3D Illustration & Animation
Get to grips with Blender's animation tools
Future-proof yourself: learn 3D design and animation in Blender today!
Building on concepts already covered in
Blender From Zero, in this second beginner level course you’ll use Blender to go further, recreating an animation by respected design professionals Núria Madrid and Cristian Malagón Garcia. Observe the pros’ work closely to improve your own observation skills, and also be forced to get to grips with the how and why of more of the essential tools in Blender’s formidable arsenal.
43 Videos - 1h 45minutes
Split into Logical Modules
What You'll Learn:
1. Interface & Basics
For those completely new to Blender, or a recap:
- Navigation in 3D
- Layout & Pie Menus
- Transforming Objects
- Object vs Edit Mode
- Modelling Tools
2. Scene Setup
Specific tools and setups for the scene.
- Text Object
- Camera Setup
- Collections: Organising the Scene
3. Modelling
Create and manipulate 3d forms
- Clean up complex geometry
- Modelling with booleans
- Modelling with curves
- Modelling with modifiers
- Complex booleans
4. Materials, Lights, Render
- Set up simple diffuse materials
- How to use the sun type light
- Ambient -or “World”- lighting
- Set up vertex groups in order to apply multiple materials to a single object
- Create a transparent shader to mimic water
- Add a noise texture to recreate the rippled surface of the water.
5. Animating Loops
- How to add keyframes
- Navigating the timeline
- Interpolation types - change animation timing and feel
- Mechanical rigging and animation
- Graph Editor modifiers: create loops
6. Rendering Animation
- Balance render quality and speed
- Sequence file path
- Adaptive sampling
- Render problems and how to fix them
Testimonials
I really can't recommend that BLENDER FROM ZERO training highly enough as a way to quickly get up to speed. It’s absolutely terrific! So many little gotchas coming from C4D explained in a quick and clear way.
I really appreciate short and focused chapters