EASY 3D Animation in Blender with Keyframes!

1. Easy Keyframe Animation in Blender! : It's time to start animating in Blender. I'm Drug pre Dave, and in this beginner friendly animation course, we'll learn how to do Keyframe animation in Blender. This is useful for turntables, motion graphics. I use it for all my YouTube logo animations. You can make full on animations with just Keyframes. Here's a proof. Keyframes are really basic and easy ish. They're a great first step into animation with Blender. So in my Blender for beginners Tutorial, here on Skillshare, we made a whole lot of shapes. So today, we're gonna learn to animate those shapes. But if you're just jumping in for the animation, you can download my project file and use those shapes. Now, there are lots of other ways to animate and Blender. Keyframe animation is by far the most simple, so let's start there. Alright, it's time to step it up and start animating and Blender. We'll keep it simple, we'll keep it chill, and we'll just make some collar. Alright, that's all I got. Keep drawing, keep sculpting, and I look forward to seeing you in class here on Skillshare. Me infant more infant. 2. Class Project: So for today's class project, we'll create some video animation and motion using Keyframes. I'll be exporting video at ten ADP vertical because I really don't need four K or a really large file size. We'll export each frame of our animation as a PNG, but I'll also show you how to export just the whole thing as a video file. So you can do it either way. One is supposed to be a little bit better than the other. I'm going to go over both, but, of course, if you export PNGs, you will need some other editing software like Final Capro or Dave or something like that, just so you can stitch the frames together. So this is a carryover from my Blender for beginners Tutorial here on Skillshare, but it might be easier just to download my project file. That way we can work step by step. The setup will be the same, and all the elements will be exactly the same. That'll just be easier and smoother for us to do everything at the same pace. And as always, feel free to be creative. You can follow along, but if you want to change the color or change the intensity of something or change the material, whatever you want to do, don't hesitate to do that. I love to see it. All about creativity and making art that makes you happy and that keeps you inspired so that you keep going. So, right, let's jump into the next video where we can finally start. Well, we'll set up our scene, and then we'll jump into the animating. 3. Getting Started: So let's go ahead and open up Blender. Okay, so the first thing we want to do is open the project that I included. Okay, so we'll go to File Open, Blender Keyframe download. So we'll tap on that and then hit Open. And I'm using the Animation tab. You can set them to whatever you want. This one here is my three D view port. Here's another window with my three D view port. And down here, this is the timeline. So this is where we'll add the Keyframes for the animation. Okay, so let's set up our scene a little bit. First, let's go to the left hand side and hit Z and rendered. So now you're seeing a rendered version of the scene. I like to do a lot of my edits on this window, and this is solid. So if you go to Z, this one is solid. So here's all of our meshes, all of our shapes here. And if you go down, you see this little squiggly line, that's animation. So you can see this empty has an animation, and we'll talk about empties in a moment. This plane, let's see what this is, which is it this little cross here also has an animation. So all of these, I've set to do little animations already, but I'm going to delete those so we can just start from zero. And I brought in this Skillshare word, as well. So let's go down here to our render settings. You just want to make sure your device is to GPU compute. You want to make sure that your settings are the most efficient. So if you hear your fan going a lot for your computer, if you have a PC, you might want to try to switch to GPU compute. It's all kind of computer dependent on what you have. But in my case, for my computer, I put everything to GPU compute, and it's way better than CPU. Okay, so for MAC samples, if you go down here to render, MAC samples is at 300. And let's go ahead and select motion blur. And if your colors are not popping, if you've done if you're doing things in Blender and your colors just seem a bit dull, you can always come to color management, and you can adjust this. So right now we have standard look none. So you might want to go to medium contrast, something like that. You can go to none. You can change this to Kronos, which is a lot more kind of rich and saturated. So there's a lot of things that you can do just to make it a little bit better. That's just a little tidbit that I always do when I'm trying to set up a scene because sometimes it can just look a bit dull. So let's go to the next one down, this little printer, which is output. And right now, this scene is pretty big. So this is like a four K scene because I was using this to make, like, an intro for my video. So I needed it to be for YouTube, so that's why it's four K. You can press these settings, and right now, I'm going to go to Vert HD, and this one I added. So what you'd have to do is you can set these to whatever numbers you want, and then you can go out here and hit the little plus, and it'll add whatever you set. So, for example, this number is vertical. I think it's 1080 by 1080 by 1920. So if you set that in and then you go here and hit Plus, then it will be that resolution. But that'll be the scale of the video. I'm going to go to frame rate, and I'm going to change this to 24. Right now, these are the frames, so it's going to start at frame one and end at frame 250, and