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Realizing 3D Animation in Blender

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077217
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Releasing the ball

Some relationships weren’t meant to last. It’s time for Rain to let go, and for the ball to move on! First, we’ll animate a throwing motion for Rain, followed by the ball leaving Rain’s hand as she opens her fingers.

Among other things, this requires that we apply (and key) the effect of constraints on a few things.

Animating a throwing/tossing motion

Okay, so here’s the thing: to animate the ball leaving Rain’s hand, we need to determine where it will be in global space at the moment when she releases it:

  • To do that, we need to animate Rain’s arm throwing it.
  • To do that, we need to transition from using IK instead of FK for the right arm by keying the FK/IK Switch property for the right arm.
  • To do that, we have to key the visual rotation of the FK bones so that when we switch to them, the arm doesn’t go like this:
Figure 10.21: FK bones for the right arm, still in their original pose

Figure 10.21: FK bones for the right arm...

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