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Rendering & Finishing a Blender Animation

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Release date:2018, December 3

Duration:04 h 00 m

Author:Kent Trammell

Skill level:Advanced

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Wayne Dixon and I have been doing animated projects together for a few years. And he’s said more than once, “Kent I need to know how you render animations into the final product. I know enough about modeling, I know a lot about rigging, and animation but I don’t know how to make all of that look pretty and finished.”

It’s a lot of work to get an animation finished and looking nice. But the process isn’t over when the animation is complete. It’s also a lot of work to get the animation shaded, lit, and rendered so it’s presentable and, well, beautiful. That’s what this course is all about: Not how to animate but how to make your animations beautifully rendered.

What You’ll Learn
You’re going to see my entire workflow for this project which includes a variety of tasks and problems to solve. From modeling, to texturing, to material creation, to sourcing models online, to rendering, to compositing, to video editing, to sound editing — we’re doing a lot in this course. But the 2 main things I want you to learn from this course are conceptual:

Do More with Less: A well-planned project sets us up to do the least amount of work for the maximum end result. Developing the right mind-set for projects like this one is important for successful completion of the project as well as avoiding over-exertion. It’s a crucial thing to learn for producing animations as a small team or by yourself.

Become an Effective Problem Solver: If these animation projects with Wayne has taught me anything, it’s to be prepared for problems you never anticipated. Simply by the complex nature of computer animation, glitches and issues pop up frequently. The only way through them is to be open-minded, think outside the box, and learn to be resourceful.

Within those core concepts you’ll also discover a ton of tips and tricks along the way!

Table of Contents

Project Planning
The unsung hero of successful projects.
Planning the Project 5 min

Environment Creation
Building a simple but effective world for the animation.
Creating a Forest Pond 21 min
Building a Pier 34 min
Adding a Lantern 18 min
Environment Creation Quiz 14 xp

Character Modification
Deriving an alternate character from an existing one.
Generating New Texture Colors 6 min
Sculpting New Details 18 min

Procedural Pond Animation
Adding movement to the pond surface.
Procedural Pond Surface Animation 12 min

Rendering
Tying all the 3D data together into final, rendered frames.
Rendering the First Sequence 17 min
Mirroring Animation with Mesh Cache 14 min
Rendering the Composition 5 min
Rendering Quiz 20 xp

Video Editing
Cutting the video sequences together into a “Film” and “Boomerang Loop” versions.
Import Footage, Create Proxies, and Adjust Aspect Ratio 11 min
Cutting the Video 13 min
Adding Ending Titles 10 min
Sourcing Sound FX 16 min
Adding Sound FX 19 min
Finish Sound FX & Final Export 27 min
Cutting the Boomerang Loop Version 5 min
Video Editing Quiz 14 xp

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