Animating Your Imagination: Blender 3D animated Illustration

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Getting Started

Lecture 3: Preparing your 2D Image

Lecture 4: Adding a Reference Image

Lecture 5: Working with ImagePlanes

Lecture 6: Camera Setup

Lecture 7: Background Images Vs ImagePlanes

Chapter 2: Preparing Your Image – All the steps you need to get it ready for animation

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Preparing your Image

Lecture 3: Background extension – enlarging your virtual canvas!

Lecture 4: Adding Detail – what do do when you end up with missing pixels!

Lecture 5: Image Fixes – how to fix any parts of your image that have been cropped out

Lecture 6: Exporting Images – some tips for a smooth workflow

Lecture 7: Section End

Chapter 3: Stepping into Blender 3D – A deep dive into some useful things to know

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Stepping into Blender 3D

Lecture 3: Image Transparency – everything you need to know about the different types!

Lecture 4: Transparency + Depth of Field – A great combination, but watch out for problems!

Lecture 5: Transparency Artifacts and how to fix them – tricks to make your art look great!

Lecture 6: Shaders and Lighting – How lights and shaders will work together in your scene

Lecture 7: Section End

Chapter 4: Making A Scene – This is where things REALLY start coming together

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Making A Scene – putting it all together

Lecture 3: The Complete Scene – Finally, all the pieces are now in place!

Lecture 4: Section End

Chapter 5: Camera Action! Where you get to be the Film Director

Lecture 1: Section Into

Lecture 2: Camera Action! Now we get to put on our director's hats and start making a movie

Lecture 3: Motion Paths – A simple tip to show how objects are moving around your 3D scene

Lecture 4: The Graph Editor – a beginners guide to some very simple animation techniques

Lecture 5: Adding Motion Blur – How to give your animation some more cinematic effects

Lecture 6: Depth of Field – you decide whats in focus, or not!

Lecture 7: Animated Depth of Field – even MORE power at the click of a button (or two)

Lecture 8: Section End

Chapter 6: Atmospheric Lighting – the power of light and just the right amount of haze

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Atmospheric Lighting – If you havent the foggiest idea, start here!

Lecture 3: Adding Lights – You'll find this bit extremely illuminating

Lecture 4: Area Lights – yes, lights are square now. Or rectangles, or whatever you like!

Lecture 5: Anisotropic Fog – Dont run away, its simpler than it sounds!

Lecture 6: Section End

Chapter 7: Maps All Over Displace – everything you wanted to know about displacement maps

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Maps All Over Displace – what is a displacement map, and how do i make one!

Lecture 3: Blender Displacement Maps – lets see what we can do with displacement in blender

Lecture 4: Displacing the Planes – lets apply what we've learn to our 2D elements!

Lecture 5: Simple Deform modifier – yet another way to add 3d to your 2d shapes!

Lecture 6: Creative Possibilities – Unleash your vision with the power of these techniques!

Lecture 7: Section End

Chapter 8: Extra Special Effects

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: Extra Special Effects – Getting a little Steamy!

Lecture 3: Smoke Effects Animation – with special guest star, the displacement modifier!

Lecture 4: Candle Animation – wax on, wax off

Lecture 5: Shape Keys – how to add animation to your characters (without being an animator)

Lecture 6: Owl Animation – or "Owlimation"

Lecture 7: Bezier Curve Array – how to use curves and tubes to make special effects

Lecture 8: Shader Magic

Lecture 9: Curve Placement – once you have the magic, where do you put it?

Lecture 10: Final Scene FX

Lecture 11: Section End

Chapter 9: The Beginning of the End!

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: The Compositor

Lecture 3: Clouds and Haze

Lecture 4: Test Renders

Lecture 5: Smoke Shader Tweaks

Lecture 6: Dust Motes

Lecture 7: Rendering the Animation

Lecture 8: Section End

Chapter 10: The Grand Finale!

Lecture 1: Section Intro

Lecture 2: The Grand Finale!

Lecture 3: The Directors Cut

Lecture 4: The End

Chapter 11: NEW! Bonus Chapter! Camera Projection Mapping

Lecture 1: Camera Projection Mapping – Introduction

Lecture 2: Part1: Lecture 1 – Setting up

Lecture 3: Part1: Lecture 2 – Building Blocks

Lecture 4: Part1: Lecture 3 – Throwing Shade

Lecture 5: Part2: Lecture 1 – Image Editing

Lecture 6: Part2: Lecture 2 – Exporting to Blender

Lecture 7: Part3: Lecture 1 – The Final Shot!

Lecture 8: Part3: Lecture 2 – Camera Action!

Lecture 9: Part3: Lecture 3 – Final Effects

Lecture 10: Camera Projection Mapping – This is the end!