Overview
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Learn how to sketch, animate, and render a character in Blender, and create a fully rendered animation with dialog and complex facial movements.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Explore the magic of character animation
- How to use the exercise files
- Set up Blender and prerequisites
- Listen to the dialog and sketch out ideas
- Exporting your sketches from Blender
- Learn how video reference helps guide your animation
- How to set up your animation file in Blender
- How to use character rigs in Blender
- How to animate in Blender
- Troubleshooting animation errors in Blender
- Challenge: Set a couple of keyframes in Blender
- Solution: Set a couple of keyframes in Blender
- Set up audio and reference
- Block out the character's key poses
- Timing is everything
- Useful animation tools in Blender
- How to preview and share your animation
- Challenge: Breaking up your animation
- Solution: Breaking up your animation
- Refining the body movements
- Refining the arms, hands, and fingers
- Refining the face
- Animating the mouth to the audio
- Using Graph and Dope Sheet Editors to refine your animation
- Polish off the end result
- Challenge: Add a blink
- Solution: Add a blink
- Let there be light
- Time to render
- A quick overview of post-production in Blender
- Moving forward into animation
