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Quick animation tips and tricks

Quick animation tips and tricks - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Quick animation tips and tricks

- [Instructor] Animation in Blender is one of my favorite things to do, and in this week's tips, tricks, and techniques, we're going to go over a handful of things that I like to do in Blender to make my animation go faster. Now we're going to be using Hilary from some of our previous courses. One of the things I like to do, is to set on Auto Key, and turn on a keen set of location rotation scale. Now we can zoom out a little bit, and let's just hit the Play button, and move my character. You'll see little yellow dots happening on the bottom. See that? That means the Blender is actually recording my animation as I'm moving around. It's not the best way to animate, but if you quickly need to rough something out, it actually works pretty well. Okay, so let's undo that. Let's play with a few more things. Another thing that I like to do a lot, is copying poses from one side to the other. So let's say I had this hand here, and I made a quick fist. Now, sure, I could always just grab this…

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