User:Thijshijsijsjss/Pen Plotting Panache/3D Movie/Blender
Working on the pen plotted 3D movie, it is becoming clear that a great hurdle is the contents: I don't want this to be a tech demo. [plotter.vision] -- what I have been using so far -- is great, but does not help in this regard: it's constraint of only panning, zooming and rotating, i.e. not allowing models to be animated, makes any scene quickly feel like a showcase. As the movie would be anaglyph 3D, working with colors is difficult too. So, what could be it?
First: writing two scripts
First, I was most worried about the manual labour required for a movie. In short, there are 4 main steps, each very laborious:
- Creating the frames
- Preparing the frames to be ready to plot
- Plotting the frames
- Processing the plotted frames
Creating the frames is decently fun, and plotting is an inevitability for this project. So, while warming up to the project again, I decided to spend some time on the preparation of the frames. This led to two scripts: one for merging all SVGs downloaded from plotter.vision, and one to space all these frames. These scripts I wrote with Processing, because it's fast, allows for SVG manipulation using native objects, and most importantly because I am decently familiar with it.
Why is this on the blender page? You'll see.
I have never used Blender
- Render anaglyph 3D
- Render just the freestyle edges
- A cool video about taking these wireframe models into a stylized direction (not relevant for this movie)