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

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Originally Posted by Yamin View Post
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
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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!
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