Animation Basics

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General Introductions - video

General Introduction by super3boy


Ira Krakov's introduction


Simple Turntable Animation

Well known 360° rotation animation around your model.
The method shown here parents the camera to an empty and creates a 360° rotation animation of the empty to show off your model.

Video Tip by Jonathan Williamson on blendercookie


Basic Animation and a walk cycle - please go to the site, embedding is disabled

Tutorial by David Ward on blendercookie,


Simple armature animation

by David Ward - see on site, embedding is disabled


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