How to Animate in Blender: Learning the Basics

This tutorial on Blender Animation is designed for individuals who are new to Blender or Animation. Join me as we explore the fundamental aspects of animation and become familiar with the interface. We will delve into the 12 principles of animation and apply 5 of these principles in our Bouncing Ball tutorial.

For your convenience, I have developed a complimentary blender bouncing ball rig specifically for this tutorial. Feel free to download the rig and begin practicing today.

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Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:32 What is Animation
0:04:14 Blender Interface
0:15:00 Hot Keys
0:30:33 Setting up Scene for Animation
0:38:58 Animating a Bouncing Ball

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[movie_review_hindi_offical]

Everyone is teaching modelling, texture, and lighting, but no-one is teaching about human body rigging and animation hope to see proper character modeling and animation with facial expressions and controller ❤❤❤

[kart]

You are the only one who learn professional animation for free😊

[Vano-unqm]

The most detailed and comprehensible lesson of animation I found

[ДаряКузменюк]

We have many tutorials on animation in Maya, but you are the only one on character animation in Blender. Thank you very much! This is a very useful lesson! Please continue!

[nrs]

I am Arabic and I am not fluent in English. Thanks to this opportunity, I can benefit from the basic principles of teacher animation and understand them both theoretically and practically. The nice thing is that this is present in our beloved program. A teacher who deserves support.

[joyjitsinha]

I search the ocean of youtube and found you are the best professional teacher for beginners regarding animation & rigging,
1) best channel for modeling --> there are many channels
2) best channel for rigging --> Alex on story & other rigging channels (machine, robots, heavy machinery, insects)
3) best channel for animation --> one and only Alex on story

[bjaanderson]

Can't believe I'm just finding this. You're my favorite Blender teacher and I'm just getting into animation, so this is very exciting.

[mprayagraj]

I never imagined this is free. I always avoid animation in blender. Now pretty much confident about how to think the real process.

[samirahmed]

Best Animator teacher in Youtube for sure ❤️

[AnandaKrishnande]

I love you man. Thank you so much for this. After all these years, a best tut on animation in 3D and that is free for everyone.

[CBusschaert]

23:19 About the tool keys. There's a setting in the keymap preferences to activate the tool rather than activating the operator immediately. I'm sure now you're accustomed to using the spacebar, but for others, it's not needed to achieve the same effect.

That said, having the option to go G to move something really quick is always nice, so I completely understand wanting to keep both

[MrFrog]

51:29 ease in
53:29 sharp at beginning
53:46 scaling the handle
55:26 copy and paste this curve to use later
55:52 make the rotation frames
56:04 shift + H to hide all attributes except the x axis
1:01:00 cool the contacts with the floor
1:02:40 creating the spacing animation
1:04:11 impo
1:07:01 option + G to reset the values on translates
1:07:23 impo bookmarks

[Henry-xo]

Your amazing man, you have a voice that makes me feel relaxed and motivated

[markojanev]

This is gold, Alex! Thank you for doing this!
Would love to see a rigging from scratch tutorial from you. Cheers!

[LilybeeTV]

Finally found a blender tutorial set I can stay engaged with. This is great, thank you for this. I appreciate how thorough you are with your workflow. The biggest hurdle to learning any complex program is navigating the UI without thinking about it and I feel like I'm moving around Blender much better after watching.

[hubertdendraak]

High quality tutorial. Clear, concise, not rushed (as so many are) and an instructor with a pleasant presence and no overbearing ego (as even more are). I will definitely explore your other videos. Thank you for this positive experience!

[ViniciusWells]

You are a great teacher. Please, keep going

[KitchenGuy]

Oh, this reminds me of the old Maya tutorial by Jason Busby (may he rest in peace) with the talented ball. But way more advanced. With blender finally having a good UI, I might actually give this a try. You are well-spoken without all that usual over the top YouTuber shenanigans, really refreshing.

[HanHan-gj]

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[sarahvogel]

It's really complicated but you broke it down so easily. Thank u! I really enjoyed it.