TUTORIAL: 20th Century Fox Intro HD

[@Ballyweg]

Note: This requires Blender 2.79b (see description for links).

[@Pepsi_Villain]

I'm watching this video in South Korea :) I Know MY IQ OVER 1 THX :)

[@ohtrueyeahnah]

12 years later and you still update for us. YOU DA REAL MVP

[@freddiedawkins9726]

this also works in 2.77 :)

[@1080GBA]

no way still updating

[@sunnysanjo]

This video is what introduced me to blender and animation when I was a kid. It’s so nostalgic to come back to.

[@LemonSoundLogos]

true, even though i diddnt have a pc when i saw this

[@perfiltalentoshumanos7582]

THANK YOU, VERY, VERY, VERY MUCH !! After trying thru other tutorials (and failed), I finally made it! Francisco from São Paulo, Brazil.

[@blakscal]

The best tutorial on KZbin by far I will post my result as soon as it has finished rendering.

[@Ballyweg]

Yes. There are 600 frames. It takes me around 6 hours on a very fast CPU.

[@ActionStationPegasus]

Fantastic program + Tutorial ! Worked perfect the first time I used it.The 1080p setting only took 2hrs to complete.Thanks Ballyweg!

[@Qbal8]

Wow, it worked! It took about 20 hours to render on my Toshiba laptop with windows 7. Thank you very much!!

[@mech_electro]

Dude, the memories, I remember when I was so much younger and downloaded this (on my now lost and broken laptop) in excitement Imma download this now and keep it in my memories folder

[@Ballyweg]

That's the world of 3D rendering...

[@princessnathaliadelacruz3398]

Do you have any tutorial on how you created the ending on this video? (From 4:37 to 4:57)

[@siraustin8340]

Matt Hoecker Fox Logo Just Worked! I Have Blender 2.77a, And It Just Worked!

[@siraustin8340]

WHERE IS THE DOWNLOAD LINK FOR 20TH CENTURY FOX 75 YEARS LOGO?! HLP ME!

[@kokzos]

Bro 12 years ago and still great CRAZY

[@Toshba47]

What a fabulous tutorial!! Easy to follow with concise step by step instructions.

[@Ballyweg]

@mice madrigal You cannot reduce the number of frame, you would only have part of a video. But you reduce the resolution (default 1920x1080) to something like (1280x720).

[@S-WProductions]

+Ballyweg When you make the original version, make sure you edited the 0 to O, PiANO! said she/he used IVipid to make it faster and when she/he types O it looks like the original version, Thanks!

[@tobytitanicproductions4157]

I didn't use the sound I am going to upload it to my channel the I am going to download it in my iPad and get the 1950s vision of 20th century fox theme

[@tobytitanicproductions4157]

+History Channel: Fanfic I vipd have removed it

[@toadnrunt]

What about 20th century fox television and 20th television so I can take a closer look Ballyweg.

[@Ballyweg]

Just download .zip here: www.blender.org/download/

[@Ballyweg]

@FREAKYspongy Render means it saves what you made into an movie file. If you didn't press save, it just means you didn't save the blender file, but if you let it render, you should end up with your intro (and you can always save the blender file afterwards.)

[@Ballyweg]

@wcwcool It should slowly compose the frames. There are 600 frames.

[@Jcee4]

Great tutorial, nice and simple. Well done mate!

[@MMX974]

It's taking so long

[@25566]

i remember leaving the family shitty 2009 laptop burning for like a day and a half to render a shitty centory fox logo

[@MrCheekyboy88]

It took 18 hours on my machine, but well worth the wait..

[@Ballyweg]

If you want to be sure, you can try to change it to something like C:\ and then render to there. The file should appear after a the first frame has been appended.

[@Ballyweg]

@davedex Use the middle mouse button or the numpad keys.

[@victoriagilat4808]

Great tutorial - Fox Video intro turned out to be exactly what I wanted it to be!

[@Ballyweg]

@davedex Are you sure you remembered to unzip before beginning? Try putting it in an "open directory" like documents or downloads.

[@Ballyweg]

Well I'm not sure I know what you mean. You can move letters by using the arrows.

[@Ballyweg]

@RosalinaRacer Are you using the newest version (2.60a)? Did you remember to unzip? Try running blender as administrator. That's all the tips I know of.

[@Ballyweg]

Yes. You can change the text texture.

[@Ballyweg]

It is surely possible. It will just take a very long time to render, if you render at highest quality.

[@wrektime1]

thank you so much Ballyweg took almost 1 day for this .. on a Win8pro toshiba laptop (3rd generation core i5, 4GB RAM, 2GB) CHEERS! ;)

[@jtinker13]

Worked like a dream, thank you so much!!

