Blender 3D - Learn Character Animation Using Blender FULL

Blender 3D - Learn Character Animation Using Blender | project files | .iso | 1.48Gb

William Reynish (Character Animator for Big Buck Bunny or Blender Open Project Peach) Takes us through the Theory Lessons of animation using blender. I say theory lesson as he doesn't teach you anything step by step. in fact a lot of this goes very fast. and he seems to assume a lot of blender knowledge before hand. good thing he has a small gloss over of the Blender Basics as well as Apollos great Blender Basics Tutorial Series to help fill in his gaps.
He doesn't lead you by the nose, However like i said before he really teaches nothing. Just shows you how it's done so that you can get an idea on how to make character animations of your own.
It's not really fair for me to say that I didn't learn anything from this DVD. In fact I have learned a thing or two about animation i would have not other wise known.
The Videos them selves are of a so so quality in visual and audio. there is one video where two audio sources over lapped and became really hard to follow strait off. thre are so some video glitches as well.
Lastly the HTML index page was totally useless to me. I had Quicktime and VLC installed correctly and in other cases it still works perfectly how ever the HTML menus system they have on the DVD does not work with firefox (and I refuse to use Internet Explorer)
I did however find the .mov files on the DVD it self and after a little trial and error, I discovered the proper viewing order to watch these videos in.
After following along and watching some of these videos over twice, I used the character rigs provided on the DVD to make a few of my own really basic animations. a walk/run cycle, and a small crappy zombie shamble animation.
I would have liked a more detailed Tutorial Lesson about rigging, skinning and weight painting joints and the like, but what i got from this DVD was a lot more then I knew before despite it's rather fast gloss over of Animation Theory.
I would have expected better from the blender foundation but beggars can't really be choosers. Fortunately there is a wealth of other Tutorials as well on the subject that William glossed over out there. so Coupled with a good solid theory, this works rather well in the end. Just another part of the puzzle that is Character animation in blender.
I am going to have to rate William Reynish as a teacher a 4 out of 10. He knows his craft but nothing about teaching.
The DVD it self is a 4 out of 10 as well. It's good but far from ideal and just plain rough in areas.

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