Tips for Creating WALKTHROUGH ANIMATIONS in Blender

In this video, learn how to use Blender's camera tools to create a walkthrough animation in Blender. We'll talk about everything from adding a camera to adding motion to exporting our animation!

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0:00 – Introduction
0:14 – Model Credit/Location
0:37 – Adding a camera
1:25 – Using the keyboard to activate a camera
1:35 – Locking your camera to your viewport view for easy navigation
2:00 – Using the Item settings to control camera transformation
2:45 – Adding camera movement with keyframes
3:45 – Aligning model with model axes for easier camera manipulation
4:25 – Keyframing location and rotation of camera
5:20 – Moving keyframes in the dope sheet to make animation longer
5:50 – Entering first person walk navigation mode for easier camera placement
7:35 – Adding keyframes automatically with auto keyframing
8:30 – Using animation curves to control camera movement
10:00 – Using interpolation to control camera movement transitions
10:41 – Linear interpolation camera movement type
10:51 – Constant interpolation camera movement type
12:10 – How to export a rendered animation in Blender
12:30 – Final settings – number of frames
12:55 – Final settings – video export settings
13:48 – Final result
14:12 - Other animation tutorials

[TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

[original_M_A_K]

Honestly, your tutorials are simply the best: straight to tye point, well explained, well set-up, good audio & good visuals

[stephenprescott]

Thank you so much Justin. I am very new to blender, and have just designed my wife's kitchen. I have used your tutorial to animate a walk through of the kitchen, including opening doors, drawers, and closing them through the walk through. I have watched many of your tutorials and you are extremely helpful, one of the more easy to follow teachers on the Internet. Early stages at this moment, there is a massive amount of learning to go obviously. I have been writing music on Cubase for many years and still haven't touched the surface of the amount of functions within the program. Same goes with da Vinci resolve. Once again thank you very much for your Time and input. You are are providing an excellent service for the novice like myself.

Cheers mate from Perth Western Australia

[shaydensaldanha]

Your voice is really great while explaining. I had fun learning it. Thanks a lot.

[cadewhite]

When using the Shift+~, sometimes footage can seem really jumpy and unrealistic as if it is a video game. If you go into the grapgh editor after selcting your camera you used, you add sample key frames then use the smoothing (alt+o) to make the footage nice a smooth and not so jumpy. If you want to make it look even more real like a hand held camera you can use the shakify addon from ian hubert to add natural movment to the scene after smoothing. This combined with the smooth movement gives a very realsitic look and allows for detailed walking camera movements with not much work.

[alexandrearaujo]

Greatings from Brazil. Thank´s for the tips, they were great. Very nice video. Keep up with this kind of stuff.

[stevesculptor]

I checked out a few tuts on this topic and they are all to complicated, this was the best one, Thx

[TheRealLink]

Great tutorial! Didn't know about the Shift+` option for a more human-like flexible camera walk. Will have to try that in an upcoming project. Thanks!

[ManaLucune]

Sir, you made my day and I could finally do a very nice presentation of my room in Blender!. Gratitude.

[theremixproject]

Thank you! That was worthy. An easy to understand explanation with Great pacing.
Subscribing and adding you to my 'Trusted Mentor' list.

[jmbbao]

Put output as images not video to avoid losing all if there is a crash. Rendering to images will have rendered until the moment of the crash and you can resume rendering from there. Then just load the image serie in a videoeditor (blender also works) and create the movie.

[ShiraNexus]

i really like the Shift+` function. It makes it look as if a person is actually holding camera recording the scene. If the scene is uber realistic, this can easily trick people into believing that it is recorded in real life.

[sharkyneedu]

I love your video it's very helpful 💜

[sarahashemi]

Thank you. Your videos are so helpful 👌👌👌💖

[jozefskubin]

Thank you very much. Very useful and essential ...

[SJBrown]

Um how do I add the room to blender?

Edit. I got the room in but when I add the camera, lock it to view, and hit 0, my camera view is under the room. Plz help.

[drpepa]

Tutorial on realistic 3d text into a Photograph of a room 👍