[@DanHendersonn]

Actually, just found it in your instructions, 600 frames. Thanks again!

[@Ballyweg]

@jayt5280 No, it's correct. This one is 50 frames shorter, but it doesn't make much difference.

[@Ballyweg]

@GermanCoverAwards You're computer might not have enough processing power. Try rendering at a lower resolution.

[@Ballyweg]

@crazygirl6073 Strange. Try to rerender it, but this time, open the console through Help -> Toggle System Console. There you can follow the rendering progress. Wait till it reaches frame 600.

[@Ballyweg]

@freddo256 The file is called 0001-0600.avi and is located in the template folder.

[@Ballyweg]

You can use any program. Windows Live Movie Maker is the easiest one (if it won't import, convert it using XMedia Recode to WMV first). The music file is included in the download folder.

[@Ballyweg]

@elimozzarellicheezy You can look at the frame number in the top left corner. There are 600 frames (when it say 600, it's done)

[@Ballyweg]

@Havoc461 Make sure you have unzipped before beginning. Also try running in administrator mode.

[@Mixaletsos]

Thnx man,i didn't think I would actually find a tutorial for that.

[@BicMacAndChips1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Your tips worked to perfection and I have my finished result in my videos folder. I will recommend you to friends!!! WELL DONE!!! thanks so much

[@Ballyweg]

It normally takes around 10 hours. You can look at the frame number to watch when the file is finished. (600 frames in total) The file is called 0001-0600.avi and by default located in the same folder as the .blend files.

[@Ballyweg]

@antaloliver There should be a little icon with handles below the 3d view, where you can enable that.

[@Ballyweg]

Did you change any of the settings? This should normally not happen if you let it render completely.

[@serbaniliescu6999]

Render looks noisy, spotlights not working and background not displaying. Do you know why. I am rendering on an M2 Mac and cannot install the old version of Blender. Should that be the problem?

[@TheBrownMosquito]

It's an imac. It's more like a tower computer than a laptop but there's really no case or box. I would describe it as a really thick monitor.

[@Ballyweg]

If no settings were changed, it should render as an H.264 video file. If you have a lot of jpeg files, you can put them together in a sequence with any compositing program (Adobe After Effects would be the easiest) and then speed it up.

[@lesterneil1570]

Hello there, The set up doesnt work for version 3.5, lights are not visible, world texture doesnt show correctly, like most of the elements doesnt work.

[@Ballyweg]

Yes, it's a H.264 avi video format (can be played with VLC media player)

[@Ballyweg]

Animate means saving. It is rendered into a .avi file.

[@Ballyweg]

@bodaboda12 Use blender to make the intro. After Effects should be able to read the rendered file.

[@Ballyweg]

@leb1234 If you've got an old CPU / Laptop, it can take many hours. On the top left corner, you can see the frame number. There are 600 in total.

[@Ballyweg]

The first thing in the bar is the interesting one. It shows frame number currently rendering. There are 600 frames.

[@dylan-fnaf1679]

So much nostalgia...

[@Ballyweg]

Did you install it and then double click on the blender file to open it?

[@Ballyweg]

@xtragamex 6 hours is very normal. With a slow computer it can take around 10 hours.

[@Ballyweg]

Depends on your CPU. 6-20 hours!

[@MegFan2008]

HERE WE GOOOOOO

[@Ballyweg]

@eamodec A red filter? Sorry, I've never encountered that error before. If you upload it, I can take a look at it.

[@Ballyweg]

Not only. You can use blender to render pngs and then put them together in AE.

[@Ballyweg]

@BicMacAndChips1 If you leave all the settings at default, it should save as 0001-0600.avi (video file) in the template files folder.

[@crazygirl6073]

@Ballyweg yeah i left overnight and while i went to school to make sure it was done. Then i did it a second time exactly the same way (just fixed the flickering letters) and it still came out as being 7 secs long

[@andya6569]

This is taking me more than 12h omfg !!!!

[@Ballyweg]

Lag can be caused by several things. First of all, check your file size, if it's very big (1GB) compress it using XMedia Recode. If it's not, try using VLC Media Player for playback.

[@ThedooLG]

you´re a hero...

[@Ballyweg]

@gobs5999 You download a .zip folder. Unzip this one first (right click, extract), then open blender and start your work.

[@Ballyweg]

@Regularperson122 Make sure it's a box (not an arrow, change it below) and that you left click on it.

[@Ballyweg]

Rendering uses a lot of CPU power. You can turn off Anti Aliasing and reduce resolution to make the rendering faster.

