In this Blender 3D character animation training series, you will learn body animation, facial animation, lip-syncing, and a complete workflow for animating your character scenes in Blender 3D using our Cookie Flex Rig. Beorn guides you through Blender animation tools and the basic principles of character animation. You will be walked through the complete process of animating two scenes, from storyboarding to layout to blocking to polishing the animation. Animation tutors Beorn and Nathan teach one scene each. A Multi-camera Dialogue Shot and A Physical Acting Shot, respectively.

Like in every craft, your workflow dramatically affects how well and efficiently animation is accomplished. Working smarter, not harder, is an important skill for animators to learn. Therefore, the first half of the course serves as an animation masterclass. You'll learn how to hone your planning, blocking, splining, and polishing capabilities. Refining your workflow means your animations will improve drastically. The application in this course revolves around body mechanics, which is absolutely crucial for good character animation. Do you like exercises? I hope so. This course has 9 of 'em! Through the exercises, you'll be challenged with character jumps, a ball kick, and some box lifts.

This course will show you how to animate all the actions needed for a game, from quick, simple ones (like standing around doing nothing) to complex pro-level like reloading and transforming the rifle into a freakin' cool sniper. We want to use as few frames as possible to keep things responsive for the player. And the whole process doesn’t take as long as you might think!

In this Grease Pencil mini-course we will be hand animating some 2D cartoon fire! To help ourselves out, we will start by setting up a particle system that will assist us with our flame.Then we start drawing and manually loop our fire using some animation principals which will make it burn like an eternal flame. We will use some of the FX modifiers to make our fire glow and add some cartoon smoke.

Blender 2.8 is awesome for creating 3D game environments. There are so many steps to creating a final asset though, that making something seemingly simple like an animated door can quickly become complex and overwhelming. There's the high poly modeling, low poly modeling, UV unwrapping, normal map baking, rigging, animation, texturing, and more! And it all needs to be done just right. In this course, I’m walking you through every single part of that process in 21 concise and information packed lessons. You’ll end up with your own cool looking sci-fi door and pick up some tips and tricks along the way of course, but more importantly, by the end, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the game asset creation workflow, which you can apply to any type project. 

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Edit your animation or mocap data quickly using a standard animation layers UI and workflow directly in your 3D viewport with an extra layers functionality.