If you're familiar with other 3D software, this will be no surprise to you however, if this is your first experience with 3D, it may take some to become comfortable with using multiple views. Now, with all the pleasantries out of the way, let's get down to business! Modeling Open up AOI and you'll notice that there are 4 different views by default. I've read IE has a built-in plugin to automatically correct the resizing issue. Not sure if this is a problem for IE users with a newer version. If you're a Firefox user, right-click on the image and choose View Image. The board may have resized some of the images and made them look unclear. So, please don't let my way of doing things get in the way of you learning or enjoying the process. Sometimes, my own lack of knowledge resulted in me doing tasks certain ways. In many cases, I've done something in a certain way to avoid having to explain the mechanism in greater detail. As with most software, AOI has several ways to do the same thing. Additionally and also very important: the steps I've used in this tutorial are not the only ways to accomplish these tasks. Importing the individual images into GIMP for creating the animated gif. Rendering the animation and saving the output as individual images. Basic texturing, lighting, and camera placement/movement. The steps I describe here will not require you to use any of these plugins/scripts. I have mine 'hot-rodded' with some cool plugins and scripts that I've obtained from the links listed above. If you see that my version of AOI has buttons or other modifications that your version does not have, don't be alarmed. There are no special plugins or scripts needed, so I believe this will work for any newer version of AOI. I'm using AOI version 2.4.1 for this tutorial. The manual does a much better job than I ever could. That's why I strongly recommend you spend lots of time with the manual. This tutorial will be no exception however, I won't be describing every toolbar, menu, or keystroke that the software has. A couple other sites of that might be of interest to you are the AOI Wiki and the FriendlySkies Forum If you're familiar with the many tutorials I've written for GIMP, you already know that I like to provide as much detail as possible so that even someone with little experience can get to the end product without too many tears. It's one of the most well-written user guides, bar none! In fact, the inspiration for this tutorial was taken from the Manual in the Animation Section here: AOI User Manual Animation Section. In fact, I highly recommend it! You download a free copy of GIMP here: GIMP homepage While you're at the AOI homepage, you might want to bookmark or download the User Manual. The steps will probably be similar for Photoshop or PaintShop Pro, but if you don't a favorite image editor, you can't go wrong with GIMP. You can download AOI here: Art of Illusion Homepage While all of the 3D creation, animation, and rendering process will take place in AOI, I will describe how to put the final product (what you see above) together using GIMP, my favorite 2D software package. Art of Illusion, or AOI, is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio, written entirely in Java. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create this twist animation using the fabulous 3D software known as Art of Illusion.
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