Tutorial: Easy 2D Image to 3D Render Workflow (100% Open Source)
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In this tutorial, we'll be using 100% open source software to easily convert most 2D images to vector curves for use in Blender. It's a super useful workflow that I use more and more to efficiently get geometry in my scenes without spending all day modeling! If you want to try a more advanced approach to this, head over to my second channel to see how I made the tiger animation at the end.
Second channel: @Polyfjord2
Software used:
2D software: Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/
3D software: Blender - https://www.blender.org/
Image viewer: Nomacs Image Lounge - https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
Assets used in this video:
Car model - https://www.blendermarket.com/products/car-library-traffiq-vehicles-for-blender/?ref=1129
Textures - https://ambientcg.com/list
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Importing an image to Inkscape
00:43 Tracing bitmaps in Inkscape
01:22 Importing the SVG to Blender
02:14 Giving thickness to the curve object
03:19 Adding a simple light to our scene
05:58 Adding a texture to our background
07:55 Adding materials and details to our object
10:10 Adding more lights and reflections
12:22 Tweaking camera and rendering an image
14:36 Final result
16:05 Thanks for watching!
#3D #vector #opensource
In this tutorial, we'll be using 100% open source software to easily convert most 2D images to vector curves for use in Blender. It's a super useful workflow that I use more and more to efficiently get geometry in my scenes without spending all day modeling! If you want to try a more advanced approach to this, head over to my second channel to see how I made the tiger animation at the end.
Second channel: @Polyfjord2
Software used:
2D software: Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/
3D software: Blender - https://www.blender.org/
Image viewer: Nomacs Image Lounge - https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
Assets used in this video:
Car model - https://www.blendermarket.com/products/car-library-traffiq-vehicles-for-blender/?ref=1129
Textures - https://ambientcg.com/list
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Importing an image to Inkscape
00:43 Tracing bitmaps in Inkscape
01:22 Importing the SVG to Blender
02:14 Giving thickness to the curve object
03:19 Adding a simple light to our scene
05:58 Adding a texture to our background
07:55 Adding materials and details to our object
10:10 Adding more lights and reflections
12:22 Tweaking camera and rendering an image
14:36 Final result
16:05 Thanks for watching!
#3D #vector #opensource
Polyfjord
My name is Asbjørn, I'm a digital artist from Norway. My pipeline currently consist primarily of Blender, DaVinci Resolve and Soundly, and I enjoy exploring workflows that use open source, free and/or freemium software.
Since the summer of 2021 I've been...