3D Animation

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3D animation has come a long way and its focus is to create a realistic world for the audience. There are three common 3D animation styles today.

3D Video and Film is the most common. It is a 3D visual feature of moving images within a digital realm and uses motion graphics to move the subjects around a 3D space. It can also be called Passive 3D Animation as it is purely visual, which means there’s no interaction required.

Interactive 3D features purely digital realm and created using a 3D computer software. this type involves user interaction. This allows users to be in first- or third-person points of view and move within the 3D world through a computer screen, with mouse and keyboards as external controls.

Virtual Reality 3D (VR) is the one that has opened a complete new world for users. Like interactive 3D, this features purely digital realm created in a 3D computer software. However, VR is used and experienced in a more immersive way. This type requires a device, such as Google Glass and Oculus, to allow its users to interact with the physical space. Among the types of 3D animation, virtual reality 3D is the most immersive and complex to create.

3D Animation with Blender

This video tutorial shows you the basics of animation in Blender, a free Industry Standard 3d modelling and animation package.

You will need to download THIS FILE to get started and follow along.

Happy animating!

Helpful Shortcuts:

Pose Mode
A = select all
T = tools (move)
I = Insert Key frame
R = Rotate
Ctrl Shift Z = undo

To rotate in different directions:

Laptop with no Numpad?

If you're on a laptop with no Numpad you can use the number keys above the letters by Enabling Number Pad Emulation:

From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
Click the Input tab.
Put a check mark next to Emulate Numpad.
Click Save User Settings to save the settings for the next time Blender opens. (might not be an option)

NOW Make your own Animation!

Now Create your Own Animation

Now you know how to do this you can create your own.

Aim for 5-10 seconds and make sure it is achievable based on how well you understand Blender.

You might:

Take Mr Rodkiss's tutorial, add music and change the moves
Make your own blender model and animate
Use a Mixamo model (instructions in resources) and animate to music

How to upload your Animation to your website

Export your animation ---> see settings in the image
- For videos without audio export as File Format: FFmpeg and Container: OGG
- For videos with audio export as File Format: FFmpeg, Container: MPEG-4, Audio Codex: MP3
Render your animation by pressing Render > Render Animation in file menu bar (at the top of the screen)
Go do something else useful (maybe work on your portfolio website) while it renders as this can take a long time.
Click and drag your exported video into Repl.it just like you did for you images.
Delete Item 1-3 in your animation webpage as these are not needed unless you are including some modelling images as well.
Add in a video element where you deleted the Items by adding the following code. Make sure you remove the source that is not relevant and change the file name so it matches your video.

# only use one of the below source codes)

</video>

More Resoures

Kenney Assets

If you are looking for some more objects to populate your world there are a lot of Creative Commons assets available from Kenney.

With these files the only import that will work is OBJ files so make sure you use these.

Mixamo

Mixamo is a library of 3d models and animations. In order to import models.

Instructions can be found here on how to use. with blender.

Music

Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses. Find out more info about Creative Commons here

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/arts-culture-resources/legalmusicforvideos/

Here are some places to get music:

NZ CURRICULUM

Digital Technologies | Progress Outcomes

Designing and developing Digital Outcomes FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

At the end of this topic students will have had the opportunity to cover;

make decisions about creating, manipulating, storing, retrieving, sharing, and testing digital content for a specific purpose, given particular parameters, tools, and techniques PO2
understand that digital devices impact on humans and society and that both the devices and their impact change over time PO2
identify the specific role of components in a simple input-process-output system and how they work together, and they recognise the "control role” that humans have in the system PO2
select from an increasing range of applications and file types to develop outcomes for particular purposes PO2
follow a defined process to design, develop, store, test, and evaluate digital content to address given contexts or issues, taking into account immediate social, ethical, and end-user considerations PO3
identify the key features of selected software and choose the most appropriate software and file types to develop and combine digital content PO3
understand the role of operating systems in managing digital devices, security, and application software and are able to apply file management conventions using a range of storage devices PO3
understand that with storing data comes responsibility for ensuring security and privacy PO3

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