From the course: Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender

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Prepare the animation for viewing and sharing

Prepare the animation for viewing and sharing - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender

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Prepare the animation for viewing and sharing

- Now we need to take a step back and watch our animation. In this movie, we'll explore how to prepare your animation for viewing and sharing. Now what we're going to do is create a preview movie. In the industry, we refer to his as a playblast. In Blender, it's called OpenGL Render Animation. There's a couple of settings that we need to do before we click that button, though. The first is Display, Only Render. Make sure that's checked on. What that does is it turns off all of our controls. If you zoom out a little bit, you can see that no controls are visible. Don't worry about these little hash lines, though. They won't show up for the final render. The next thing you need to do is make sure your metadata is set up. To access it, make sure that you're in the Properties tab, and make sure that you're under render settings. Scroll down a little bit, and you'll see the word Metadata. Make sure Stamp Output is on, and we only really need the frame number, so check that on. The next…

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