Create a Circular Text Animation in Blender
Looks like a glass donut.
Continuing my New Year's resolution to become proficient in Blender. I like going through Ducky 3D's tutorials on YouTube as that is the type of art I am interested in making, and he goes over them well enough to figure out what is going on.
Here is one of his latest tutorials that I ended up doing last night.
Skills Learned from this tutorial:
- How to rotate text on a curve.
- How to fix the text once on a curve [Remesh Modifier]
- What IOR meant in the material settings [Index of Refraction]
- How to give an object two rotations using empties
- How to give a Glare and Lens Distortion to my renders in compositing.
One random skill learned:
How to reset the 3D cursor to (0,0,0). This always bugged me as I would accidently move it, then never get it back in place. I always thought there was a main menu for it, but it turns out it is hidden in the sidebar region.
Link to Blender Docs [3D cursor]:
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/3d_cursor.html#d-cursor-panel
Final Render:
GIF
Have fun