Dynamic Character Animation with Blender

Animating the Board and Character 1

A course by Tonq , 3D Animator

100% positive reviews (29)

3,324 students

Audio: English, French, Italian, Portuguese

· · · · · · ·

About the video: Animating the Board and Character 1

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll demonstrate how to set up the rig with the board and character, exploring how the principles of roto-animation work. It's a really simple technique that can give incredible results.”

In this video lesson Tonq addresses the topic: Animating the Board and Character 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dynamic Character Animation with Blender. Turn a live-action clip into a striking animation of a surreal character using Blender, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Partial transcription of the video

“So in this lesson we're going to start animating the board and the character and I really enjoy this part of the project as you can just put some music on and just work your way through bringing it all to life. So let's begin. Okay. So now it's time for animating. And this guy's been waiting very patiently. Yeah, I think they set up the board actually, the rig. So... How I'm going to do this. is I want the character to be parented to the board, so that he moves along with it. However, We don't want them to rotate with that since If we just haven't parented to the board, So control P to pare...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Dynamic Character Animation with Blender

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (29)
3324 students
4 units
21 lessons (4h 39m)
3 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Blender
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Motion Graphics, VFX

Tonq

A course by Tonq

Teacher Plus

3D Animator

Tonq is a freelance 3D animator based in Salisbury, England. He grew up in a family of creatives and has been artistic since he was a child, experimenting with everything from drawing and painting to carpentry and stained glass art. Tonq went on to study media and photography at college before discovering a passion for 3D.

He later started his Instagram account where he now shares his work with over 20K followers. He has collaborated with clients including Zara, Cariuma, Carolina Herrera, and Vodafone, and has his work displayed on billboards in Tokyo and New York City.