we'll bring that down, but we can do that a little bit later. So let's go down to output. So this is where your PNG images will go. So that's where they will render. So let's hit this little folder. And now you can just save them in somewhere on your computer. I have a dedicated folder. I'm going to add a new one, and let's just do Keyframe animes animations. So we'll accept that and you'll see it here. So it's going to go to Keyframe animations. And here's some other details, obviously PNG, this and that. And the reason why we do images, PNG images, let's say we were doing something that's 250 frames. So if it went to 100 and then it failed, if we were exporting a video, the video would be corrupted or just wouldn't work, and you'd have to start back over from zero. And also the quality probably wouldn't be as good. So what we're doing is we're exporting each individual frame. So if something happens at 100 or if the frame is messed up, it will keep going and then you can find the image and say, Oh, that's weird. 100 kind of got messed up. You can just go back to frame 100, and then you can just render out that one frame. So that's why we do the file format as PNG. So here's some buttons up here. Obviously, this goes to the beginning. This will go to the next Keyframe in the scene. So right now, I'm on Skillshare, and there's no Keyframes. But that's what this middle button does. This plays and obviously this goes to the last frame. So you can see that I have done a lot with this little animation. You can see it just kind of scrolls in. And I have some lights moving and things like that. So let's set our scene to 80. So right here, we have start at one. Let's set the end frame to 80. Okay? So then down here, you should see one through 80. And let's figure out what shape we want to actually move. So we're going to do 360 degrees, which is like a Turntable. So let's choose something like this little plus sign. So let's find it over here. It says plane. So I'm going to rename this to plus one. Okay, let's find it. Okay, now we have plus one. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and erase all of my animations here because I want to start fresh. But let's do something before we jump to the next video. Let's hit Shift A, and let's go down to empty and then go down to cube. And let's tap a cube. Okay, so right here, we have a cube which you can move around and use these to move. So here's the cube. And this is an empty. So let's find it over here on the right. So this is an empty. So an empty is almost just like an empty shape or frame. To animate the Keyframes, we're actually going to bind a shape to this empty. So we're going to bind it together. So that way, all we have to do is animate the empty. Now, we can animate the shape, too, but sometimes it's just a bit easier to animate and empty. For example, if you have four or five different things that are connected to the shape, you would just add one empty and everything would animate according to the empty. So it's just a little bit easier, and it just makes animating with Keyframes a lot easier to use and empty. Not in all situations, but in most situations in my experience. So let's hit X and delete the empty for now, and let's choose the shape that we want to animate. Okay? So now we want to right click Snap, cursor to selected. So what we're doing is we're putting the cursor, which is usually the middle of the project. We're putting it in the middle of what we want to animate. And if for some reason, you notice that your shape, when you add the empty to the shape, it's not in the center. What you can do is right click on the shape, go up to set origin. Origin to geometry. So what that does, it's going to set the origin of the object to the center. So then you can go ahead and click SNAP cursor to selected. And now it'll be exactly in the middle of your object. And the reason we're doing that is now when we add an empty or any other shape, it will spawn right at this cursor. So Shift A Okay, we're gonna go to empty and we'll do cube. So now you see the cube is around the shape that we want to animate. Okay, so that's good for now. So we'll come back and we'll I'm gonna clear all this and then we can come back and start fresh and start adding Keyframes. 4. 360 Spin (Turntable): Okay, so you'll see over here on the right, I got rid of all of those little animations, so nothing should move when I go back and forth on the timeline. So what I want to do is delete some of these shapes. So I'm just gonna delete some of these shapes in the background just to kind of clear up our scene a little bit. Okay, I'll get rid of, uh I'll get rid of the war. I'll leave it for now. You know what you can do? You can go over here on the right. You can also just hit both of these to kind of hide things that you're not sure you want to get rid of. Okay, I'm gonna get rid of some of these little marbles. Okay. And you can also move things over. I'm gonna move these down a little bit. And I'm going to take my camera, and I'm gonna move that just over a little bit, and maybe I'll rotate it a little bit, as well. So you just want to get, make sure everything's in frame that you want nicely in frame. And one of the things I'm doing here is I'm just trying to I'm just trying to put things Whoops. I'm just trying to even out our frame which you see here. So it's nice to have some things in the background, something sort of falling out of frame. So that's all I'm doing is just kind of spreading everything out, so it looks so it looks good. And it looks like these are connected, so I'm going to hit Shift and move them both at the same time. Put this up a little higher. Okay, so this looks a little bit more spread out, which is nice. So one thing I just want to make sure you have in your scene is this empty here, and this is the focus ring. So