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Animation for beginners: Create spherical animations in blender.

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About This Class

Bring simple shapes to life! Animation does not have to be difficult. In this class, I'll walk you through a simple process where you'll learn to create believable materials, shapes, and animations using Blender

Suitable for beginners

With basic knowledge about 3D, You can follow this course. This course will take you by the hand right from the start and will guide you through.

What You'll Learn

  • 3D modeling in blender 
    Create simple shapes with good topology in blender.
  • Create materials 
    You'll learn how to create materials in 3 separate and effective ways. 
  • Animation
    animate the spheres and their environments to create amazing animations.

Get help along the way.

I do my best to make each lesson as clear and understandable as possible. If it still happens, that you got stuck at any point, you can ask for help or share your work in progress.

Syllabus

  • Introduction: Create spherical animations in blender.
  • How to complete a project
  • Create materials in blender
  • Create materials with Materialize
  • Create materials with Substance painter
  • Exercise 1: Raindrop animation
  • Exercise 2: Disintegrating sphere
  • How to roll a sphere
  • Exercise 3.1: Rolling stairs - modeling
  • Exercise 3.2: Rolling stairs - materials
  • Exercise 3.3: Rolling stairs - animation
  • Exercise 3.4: Rolling stairs - Camera setup
  • Exercise 4.1: Rolling spiral - modeling
  • Exercise 4.2: Rolling spiral - materials
  • Exercise 4.3: Rolling spiral - animation

Taught by

David Jaasma

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