It’s done! I am pleased to present to you, SL Animation for Blender Newbs. It’s 6 pages long, with pictures. It might take you maybe 30 minutes or so to follow along, I’m guessing. If you have any feedback (e.g. suggestions or praise), leave a comment on any of the pages.
Enjoy.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Great Tutorial, fantastic exporter and tool.
Is there a way to import existing animations (BVH files), and have it overlay or replace the existing bones of the tool for the purpose of editting existing animations?
Yes, I’m aware you don’t support the tool *gryn*.
October 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Fantastic tutorial – and an awesome .blend file. I love the male/female avatars on separate layers; very nice touch.
I’ve done some modeling in Blender, but this is my first foray into actually animating with it, so I appreciate the clarity of your tutorial – unlike many Blender tutorials I’ve seen, it doesn’t assume that the reader already knows where to find things or what the keyboard shortcuts are.
My one suggestion is that newbies could benefit from a discussion of the hand_ctl and foot_ctl bones, and how to enable the constraints on the hands and feet to make use of them. They’re a great feature!
May 15th, 2010 at 6:48 am
[...] talking about animations with Yadni and Bav and suddenly was the recipient of a link that led me to Jjaceks Blender Tutorial. Very easy to follow and very well done. Thank you Jjacek for taking the time and energy to create [...]