Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Repeating the Animation

Jim is now walking in place, taking only one step. Before you make Jim move through space, you have to repeat the animation so he takes more steps. There are several ways to do this. For example, you can just duplicate all the poses in the Dope Sheet to have another step after the first one, but in this case you’re going to do it from the NLA Editor so that you’ll have an introduction to this Blender feature.

First, open an NLA Editor. It will look like something similar to what you can see in Figure 12.5. The name of your current action appears (below the rig’s name, which is the object that performs the action), and next to it you’ll see an icon with a snowflake; you’ll also see the action’s keyframes displayed to the ...