Plus, you'll learn how to overcome some common problems
Beginner animators often run into common issues, such as...
S.O.S. - why is my render black?
How do I fix transparency issues?
We'll learn how to avoid and resolve these.
Practice Makes an Animator Perfect
Above all, the animation is about practice - and practice you shall get!
As part of this course, you will take on 6 small challenges, building your animation skills step by step.
First, we will animate your default cube, making it float around in space.
The main idea of this exercise is to practice all the ways of setting keys, using keying sets and learn to overcome a few of the mistakes that you are bound to make when you first start animating.
Having dabbled with animation in the past I assumed I would have a decent understanding of the concepts explained in this course. I was sorely mistaken.
Wayne takes you through the very basics of animation in blender, from outlining the different editors all the way to making a bouncing ball animation. I can safely say I learned more from doing this course than I ever would from stumbling around trying to learn without. Overall I found this course very useful in consolidating my knowledge and gaining the essential components to be a successful animator in blender. I look forward to checking out more of Wayne's courses in the future.
I'd learned animation and keyframe stuff by stumbling around and getting a feel for it. I thought I was pretty comfortable with animation and I wouldn't get very much from this.
Boy was I wrong.
This course improved my confidence and familiarity with the animation tools and really solidified my foundational understanding. Wayne explains things in a careful, useful and entertaining manner. More than once I went to comment on a particularly good explanation only to see that three or four more people had already pointed it out (in particular, the explanation of parenting is perfect).
If you even slightly think you might need this course, then you need this course. It's made that slight nervous fear of not being able to avoid doing some animation into a confidence that leads to me adding animation unnecessarily.