[@Ballyweg]

@avila1761 Laptops are generally slow on rendering these things, because the CPU gets stressed and gets too hot, and then the CPU underclocks itself. The only way to speed up the rendering process is to reduce quality/resolution.

[@Ballyweg]

Depends on your CPU. And if you take the 2009 template, yes it will be around 90 hours.

[@Ballyweg]

@lumpigerAffe Which one? Make sure you unzipped and that you have permission to write in the folder (run as administrator to be sure).

[@lpsfariytales2589]

Thank you so much your instructions were clear mine now rendering you are so awesome don't ever think different

[@Ballyweg]

You can. Set the fps to 60, then reduce the blender speed. For instructions on that, try googling "blender slow motion".

[@Ballyweg]

That's normal. It uses all your PCs processing power. There are 600 frames. It can take around 10-20 hours depending on your CPU.

[@Ballyweg]

You can just drag and drop. Sometimes you have to recode it first using XMedia Recode.

[@Ballyweg]

@zanemaz You mean the program crashes? Did you unzip before opening it?

[@Ballyweg]

No. But you can pause it (look in the description).

[@Ballyweg]

@olenadiya It's in the same folder as the .blend files. Look for 0001-0600.avi.

[@Ballyweg]

@tomok4u What format did you use? (leave it at H.264) Your program should be able to use that format. Try recoding it useing my "TUTORIAL Rendering Encoding Compressing Formats"

[@Ballyweg]

@imaddictofgames You shouldn't change the output format, leave it at H.264 and you will get a video.

[@Ballyweg]

Well, if you've got a slow computer, it can take that long. Are you using a laptop?

[@Emberlight553]

When I render the animation, Blender crashes after it renders a single frame. Even when the resolution is low. I can't figure out why

[@solomiiachuma285]

same problem, have you fixed that?

[@Emberlight553]

Solomiia Chuma I tried downloading v2.78, which slowed down and never completed the first frame. Try it and see how it works for you. In the end, it worked for the render farm that I ultimately used, called Render Street. Two guys there, Marius and Soren, helped me render it on their machines. They were very helpful and I’d use them again. Learn about the mesh setting to avoid flickering.

[@user-bb5de5ck5j]

Thanks!

[@Ballyweg]

@thomesss Try converting it with XMedia Recode. if that doesn't work. Render again but leave the settings at the default I set it at.

[@NinjaNerG]

Does anyone know why my render doesn't have a background image?

[@Ballyweg]

It should render with sound. If it does not, you can use the sound file in the folder.

[@Ballyweg]

It really depends. It could take 100 hours on a cheap notebook or 10 hours on a good one.

[@Ballyweg]

There are 600 frames. Which template are you using?

[@Ballyweg]

Yes, always use the newest version. Also try running as admin and make sure you unzip.

[@Ballyweg]

@crazygirl6073 Did you change the frame number settings? The file should be called 0001-0600.avi.

[@Ballyweg]

Depends. If it's a laptop, it can take around 20 hours. If it's a desktop PC it should take you around 10 hours.

[@XtraGameX]

@Ballyweg Ok ! Thanks ! My computer went out while the rendering was taking place, so i started again in 720p, not in 1080. THANK A LOT !!!!!!!!!

[@summisceouttpdonotblockcha2022]

I’m going to make mine. Soon.

[@Ballyweg]

Under "Output" you can specify the location of the file. It may be different on a Mac, so try specifying another path.

[@cliffedward]

Me too !!!! Couldn't do anything else on my pc as it slowed it right down. Gave up but will try again.

[@Ballyweg]

Yes. It's called Lionsgate. Just check my channel or click the annotation.

[@elrashopred]

Ballyweg! Can I Fix Matt Hoecker’s 20th Century Fox logo?

[@Ballyweg]

@bodaboda12 This might be a blender bug. Try an older version or wait for a newer version.

[@Ballyweg]

It should export to avi automatically, if you dont change any settings. Just leave it at H.264.

[@Ballyweg]

@Cwby7T Yeah, I've tried that, but it just gets too confusing. If you playback the tutorial in HD on a big screen, you should be able to see the small buttons.

[@Ballyweg]

You can fix this by changing the Audio Codec under Encoding in the Renders Tab from AC3 to MP3.

[@XxRaiderXx1569]

very good beginning and end

[@Ballyweg]

@crazygirl6073 Did you let it render all 600 frames?

[@Ballyweg]

@marm1010 In the render Tab (the one with the Image and Animation buttons), go to the right and click on Encoding. then at the bottom of that, there's a audio codec field.