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Animating Your Character
Your character comes to life through animation. Animation is the process in which you make your character move along time. To animate characters convincingly, you have to study the principles of motion, such as action and reaction, and you need to understand how weight affects the way a character moves. Animation is a wide subject, with plenty of resources, books, and courses available. In this chapter, you learn the basics of the Blender animation system. You find out what tools are at your disposal, and you learn how to use keyframes and the animation editors that help you during this stage.
Using the Character’s Rig
Before you start animating, it’s important that you learn how to use the character’s rig, which ...
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