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To kick off a successful animation, it's key to understand frame rates and how they affect the smoothness and realism of your work. Once you've got that down, you'll dive into Blender's timeline to set keyframes and control movement, laying the groundwork for fluid animations.
We’re stepping up by learning how to move, rotate, and scale objects in both world and local space, starting with manipulators and then mastering Blender's hotkeys to boost your workflow. To wrap things up, you'll learn how to render and export your animations, so you can share your creations with the world.
To create complex animations, it's crucial to understand the roles of objects and armatures—while objects are the basics, armatures act as the skeleton for more advanced movements like character animation. Then, you'll dive into the graph editor, Blender's second animation editor, to fine-tune your keyframes and perfect the timing and flow of your animations.
We dive into animation data in Blender, showing how it can be shared and tweaked across different objects and scenes to save time and boost creativity. Then, we explore the Dope Sheet and Action Editor for advanced keyframe control before wrapping up with editing your shots in Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE) and exporting your final animation.
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An excellent course for beginners. I really liked the test tasks and the teacher’s answers. It would be great if some mini-projects were added to the course that would reveal the functionality from a practical perspective.
This was great for someone like me, who has an animation background but hasn't used blender for that purpose before. Got me up to speed on how to use the animation tools!
A fantastic course to get introduced to the fundamentals of animation workflow. A great start before heading towards the ''Blender Animation Bootcamp'' course!
Great course. I'm glad that the view sliders was covered. This was so in-depth on the editors. The only thing, I wish the NLA was covered. Thanks for your hard work.