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Using scene strips to help work smoothly between the Node Editor and the VSE: When using Blender for motion graphics, there’s some cool handshaking you can do between the Node Editor and Video Sequence Editor. If a shot requires more involved effects than the VSE can provide, switch to the Compositing screen layout and create a new empty scene (I like to name the scene after the shot). Use the Image input node to bring your clip into the Node Editor, adjusting the start and end frames in the node and the scene as necessary. From this point, you can add whatever cool compositing effects you want. When you switch back to the Video Editing screen (it should still be in your editing scene), replace your shot by adding a scene strip in the VSE for your compositing scene. As a bonus, if you delete all of the screen layouts except for Compositing and Video Editing, you can quickly bounce between your composite scene and your editing session using [Ctrl]+[left arrow] and [Ctrl]+[right arrow].
The right camera placement is essential for a great render. In my opinion moving the camera with the grab tool isn’t very intuitive and can be quite laborious. This is why I prefer to use the walk navigation. Go to View > Navigation > Walk Navigation to enable it. Now you can control the camera as if you were in a first person shooter and use the arrows or W, A, S and D keys to look around. To toggle the gravity simply use the Tab key. I recently came across Meshroom, an open-source photogrammetry software. Photogrammetry is a really cool technique to create 3D scans by taking photos from all around an object. Meshroom is 100% free and very intuitive to use. I had lots of fun during the last few weeks scanning various objects and using them to create realistic scenes in Blender.
Edge loops are incredible lifesavers for the same reasons above. They also make working with your model intelligently and efficiently really easy. Instead of grabbing an entire loop of faces one by one, you can select them all simultaneously and modify them together. To select all the vertices, edges, or faces in a mesh loop, click on any member of the family while holding Alt. It’s really easy to use the Knife tool to trace over a reference image or even another mesh or curve. For extremely complex patterns or anything else that you’d like to bring to life, however, the Knife Project tool can do some of the heavy lifting for you. To use Knife Project, you’ll need two things: your target mesh, and a mesh of the pattern, shape, text, or design that you would like to project onto it. This has to be a mesh, not just an image—you can import an SVG file into Blender and convert it to a mesh with the SVG Importer add-on enabled, however.
Setting up libraries of standard facial expressions speeds up your first lip sync pass: Pose Libraries are a great way to rough in animation, particularly for facial animation and lip sync. This is especially useful if your rig uses bones and drivers rather than exclusively relying on shape keys for phoneme shapes. I like to make a bone group for my lip sync controls and use those controls to create my phonemes. Each phoneme gets saved as a pose in my character’s Pose Library ([Shift]+[L]). When animating, select the bones in the lip sync bone group and press [Ctrl]+[L] to enter a library preview mode. You can then use your mouse’s scroll wheel or [Page Up]/[Page Down] to cycle through the poses in your library. Choose your pose and insert your keyframes. This works as your first rough pass on the lip sync to get the timing right. Find more info at 3darts.org.