Partytime.

Those look great Lurifax73.

I made this animation following this tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeGHNcOedAw



And here's the improved chrome text.

Good animations racer. Move your lamps around to get better chromefeeling.

Animated CartoonHead with two different animation.



1.
Empty for the eyes



2.
Shape Key for the mouth

Well, I've got the chrome thing down now. I just had to add an image to the world environment.

Yes. Environment images provide right reflections on chrome.

I figured out how to import path svg shapes I made in Gimp into Blender and convert to 3-D mesh. I need to work on my edges, but otherwise pretty good....

Thats Good. To get edges use Edge Split. (Dont add Subdivision Surface)

Thanks, but I wanted to smooth the edges, not sharpen them.

Anyway, I found that the spherical E-Maps I use in Gimp, also make a great World Environment Texture...

OK. I like your last one. Cool.

Using SVG paths, before you convert to a mesh, you can go to object properties and use the bevel function to create tubes.


https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?448502-How-do-you-create-wires-and-tubes&p=3302529&viewfull=1#post3302529

Thanks Erisian, that's nice to know for future projects...

Question: How can I force Key-Frames to use "Linear" motion as opposed to "Curve" (or whatever) motion that is default?

Example:

Easy way to animate Gears ar to use Emptys and rotate them with Constraint- Copy Rotations




Gear

Thanks Lurifax73 for that tip. It helps a lot when adding text to the gears.

Got me a new signature animation......

Rotating object for ever, without stop.

I figured out how to change the key-frame interpolation from the default "Curve" to "Linear". I had to do it in the Graph Editor.