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Yamin 28-04-2015 19:00

How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
I am the media department head/animation department co founder (of this generation). Last season (recycle rush) me and my partner spent some time and put together a simple and very rushed safety animation which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JlBhzxbm4I the animation/modeling was done by me and my partner, while the vocals/editing was done by me. This coming year we would like to teach a class to our veterans and coming rookies about all that is needed to make a safety animation (but mostly the animation) and I was wondering what is the best way to go about doing this and also how do I get my teammates interested?

-Yamin
Have an epic day/night

tindleroot 28-04-2015 19:12

Re: How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
As a self-taught Blender animator, I would make sure anyone interested in animating got used to the software ASAP, because the learning curve is really high. Also, I would suggest teaching only a few students since not everyone will like/need to use animation (only a smaller team), and the more people you are teaching the harder it will be. Start out showing the basic modeling tools (grab, rotate, scale, extrude, etc.) and the GUI. Eventually, show everyone how to keyframe for animation, use materials and textures, camera movement, and lighting. After you cover the main topics for the animation and modeling, then you can cover the arguably easier part: the audio.

As I'm sure you know, the modeling is the bulk of an animation, and none of the mainstream animation software is easy to learn, much less master. Don't expect anyone to learn Blender well enough in a month to create an animation of decent quality, it takes a lot of time.

Also, this is a small thing, but if you haven't looked at it yet you should consider using the Cycles Rendering Engine. If you have more CPU and time to render, it really does produce nice lighting and effects, though it is more difficult to use.

Yamin 28-04-2015 19:30

Re: How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
Ok thanks about how many people max is enough and also how does pixar's renderman engine work?

tindleroot 28-04-2015 22:01

Re: How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
I don't have enough knowledge to answer either of those questions for you, use your best judgment and resources online but I would guess 5-10 people unless more were sincerely interested in learning.

rfolea 29-04-2015 06:40

Re: How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
And be sure to enter the Underground Society of Animators (USA) Contest next year.

$2000 in prizes from AutomationDirect!

Here's last years contest and winners

This years winners were just posted a couple days ago ...

SamCyanide 29-04-2015 08:41

Re: How to teach a blender/safety animation prep class
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Yamin (Post 1478092)
I am the media department head/animation department co founder (of this generation). Last season (recycle rush) me and my partner spent some time and put together a simple and very rushed safety animation which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JlBhzxbm4I the animation/modeling was done by me and my partner, while the vocals/editing was done by me. This coming year we would like to teach a class to our veterans and coming rookies about all that is needed to make a safety animation (but mostly the animation) and I was wondering what is the best way to go about doing this and also how do I get my teammates interested?

-Yamin
Have an epic day/night

I've got about a years (and a few months) experience with blender. First thing you should do is set the shading on that platapus to smooth. You did it for your human character, and it will make the platypus look way better.
Second, add a skybox. If you are using blender internal renderer, it's under the world panel in the properties side-panel. However, I recommend you use cycles. If you want some awesome tutorials you can find some from Andrew price, his videos are really awesome and taught me most of what I know (and some really neat hotkeys)
https://www.youtube.com/user/AndrewPPrice
and his accompanying website:
http://www.blenderguru.com/

I have a thread of a render I did which shows ambient occlusion vs non AO rendering here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=132677

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a PM dude!

crazyrobochick 29-04-2015 14:30

Are there any other software out there for animation that is easier or more user friendly than Blender?

Please forgive my nievete because I don't know much about it but my team wants to do an animation this year and I have no idea how to teach them.

Any information is greatly appreciated!


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