How to fix all my images being render black?

Question

All my images are rendering black. The output of my animation is a .mpg video. The images themselves were created in GIMP and saved as non-transparent .png's.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Answer 1

If you go to the properties menu (Shift-F7), and then click on the materials tab, there you should check the 'shadeless' box.

Answer 2

Go to the properties menu (SHIFT + F7) and change the emit value under the shading category to a value in the range 0 and 1. Then gradually change this emit value to get expected shading of the object. To do so you have to render the view several times. In this way you can also retain the realistic 3D nature of the object.