making+3d+animation+with+blender

making 3D animation with Blender

__intro __ watch the video below media type="youtube" key="XB65Y2EOnLw" width="560" height="315" align="center"

__objective __
 * to be able to use simple tools in blender
 * to be able to edit a simple shape
 * to be able to change a shape
 * to be able to save your file

starter
 * what is blender? (search about blender)
 * try to move around with blender

starter now try to play around with blender for 3 minutesyou will notice something different

all the short key word lmb: left mouse button rmb: right mouse button mmb: middle mouse button wheel: turn your wheel of your mouse simple key shift A: add menu short cut g: move r: turn s: size if you want to move object along z axis than press g and z numpad 1: front view numpad 3: right view numpad 5: ortho, persp change numpad 7: top view z: solid or wire frame mode a: select all or deselect all b: select as rectangular ctrl z: undo ctrl shift z: redo more shortcut keys can be found here: website link

adding object

click add and click mesh and click any shape

making animation we are going to make 10 second animation press shift A>Meesh>plane press R Y 90 to rotate the object add particle by pressing Alt A change emitter geometry to 3.0 change gravity to 0.125 change life time to 100 also in new layer add another plane by pressing Shift A> Mesh> Plane at edit mode(tab) press Ctrl R and wheel two time to edit 3 Edge same thing but one more layer, Ctrl R  try to change the shape and make it to looks like petal press tab to change the mode to object mode and click smooth press subdivision surface go to material by clicking diffuse change the color to pink change name to petal go back to first layer and select object and click some kind of box and change it to petal this will make the particle looks like petal and change the size and random size to these followings go to velocity and change random to followings go to compositing (this will be at top of the window) now go to world and click blender sky and change horizon color to light blue and zenith color to dark blue and go back to camera icon and change png to other file and click animation. thats all. so the ending product will looks like media type="youtube" key="0lpkpBQZI8E" width="560" height="315" saving the file press F2 and save the file and you can save file while you are working by pressing ctrl s if you want to learn more about blender go to website wiki blender