Manifisto posted:

yes!

but the particulars, and specifically how hard that is to achieve, depends on what you have in mind by "dancing"

Manifisto posted:

I did something like that for the plurp thread, I took this image



and made this low-effort monstrosity:



there are a number of things along this line you can do. on the more capable/flexible/complex side, you could create an armature (an invisible "skeleton" object with "bones" you can pose and animate) and bind that to the bitmap image. that's basically what I did with plurp, although a very simple/slapdash version of it.

there are other ways you could approach it as well, and I'm sure there are still more ways I'm not familiar with.

Manifisto posted:

I did something like that for the plurp thread, I took this image



and made this low-effort monstrosity:



there are a number of things along this line you can do. on the more capable/flexible/complex side, you could create an armature (an invisible "skeleton" object with "bones" you can pose and animate) and bind that to the bitmap image. that's basically what I did with plurp, although a very simple/slapdash version of it.

there are other ways you could approach it as well, and I'm sure there are still more ways I'm not familiar with.

Manifisto posted:

hmm. this is not something I followed a specific tutorial on. after a quick look I found a tutorial from an older version of blender that goes over something like the process I used, probably doing a more thorough/detailed job than you'd want when trying this out for the first time. maybe there's something for blender 2.8 that is suitable, I'll keep looking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7vzru1CZuE

if you don't know the basics of working with armatures in blender, it would probably be helpful for you to go through some basic armature tutorials, otherwise the armature aspect of things is likely to be hard to follow. I'd call this an intermediate skill, not a beginner-level skill.

on the "seeing an opaque plane" problem, well there are lots of reasons you might not be seeing what you expect, it's hard for me to guide you especially if you're not generally familiar with the blender interface. if you used the "import images as planes" add-on and you're looking at the result in rendered or lookdev view and it's still opaque, the problem might be that you need to go to the "Material" tab in the Properties window, and under "Settings" change the Blend Mode to something like "Alpha blend." It frustrates me that the eevee render engine does not show transparency by default, I imagine they did that for performance reasons but it's going to be a stumbling block for many.

however, the above only relates to transparency. if you're just seeing an opaque plane I'm guessing you are not looking at the result in one of the modes that show images (i.e. "lookdev" and "rendered").

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/controls/shading.html



see those four circly things to the right? you need to click on either of the two circles to the right of the grouping. the two on the left of the grouping (corresponding to "wireframe" and "solid" view, going from left to right") won't display your image.

I'd consider giving more structured guidance for working with 2d images in Blender because it seems like something that byob folks would be interested in, but I'm not sure the right format for doing that kind of thing, not sure I'm up to making a full video tutorial!

Manifisto posted:

whos ready for some mothafuckin DONUTS

TVsVeryOwn posted:

i want more! give me more!

TVsVeryOwn posted:

my donut and bowl
mugs are over rated

Olive! posted:

https://i.imgur.com/0DIjdfp.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/17U669M.mp4

TVsVeryOwn posted:

ice ice baby. i didn't want to do that many drips. i just did the two you see from this angle

Manifisto posted:

definitely doable! I mean, obviously. I spent a couple of minutes on a proof of concept, but getting the whole thing right would take some time and tweaking. if someone wanted to take a stab at it it would be a really good learning exercise, heck I might be tempted to do it myself . . .

Manifisto posted:

slightly fancier version, could use some work probably

I dunno, is it worth putting in ?

Manifisto posted:

https://i.imgur.com/wBMwDQS.mp4

vanisher posted:

Trying to recreate something that will take forever i'm sure- here's where we are at currently!

Manifisto posted:

vanisher posted:

All done and animated!

NonzeroCircle posted:

I'm dumb and have a very rudimentary understanding of NFTs (they are 'digital originals', right?), why are they bad for the environment? Is it like crypto just eating energy?