Blender Animation & Rigging: Bring Your Creations To Life

Learn To Rig & Animate Models & Characters In Blender, For All Skill Levels. Blender 4 Compatible. EARLY ACCESS!

What you'll learn

Understand the basic and important principles of rigging and animating

Start with a basic character rig, then more complex rigging and tools

Rig characters with basic and automated advanced rigs

Create simple & expressive animations

Learn principles and how to create actions for your characters like run cycles and attack animations.

Create character animations quickly and easily that are ready for game engines

We’ll also show you how to export and have these working in game engines!

Requirements

You'll need a basic understanding of Blender, so at least a few hours of modelling and using Blender under your belt

Most modern computers will run Blender, but check your computers specification with the Blender basic requirements

Description

Want to create amazing animations, just like you see on your favourite game characters?In this course, you’ll bring your creations to life and learn how to rig and animate models and characters.While the course is mainly character focused, the principles and tools you learn can be applied to animate anything in Blender.By the end of the course you’ll be able to rig and animate characters ready for game engines, or anything else you want to use them for!Understand the basic and important principles of rigging and animatingStart with a basic character rig, then more complex rigging and toolsRig characters with basic and automated advanced rigsCreate simple & expressive animationsLearn principles and how to create actions for your characters like run cycles and attack animations.Create character animations quickly and easily that are ready for game enginesWe’ll also show you how to export and have these working in game engines!Plus you get the added bonus of seeing Grant acting out all these animations as a template for the movements. The course is Blender 4 compatible, and will be updated if there are any changes to the way things work in Blender 4.1.Perfect if you have a basic/reasonable understanding of the Blender interface (so at least a few hours of modelling and using blender under your belt) and also if you want to create animations for your games and game characters.You’ll get full lifetime access for a single one-off fee. The creators are qualified and experienced with modelling and coding, so are able to explain complex concepts clearly, as well as entertain along the way.And you’ll get access to the Q&A where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.So what are you waiting for? Dive in now and start animating!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction & Setup

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 Understanding Keyframes

Lecture 3 Community & Support

Lecture 4 Timeline & Record

Lecture 5 Animating Colours

Lecture 6 Rendering Animations

Lecture 7 Intro to the Graph Editor

Lecture 8 Interpolation

Lecture 9 Handle Types

Section 2: Rigging Basics

Lecture 10 Section Intro: Rigging Basics

Lecture 11 Understanding Parenting

Lecture 12 Deadly Trap Animation

Lecture 13 Bone Basics

Lecture 14 Rigging with Bones

Lecture 15 Deadly Snake Animation

Lecture 16 Rigging & Weight Painting a Leg

Lecture 17 Animating with FK

Lecture 18 Rigging IK

Lecture 19 Animating an IK Leg

Lecture 20 Creating IK & FK Arm Rigs

Lecture 21 Animating IK & FK Arms

Section 3: Basic Human Rig

Lecture 22 Section Intro: Basic Human Rig

Lecture 23 Base Character Rig

Lecture 24 Complete Rig

Lecture 25 Parenting & Weights

Lecture 26 Basic Standing Pose

Lecture 27 Posing Characters

Section 4: Rigify

Lecture 28 Section Intro: Rigify

Lecture 29 Positioning the Rigify Rig

This course is great if you have some experience of Blender and want to bring your creations to life,And it's perfect if you want to create animations for your games and game characters