Gumroad – Alive! Animation course in Blender

What’s included in the course:

• More than 150 videos
• Over 28 hours of lessons and exercises
• All blender files per lesson
• A ball rig
• A Low poly squirrel rig
• A Battle mech robot rig
• A super hero “Trident” character rig

What you will learn:

Getting access to educational animation content is generaly quite expensive and often difficult to know where to start. That’s why I’ve designed this course to give you all the fundamentals of animation and teach you the tricks and techniques you’ll need to create everything from a cute character short to kickass action animations. We will cover all of this using Blender, the free and open source software, but you will be able to transfer all these techniques to any other software or animation medium. There is something in this course for everyone from complete animation beginners to more experienced animators.

Blender animation tools and workflow

• From your first keyframe to in depth animation tool understanding. (dopesheet, action editor, NLA, graph editor…)
• Animating simple object
• Understanding 3D space
• Animating a rigged object with multiple bouncing ball exercice

Animating a rigged character

• Full pipeline to create a short animation, step by step
• Preproduction
• Using the camera
• Staging
• Introduction to advanced animation techniques
• Animating a robot with the layered approach
• Introduction to space switching

Human locomotion

• Advanced step by step run cycle
• Advanced step by step walk cycle

The art of posing

• Reference studies
• Body mechanics
• Pushing the pose

Advanced action animation, 4 hit combos, full process.

• Reference studies
• Blocking
• Breakdowns
• Blocking plus
• Splinning
• Polishing