This blender video tutorial provides an introduction to some fundamental animation techniques. The techniques covered are Drag, Follow-Through, and Overlapping Action.

In this 2.49 tutorial Jaymz uses a lattice to animate a human heart.

Blender expert and author Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation, from writing to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering. Continue reading ‘Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish’ »

Learn about all of the different settings you can use for objects with the fluid system including obstacle, inflow, and outflow.

Learn how to use particles to quickly create white fluffy clouds in your animations.

Using soft bodies and a wind force you can take a lowly plane with a very simple texture and make it look like a realistically billowing flag.

In this tutorial we are going to look at how to animate a gear train in Blender with constraints, such that all the gears follow the lead of a single empty. This technique offers a much cleaner system with less margin for error

A nice zoom technique where a focused object keeps its original size, but you see more and more of the background. You often see that in films and thats why I called it ‘cinematic zoom’ first. Later on I was told that its actually called a ’vertigo zoom’.

An introduction to object extrusion, replication and animation using paths. A golden oldie!

A beginner book that covers the basics of Blender in a classroom format. 22 chapters with exercises designed to be completed in 1-2 one-hour class periods. Chapters are kept short (1-4 pages for most) and designed to only cover more commonly used features to get you “up-and-running” and comfortable with Blender. 146 pages. Free for use. The book can be downloaded as a complete pdf file or downloaded as individual chapters from the Central Dauphin High School Website.