Intro to Blender 3D Animation – Let's Bring Your 3D Creations to Life! 🤖

Why learn 3D Animation?
Animation is the key to bringing life and character to your 3D creations. This beginner-friendly class introduces the core concepts of 3D animation in a fun and interactive environment.

What You'll Learn:
✅ The 12 principles of animation
✅ Navigating and working with Blender animation tools
✅ To create bones, rigs, and controllers
✅ To create keyframe animations

🗓️ Week 1: 12 Principles of Animation
Let's take a dive into the principles of animation. Exploring how each principle is incorporated into commercial and/or production shipped products. In addition to learning how to incorporate those same ideas into Blender animation projects.

🗓️ Week 2: Blender Animation Tools
Blender, similarly to other 3D software, has animation tools incorporated into the software. However, Blender was originally designed to be an animation software for easier animation needs. Thus, we will learn the essential tools, such as the timeline, animation graph editor, and pose editor.

🗓️ Week 3: Animation Controls
All 3D animated objects and content requires the use of skeletal bones and controllers that need to be rigged together in order to create animations. With the help of pre-made rigs and project files, we can discover the thoughts and processes behind these example rigs and see what they can do together.

🗓️ Week 4: Keyframe Animation
Lastly, we will use the previously learned information and learn how to create movable objects through an animation process called "keyframing." Using the keyframe animation technique, Students will learn and attempt to create a bouncing ball project. 

🎥 Join us and create your first 3D animation today! 🎮