How to make your own 20th Century Fox intro/logo

How to make your own 20^th Century Fox intro/logo

The Blender files have been created by Matt Hoecker on backyardtheater.com.

Tutorial and instructions by Ballyweg at http://www.youtube.com/Ballyweg

Watch the tutorial video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbixwwuSY-U

Instructions:

Choose between the original 20^th Century Fox or the 2 lined Ballyweg template .blend file.

Changing the Text

First select the "20" (RIGHT CLICK IT). It is a separate object from the "th". Delete this text and/or replace it. (toggle edit mode with TAB, delete with DEL and left click)

Now select the "th" (RIGHT CLICK). Press Tab to edit it and replace the text or delete it.

Press TAB to get back out of edit mode once you are finished typing your top line. The text might be too thin or too wide, or not tall enough. That is what those colored handles are for in the middle of the text. Pull the square in the end of the handle with you LEFT MOUSE BUTTON to enlarge or to make the text smaller. Click and drag the green handle (green square on the end of the line) to scale the height, and the red handle to scale the width.

To move the text, click the little blue arrow in the middle toolbar “Translate manipulator mode” and then use the red and green handles. To get back to scaling the size, click the blue square.

Edit the other lines

OK, now you should be able to edit the middle and bottom lines. Remember, TAB goes in and out of edit mode, the red and green handles the width and height and right click selects.

If you’ve got a title with the letter T

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1BkEqSp74

Rendering

The rendered file is saved under the path that you can see in the bottom panel. Normally this is in the same folder, where you unzipped the original files in a subfolder called renders. You can change this if you want.

Don’t change anything you don’t know about. If you want, you can tweak on the resolution, encoding, performance, anti-aliasing and format options.

Depending on your PC's performance, rendering the whole sequence can take ca. 10 hours (on a 2GHz Dual Core) or ca. 5 hours on a Quad Core. I recommend letting it render overnight as it uses lots of performance, so you can’t really work at the same time. There are 600 frames.

The file is by default saved to the folder where you unzipped the template and is called 0001-0600.avi (600 frames).

Pausing the render:

To pause the blender render, click Help, then Toggle System Console. Then press the pause (or break) key on your keyboard. To resume, hit enter. Do NOT shutdown your computer or close the program. Leave it open, and you can put the computer to sleep and resume afterwards.

HAVE FUN WITH YOUR CUSTOM 20th Century FOX INTRO.

Ballyweg