Blender: Intro to Rendering

by Jonathan Williamson

In this blender video we will cover the basics of rendering within Blender.

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41 Responses to “Blender: Intro to Rendering”
  1. wispcolor
    Posts: 3

    another great tutorial always expected from you!
    but, for some reason, i dont know where the camera and light tool are. you know, the sun w/ the stick on it.

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     Sep 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm
  2. Pieter Taylor
    Posts: 3

    Thanks so much for the awesome tutorials! I’ve just started using Blender, and now i’m getting the hand of it already! Thanks! :)

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     Oct 9, 2011 at 12:51 am
  3. Gerald Hall
    Posts: 1

    Thanks for the awesome program and tutorial. I’ve completed the 1st 6 tutorials in “Getting Started”. I animated my cube as per the instructions and rendered it as an .avi. In the render tab, for “display” I selected “Image Editor”.

    I didn’t make any changes in the settings, I only did what this tutorial showed.

    When I play my animation in windows media player classic, the cube often leaves the view of the screen even with the screen maximized. Should I not have moved my cube out of the grids when I recorded the animation?

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     Dec 9, 2011 at 1:38 pm
    • New to blender
      Posts: 1

      I’m new to this too, but my guess is that the object is leaving the view from your camera. Make sure that the object stays within the camera’s view at all times :)

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       Dec 16, 2011 at 7:30 am
    • kostas
      Posts: 4

      You can animate your camera with the same way ;)

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       Apr 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm
  4. 1
    Posts: 1

    vega

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     Dec 11, 2011 at 5:06 pm
  5. Parth N. Acharya
    Posts: 2

    ah how to get out of image editor? :O

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     Dec 20, 2011 at 12:34 pm
  6. Smith
    Posts: 1

    I can’t seem to get rid of all the windows that appear when I click on different buttons. Nothing works to get rid of them all! I’ve given up already because of that. One simple answer on how to hide them all and get back to the original window would be great!

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     Jan 3, 2012 at 6:14 am
    • Rami
      Posts: 1

      just close the program and reopen it

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       Jan 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm
    • Terrence Bolton
      Posts: 1

      Try this , hope it helps , he tells of how to go back without cancelling the project, cheershttp://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/getting-started/

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       Jan 22, 2012 at 3:10 am
  7. eliza
    Posts: 2

    hey guys…i made a video on blender using keyframes but when i am saving it in different formats such as avi or mpeg it doesnt work..does anybody know what shall i do?

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     Jan 30, 2012 at 5:21 am
  8. arvin
    Posts: 1

    you’re tutorial is the most useful and clear of all, thx very very much, I’ve seen a lot of tutorials even a much greater graphics but still you’rs is the best.^^<

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     Feb 4, 2012 at 12:15 am
  9. Greg
    Posts: 1

    I can render an object just fine but I can’t figure out how to save the .png file so that I could send it to someone.

    From what I understand the .png file is supposed to be created automaticlly when I render. I even tried changing the output path to my desktop, but no new pictures appeared.

    What am I doing wrong?

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     Feb 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm
    • captainlonate
      Posts: 1

      Yeah so click your render button and wait for it to finish rendering.
      Once it’s done rendering go to the bottom left of your screen and you see
      “View Image”
      Click “Image”
      The submenu that pops up has an option that says “Save as Image” that’s the one for you!!!

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       Dec 6, 2012 at 9:03 pm
  10. Haseen
    Posts: 1

    Thank You so much for the wonderful tutorials.By the way can i know the way to save the animation i did?:(cuz i’m so new to yhis

    Thanks for taking your time:)

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     Feb 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm
  11. AHMED
    Posts: 3

    HI
    WHEN I PRESS ON IMAGE LIKE YOU DID
    IT JUST GIVES ME AN EMPTY GREY BACKGROUND without the mesh
    can you tell me why this happens ?
    thank you

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     Feb 28, 2012 at 4:36 pm
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Your mesh is likely disabled during the render. Try pressing W > Clear all Restrict Render.

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       Feb 28, 2012 at 4:47 pm
      • Colton
        Posts: 1

        Sorry I’m a little late, but I had this problem too. I had set one of my meshes as the camera.

