Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You will not finish this course an expert animator. You will finish it knowing exactly how animation works in Blender and how to do it yourself, which is the part most tutorials skip.
On Superhive: superhivemarket.com/products/core-5-animation
All 11 courses: superhivemarket.com/products/core-lts
Full course: core.cgcookie.com
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Keyframes, F-curves, handles, and interpolation types
- The timeline, the dope sheet, and the graph editor
- The animation principles: ease in and ease out, squash and stretch, anticipation, arcs, exaggeration, overlapping action, and pose to pose
-Working with rigs, blending keys, walk cycles, extrapolating channels
-Quaternion rotations and the difference between IK and FK
-Actions as objects: swapping them, storing them as assets, and the NLA editor
-Camera work, camera markers, F-curve modifiers, and playblasts
WHAT YOU WILL BUILD
Bounce and jump exercises with the Blobby rig, a walk cycle and a pick up the box exercise with a full biped rig, and a final challenge where you animate your own scene.
INSIDE THE COURSE
01 Keys, timeline, dope sheet, graph editor
02 The animation principles
03 Rigs, walk cycles, IK and FK, quaternions
04 Actions, constraints, assets, NLA, and the hero action workflow
05 Cameras, markers, playblasts, and the final challenge
33 lessons. Around 4 hours 25 minutes. Recorded in Blender 5.2 LTS. Project files and rigs included.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Chris Bailey.
ABOUT CORE V2
CORE V2 is an 11 course Blender fundamentals series, rebuilt from the ground up for Blender 5.2 LTS. Mesh Modeling, Digital Sculpting, Lighting, Materials and Shading, Texturing, Animation, Rigging, Physics, Compositing, Grease Pencil, and Geometry Nodes. More than 45 hours of instruction, project files, exercises, and challenges. Blender 5.2 is a long term support release, so what you learn here stays current for years.
FREE BLENDER TUTORIAL
Model a glowing honey jar in about 14 minutes: honeyjar.cgcookie.com
CG COOKIE
cgcookie.com
#Blender #Blender3D #BlenderAnimation
You will not finish this course an expert animator. You will finish it knowing exactly how animation works in Blender and how to do it yourself, which is the part most tutorials skip.
On Superhive: superhivemarket.com/products/core-5-animation
All 11 courses: superhivemarket.com/products/core-lts
Full course: core.cgcookie.com
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Keyframes, F-curves, handles, and interpolation types
- The timeline, the dope sheet, and the graph editor
- The animation principles: ease in and ease out, squash and stretch, anticipation, arcs, exaggeration, overlapping action, and pose to pose
-Working with rigs, blending keys, walk cycles, extrapolating channels
-Quaternion rotations and the difference between IK and FK
-Actions as objects: swapping them, storing them as assets, and the NLA editor
-Camera work, camera markers, F-curve modifiers, and playblasts
WHAT YOU WILL BUILD
Bounce and jump exercises with the Blobby rig, a walk cycle and a pick up the box exercise with a full biped rig, and a final challenge where you animate your own scene.
INSIDE THE COURSE
01 Keys, timeline, dope sheet, graph editor
02 The animation principles
03 Rigs, walk cycles, IK and FK, quaternions
04 Actions, constraints, assets, NLA, and the hero action workflow
05 Cameras, markers, playblasts, and the final challenge
33 lessons. Around 4 hours 25 minutes. Recorded in Blender 5.2 LTS. Project files and rigs included.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Chris Bailey.
ABOUT CORE V2
CORE V2 is an 11 course Blender fundamentals series, rebuilt from the ground up for Blender 5.2 LTS. Mesh Modeling, Digital Sculpting, Lighting, Materials and Shading, Texturing, Animation, Rigging, Physics, Compositing, Grease Pencil, and Geometry Nodes. More than 45 hours of instruction, project files, exercises, and challenges. Blender 5.2 is a long term support release, so what you learn here stays current for years.
FREE BLENDER TUTORIAL
Model a glowing honey jar in about 14 minutes: honeyjar.cgcookie.com
CG COOKIE
cgcookie.com
#Blender #Blender3D #BlenderAnimation
