on our timeline and rotate and rotate and Go on to the next one control C enter controls C enter shift Left I enter shift right I enter Somewhere in the middle here rotate this Somewhere right here rotate this if we start if I hit alt a now you can start seeing the animation We have of these icons moving around so I'm going to do this a few more times I'm going to stop the recording so you're not bored, but it's basically the same thing for all the other icons So there we go. I have set key frames for all of these I can hit Alt a now and you can see them all moving All somewhat randomly because I did them all separately and I can hit f12 This is what our rendered scene looks like and now I can go to our Render tab here, and I can choose where I want to save this. I'll call it side back Dot a bi I like to use xvid But whatever encoder you like any codec whichever codec you like And I'm going to put the resolution all it to a hundred for 1080p here And we'll hit f12 here back up and you can see that this took No, at no time at all really to render for one frame. So hit animate and it's going to animate those About one second a frame. So 250 seconds estimated time maybe a little bit longer. It's not too long. I will have a animated video I can loop and I will show that to you and then I can use that for backdrops either for title screens or if I had it wants to use my blue screen or green screen to Chroma key myself in I could use that as a backdrop. So, yeah Sometimes I just like to see things take things I see out there in videos and see if it's something I could do simply in blender This took me maybe five minutes and most of it was just animating those keys Which really there's probably a quicker way to do that. You probably could have coded it out somehow But I hope that you enjoy this video very simple very quick just a little Concept little tutorial. I thought I'd do maybe learn some new things about modifiers or textures or something from watching me do this and I'll play you this a little look here for you. Thanks for watching. Please visit films by Chris calm That's Chris the K. 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