This new training series covers all the fundamentals of Character Animation in Blender. Some highlights include fundamental exercises, timing and spacing, working with overlapping motion, animating walk and run cycles for film or games, understanding IK and FK, using the Grease Pencil for animation sketches, and much, much more! You can view the complete chapter breakdown.

Keyshot Pro - a software renderer, which enables any user, even a novice to create photorealistic images in seconds.KeyShot - the key to the amazing images ... in seconds.Regardless of what you are trying to do, KeyShot breaks down the barriers of creating photographic images of three-dimensional models.Faster, easier, and surprisingly easy as never before.KeyShot is a means of interactive visualization of 3D scenes and models. As the developers say it is - a digital camera for 3D models, as a result you get in real time. Given that the use of global illumination and materials based on real physical parameters, the resulting images are photographic quality. The program can operate as a standalone application or as an addition (plugin), with the following formats: OBJ, Autodesk Alias ??Maya, FBX, 3DS, Rhinoceros Plugin, SketchUp, SolidWorks, Pro / ENGINEER Plugin, ALIAS, JT

In this workshop, we will be exploring the many different ways one can go about designing a character for animation. We will focus on how a characters personality affects his shape, and how shape says something about who a character is. We will also be discussing the importance of designing a functional character for both 2-D and 3-D animation mediums.

In this set of Maya tutorials you will learn a variety of techniques for retargeting animation to save time building animation assets. We'll start by learning how Maya's Trax Editor can be used to retarget animation. We'll then take another approach and utilize MEL to accomplish the same thing. Finally, we'll work with Maya's intuitive Human IK toolset to retarget from a performance-captured animation to a custom skeleton. We'll also cover techniques for optimizing and correcting animation after it has been remapped. By the end of this set of tutorials, you will be familiar with several tools you have at your disposal for re-purposing animation, to, ultimately, save production time.

When we do title,banner designer or video editing, it will think the text needs a cool animation to highlight the description of our content. Or do we need to show a logo in the video, then, a simple-to-use 3D animation software is your best assistant. KeyFrame Animation, Software key frame animation mode. Simple and flexible. Does not require complex design, anyone person can make a good 3D animation.

In this 10 part series, I introduce you to the new character BC Baker and how his rig works, including shape keys and drivers. We look into the different tools for animation in Blender, namely the Action Editor, Pose Library, and Non-Linear Action (NLA) editor.

With the introduction of Blender 2.5-2.6, we are very excited to be one of the first to offer a complete, introductory, video training bundle to the Blender community.