Everything you need to know about animation in 5 mins and how to get started. (Skillshare)

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Everything you need to know about animation in 5 mins and how to get started. (Skillshare)

3D digital art can be an intimidating endeavor. All the different ways you can model and material are enough to make your head spin. Now add animation to that along with the complexity of whatever software you're using and you got an ice-cold cocktail of frustration and forgotten attempts at learning.

This class is special in that it's only about 5 minutes and you can get a bird's eye view of how animation is done by the pros and where you should start. It's a great place to start if you've never done any of my classes before and don't know anything about animation. It's also a good place to go after you've done a class and want to know how what you've done fits into the broader scheme of things.
This class is mainly intended to give you a birds-eye view of what's possible but I didn't forget about all of my go-getters out there that love to create something. At the end theirs a quick demo that shows you how to do some simple animation. I'm also including that finished Blender file so you can see how I did what I did. At the end of the lesson use the demo file in the project resources section and make some of your own animations.

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