if we go over here, you can see this is an empty, and I'm going to double click on it and call it focus ring. Now, if you don't have that, it doesn't matter where you place it. Hit Shift A, empty and add a circle, and it will add a circle like this, which you can then just find and name focus ring. I'm going to delete that one. So this focus ring is what we want our camera to focus on. So if you go over here and you go to camera and down here, you see this little camera that shows up. If you go down to Depth of Field and that's checked, then you can go down to focus Ring. So if this isn't here, just press the little eyedropper and you can go to you can actually go to it on the screen, focus ring. Whoops. I think I might have done the wrong one. Let's try that again. Focus ring. Okay, so let's just double check the camera. Camera, we go down, and now it's focusing on the focus ring. So with this, you can move this forwards and backwards, and it will change the focus. So if we go back to the camera, right now, the Ftps at F 0.1. So, I mean, this isn't really we could do this without moving the focus, but I just think it looks nicer to have some depth of field. So that's why I'm going to keep it in. So what we'll do is we're just going to move this focus ring. Two hour plus sign right here or whichever thing you want to animate. So that way, it's going to stay in focus. Okay? So we'll just leave that there. And if it gets a little too if it's too much in the way, you can always go to the focus ring, and you can just tap the eyeball. So that means that everything is going to be exactly as it should. It's just not going to show up in our preview. Like it's not going to show up here, but it's still there and everything is working exactly like it should. Alright, so let's go back to our empty here, which is let's rename this plus empty. Okay, so plus empty is around our plus symbol, so we need to add Keyframes to this empty. So let's go to this little notch here and go to item. And this is the location, the rotation, and the scale. So if we want to spin it using Z, it's going to spin like this. I'm going to hit Control Z just to go back to zero. But it's only spinning the empty. We need it to spin this shape. So we're going to tap on the shape. We're going to hold Shift, tap on the empty, and then make sure your cursor is on this screen. You don't want it to be like over here or something. Just make sure it's on this screen and hit Control P and then object Kube transform. So now, when you go over to this plus empty, this is nestled underneath. So when you just tap on empty and we go back to this item over here with the Z, you can see that our item is actually spinning as well. So down here at the timeline, we want to go to one, and we want to set our first Keyframe. So what we're going to do is go to this Z and hit I on the keyboard. I right click Insert Keyframe, although I is easier, but you can always right click and set the Keyframe. So now that this Keyframe is set, I'm just going to hit I over all of these just in case. So this is the first frame, and it's at zero. So if we go to 80, so if we go to the last frame and then we change this to 360 and hit Enter, see how it's orange, that needs to be yellow. So we need to hit I. So now we have two Keyframes Okay. And now it's gonna spin. Now, notice that it's not spitting not spinning. It's not spinning at a constant speed. And this is a little bit technical. I guess everything's a little bit technical with Blender, but I want to show you why that's happening. So what it's doing is it's easing into the spin, and then when it gets to the end, it's easing out. Which is nice, you know, which is very nice sometimes, but you might want to change it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the end of this frame so you'll see the little cross hair, and then I'm going to tap and pull over see this line. So this is going to open a second window here. I'm going to close that. So now we have two windows here. I'm going to close this too. I don't know why it does that. And we're going to switch this to the graph editor. Okay, so we have our timeline here, which is the same. I'm going to go ahead and move this over, so we have our timeline. And then over here we have the graph editor. So let's go to view. And let's go up to frame selected. Okay? So this should show a little bit of an easier graph. So right here, it's easing in, steady, steady, steady, and then it starts to ease out. Let's see if we select all of these. Right click interpolation mode linear. And now you see it's much different on here. So now it's just spinning at that rate. We can select both of these frames or both of these Keyframes, right click interpolation mode, and then let's see if we go back to Bezier, then it sets it as a Bezier. So that's a little bit easier. Just select your frames, your Keyframes, right click interpolation, and you can set it to linear Bezier Bezier. And since we're here in the graph editor, I'm going to take this node Okay? So I'm going to take Oops. I'm going to take this one here and I'm going to pull it and see how that curve changes. And now I'm going to take the bottom one, and I'm gonna pull that. So now it's easing longer, and then it's a faster spin in the middle, and then it eases out. So let's see what that looks like. Much different. And you can play around with that, obviously, and you'll get very different animations. Okay, I'm going to control Z because the other one looked the best. So that is a quick and dirty on the graph editor. I know it's a bit complicated. So if that's too much, just forget about it. Don't think about it. But you'll know what's there when you need it. Let's get out of the graph editor. I'm going to tap right here on the edge of our timeline, and I'm going to drag it till you see that little arrow, and