Questions tagged [animation]
Use this tag for questions or issues pertaining to animation and Blender's animation system.
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How to render an animation as video in Blender?
Yesterday I was working on a simple animation, an animated logo.
Here is an image of the progress:
I already have the animation working and everything is okay with the project, but I can't figure ...
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Creating Inky-looking characters in Blender
I'm involved in a project to do with ink animation and experimentation. I found this incredible piece of animation:
Chinese Ink Style Animation
I originally thought this was some sort of After ...
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How do I animate time?
I have created a storyboard where I frequently switch between slow-motion and normal motion. The scene involves a particle system, several animated objects and an animated camera.
How do I animate ...
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How may I create a continuously looping animation?
I would like to create a continuously looping animation that repeats itself constantly and without my help (I do not want to create one animation and then copy and paste it over and over again). A ...
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How can I manage multiple animations in one .blend file?
The way I currently use animations is just one long timeline. All my separate animations are lined up back to back on this single timeline. I keep the start/end frame numbers in a separate file.
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How do I make animations a steady speed?
When I make an animation, it always starts out slow, then speeds up, then slows down at the end. I cannot figure out how to fix this.
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How to animate morphing a rectangular plane into a sphere
How to make a grid-to-sphere animation like this?
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How to create a seamlessly looping ocean
Is there a way animate the ocean modifier so it loops continuously?
I would like to make an animation where the last frame seamlessly goes into the first without the ocean "jumping":
How can I ...
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Can I use the timeline to erase keyframes?
Is it possible to use the green bar in the Timeline to erase keyframes?
Is there someway to do something like erasing keyframes by scrolling over them instead of removing them one by one?
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How to create an animated Electric Arc or Lightning?
I know about the technique of using a displace modifier with an animated displace object on a thin plane, but there are no "branches", no forking in the lightning.
Here is an image from Wikipedia ...
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How to store particle locations in a list?
my question is how to store the locations of a particle or any changing data in a list so as to use the locations for effects like trails.
What I intend to create are particle trails, the following ...
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How can I animate the camera in a perfect circular rotation around a fixed position?
I have an object at a fixed position in 3D space. I would like the camera to circle around it while facing it. I want to path of the camera to be circular in 2D, meaning that it does not move up or ...
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How can I add motion to a rigid body?
I'm trying to create a bowling animation and I want the ball to hit the pins.
I already added the Rigid Body physics to the objects but can't get the ball to move.
Obviously I could just add ...
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How to stretch 120 seconds of animation over 270 seconds?
I have an object with some animation (120 seconds) and I want to make this animation now play over the duration of 270 seconds. How can I stretch the animation to this new duration?
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How can I change the centre of rotation of objects during an animation?
I have developed several puzzles in Blender, and to test them I wanted to animate them. The first problem I encountered was the rotation of an object around a central hub. Between keyframes the ...
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