        1. select the camera
        2. hit ctrl and the numpad 0 to set the camera as, well, the camera.

        If you select another object and hit ctrl-0, which I had accidentally done changing views i think, it sets that object as the camera.

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         Aug 15, 2012 at 3:38 pm
  12. AHMED
    Posts: 3

    i am sorry i have another question
    i’ve tried rendering in so many movie formats and then after rendering i try to play the movie i just rendered but it doesn’t play
    any advice ? :)

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     Feb 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      What format are you rendering to and what application are you using to play the movie?

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       Feb 28, 2012 at 5:41 pm
      • AHMED
        Posts: 3

        avi codec and i tried also avi jpeg and both didn’t work
        but it only worked in mpeg and the quality wasn’t really good

        and another thing please i made this 60-frame-little animation but it has a lot of meshes inside it and every time i choose image from render menu the program goes really slow and it hangs and doesn’t work
        does this have anything to do with my computer performance ?

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         Mar 2, 2012 at 11:37 am
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2949

        I cannot speak for the codecs, but for the animation rendering speed, are you by chance using Subdivision Surface modifiers with the View/Render level set higher than 2?

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         Mar 2, 2012 at 12:18 pm
  13. Dusti
    Posts: 1

    I keep getting a black pic whenever I try to render my object. What am I doing wrong??

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     Apr 26, 2012 at 1:26 am
    • vilaz
      Posts: 1

      i have the same problem too… there is no color in my mesh even after i have painted it.

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       Jan 18, 2013 at 11:11 pm
  14. Designer
    Posts: 1

    I can’t save the file as an image so that i can send it to someone… I have rendered, the file is png and it says my pictures. Its on MAC btw. Any advice?

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     May 2, 2012 at 8:44 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Hi there,

      After you have rendered the image you can save it from the UV/Image Editor by going to Image > Save As. Then you will be able to set the location and file format from the save dialog.

      I hope that helps!

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       May 2, 2012 at 9:00 am
    • budoka68
      Posts: 1

      After rendering press F3, then ‘Save As Image’

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       Sep 18, 2012 at 9:50 am
  15. NaiF AqeeL
    Posts: 1

    Nice Video Man !
    im gunna watch all the videos in this site then i will go to work for pixar xD!

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     May 18, 2012 at 12:40 am
  16. Harish
    Posts: 2

    Hey, I really like your tutorials i just have one question. How do i render a animation as keyed footage to use in another video?

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     Jun 27, 2012 at 9:01 pm
  17. KielCarlo
    Posts: 3

    Hi! how can i restore the default file when i first open the blender?

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     Jul 4, 2012 at 11:23 pm
  18. jagdpanther
    Posts: 2

    i am having some problems with my output format(the select codec box does not appear when i set the output format to avi codec and press animation), also videos created in the avi raw format will not play in windows media player although i have played avi videos before(in windows media player) and they worked fine.

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     Aug 29, 2012 at 9:44 am
  19. mattcytec
    Posts: 1

    Following on from the materials tutorial, I have changed my material to a transpatent material, but every time i render the scene it resets my transparency alpha to 1. What am I doing wrong?

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     Sep 17, 2012 at 9:24 am
  20. Farzan
    Posts: 1

    Very helpful videos. Shortcuts and view control were the most useful to me. Thanks.

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     Oct 4, 2012 at 10:38 am
  21. Kiba
    Posts: 2

    I dont have the image button under render :( at the render options i have 3 button render, animation and play but neither one shows the cube just a gray background:( plz help

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     Oct 8, 2012 at 1:39 am
  22. matt
    Posts: 1

    I’m kinda so pissed, why there are no complete tutorials for someone like me? i found a lot of PDF tutorials but reading them needs a lot of time :(

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     Jan 1, 2013 at 9:18 am
  23. amy
    Posts: 1

    great tutorials, 6 & 7 are in the wrong order tho

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     Feb 20, 2013 at 1:33 pm
  24. Gregg Delcurla
    Posts: 1

    These tutorials were great. Thanks for putting them together.

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     Feb 27, 2013 at 12:23 am

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