it's going to overtake that and make it go away. That's what we want. Okay, so now for a little test or just to kind of practice, you can take some of these other shapes and you can add Keyframes to them. So the quick and dirty, what I did is I select the shape, right click on it. I'm going to set the origin to geometry just in case it's not. That way we know the origin is the center. So that was the first right click. The second right click SNAP cursor to selected. So we're taking the cursor and we're putting it in the center of this object. The cursor is just where the shapes pop up. So now we're going to shift A, add an empty cube. You can hit S to make it smaller if you want. Okay, so now we have our cube and we have this, so we need to bind them. So we'll tap the little plus, shift, and then tap the empty, Control P. Okay? So now they're binded. So now we just go to the empty, and then we make our Keyframes. Well, actually, let's start it. Let's start at the first one. Number one. So we'll hit I s. We'll hit I and then we'll go to 60. Oh, actually, let's go let's go to 40. And let's make this 360. Okay, we'll enter. Now it's orange. We need to hit I to make it yellow. And then let's go to 80. Let's go back here and hit zero again. And then let's hit I to lock it in. Okay, so now we have these two animations at different speeds. Okay, so now you have these other objects, you can feel free to practice with those. I think that'll be an easy way to kind of kind of get this lockdown. Once you get it, it's really, really easy. It's really simple to make things spin. So, of course, there's other ways that you can use the Keyframes. So, for example, if I tap on this shape, right click, I'm going to snap the cursor to it, Shift A, and I add an empty, I'm going to add a cube. I'll make it a little bigger by hitting S and just moving the mouse, even though it doesn't really matter that much where it is. Okay. Now I'll select both of them, making sure that the empty is selected last. Control P, which is set parent. That's what that is. So you want to set a parent, Control P object to keep transform. So now they're binded. So now we just take this. And let's say we want the location. So we hit I. Well, it looks like on our timeline, we were at five. Let's bring it to actually, let's bring it to ten. So ten is our Keyframe. And let's go to let's go to 50. Let's go to 45, and let's move it down. Maybe I don't want it to go all the way through. So I'm gonna move it there. Notice that it's orange, so I'm gonna hit I. Okay. So now when I hit Spacebar, this is gonna go down. Space Bar plays the animation, by the way. We'll go to 50. Now let's hit I for location. Okay? So now, this means that it's the same location. And then at 70, we want to match this Keyframe. So we'll take this Keyframe. We'll click on it. Control C. We'll go to 70 and Control V. Okay, so the very last thing, let's make sure that we're naming our empty so we don't get them confused. And that's it for now. I think, in the next video, we will just do some other manipulations using the Keyframes. Great job so far. 5. Squash & Stretch: So let's set some other Keyframes for some other objects in our scene. So here we have this red kind of looks like a gummy, but it's like a little, you know, YouTube symbol, whatever. So first, I'm going to take these two, and you can just do this with a square or something if you want. It doesn't have to be this shape. So I'm going to take these two. I'm going to hit Shift and select them both. And then I'm going to hit Control J to join them. So now that they're one piece, so when I animate it, it'll be one piece. Alright, so I'm going to hit one. So this just shows me the front view. And we have all these other things in the scene. So if we want to clear those out, there's a few ways you can do it. So next to your right shift key, there's, like, the backspace button. So if you're on a mesh and you hit the backspace button, it'll just single out that mesh, and you just hit it again to go back. So I'm going to tap this and I'm going to tap the background. And I'm going to hit the space bar. So now all we have is those two shapes. And now I'm just going to tap the little gummy, so I just have that shape isolated. Okay, so if I want to make this shape bounce, and this is it here, let's turn off the depth of field so it'll be clear. So let's just go to our camera up here on the right. So we'll go to the camera and let's just turn off depth of field. So now everything should be clear. So there's a few things that we should do first. So when you're working with Keyframes, so down here, there's this little button here. If you tap that, it's red. So that's going to record any change you make. You don't have to hit I. So let's say we take this and we move it. Let's use the gizmo here and we move it. It's going to set a Keyframe. If we go here and then move it down, it's going to set a Keyframe. So I'm going to delete Control Z to go back to the beginning. So if I want to make this bounce, I want to squash it first, and then have it sort of jump up and stretch and then fall back down and squash into the original shape. That's the basics that's the basics of what I want to do here. So it's a little involved, but it's just one of those things that is really fun for Keyframe animation. So I want to show you. I think you can get. So I'm going to start it at maybe frame five. Well, I started at frame I started at frame 15, actually. I want a little space, so, you know, this is gonna if this loops, so it's not just going right into the action. So frame 15 is where the animation will start. But we're going to do a few things here. We're going to change the origin point because we've been using it in the middle, so we're going to change it to the bottom. And also, we're not going to use a empty for this. You