The Ultimate Guide to Blender 3D Rigging & Animation

Tank tracks to characters Learn how to 3D animate and rig anything in this massive 17 part Ultimate Blender guide.

Created by: 3D Tudor
3D Tudor | 3D Artist & Tutor

What Will I Learn?

• • Creating 15 different animation projects including but not limited to grass, wheels, trees, fish, tank tracks, fire, light, and clouds, and adventure trapst
• • Learning how to animate tank tracks so that they stick to any type of terrain
• • Mastering the art of character rigging and animating walk cycles
• • Finding how to make moths move around a light source using Blender’s particle boid system
• • Enjoying a full introduction to animating in Blender with 16 animation projects of increasing difficulty
• • Using Blender 3 and understanding its new interface and shortcuts
• • Completing an introduction to the basics of animation in Blender and learning how to animate with nothing but key frames
• • Creating create handles and drivers to have your tank tracks move realistically
• • Maximising the benefits of animated textures to create flames and fire streams
• • Smoothing out animations with interpolation modes
• • Building rigs with single and multiple bones
• • Mastering the art of weighting bones for 3D animation
• • Changing the shape of objects with multiple shape keys
• • Animating wildlife and morphing objects (i.e., taking one object and turning it into another over a set number of keyframes)
• • Creating a stylized smoke effect using Blender’s particle system
• • Graduating to working on more complex animation techniques such as inverse Kinematics, and animating a large scene
• • Using Blender’s camera animation options to create a simple but effective camera turntable setup
• • Utilising rendering to improve the quality of presentation for your 3D animations by rendering out in Eevee and Cycles
• • Presenting your animations in 16 different prepared environments (provided in the course resources)
• • Complete the course which is going to be the first steppingstone to creating different 3D animations for future and existing projects

Requirements

• • To own a computer (Microsoft, Linux or Mac)
• • To have downloaded Blender (available for free)
• • A thirst to learn and excitement about 3D modelling and animation
• • To download all course resources including 15 individual scene set-ups as seen in the stages of the course, and another separate scene featuring a massive adventure scene with deadly traps inspired by film

Target audience

• • Beginner 3D animators eager to learn about how to animate living and inanimate objects
• • Enthusiasts of Blender who want to fast-track their understanding of its new and exciting changes for animation
• • Mid-Level 3D modellers who want to take their 3d animation or modelling skills to a new level and improve their workflow with tips and tricks
• • Fantasy and open-world game environment fans who want to breathe life into the environments they make and make them appear even more realistic