Realizing 3D Animation in Blender

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Bezier Keyframes

At this point, it should go without saying that a keyframe is a kind of frame in the same way that an address is a kind of dress... that is to say, it isn’t. In Blender, a keyframe is more like a little object that influences some property of something in your 3D scene. It exists outside the 3D Viewport in multiple areas; it takes the appearance of a point along a curve in the Graph Editor and a diamond-like shape in the Timeline and other editors. Its main attributes are value and time, which determine the value of an assigned property at a given frame, but it also possesses attributes such as interpolation and easing, which help determine the interpolated values between two keyframes.

There remains one special category of ...