Technical requirements

The toy train scene for this chapter’s exercise can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Realizing-3D-Animation-in-Blender

Open the downloaded .blend file in Blender and get started:

Figure 4.1: The toy train scene

Unlike the unicycle in the previous chapter, which was set up to be animated straight away, the objects that comprise the parts of the toy train have no relationships. No part of the train follows any other object... yet. That’s what this exercise is all about!