Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools

Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 36 lectures, based on 11 reviews, and has 76 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn to use the animation tools and editors found in Blender 2.79 Download, install, and set up Blender for 3D animation Understand the main concepts of CG Animation Learn to use Blender’s 3D View, Timeline, Dope Sheet, Graph, and NLA Editors to create and adjust your animation Use other animation tools in Blender to complete your animated shot Bring audio and video footage into Blender to use as animation reference Render your shot to see it played back in real time This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for beginning animators who want to learn the editors and tools in Blender designed specifically for animation. It is particularly useful for This course is for beginning animators who want to learn the editors and tools in Blender designed specifically for animation.

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Summary

Title: Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 36

Number of Published Lectures: 36

Number of Curriculum Items: 36

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 36

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn to use the animation tools and editors found in Blender 2.79

Download, install, and set up Blender for 3D animation

Understand the main concepts of CG Animation

Learn to use Blender’s 3D View, Timeline, Dope Sheet, Graph, and NLA Editors to create and adjust your animation

Use other animation tools in Blender to complete your animated shot

Bring audio and video footage into Blender to use as animation reference

Render your shot to see it played back in real time

Who Should Attend

This course is for beginning animators who want to learn the editors and tools in Blender designed specifically for animation.

Target Audiences

This course is for beginning animators who want to learn the editors and tools in Blender designed specifically for animation.

Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools is designed to get you familiar with and comfortable using the tools and resources within Blender that you can use for animating. This course begins by covering the process for installing and working within the application. Then, we review the principles of computer animation and take an in-depth look at Blender’s animation editors and tools that can be used to create your animation. Finally, we look at methods for using reference audio and video and rendering tests of your work.

This course covers:

How to download and install Blender

Setting up Blender and customizing the user interface

Key concepts of computer animation

Using the 3D View Editor for animation

The Timeline Editor

The Dope Sheet Editor

The Graph Editor

The NLA Editor

Other animation tools available in Blender

How to import audio and video to use as reference

Rendering animation footage to review in real time

When you’re done with this course, you will have a solid understanding of how to use Blender to create your animations!

*** This course is based on the current stable release of Blender, version 2.79b. Updates will be made to address the animation tools in Blender 2.80 once that version becomes more stable ***

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing Blender

Lecture 3: The Splash Screen and Blender Interface

Chapter 2: Setting Up Blender for Animation

Lecture 1: Using Blender Files

Lecture 2: Linking and Appending Resources Into a Scene

Lecture 3: Setting Up User Preferences for Animation

Lecture 4: Simplifying Scenes for Better Animation Performance

Lecture 5: Custom User Interface Configuration and Setup

Chapter 3: Key Animation Concepts in Blender

Lecture 1: Understanding Frames, Keyframes, Interpolation, and Framerate

Chapter 4: Blender Animation Editors Part 1 – The 3D View

Lecture 1: 3D View – Overview

Lecture 2: 3D View – Navigation

Lecture 3: 3D View – Pose Interaction Mode

Lecture 4: 3D View – X Y Z Coordinates

Lecture 5: 3D View – Select and Transpose

Lecture 6: Understanding the 3D Cursor, Origins, and Pivot Points

Chapter 5: Blender Animation Editors Part 2 – The Timeline and Dope Sheet

Lecture 1: The Blender Timeline

Lecture 2: Using Markers

Lecture 3: The Dope Sheet

Lecture 4: Setting Keyframes Manually

Lecture 5: Setting Keyframes Automatically

Chapter 6: Blender Animation Editors Part 3: The Graph Editor and the NLA Editor

Lecture 1: The Graph Editor – Introduction

Lecture 2: Graph Editor – Using Function Curves

Lecture 3: Graph Editor – Using Handles

Lecture 4: The Graph Editor – Extrapolation and Modifiers

Lecture 5: The NLA Editor

Chapter 7: Additional Blender Animation Tools

Lecture 1: Copying, Pasting, and Pasting X-Flipped Poses

Lecture 2: Visual Keying

Lecture 3: Using Constraints

Lecture 4: Using the Ghost Tool

Lecture 5: Using Motion Paths

Lecture 6: Blenders Grease Pencil

Lecture 7: In-Between Tools

Lecture 8: Setting Up and Using the Pose Library

Chapter 8: Using Reference and Rendering Your Shot

Lecture 1: Using Video Reference

Lecture 2: Using Audio Reference

Lecture 3: Rendering Your Animation

Instructors

Thomas Burnley
Blender Animator

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