Blender Artists Community. BlenderNation - Daily news, tutorials and art for Blender, the open source 3D suite. Tutorials/Your First Animation/1.A static model. From BlenderWiki This chapter will guide you through the animation of a small “Gingerbread Man” character. We will describe each step completely, but we will assume that you have read the interface chapter, and that you understand the conventions used throughout this book.
In Part I of this tutorial we’ll build a still Gingerbread Man. Then, in Part II, we will make him walk. Warming up Let’s start Blender. Default Blender start-up screen. We will organize our working area by placing objects on different Layers where we can hide them. Layer visibility controls. Blender provides you with twenty Layers to help organize your work. And toggle visibility with ⇧ ShiftLMB . So let’s clean up the place. Layer control toolbox.
Select the camera (triangle in bottom right) and the lamp (circle with dots) with ⇧ ShiftRMB . This leaves all the room we can wish for to begin our modeling job. Building the body The cube in Edit mode. Change to the front view with 1 NumPad. Editing context in Buttons window. . Blender Guru. Blender 3D Design Course. Blender 3D Design Course Note: Added new Lesson #13 - NURBS Surfaces / Meta Objects - April 27, 2013 Note: Added new Lesson #14 - Rigid Body Dynamics- June 1, 2013 Students: This course is also available for downloading to your iPhone or iPad via Tufts University iTunesU. (Install the iTunesU app / Search Colleges and Universities - Tufts University / Subscribe to "3D Design - Blender"). You can also download the course to a desktop or laptop via the iTunes application.
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