Animation & Rigging
Blender Animation & Rigging
My third (and another excellent!) Blender course at GameDev.tv was taught by Grant Abbitt as well, this time all about rigging and animating.
It started with a basic introduction about what can be animated in Blender, how to control motion and interpolation between keyframes, forward and inverse kinematics, rigging characters with basic and automated rigs and more.
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Basic intro to animating properties
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Curves, Interpolation
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Bezier handle types
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Parenting objects
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A deadly trap
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A deadly snake
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Animating with Forward Kinematics
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Animating with Inverse Kinematics
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IK/FK arm animation
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Base character rig
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Complete rig
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Posing characters
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Looking left and right
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Shocked and stretched