Over the summer I tackled 3D and started to learn the free BLENDER art software After downloading version 2.82a for free, I found lots of YouTube tutorials that made Blender easy to learn.
- Download and rework the Blender File of the above spinning figure: Orange_reclining_spin.blend (1.77 MB)
- YouTube tutorials: Blender 2.8 for Complete Beginners
*3D PIPELINE*
I developed a 5 step process for making 3D animated GIFs:
~RemoveBG~PhotoAmin~Mixamo~Blender~EZGif
(1) 2D drawing into 3D file
I began by cookie-cutting my drawing out of the background, either with RemoveBG online, or Photoshop Elements -- and saved the result as a PNG file with transparent background.
(2) Then I uploaded the PNG figure into PhotoAnim (Windows software) and followed this tutorial to export a 3D figure in OBJ format.
ALTERNATIVES
One could also transform PNG images from 2D into 3D online with:Or:YouTube Tutorial: Blender Convert Image to 3d Object
--Also note that Mixamo is free and online, but requires registration.
- These pre-Blender steps are also explained in the May 3D Review blog post.
I uploaded the MPG file into EZGif online to make an animated GIF. EZGif will let me crop and resize the result as well, and reduce the file size down small enough to post it on my blogs.
- YouTube tutorial: Export a Rotating GIF in Blender (7m 32s)
- YouTube tutorial: Turntable Animation | Blender 2.8 |Track Camera and Follow Path (5m)
- YouTube tutorial: Turntable Animation | Blender 2.8 Tutorial (2m 27s)
- YouTube tutorial: Blender Tutorial: Turntable Camera Rigs Made Easy (5m 38s)
- LINK to all the Blender blog posts I made this year, with a list of all the YouTube tutorials I used.
In the YouTube search engine type -- youtu.be/nYjqdlLnZH4 -- to get the "surround video."
- Super Poke (by Midge Sinnaeve, iterative poking tool for Blender)
- BY-GEN (by Curtis Holt)
- Animation Nodes (by Jacques Lucke)
- Sverchok (by Nortikin)
- Tissue (by Alessandro Zomparelli, is already included in Blender...the link is to the video)
- Spaceship Generator (comes from Michael Davies on GitHub -- YouTube video)
- attractor (by Mike Tyka-- YouTube video)
- Texture Synthesis ( by Embark Studios --YouTube video)
- Vonorator -- not an add on, but alters 3D files online
Blender seems to lend itself to collaboration, as anyone can post a Blender file for others to download (like I did above):, such as in Blender Nation, and even SketchFab.
- Gudea and Triceratops (3.14 MB) -- with objects by the Smithsonian and the Met
- Orange_reclining_spin.blend (1.77 MB)
- Lean_Green_Orbit.blend (1.47 MB)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thingiverse
- The Smithsonian Institution
- GB3D Type Fossils
- List of 50 sites to download 3D
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