I really want to learn animation in blender. I know I have to learn the basics first. I’m now learning rigging from dikko. So someone please recommend some animation course for beginners (foundation) so that I can do after i learned some rigging. Also some courses you’d recommend after the beginner one.
It is really good for beginners, he breaks things down and explains how to use all the animation tools at first. The first few units are just talking about the tools, and explaining how animation works in Blender- perfect for beginners. Two caveats- he has a thick accent, which can be a little tricky to work with, but all of the videos have subtitles, so that helps a lot. Also, later in the course, there are a lot of time-lapses where he’s working fairly quickly without much explanation. You might want to spend some time going over the first three or four units repeatedly before moving on. He gives you all the tools you need to understand what he’s doing later, just spend some time learning and reviewing those tools before moving ahead
I have a fairly extensive collection of tutorials for pretty much any subject, I’ve for sure spent too much time watching tutorials and not enough time doing stuff But yeah if you need course/tutorials recommendations, let me know, I should be able to help
Joseph says - in my eyes - here something so important! Although watching tutorials and even understanding them does not mean that you can do it. Because doing something yourself is something totally different. If you do it, you will really learn it, learn even more and memorize it. So if you really wanna learn something “for real”, you should at least rebuild the tutorial you saw in Blender. Next step would be to change some things you saw and not “just” rebuild. And “last” step might be to use the principle but build something totally different.
To add to this already excellent advice- my usual routine for following a tutorial at this point is to go through the tutorial once, trying to replicate it, then use the principles I just learned to do it again with an entirely different end result. For animation-specific tutorials, this is less applicable, since you just have one rig you’re working with; so I tend to follow the tutorial exactly, then delete all my keyframes and start over, challenging myself to do as much as I can without the tutorial. I usually do each exercise three times, deleting all my keyframes each time and starting from scratch.