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Blender Animation Skills

On this page, students will learn a variety of skills to help add to their Blender knowledge and animation skills. These skills should take one day to learn and then students will turn in the rendered animation

SVG Basic Animation

LT: I can create a rotation and animate my SVG 

Turn in Assignment: SVG Spin Animation

Now follow the directions to create an animation of the different sides of the Rubik cube spinning.  The key is to set origin to the middle cube and cursor.  The you have to change your rotation to Quaternion WXYZ before animating.

Chain Animation

LT: I can use the rigidbody physics with a mesh shape collider.
Students will create an animation similar to the one below using the tutorial

Assignment: Chain Animation

Finish the chain animation, and add in the table with texture and a background. Make sure to have good lighting and a good camera angle. Render the animation and turn it in.

Coin Drop Animation

LT: I can use rigid body physics with a collider.
Students will use their own coin created during the 3D Print Unit to create an animation showing several coins dropping

Assignment: Coin Dropping Animation

Using the coin you created in the 3D printing unit, duplicate the coin 20 times.  Create your scene by adding the table with texture and a background.  Then add in your physics to make the coins drop.  Finish the coin drop animation by ensuring good lighting and camera angle.  Render the animation and turn it in.

Rendering Coin Drop Animation
 

Turn in Animation Render To - Coin Drop Animation

Falling Dominos

In this lesson, students will use the basic domino created earlier in the smester.  Students will add in rigidbody to the plane and the domino to give them weight.  Students will create a path for the dominos to be set up in a line.  Then using an Array modifier, students will learn how to quickly add in multiple dominos along their path.  Lastly students will add in cameras and lights for the scene in order to render the animation. 

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LT: I can create a domino falling animation using a path and array in Blender

 Turn in Rendered Animation .MP4 to Domino Animation Assignment

Make Jelly Animation

LT: I can bevel vertices and edges with the bevel modifier. I can use soft body collisions.

Turn in Assignment: Jelly Animation

Use the video above to create a short animated video.  Make sure to have a texture on the tabletop, a background, good lighting, and at least 6 pieces of jelly dropping into a bowl. 

Make Cloth

LT: I can create cloth using the cloth collider in blender

Turn in Assignment: Ghost Animation

Use the video above to create a short animated video.  Make sure to have a background, eye holes, good lighting, and cloth that falls and drapes down as well as a good camera angle and lighting.

Make Hair Animation

LT: I can use a particle system to create hair and animate it with a soft body and collision

Turn in Assignment: Make Hair Animation

To create your hair make sure to have 2-3 fur balls, a camera showing the whole animation, good lighting all the way through, as well as materials on all objects, a good background or background color, and a minimum of 4 platforms and 300 frames.

Make Rain Animation

LT: I can use a particle system and dynamic paint to create rain.
 

Use the video above to create a short animated video.  Make sure to have a background, rain falling onto water, good camera angle and good lighting

Turn in Assignment: Make Rain Animation

Make a Rubik Cube Animation

LT: I can use an array to create multiples of the same object.

Turn in Assignment: Rubik Animation

Now follow the directions to create an animation of the different sides of the Rubik cube spinning.  The key is to set origin to the middle cube and cursor.  The you have to change your rotation to Quaternion WXYZ before animating.

Creating Liquid

In this lesson, students will learn how to create liquid and make it look like it is pouring in to a cup.  Students will once again work with physics and edit mode to create real world scene.  Once the render is finished the final video will show a glass with liquid being poured in and splashing all around. 

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LT: I can create a glass with a scene using edit mode and glass materials.

Make the Liquid

In this second part of the project students will work with the scene they created above to add in the pouring liquid effect.  The final step will be to render the image and the video.

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LT: I can create liquid using the fluid properties in Blender

#1 Turn in the Render Image - show liquid pouring in the glass

#2 Turn in the Render Animation

Animation Reel

LT: I can showcase my animations as a reel

Canva Template Link

Now put all your animation videos into a video. The easiest way is to use the Canva Link above. To put your videos onto a slide, click and drag to the slide. When finished, download and turn into the Padlet.

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