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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – animating the oarlock and oar


Now that you have the timing, you can animate the oarlock and oar using the information you got from your timing:

  1. In the 3D View window, shift to the Top view. In the timeline window, drag the Current Frame Indicator, the green vertical line in the Timeline as seen in the next screenshot, to go to frame 1.

  2. Set the Pivot Point to Median Point. Make sure you are in the Object mode. Now, select the Oarlock-R.

  3. Press R, Z, enter the value 45, and press Enter.

  4. Move the cursor over the 3D View window and press the letter I to set a Rotation keyframe at frame 1. Then, move the timeline to frame 58 and set another Rotation keyframe. It will look like the image on the left-hand side of the next screenshot. You can either drag the Current Frame Indicator or type in the number of the frame in the button to the right of End.

  5. Move to frame 26.

  6. Press R, Z, enter the value -90, and press Enter. Press I to set a rotation keyframe.

  7. Repeat this for the other oarlock...