Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools

Learn to use the animation tools in Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite!

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Introduction to Blender 2.79 Animation Tools

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

Description

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 ***