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Blender character animation tools - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Blender 3.3 Essential Training
Blender character animation tools
- [Instructor] One thing you'll start to realize as you're animating is that it's a very slow, slow process. So naturally, Blender makes a lot of tools to make it easier on you. Let me show you. Somewhere around frame 80 or so, I want my character to float in. How would I easily do that? Well, the first thing that we can do is turn on auto key frame and that's this right here down at the bottom. That means every time I move a control, a key frame is automatically set for me so I don't need to hit the I button. This has one problem, however. If I go ahead and move one control, and then later move my arm down, Blender doesn't know that I wanted my arm up at frame 80 so I'll get some weird stuff like that happening. So that's why it's often encouraged to select all either with hitting the A button on your keyboard or going to select all and then hitting I to insert a key frame. You can also quickly navigate…
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Overview of animation50s
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Preparing your objects for animation5m 46s
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Using Rigify to create 3D characters4m 27s
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Refining Rigify with weight painting10m 44s
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Set your first keyframe7m 20s
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Blender character animation tools8m 2s
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Challenge: Animate your astronaut51s
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Solution: Animate your astronaut7m 22s
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