Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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In this tutorial I cover:
- Keyframe Animation & the Timeline editor window (2:15)
- The 'Auto Keying' button + creating location/rotation/scale Keyframes (3:16)
- Changing the Frame Rate (FPS) of your animation (6:53)
- Selcting, Moving Keyframes & Scaling & Reversing animations(8:10)
- Animation Tracks/Channels in the Timeline (10:48)
- The (i) Insert Keyframe menu & 'Keying Sets' (15:13)
- Setting an Active Keying Set (18:09)
- Using the Active Keying Set with the Auto Keying button (19:41)
- Preview Range (21:15)
- Interpolation between Keyframes (t key for Bezier, Linear, and Constant) (22:45)
- Camera Switching with 'Constant' interpolation. (26:21)
- The Dope Sheet Editor (view Keyframes for all objects) (29:40)
- The Graph Editor & controlling curves (31:21)
- Animating value boxes in the Properties Editor (35:03)
- Animating Material Color (37:00)
- Animating Text Character Spacing(38:46)
- The 12 principles of Animation (40:25)
LINKS:
- AlanBeckerTutorials: 12 Principles of Animation: youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4
- GET BLENDER 2.8 at: blender.org/download
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Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more Blender 2.8 tutorials like this one!
In this tutorial I cover:
- Keyframe Animation & the Timeline editor window (2:15)
- The 'Auto Keying' button + creating location/rotation/scale Keyframes (3:16)
- Changing the Frame Rate (FPS) of your animation (6:53)
- Selcting, Moving Keyframes & Scaling & Reversing animations(8:10)
- Animation Tracks/Channels in the Timeline (10:48)
- The (i) Insert Keyframe menu & 'Keying Sets' (15:13)
- Setting an Active Keying Set (18:09)
- Using the Active Keying Set with the Auto Keying button (19:41)
- Preview Range (21:15)
- Interpolation between Keyframes (t key for Bezier, Linear, and Constant) (22:45)
- Camera Switching with 'Constant' interpolation. (26:21)
- The Dope Sheet Editor (view Keyframes for all objects) (29:40)
- The Graph Editor & controlling curves (31:21)
- Animating value boxes in the Properties Editor (35:03)
- Animating Material Color (37:00)
- Animating Text Character Spacing(38:46)
- The 12 principles of Animation (40:25)
LINKS:
- AlanBeckerTutorials: 12 Principles of Animation: youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4
- GET BLENDER 2.8 at: blender.org/download
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Nicolas from the band 'the Lazy Saviours' created my Intro Jingle! Check out his band's album here:
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![Lets Learn Blender!: Character Rigging 101 (Armatures, Bones, & IK)
Thanks for watching! In this Blender tutorial I cover: How to create a skeleton (Armature) in Blender that lets you control / pose / animate your 3D character! This Tutorial covers the basics of armatures & bones, IK constraints & copy rotation constraints, parenting your character mesh to the Armature (with Automatic weights & to specific bones as needed), Weight Paint Mode, and posing/animating in Pose Mode.
Video Timecode Chapter Links:
- 0:00 - Video Intro & Welcome
- 0:08 - Video Overview (what well be doing)
- 1:51 - Starting with a Character Mesh
- 2:53 - Adding an Armature (with a single bone)
- 3:53 - Editing an Armature & Working with Bones
- 4:56 - Enabling In Front viewport display
- 5:29 - Transforming & Extruding the Spine/Neck/Head bones
- 8:22 - Bones attached in a hierarchy (parent/child)
- 9:17 - Quickly: an intro to Pose Mode
- 10:26 - Extruding a Left shoulder/arm/hand
- 15:17 - Adding a Left leg & foot
- 18:26 - Naming the Center & Left bones
- 21:44 - Limitations of this FK (forward kinematics) Rig
- 24:13 - Quick Menu: Clearing the Pose
- 25:07 - Hand IK setup
- 31:44 - Adding a Hand Copy Rotation Constraint
- 34:28 - Setting up an Elbow IK Pole Target
- 38:23 - Shortcut: Adding a Foot / Knee IK setup
- 44:11 - Recalculating Bone Roll for Consistency
- 48:58 - Adding & Parenting a Controller Bone
- 51:55 - Symmetrize! Making a Right Side
- 53:04 - Adding Extra Bones (for Knights shoulder armor & visor)
- 58:51 - Linking the Character Mesh to the Armature!
- 1:02:43 - Linking the Shoulder Pads
- 1:05:10 - Linking the Helmet & Visor
- 1:07:38 - Linking the Belt Buckle
- 1:08:34 - Linking the Sword
- 1:09:14 -Armature Vertex Weights
- 1:13:04 - Using Weight Paint Mode
- 1:20:49 - Hiding Bones in Layers
- 1:22:01 - Animating an Armature!
- 1:22:43 - Bone (Viewport Display) Shapes
- 1:24:29 - Video Wrap-Up, Call-to-Action, & Video Outro.
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RESOURCES:
The Cartoon Knight Rig by Lucas De Miguel (@lucasdmok)
based on a concept by @fer_lerena
This piece is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International(CC BY 4.0)
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ORIGINAL FILE on BLENDSWAP with Rig: https://blendswap.com/blend/25094
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MIRROR 1: https://bit.ly/3vqjUKc
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![Blender 2.7 Tutorial #66: Cartoon Eyes Rig #b3d
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In this Blender 2.7 Tutorial #66 I cover:
- How to create animate-able eyes on the surface of a 3D [or 2D] character. (controls movement of texture on surface of eyes
- This tutorial Includes use/demonstration of 3D tools including: knife project, proportional editing, nodes, UV Warp Modifier, Texture Painting and brushes, Unwrapping and UV Mapping, Armatures & Bones, Custom Bone Shapes
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![Lets Learn Blender!: Proportional Editing!
Thanks for watching! In this Blender tutorial I cover: How to use Blenders *Proportional Editing* 3D Modelling Mode & Options!
Video Timecode Chapter Links:
- 0:00 - Video Intro & Welcome
- 0:08 - Video Overview (what well be doing)
- 0:32 - Discovering Proportional Editing By Accident
- 1:47 - Using Proportional Editing in Edit Mode
- 2:40 - The *Sphere of Influence*
- 3:08 - *Falloff* in Proportional Editing
- 4:14 - Falloff Types
- 6:18 - Scale & Rotate Proportionally
- 7:08 - *Random* Falloff Type
- 8:07 - Option: *Projected From View*
- 10:36 - Option: *Connected Only*
- 12:57 - Working with Multiple Meshes
- 14:22 - Video Wrap-Up, Call-to-Action, & Video Outro.
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