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New Tute!Updated Jan 21, 2004

Using the New Displacement Mapping

Using Editmesh Undo

Making a Blender Movie

When I went to this years World Science Fiction Convention, I attended a "Making of Toy Story 2" discussion put on by Pixar. From that, I present the Making a Blender Movie tutorial.

It's still a work in progress (as is everything at the SGBC), I hope to have some clips to show examples of the stages, soon.

Get mpeg_encode Here

Blender Tutorials are often in the form of a .blend file, right? So naturally, an mpeg_encoder tute should be in the form of an mpeg_encode parameter file. . .

I've zipped up the results, some test parameter files, and a CDL file, and put them here-> mpeg_tutor.zip(12K). Unzip it, and read the comments in "explained.param".

Personally, I think most of MPEG4's (the basis of the DivX;-) codec) features aren't used by Blenderers. With careful selection of the parameters, I think mpeg_encode can approach the quality/compression of DivX. Main advantage it has (and I suppose in some cases it could be a big plus), is that its Macroblocks don't have to be square.

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