That is okay, Blender has a way to fix it. If you look at the pictures on the grid, you may notice that the front view of the wolf isn't quite center. The pictures are now loaded into the Blender viewports. Noob note: the photo from the top goes into top view, the photo from the front goes into the right view, and the photo from the right goes into front view, if you have front in front, change it now! Repeat the procedure and load the picture of the wolf to the other views. Now load the top view of the wolf, click on "Open" select the picture and set "Axis:" to "Front". What you should get is the picture of the toy wolf from above with the default cube on top of it. Explore this window a bit and end up selecting the image file of the wolf from the top view. Then check the box to display your images.Ĭlick the Add Image button and several more buttons will appear. Use the "Add images" bar and options will open up. A new toolbar will open to the right of the viewport and by scrolling through you should see Background Images. Just as was done in the "Making A Pyramid" section, split the 3D Viewer into four views with CTRL-ALT-Q.Įach window will show you different XYZ coordinates. Don't bother deleting the cube, we'll end up using it in the tutorial. Create a new file ( File → New) to see the familiar default objects. The more difficult part will be creating the mesh, but first things first. Getting the image into blender is the easy part. In this example, parallax is present, and we'll attempt to compensate. When you are creating your own pictures to import, note parallax. You may notice the photos aren't perfect, but we'll use them just to show how you should deal with your real photos. Just right-click and save them some place where you can find them to load them into Blender for Step Two. The results are the files you'll need for Step Two: Once I had the proper results I saved the resulting images, and these are the ones we will use in Blender. That completed, I proceeded to scale, rotate and shift the other two views (top and front) until they matched fairly well as layers on top: I found when I picked out these features that this first image needed to be rotated slightly. I picked the tail, the front of the back foot, eye level, tip of the ear, and the front of the nose:
To match them, draw construction lines (pulled from the rulers above and to the left) on the left view for example to pick out key features. Using your favorite image editor, such as PhotoShop or the GIMP (see detailed GIMP instructions below: Detailed steps to align images using GIMP), down-scale the images need to a reasonable size (I made mine 512x384), and then match them to each other. Or how about pictures of a toy wolf taken from 6 view points?: Take the photo from a long distance away with a zoom lens to get close to an orthographic projection. This produces three images, one of the puppy ( front \ NUM1), one of its reflection seen 90 degrees to the right ( side \ right \ NUM3)), and one of its reflection seen from overhead ( top \ NUM7). Another is placed above the puppy, also at 45 degrees to the camera and 45 degrees to the puppy. One is placed next to the puppy at 45 degrees to the camera and 45 degrees to the puppy. It's important that the puppy be in the same pose in all three photos! Or at least close to the same pose.we all know puppies don't stand still very long. Ideally, the photos will be looking straight down at the top of the puppy, a side view, and a front view.
If you don't have a puppy, any object or small animal will do. If you have a puppy and a digital camera, take three pictures of the cute little rascal and upload them. They will be kept so that you can get the "real feel" for this project. Some need to be rotated and others do not match in size. Method 1 Get the pictures of the model Tip: The images here do not line up.