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Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender 2.9

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Blender Courses Animation Courses Sketching Courses Post-Production Courses Character Animation Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to sketch, animate, and render a character in Blender, and create a fully rendered animation with dialog and complex facial movements.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Explore the magic of character animation
  • How to use the exercise files
  • Set up Blender and prerequisites
1. Where It All Begins, Planning Your Animation
  • Listen to the dialog and sketch out ideas
  • Exporting your sketches from Blender
  • Learn how video reference helps guide your animation
2. Meet Arthur
  • 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
3. Character Animation
  • 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
4. Refine the Details
  • 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
5. A Brief Overview of Render Settings in Blender
  • Let there be light
  • Time to render
  • A quick overview of post-production in Blender
6. The Journey Has Just Begun
  • Moving forward into animation

Taught by

David Andrade

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