Quick Tip: Rendering Animations (the proper way)

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Length:
8 minutes
Software:
Blender 2.5
Difficulty:
Beginner
Rate:
VN:F [1.9.17_1161]
Rating: 4.8/5 (106 votes cast)

In this video you will discover:

  • Why rendering direct to a movie file is bad, bad, bad
  • How to render to individual frames
  • How to compile the frames in the video sequence editor

So you’ve created an animation. Good for you! Now hows about putting that on your demoreel… what? You don’t know how?!

BLENDER GURU TO THE RESCUE

Quick Tip: Rendering Animations (the proper way), 4.8 out of 5 based on 106 ratings

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • LacerInc

    THis helped majorly. I had done it both ways , but this just cleared it all up. thank you much !!

  • http://twitter.com/antOonsblender antOons

    Its not working with blender 2.66 every frame is drawing again by the GPU with Cycles !!. Took hours

    • http://twitter.com/antOonsblender antOons

      Sorry did not now I had to enable sequencer in post processing panel.
      Many thanks now it works great.

  • omarahmed

    thank you for this video .
    and I want to know how to use sculpt mode
    my email is emaemaahmad@yahoo.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/bristow.thankachan Bristow Thankachan

    This is what I’m getting after rendering.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bristow.thankachan Bristow Thankachan

    I’m gettting a completely dark image when I’m rendering in blender. Can you help me with this. I’m uploading both the screen shots. It’ll be great if you can send any solution to this problem to my mail id bristow.thankachan@gmail.com
    Thanks

    Bristow.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ficticiousanimation.shunbiochiz FicticiousAnimation ShunBiochi

    Thank you, Andrew. THis is a very excellent tutorial.

  • moiman100

    How did you open the image like that in 5:29

  • TT

    Never use that music again…

  • Concerned Animator

    Why would I get a white box while importing my image sequence into video editor?

  • Yusuf Zaheed

    Great and enjoyable tutorial, Andrew. Great work on explaining animations.

  • Matthew Versaggi

    Question regarding animations in Bender …. can this be done….

    I need to produce an ‘animated’ texture of “water” for a game in which each image *tiles* in ‘all’ directions, much like those produced by the Caustics Generator, but with the power and flexibility of Blender.

    The final result from Caustics Generator is 32 images that are actually animated such that when the full 32 images are played in a loop they will seamlessly loop forever. They will not only loop in time, but each image also tile in all directions. This is nice, but it comes in only one flavor.

    I’d like to accomplish the same thing with Blender (so I can more than 1 flavor) and have actually gotten to the point where I generate X number of images, but they do *not* tile in ‘all’ directions, nor are they slightly animated. I’ve tried texture animations using offsets but with only limited success.

    Do you know how to get me the rest of the way in Blender? :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/nathan.nwachukwu -Nathan Nwachukwu

    that’s cool

  • http://www.facebook.com/anton.vandehaterd Anton Van de Haterd

    I have rendered png with rgba for transparency render images are looking good with transparency. Then Added the complete image strip.
    Problem how to render h.264 with transparency. I am getting a grey background.

    • http://www.facebook.com/anton.vandehaterd Anton Van de Haterd

      solved needed ffmpeg and choose quicktime

  • vaughns1rest704

    Thank You!  I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do this.

  • shayan

    andrewwww.thank you you make my hope bulb lightened again to do kinda pixar animation
    thanks ya

  • http://brasil marcos

    ops escrevi tudo errado queria saber como criar um jogo no blender por-favor me ajude to querendo fazer um jogo completo. valeu se me-ajudar mas se não obrigado mesmo assim.

  • http://brasil marcos

    você podia nos ensinar a criar um jogo no blender porque eu to querendo tentar a fazer um jogo avançado. obrigado se me ajudar.

  • Jomahl

    thanks for the tutorial andrew. i can make my animations and get some really good stills in the process. :)

  • reidh

    Thank You greatly Mr. Andrew Price,
    I finally got to where I could do a render animation in 2.6+ and this tutorial/tip helped I mean HELPED! thanks again.

    Bruce Beal

  • Venca

    My VSE doesn’t seem to work :( Everything I put in it, no matter if it’s video or image, goes white :/

  • louis

    how can I get sound to my movie????

    • Christian

      press shift+A and add a speaker. I don’t know much about cuz i don’t realy use it but it’s one way you can add sound. hope it helps

  • Ayame

    Why is showing up ‘Could not open file for writing’? Always say that, and have no idea how to fix it… :/

  • Piotr

    Hi,
    I have problem, I render video to 4500 PNG files and when i click render ..
    Iget blender error: Could not open file for writing.
    Can you give me advise?
    Thanks

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