can use an empty, but we'll just not use an empty and see how it goes. So the first thing we need to do is change the origin point to the bottom. So you can see I already have my cursor here because I was testing it out, so I'm just going to put it back to where yours is probably. So what we need is we need the cursor to get on the bottom middle part of this little cube. So I'm just gonna hit the space, the back space. So we're just seeing this cube. So let's hit the tab to go into Edit mode, and there's no vertice on the bottom. So we're setting when we want to set the cursor, which is going to be where our origin is, it gets tricky because you can only set it to, like, one of these vertices, like a point. So if I right click, Snap vertices, cursor to select it. So I can set the cursor to one of these, but it doesn't really help us because if we're going to be animating, like, if we're gonna be moving it, we want it to be on the bottommost spot. And it'll make sense once we start animating. So what we have to do is go to so up here, just hit this faces. Now you can go down and tap the bottom. So now we can manipulate this bottom face of this cube. So what we have to do is right click and subdivide. So we subdivided the one cube into four cubes, giving us a vertice in the middle. So if we go up here to the left, this vertice, now we can just select that middle vertice. We can right click Snap vertices, and then we can snap cursor to selected. So now we have the cursor on the bottom. So we can hit tab to go into regular object mode, and now you see the cursor is at the bottom, and that's exactly where it should be. So now we'll right click Set origin, origin to three D cursor. So now the origin of this object that we have selected, the origin is going to be the three Dcursor. So I'm going to hit one to look straight on. And also, if it's not an orthographic, you might have to press this little thing here. Orthographic is a lot easier. So the reason why we want the origin to be on the bottom is because when we bounce and do things like that, let's say we stretch it, we don't want the bottom to move you know, we don't have to worry about the bottom doing that. So when we jump, it's fine. If we stretch, it's still going to be the bottom. So that's going to help us out a lot with animating. Okay, so now let's hit Backslash so we can bring back everything, and then we'll select the cube and the background, and then we'll hit Backslash again. So this way, we only have these two objects showing. So that's going to be a lot easier. And also, honestly, if it's easier, let's do this. Just because that might be a little confusing, you can select all of these shapes. All of these shapes, and you can just turn these off. Okay, we can hide these, as well. Okay, so that might be a little bit easier. You can move this one around and kind of move in and just see what you got. So when we're thinking about animating this, we're starting at 15. We want to set the first Keyframe, so we do have to make sure that we have the item out, this item menu. I, I, I on all three of those. So that's just setting the first Keyframe. Anything else, when we move this, we don't have to set it. So now let's say we go to 20 and we want it to jump. So we want it to kind of go down and squash. This scale tool is pretty nifty, so we can tap on the scale tool and see these little these little flat things right here. So if I have this, let me zoom out so you can see on this flat thing, if I if I go like that, it's going to squash it. Okay, so let's say we do something like that. So you can see in here it's squashed. But it's not enough. Let's say we want to use this little blue box to squash it down a little bit more. Okay, so now it's squashed. And now, let's say we want to go to 25. Now, let's take the first Keyframe. Let's do Control C. Make sure that this is on 25, Control V, and your Keyframe will show there. So now you have something like that. Okay, so now, let's say we go two frames off at 27. And let's go to this one. Now let's move it up to about there. Now, remember we have this red dot selected, so we don't have to hit I every time we move it, it's gonna automatically record our Keyframe changes. So let's go back to the scale, and let's use the blue one again. But this time, instead of, like, scrolling down, we're going to scroll the opposite way or left and see how it's, like, skinny. Okay, that's pretty good. So let's check it out. Alright, let's see what it looks like. It's actually not bad. It's a little small, though. So I say that we need to stretch it a bit more and maybe just make the whole thing a little bit bigger. Okay, so now we have something like this. So I'm going to select all these Keyframes, and I'm gonna move them a little bit closer, maybe to 18. So you just drag cause I want the squash to be a bit quicker. Okay, so that looks pretty good. So let's move let's see two more frames. We'll move it a little bit higher. And let's hit I for all these other options. Okay, so now if we select this Control C, and then we go to 29 and then Control V, we should have these, which means it's the same exact frame. So let's see what we have. I'm just gonna hit Space bar. Okay. Okay, so that looks pretty good. So now let's go to 30 let's go to 34. And we're gonna want to match maybe maybe this Keyframe. So we're going to hit Control C on the 23rd frame, and then we go to 34 Control V. Okay? So now it's up. Oh, you know what? But it's actually flattening out before that. So what we can do, let's take 29 and copy that one. So Control C, and then we're going to bring that to this frame and hit Control V. So we'll copy that one. But this one let's bring it down let's bring it down a little closer. Maybe right above. So let's see what we have. Okay, and this chump can happen a little bit faster 18-23. So