A "Bit" on Stenciling

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   Lawrence D’Oliveiro on November 20, 2013 00:39 AM

   Here’s a fun feature I just discovered: you can set one Scene as a “background” for another. The render of the second (foreground) scene will include all the contents of the first as well. The background scene also appears in the 3D viewport view of the foreground scene, but none of its objects will be selectable.

   I was looking at the old “lostride” demo Blender file, and wondering how they did this...

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     John Nyquist on December 18, 2013 17:17 PM

     We actually did a Bit on that 3 years ago, and we just revisited that technique a few weeks ago! :-)

     Here's the new Bit:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPlK8nm21c

     And the original:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up2C1D3RTWE

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       Lawrence D’Oliveiro on December 19, 2013 02:13 AM

       Nice to see others have discovered it. :)

       Only thing is, your video looks a bit blurry at 1080p.

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         John Nyquist on December 19, 2013 02:18 AM

         Bit #64 looks sharp at 1080p when I run it here. It might be your connection. Of course Bit #47 is from Mar 2010, so it only goes to 480 so it will be soft when run full-screen.

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   REkzkaRZ on November 25, 2013 13:42 PM

   As a Blender newbie, this was a challenging tutorial. I appreciate the final outcome, being able to use a stencil image to draw on a 3D or 2D shape. But your 'setup' of your workspace was done too quickly, no discussion of WHAT or WHY you were arranging this this way, and you have to explain each step more clearly for someone who is new to follow along. (And while it may be amusing that you did the whole demo with it muted, talking about that at the beginning does not inspire confidence in your viewers.)
   Suggestions --
   a) go & voice over the beginning & say WHAT you are doing at each step
   b) drop the part about having done it all previously on mute
   c) give an example of this technique being used effectively (ie on a 3D model or a 2D backdrop)
   Thanks!

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