Animation with Margo Burns

Animation with Margo Burns
Using Blender

UNH Tech Camp 2018
- Week 1: Engineeristas Extraordinaire (Game Design)
- Week 2: Techsplorers (Animation)
- Week 3: Techventurers (Animation)
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- Week 1: Engineeristas Extraordinaire (Animation)
- Week 2: Techventurers (Animation)
- Week 3: Techventurers (Game Design)
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- Tech Camp
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The CG Cookie Flex Rig

The Cookie Flex Rig (see picture above right) was created by Nathan Vegdahl, Beorn Leonard, and Jonathan Williamson, based on an initial design by David Revoy. The rig is designed for maximum flexibility, with numerous controls for body shape, facial features and a small library of clothing and hairstyles. It's intended to provide a great resource for learning and testing character animation in Blender.

Get the CG Cookie Flex Rig

Some Films Made with Blender

Big Buck Bunny, 2008 (10 minutes)
Sintel, 2010 (15 minutes)
- Making of Sintel Documentary, 2010 (58 minutes)
Monkaa, 2014 (6 minutes)
Elephant's Dream, 2006 (11 minutes)
Caminandes
1. Caminandes (1.5 minutes)
2. Gran Dillama , 2013 (2.25 minutes)
3. Llamigos, 2016 (2.5 minutes)
Tears of Steel, 2012 (12 minutes)
Cosmos Laundromat - First Cycle, 2015 (12 minutes)
Glass Half, 2015 (3.4 minutes)

Some Useful Animation Tips

Walk cycles:
- Preston Blair
- Another Walk Cycle
Lip sync:
- Preston Blair

Some Useful Blender Tutorial Videos and Help

Blender 2.6 - Using the cgcookie "Flex Rig" (15 minutes)
Import Image into Blender / Import SVG files into Blender (how-to) by Bastian Ilso
Adding a Texture to a Plane Using Blender 2.61 by Ken Loge
Introduction to UV Unwrapping by Blender Cookie (Add a texture to a 3D object)
Rigging (pt.1) Character Armatures & Bones Basics by VscorpianC
Blender 2.6 Tutorial - Basic Python Programming - Part 1 by Sci Fi Animator
Quick Tip: Rendering Animations (the proper way) by Andrew Price
Blender 2.6 Tutorial 13 - Bones & Rigging 101 by BornCG
Blender Tutorial 2.6 Object disappearing by taurrem
Blender 3D Tutorial - Intro to Dope Sheet for Beginners (1) by VscorpianC
Blender 3D Tutorial - Intro to Dope Sheet for Beginners (2) by VscorpianC
How To Loop A Walk Cycle in Blender 2.7 - NLA Basics by Drentsoft Media
CGI Facial MocapTutorial HD: "Facial Mocap Using Blender" by Emilio Riquelme
How to Create a Realistic Dish in Blender 2.58 in 10 minutes!
Add an image to an Object
If the render doesn't show a UV texture that you have added..
Making Objects/Camera's Follow a Path in Blender 2.66
Using the Graph Editor and Interpolation Modes
Bouncing ball with graph editor

Other stuff

Mouse Jiggle 1.2

This page last updated July 8, 2016, by Margo Burns, margoburns @ gmail.com