I'm going to select all of these Keyframes and just slide them over a bit. Okay, that's great. So now let's flatten it out. So let's go back to this flat one. And I'm just gonna hit I just so it matches exactly this Keyframe. And then I'm going to copy it. Control C, and then let's go to let's go to 32 and hit Control V. Okay, so this might have been the wrong one. I'm gonna hit X, delete those Keyframes. I want this squash. So Control C on frame 18, 32, Control V. Yeah, there we go. So I want that squash. So let's see. Okay, it looks pretty good. It's a bit big, though. So I'm just gonna hit S and scale it down a little bit. You want to make sure the volume of the cube stays somewhat consistent. I might do the same thing on 18, just hit S and scale it down a little bit. It just looks very big. Okay. That looks good. So now let's take 32. We'll copy that one, Control C, and let's go up to 35. We'll paste it there. And let's paste it at 30. Let's paste it at 40 as well. Okay, so now we can go to 35, and let's just adjust this a little bit so it looks like there's some bounce to it. So I'm gonna go back to scale that worked pretty well. It would actually be thinner. So that might actually look a bit better. Okay, let's make it a little bit bigger and maybe just the whole thing a little bit thinner. There we go. Let's see. Okay, I think that looks great. You can add some extra little bits. If I do Control C to copy this, I can move it down to, like, maybe there and then maybe there. Okay? So this tall, a little bit short. So maybe I go like this and I do it wide. And I do this one a little bit tall again. This might be a little bit too squashed. And this might be a little bit too as the bounce peters off, it should just get less and less intense. So, yeah, that looks pretty good. So I just continue to edit it until it looks natural like it's really hitting the ground. So that's one of my favorite things to do with Keyframes. So hopefully that wasn't too confusing because literally, I could just animate little things like this all day long. It's so much fun. And also, just remember to turn this off because sometimes you can leave it on and accidentally make changes that you don't want to be recorded. So just remember that this is only good if you're really working fast and you want to record everything that you do, all your Keyframes, otherwise, you can turn this off. Okay, so when we come back, we're gonna do some fun Emission Keyframes. 6. Camera & Emission Keyframes: Okay, so I just want to show you some other things that you can add Keyframes to. You can add Keyframes to pretty much everything. So let's go down to our camera. Okay. Let's scroll out here. And here you see the camera. And let's bring all of these other pieces back. So we're just going to scroll up and just make all these other things visible again. Gonna bring back the empties. Okay, so on the left screen here, I'm going to hit zero, which will bring you to the camera view. Okay, we're on frame 46 down here. So we'll just go all the way to the first frame. So let's say we wanted to maybe we want to start in closer and then back up. So we'll take this camera. Okay. And actually, let's hit this little recorder, as well. So for the first frame, let's say we want to move it. There's a few things with the camera. You can see that the Gizmo is not really aligned with the camera because it's up here orientation. It's in Global. So let's change that to local, and that will set the gizmo up to the camera. Okay, so let's move in. And maybe we want to rotate it a little bit. Maybe like this. So you can rotate it. You can do it however you like. I think that looks pretty good. So now let's go to the last frame. So we're gonna hit this jump to endpoint. And let's back up. So maybe around maybe around there. Okay? So now the camera will move. Now, you can add a frame, let's say, in the middle. Let's go back to Global. So now I can move it, like, straight down. I'm going to switch back to local and maybe just rotate it up a bit. Okay, so now let's see how that looks. So now it's coming in, and it has a little bit of a So I think I would like this if it was a little bit lower, actually, and maybe point it a little bit more up. So you can rotate, play with your camera, and that's always gonna affect just how you're scene looks. That looks pretty cool. Okay, so like I said, you can set Keyframes for your camera and everything works exactly the same. You can hit I or you can hit this little record button. Once you do a few things, it'll be second nature. So the next thing I want to show you is not only do you want to do the camera, but let's go back to depth of field. Okay? And then we'll go to the focus ring, which is that circle empty. So right now the focus ring is right here, so we're on the first frame. And let's say we want it to be on the little this little guy at first. So we want it to focus here at first on this. So then it moves along. We move back. So maybe at 25, this moves to maybe around here. Okay? So first, that's in frame. And of course, let's say you want this to be stay in frame a little bit longer, you can go to ten, and then you can move this a little bit. So now that'll stay in frame a little longer, and then it'll switch to this. You can see it moving here. That little circles moving. Stays there, maybe at 50. Maybe at 50, it jumps to these little guys. Oh And then maybe at 80. Let's see. Let's go to 60 and let's we can move it a little bit. We can just move it a little bit. So I'm moving a little bit so it will register that it moved. The same as hitting I, but, you know, just so it registers the move. So it sticks there for a little bit of time. And then maybe at 75, it moves up to here. So it'll move up to this point. Okay. And maybe I'll make my animation. I'm going to change it to 150. And let's go to