You're reading from Realizing 3D Animation in Blender Master the fundamentals of 3D animation in Blender, from keyframing to character movement

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077217

Length 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Sam Brubaker

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Blender and the Fundamentals of Animation

2. Chapter 1: Basic Keyframes in the Timeline FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Graph Editor

4. Chapter 3: Bezier Keyframes

5. Chapter 4: Looking into Object Relationships

6. Chapter 5: Rendering an Animation

7. Part 2: Character Animation

8. Chapter 6: Linking and Posing a Character

9. Chapter 7: Basic Character Animation

10. Chapter 8: The Walk Cycle

11. Chapter 9: Sound and Lip-Syncing

12. Chapter 10: Prop Interaction with Dynamic Constraints

13. Part 3: Advanced Tools and Techniques

14. Chapter 11: F-Curve Modifiers

15. Chapter 12: Rigid Body Physics

16. Chapter 13: Animating with Multiple Cameras

17. Chapter 14: Nonlinear Animation

18. Index

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Navigating the Graph Editor

While following along with the previous chapter, you may have wondered how an animator is supposed to recognize all those identical-looking keyframes in the timeline. Do we always have to remember which ones are for location and which ones are for rotation? What if the rotation and location keyframes exist on the same frame, as they do in our present animation? How can you edit them separately?

For that matter, how can you discern any of the values inside a keyframe? In the Timeline, a keyframe that makes something move a few inches down looks no different from one that takes it a hundred miles up into outer space.

The Timeline, then, is an insufficient tool to edit an entire animation. That’s where tools such as the Graph Editor come in.

Bringing up the Graph Editor

One convenient way to get to the Graph Editor is to use the interface area where the Timeline currently is. The Graph editor will need more vertical space than the Timeline...