September, 2007
In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a turntable of your model using the Movie feature.
You'll need to create a model for this lesson. I made a simple model for this exercise. If you want the first frame to be face forward as mine is, then make sure to position it that way.
Here we have the Movie sub-palette with Modifiers, Overlay Image, and Title Image as part of that menu.
Open Modifiers sub-palette and set Spin Cycles to 2.
Still in Modifiers, change SpinFrames to 72. Click on it and input the numbers and hit Enter.
Also, let's keep the axis of rotation to Y.
Under Render make sure you have Preview and Shadows highlighted.
Now, again in the Render sub-palette, click on Best and keep Shadows highlighted.
Under Lights set Length to 500, Rays to 80, and Aperture to 12.
Now press Turntable and watch while the model rotates around twice.
At this point we do not want to have a title, so in the Movie sub-palette set FadeIn Time, FadeOut Time to 0.
Now under Movie choose Save As.
Next export the movie. The Export button is located under Save As. Then choose Play Movie.
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