Blender for Scientists - Advice for Making Journal Covers

Blender is a great tool for making journal covers. In this commentary piece I discuss some tips and advice that I have for anyone who wants to do exactly that. This video is not a walkthrough or tutorial, but it does have some useful tips for setting up Blender for journals. I've added timestamps and a variety of links below that should be helpful. I'll also be using some of these setup tips as a springboard for making full walkthroughs of some of my favourite covers in a 'lazy tutorial' format that will hopefully debut soon. 0:00 Introduction 0:28 Getting Reference 0:43 Setting the Aspect Ratio and DPI in Blender 3:10 Use Assets to Save Time and Start with Client Input 4:45 Some Useful Camera and Lighting Setup Options 7:20 Aligning Backgrounds and Text for Cover Setup 8:13 Cycles is my Render Engine of Choice 9:01 Wrapping Up and Some Future Plans Free Resources I use in Blender:    • Free Resources I use in Blender as a Scien...   Blender Guru's Intro to Lighting Series Intro:    • Lighting for Beginners - Intro   Aligning a Backdrop to the Camera:    • Explore your Scene Fast Using Constraints   The CGFigures Asset Library: A compilation of most of what I've released/will release in one CC0 package: Free at: https://www.cgfigures.ca/assetlibrary Launch video:    • Blender for Scientists - The CGFigures Ass...   On Gumroad (if you'd like to pay to support it. More of this will go to me directly though I do donate to the blender dev fund every month as a gold level supporter): https://cgfigures.gumroad.com/l/TheCG... On Blendermarket (if you'd like to pay to support it and directly contribute to the blender development fund, 25% of the cost): https://blendermarket.com/products/th... For more CGFigures content checkout the links below: Patreon:   / cgfigures   Twitter:   / cgfigures   Instagram:   / cgfigures   Website: https://www.cgfigures.ca/ Blendswap: https://www.blendswap.com/profile/132... Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/cgfigures