Summary
Imagine you’re reading a book about Blender that instructs you to model one and only one object in each exercise. Not until the final chapter do you learn what an object is and how you can arrange multiple objects together using something called Object Mode. That’s what it feels like to teach the Nonlinear Animation editor!
The NLA is a bit of an esoteric tool. As of this writing, not a lot of people really understand how to use it – basically just me, a dozen people in Amsterdam, half a dozen more people in Asia and Australia, and three different guys from South America named Pablo. I’m only half joking. But now that you know what the NLA does and how to use it, you can count yourself as a member of this exclusive elite club!
We began this book learning how to animate a cube, and by the end, we learned how we can animate an animation. Not a bad way to start and end our journey. I’d say you’re finally an animator now, but don...