Create your animation project in Blender by Niilo Kämäräinen
Release date:2024, June
Duration:10 h 48 m
Author:Niilo Kämäräinen
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Do you have an idea for an animated short film but don’t know how to start? Want to showcase your designs or ideas with motion and clarity? Looking to kickstart your progress in Blender?
Whether you’re interested in 3D, animation, drawing, or engineering, this course will help you tell your story!
Course Overview
This course starts from the basics and progresses to more advanced topics, ensuring you gain a comprehensive understanding of Blender and its capabilities.
What Will You Learn?
This course offers a wide range of techniques, principles, and exercises to improve your skills. It emphasizes visual development, storytelling, and creating a complete project. Note that modeling, rigging, and character animation are not covered in detail, and compositing is not part of this course. Eevee is the render engine used throughout the course!
Course Outline:
- Introduction to Blender: Get familiar with the Blender interface and basic functionalities.
- Grease Pencil: Learn how to use Grease Pencil for 2D animation within Blender.
- Visual Development: Understand the principles of visual development to enhance your projects.
- Materials in Blender: Discover how to create and apply materials for your 3D models.
Animation Project:
After the introductions, we will cover an animation project from storyboard to editing and music:
- Chapter 5: Storyboarding and 3D Animation Basics: Create storyboards, the first scenes, and learn the fundamentals of 3D animation.
- Chapter 6: Visual Development Principles: Apply visual development principles to improve your project on the go.
- Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks for Blender: Learn effective techniques to work efficiently in Blender.
- Chapter 8: Creating and Lighting Stylized 3D Scenes: This extra chapter is packed with useful techniques for creating and lighting stylized 3D scenes.
- Chapter 9: Editing and Sound: This important chapter covers the skills needed to bring your project together with editing and sound.
Course Features:
- Over 100 Lessons: The course consists of more than 100 lessons, spanning over 10 hours of narrated video content, full of examples and exercises.
- Expert Instruction: The course is instructed by Niilo, who has over 7 years of experience using Blender in concept design, industrial design, technology animation, and countless personal projects. The instruction aims to be straightforward and practical.
Join Us Today!
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to transform your ideas into animated reality. Enroll now and start your journey with Blender!
[Udemy] Create your animation project in Blender by Niilo Kämäräinen
01. Introduction to Blender
01. Introduction
02. Course Learning Primer
03. Intro to Blender – Computer Requirements
04. Intro to Blender – AddOns
05. Intro to Blender – Interface and Tools
02. Introduction to Visual Development
01. Visual Development – Introduction and Learning Goals
02. Using References
03. Visual Development Principles
04. Visual development principle 1 – Contrast
05. Visual development principle 2 – Color
06. Visual development principle 3 – Shapes
07. Shapes – Leading lines
08. Shapes – Silhouette
09. Character Design
10. Character Design 2 – Robot Example
03. Materials in Blender
01. Intro to Materials in Blender – Material properties and the Shader editor
02. Using photo textures and procedural textures
03. Procedural textures Voronoi, Noise, Gradient
04. Texture Mapping introduction
05. Creating variations of procedural textures 1
06. Creating variations of procedural textures 2 (Challenging)
07. Creating and using material assets
04. Introduction to Grease Pencil
01. Introduction to Grease Pencil – Learning goals
02. What is Grease Pencil
03. Start to Draw in Grease Pencil
04. Drawing in Grease Pencil 2
05. Drawing tools in Grease Pencil
06. Edit mode & Sculpt mode
07. Layers and coloring 1
08. Animation in Grease Pencil 1 – Framerate
09. Animation in Grease Pencil 2 – Keyframes and Dopesheet
10. Animation in Grease Pencil 3 – Bouncing Ball 1
11. Animation in Grease Pencil 4 – Bouncing Ball 2 – Inbetweens
12. Animation in Grease Pencil 5 – Bouncing Ball 3 – Interpolation
13. Animation in Grease Pencil – Animate a Character with Interpolation tool
14. Animation in Grease Pencil – Animating VFX
15. Layers And coloring 2
05. Starting out with 3D animation
01. Learning goals
02. Project Plan
03. Create your Storyboard
04. Create first 3D scene – Lights in Eevee
05. Create first 3D scene – Assets and Modifiers
06. Create first 3D Scene – Light and textures
07. Animation Basics
08. Animating the first Scene
09. Animation Exercise 1 – Create a Robotic Arm
10. Animation Exercise 2 – Rig a Robotic Arm
11. Animation Exercise 3 – Animate a Robotic Arm
12. Animating Object interactions (challenging)
06. Visual development in a project
01. Learning goals
02. Using Cameras and lights to tell your story
03. Intro to Overpainting
04. From Overpaint to 3D
05. Improving focus 1
06. Improving shots
07. Painted Textures
08. Developing an important Story Scene
07. Efficient working in Blender
01. Learning Goals
02. Outdoor Environments 1 – Botaniq AddOn
03. Outdoor Environments 2 – Making Ground
04. Outdoor Environments 3 – Mixing Textures
05. Outdoor Environments 4 – Volumetric fog and Shadow textures
06. Modeling with Grease Pencil
07. From Cubes to Defined Shapes
08. Making Simple Scenes Fast
09. Efficient Scene Creation
10. (Extra) Animation Timelapse 1
11. (Extra) Animation Timelapse 2
08. Stylized Environments – Design and 3D
01. Environment Design Sketching
02. Introduction to Modeling Tools
03. Modeling your design 1
04. Modeling your design 2 – Array Modifier for stairs
05. Modeling your design 3 – Boolean Modifier for Windows and Doors
06. Modeling your design 4 – Modeling Details
07. Intro to sculpting 1 – Base Mesh
08. Intro to Sculpting 2 – Start Sculpting
09. Intro to Sculpting 3 – Sculpting Details
10. (Extra) Intro to Sculpting 4 – Lighting your Sculpt
11. (Extra) Intro to Sculpting 5 – Materials for your Sculpt
12. Sculpt a Ground plane for your Environment
13. Modeling fences, Chairs and signs with Grease Pencil
14. Add materials to your environment
15. Use grease pencil to draw details to your environment
16. Create immersion with background buildings
17. Create immersion with vegetation
18. Create immersion with Extra Details
19. Lighting your environment
20. Lighting a Night Scene
21. Lighting A Daylight Scene
22. Lighting an Overcast Scene
09. Finalizing your project – Editing and Sound
01. Learning goals
02. Intro to Particles
03. Using Particles in a Project
04. Introduction to sound effects
05. Intro to editing sound in Reaper
06. Downloading sound effects
07. Recording sound
08. Creating a robotic sound effect
09. Create a layered sound effect
10. 4 layers of sound for animation
11. Intro to editing 1
12. Intro to Resolve
13. Intro to Resolve 1. Importing files
14. Intro to Resolve 2. Editing clips in Place
15. Intro to Resolve 3. Color Grading
16. Intro to Resolve 4. Sound
17. Intro to Resolve 5. Exporting
18. Feedback
19. Finalizing 3D – New Shots and Grease Pencil VFX
20. Course Ending – Resources and Feedback
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