the camera. And I want to maybe I want to put something right here on this pedestal. So for the camera, it's ending here, but maybe I want to stretch this a little bit and then go out to 130 perhaps. And let's see. I'm going to put it down a little bit more over a little bit more and maybe back a little bit more. Oops. So we'll move it back. So if I put something on that pedestal, the pedestal will be nicely framed. So maybe that's the end frame here. And that's in focus. So now we have that. It's moving along. Okay, so one note that I always do when I'm making animations is sometimes I'll just get rid of one and just see how it looks. It might be a little bit smoother. So that look nice and smooth. So the only thing that I might want to do is put let's bring back this Skillshare word. And maybe we'll put it on top of this little pedestal. So now I'm just using the gizmo and using S to rescale. But other than that, I'm just using the Gizmo to move it around. Okay, I'm going to hit one, and I'm going to move it down just so it's spread on the surface. I think I want it on the surface. Alright, so now we have this Skillshare. And you notice, even though I move this, this is the Keyframe. It actually made a Keyframe where I was. So just keep that in mind when you have this, if you move anything, it's going to make a Keyframe. So I'm gonna bring this Keyframe down to one. Okay, and we'll go back to one and just see. Okay, so it just stays there. Yeah, I think I want to change this animation. So I think this is in an empty. So remember, this is in the empty, not the actual thing. So let's go back to the empty. I like this. I like where it is there on this Keyframe. So we'll just leave that and I'll just delete these. So I'm deleting the empty, so so maybe what it does is spin. I need to take this Skillshare and then shift and click on the empty, Control P, and then just keep transform. Let's just go to the end frame. Should be about here. Let's go to 140 and let's make this 360. What I? Oh, wait, it didn't spin. Both of these are 360, so I'm gonna take this one, go here and hit zero. And now it should spin. That's perfect. Okay, good. As you can see, sometimes it's a little tricky to keep everything in check. But just remember you have your empties. So that made it a lot easier because I can also take other objects, and I can just put them with the same empty, and then you just control the empty. So the only thing that I might do is take both of these. I'm going to open up the graph editor again. I'm going to select both of my Keyframes. I'm going to go to the graph editor, and I want the end to be really slow. That's what I'm going for. So now I'm going to go to view frame selected. I should make it easier. Okay? So now I want to take the end and stretch it out so that it's really slow towards the end, something like that. So now let's see what happens. That's great. Okay, so that looks good. And there's other little things that I might adjust, as well. I might linger a little bit back here with the focus, you know, things of that nature. Like, I might take this last one and move it up to, like, maybe here. So that way, it's a little this kind of comes into focus at the end. But honestly, that's pretty cool. I might change up some lighting. Oh, I'm not going to show you because this is obvious now, but you can take the lights, and you can also move them a little bit if you want. You can set a Keyframe, you know, to be here, to be 20, set your location, just hit I, and then you can go to 100. Let's go to Global up here, so I can just move it left and right, then you can move it like this. Then the light's going to change. So Emission is something that I think would work really well for this. So for example, Skillshare. So if we go to right around here when it starts getting dark, maybe like maybe like 70. Okay, we're on the Skillshare word. Let's go here to go to our materials. So we'll hit plus, and let's just name this word glow. Okay, so now we have this material, it's just regular white here. So maybe we tap this. So this is leaving a Keyframe for the color. And then we move to 130. Okay, let's go to the Emission. And let's just mark both of these here. Let's go back. And also, you can use this little button here to go back to the previous Keyframe. Let's set these, as well, the Emission. Okay? Let's go back to these. So now I want it to be we'll tap the color and then we'll make it like a green color. And we'll tap the strength and make that one. There we go. So now it's going to fade in. And you know, experiment with it. Like, you might want to bring this down further, so it's got a little bit longer of a glow. Like, so I think this is beautiful. I love it. Love it, love it. Love it. This. So I think this is pretty good for now. On the next video, I will go through exporting. So it's going to export PNGs. And then once it's exported the PNGs, I'll show you how you can view it in Blender. But then I'll show you also how I edit it and make it into an animation into a video. So you will have to use some sort of outside editing for that. Like, you can see it in Blender and you can export a video from Blender. So we'll do that. But I think it's really better quality if you have Dave or Final Cup Pro or something like that. I use Final Cup ro, but we'll go over that in the next video. 