First Experience with Blender - second visit

Wed, 02/20/2008 - 20:11 — Alan

To get myself to the initial stage of creating a Space Opera, I'm putting my own words into practice and using Blender for the first time ever. And I like it. It's actually way more advanced that most of the video editors I've tried using recently even though that's not its speciality. The interface is a bit awkward especially as my wireless mouse has a scroll feature for the 3rd button, but doesn't have a 3rd button itself. I could emulate the press and may look further into that.

I've included the first rendered movie. It's not much to look at and there's no music. But it didn't take long to do, about an hour or so, without little in the way of reading instructions. I'm positive that someone with more experience in Blender than me could do it in less than 10 minutes, and make a better job of it.

Edit - I had a nice article here, but my first real mistake with the authoring tool ScribeFire has left me with the server version of the article deleted and no copy at hand. It was purely user error, I saw the messages and I deleted the file from the server and then locally as well. I can see some advantages to changing the user interfaces to help prevent that.

I can remember saying that I was impressed with Blender and breaking my thoughts into sections. Unfortunately, I can't remember what those thoughts were, let alone what the sections were. Sorry about that. I hope you managed to catch it in the few days it was up.

Rather than tread over old ground, I'll move onto new articles and also ensure that there's a better backup in place now that site's hosting an increasing number of articles. Maybe I need to apply the same backup strategies to this as I do to music works or consultancy documents where they're backed-up and each version is recorded separately.