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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783984909
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Fisher Gordon Fisher
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Blender and Animation FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View 3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects 4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces 5. Building a Simple Boat 6. Making and Moving the Oars 7. Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan 8. Making the Sloop 9. Finishing Your Sloop 10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain 11. Improving Your Lighting and Camera Work 12. Rendering and Compositing Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – keyframes for lights


Next, we'll make keyframes for light color specifically, when in the Properties window using the following steps:

  1. Move the current frame indicator to frame 1.

  2. Select the lamp in 3D View with the RMB. Select the Object data button in the header of the Properties window. It's the button with the lamp, highlighted with the blue background in the following screenshot:

  3. Down in the Lamp subpanel, there is the white Light Color box that you used in order to change the lamp color earlier. Move the cursor over that box and press I to insert a keyframe. There is no menu, but the white box gets a border. In Graph Editor, you now see a control curve for the lamp.

  4. In Graph Editor, move the current frame indicator to frame 20.

  5. In the Lamp subpanel of the Properties window, use the color wheel to make the light a different color. The white box changes color. When you like the color, with the cursor over the box, press the I key to insert another keyframe. You will see...

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