It should be mentioned that you don’t need to do the cursive signature thing by hand and you can just use a script font, which is how I’ve done this in the past. but script fonts had a problem in that overlapping letter was overlapping solids, and that messed up the old Boolean modifier (or the slicer) and it was just a headache. A hand cursived signature is just that much more personal, don’t you think?
This was (perhaps obviously) recorded in one 45 minute session and broken into 2 parts, with the outro and intro segments added in post. But, you know what? I’m okay with that. The first part demonstrates one new feature in Blender 2.91 that is going to make inkscape conversions obsolete, and part 2 shows the new exact Boolean features. The new image to mesh conversion feature is admittedly a little clunky right now, with it’s image->grease pencil->curve->mesh chain, and it doesn’t do fill for some reason. But it does work and it will only get better.
PrusaPrinters.org, where I opted to upload this tutorials source, doesn’t allow images as source files. Still, stealing images off the internet should be a basic skill that I hope anyone can figure out.
One awesome thing that came out of this is I made a 3DPProfessor signature that I kind of love. It’s got a Disneyesque vibe, and now I want to animate it an make it the intro to all my videos.
Though, in truth, I don’t actually do intros any more. I had the realization that this is the internet, people don’t want to get bogged down with bland samey branding with ever video. Blanding. I kept trying to get my intro shorter and shorter until I realized I didn’t need any intro at all.
Behind the scenes, I’m still reeling from the success of my “Don’t buy an Ender or Prusa” video. It’s honestly crippling having a video do this well. I feel like every video needs to do this well, now, and it’s preventing me from putting out anything. I’ve seriously recorded the follow up video to this twice already and thrown out the recording because I didn’t think it was good enough. This is frustrating.
My Yeti mic is picking up some serious sibilance lately, and I don’t know why. I’m glad I had to edit this video because it gave me the chance to take the extra step of extracting the audio, removing the hiss, and putting it back into the end, but I don’t want to do that every time I record a Blender tutorial. If you have any tips on how to reduce hiss in a yeti mic, I’m all earsssssssssssss.