7. Export & Stitch: Let me hit zero so you can see my camera view. Okay. So now let's export our frames. You just want to go over here to your scene collection and make sure that both the eye and the camera are on for anything that you want to export, because you don't want to have something like you don't want to have this off because the eye means you can see it in the viewport, but it won't render. And this means that it'll render, even though you don't see it in the viewport. So you want to make sure that you just have these on because sometimes you can render something and then something is missing. So that's the first thing. And let's go over here to our render settings. So I'm using cycles and if you go down to the sampling down to noise threshold. So there's two. There's one for the viewport. So the viewport is these windows. And then down here, this is for the render. So the render is just your exported image. So it should be this is default. I have mine down to 300. I don't need it that high. And then let's scroll down to motion blur and turn that on. So that way, when things are moving, they have a more natural motion blur to them. And then you can go down to color management. And again, you can play around with these to get it nice and saturated if you want it like that. Okay, so we'll go back up to the output. So let's tap on output. Okay? Here's my resolution. I have 1080 by 1920. Frame rate is 24 frames per second. Okay, down here, the output. So this is where the animation will go. So you tap this little folder, and then you can just you can add it wherever you want. So I'm gonna make a new folder here and call it Keyframes animation. Oh, I give up. Okay. So I'm going to accept that. So that's where these PNG images are going to go. So file format is PNG. Okay, so I think we're good there. We've already checked to make sure everything is visible as it should. We're going to go to render and we go to Render Animation. So we'll tap Render Animation, and then it's going to go through and render each one of these frames. Oh, did I turn I was just thinking, I didn't check to make sure that I had the depth of field on, but it looks like it's on. Yes, this is blurry, so it looks like it's on. I always started in animation, and then I realize I have to change something, so you'll get used to that, as well. Okay, so I have a pretty I have a pretty powerful computer, so it's not doing too bad. So it's already on frame seven, I think, about 1:50. So this is just going to cycle through all of these, and I'll show you the final render. Alright, so we've exported our PNGs, we've exported our frames. So here they are on my computer that I want to do the editing one through 300. So I did some changes to it. Select them all, and I'm just going to copy them, and I'm going to bring them into Final Cut Pro. So this is just Final Cut Pro. I'm just going to paste them all in there. And you'll be able to do this with any video editor, you can just drag in the images. So it might be a little bit different depending on what you're using, but essentially should be the same. Okay? So here's all our images. So you can see in Final Cut Pro, I set my project up to be the same resolution as what I exported, so it's in vertical, and then I'm going to merge all of them till we have one long frame. So you merge everything into one and then change the speed. So you just make it super fast. 6,000% is usually what I do. Okay? And then we get something like that. I'll delete this extra space. Okay. And now we can play our little animation. Let's export right from Blender, and then we can compare the two. Okay, so we also have the option. If we go back over here to our export settings, output settings, we had PNG. So let's switch this to MPEG video. Okay? And then you have encoding here. So you can switch this to, let's say, MPEG four. Maybe we'll go with ten output quality. I'm gonna go with perceptually less, Lossless. Okay? I'm going to output this and we'll see what the video looks like. Maybe it won't look any different. We'll see. So now I'm gonna go back up to render, and I will start this animation. Okay, so I'm gonna let that play out, and then I'll show you the two back to back so we can compare. Alright, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me for another Blender beginner, tutorial. If I have one piece of advice for Blender, it's just to keep at it. Blender is notoriously tricky. It can really drive you nuts and drive you insane, and you're gonna have issues. Like, things are just going to happen in Blender, unforeseen things. So just make sure to leave them in the comments or just write the questions so I can check and try to help you out when I can. Blender can be super annoying. But once you get the hang of it, once you start getting into your flow, you can really start making some professional looking things. Like, I love using the motion graphics for my YouTube videos. Sometimes I should be working on the video, and I wind up working on this small little intro for a day. It's just a lot of fun. So I'm really glad that you wanted to learn motion and animation. And it's baby steps. So cut yourself some slack. Blender is very difficult, but once you get it, then you got it and you got it for life. Be sure to upload your videos and animation to the class Project Gallery. I can't wait to see it. Of course, if you upload them on Instagram or YouTube or Tik Tok, just feel free to tag me drug free Dave. I can't wait to see what you're doing there, and of course, I'm going to share it to my stories. I love sharing my students artwork there, especially on Instagram. So be sure to subscribe on YouTube. I have plenty of nomad sculpt and Blender and just all that kind of material there, so be sure to subscribe. I'm not sure what I'm going to do next. I might do a simulation. So I made a little cool animation with these, like, balls falling. So I think that's something that I might do for the next class. So let me know if you're interested in seeing that and working on a simulation type animation. There's so many cool elements, and I think they're really fun to learn, and they really make for some beautiful, beautiful artwork. Alright, thanks again for joining me. I appreciate your time. Keep drawing, keep sculpting, and I look forward to seeing you next time here on Skillshare.