What you'll learn
Learn how to use AI in your Blender animation workflow to create a full animated short.
Learn how to use AI for story, reference images, motion capture, 3d scanning, texturing, sound design & more.
Learn how to create a full animated short in Blender from story, modeling, rigging, texturing, environment creation, animating to music & sound effects.
By the end of this course you will have created a full ANIMATED SHORT and learned the skills from A-Z to do so while incorporating AI into your workflow.
Requirements
All you need to do is download Blender which is free and then grab your mouse and keyboard and join me on this adventure!
Description
Embark on a transformative 50+ hour journey into the realm of animation as we guide you through the intersection of artistic creativity and cutting-edge technology. In this comprehensive course, you will learn how to leverage the power of Blender 3D, a leading open-source 3D creation suite, to breathe life into your animated short films using the transformative capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI).What You'll Learn:Blender 3D Essentials: Gain a solid foundation in Blender 3D, mastering its interface, tools, and essential techniques for 3D modeling, texturing, and animation.AI Integration with Blender: Explore the seamless integration of AI technologies into your Blender workflow. Learn to harness the potential of machine learning for enhanced creativity.Conceptualizing Your Short Film: Dive into the art of storytelling and develop a compelling narrative for your animated short. Using AI we will see how to create storylines for animated shorts.Character Reference Images with AI: Explore how AI can aid in the creation of character reference images, providing a foundation for character design while preserving your artistic vision.Character Design and Rigging: Learn to create captivating characters and rig them for animation. Discover how AI can assist in character design and even generate character animations based on specific styles. We will be taking a look at multiple AI rigging and animation options for our workflowModeling Your Characters: We will learn how to model characters from scratch with the proper major loops.Adding Clothes to Characters: Learn multiple ways to add clothing to your characters including a jacket, pants, boots, belt and more.Learn How to Texture Your Characters: We will learn how to texture the characters and their clothing using AI generated textures and nodes.Learn How to Use Mixamo to Rig & Animate: Learn how to rig and animate characters using mixamo & how to combine Mixamo animations for a seamless look.Learn The Ins & Outs of the Rigify Addon: Learn how to use the Rigify addon properly & all of its settings. See how to easily setup and animate using Rigify in conjunction with motion capture.Scene Composition and Lighting: Master the art of scene composition and lighting to evoke emotion and atmosphere in your animated short.AI-Driven Animation Techniques: Delve into advanced animation techniques, including AI-assisted motion capture and procedural animation. Understand how AI algorithms can enhance the fluidity and realism of your animations.AI-Generated Textures: Elevate your visual aesthetics with AI-generated textures. Explore how AI can assist in creating realistic and visually stunning textures for your 3D models.3D Scanning and AI Integration: Unlock the potential of 3D scanning, enhanced by AI algorithms. Learn to seamlessly integrate real-world elements into your animated short, expanding the scope of your storytelling.AI-Infused Sound Design: Immerse your audience in an auditory experience with AI-powered sound design. Learn to integrate music and sound effects seamlessly, enhancing the emotional impact of your animated short.Rendering and Post-Production: Understand the rendering process in Blender and explore post-production techniques to polish your animated short. This course is not just a tutorial; it's an immersive experience that takes you from A to Z in creating an animated short using Blender 3D and AI. Embrace the future of animation, where AI is a powerful ally in your creative arsenal, enhancing your skills and expanding the possibilities of your storytelling. Join us and redefine what's possible in the world of animated shorts.
Overview
Section 1: Getting Started With Blender
Lecture 1 Downloading & Installing Blender
Lecture 2 Blender's Interface
Lecture 3 Navigating In Blender
Lecture 4 Manipulating Objects
Lecture 5 Edit & Object Mode
Section 2: Using AI to Create Our Script & Character
Lecture 6 Using AI to Write the Script
Lecture 7 Using AI to Generate Reference Images
Section 3: Modeling Our Character
Lecture 8 Creating Our Character Major Loops
Lecture 9 Creating Our Character Part 2
Lecture 10 Creating The Head
Lecture 11 Creating The Ears
Lecture 12 Creating The Hands
Lecture 13 Adding Detail Loops
Lecture 14 Adding Detail Loops Part 2
Lecture 15 Refining Mesh With Sculpting
Lecture 16 Refining Mesh With Sculpting Part 2
Lecture 17 Refining The Face With Sculpting
Lecture 18 Timelapse Detail
Lecture 19 Final Character Tweaks
Lecture 20 Adding the Teeth & Tongue
Lecture 21 Creating Seams & UV Unwrapping
Section 4: Rigging Our Character & AI Rigging Tools
Lecture 22 Setting Up Our Character For Rigging
Lecture 23 Rigging Using Mixamo
Lecture 24 Rigging Using AccuRig
Lecture 25 Rigging Using Rigify Addon
Lecture 26 Fixing Rigify Finger Issues
Lecture 27 How Rigify Works
Section 5: Creating The Clothes For Our Character
Lecture 28 Blocking Out The Clothes
Lecture 29 Making The Jacket
Lecture 30 Making The Pants
Lecture 31 Making The Boots
Lecture 32 Making The Shirt
Lecture 33 Making The Hair
Lecture 34 Final Tweaks on Clothes
Lecture 35 Parenting Clothes to Rig
Section 6: Texturing Our Character
Lecture 36 Using UDIMS for Texturing
Lecture 37 Texturing Our Character
Lecture 38 Texturing Our Character Part 2
Lecture 39 Texturing The Jacket
Lecture 40 Texturing The Pants
Lecture 41 Texturing The Boots
Lecture 42 Texturing The Gloves
Lecture 43 Texturing The Belt
Lecture 44 Texturing The Hair
Lecture 45 Making The Eyes
Lecture 46 Texturing The Teeth
Lecture 47 Optimizing The Character
Section 7: Rigging The Face
Lecture 48 Rigging The Eyes
Lecture 49 Creating The Eye Shapekeys
Lecture 50 Creating Jaw Shapekey
Lecture 51 Creating The Mouth Shapekeys
Lecture 52 Finishing The Shapekeys
Lecture 53 Adding Shapekey Drivers Part 1
Lecture 54 Adding Shapekey Drivers Part 2
Lecture 55 Adding The Jaw Driver
Lecture 56 Creating Custom Shapes For Shapekeys
Section 8: Making The Library & Using AI for Textures & 3D Scanning
Lecture 57 Blocking Out The Library
Lecture 58 Using AI to Make Textures
Lecture 59 Modeling The Pillars
Lecture 60 Creating The Bookshelves
Lecture 61 Making The Stairs
Lecture 62 Making The Archway
Lecture 63 Making The Roof
Lecture 64 Making The Dome
Lecture 65 Using AI to 3D Scan Objects
Lecture 66 Adding 3D Scanned Books to Scene
Lecture 67 Texturing The Bookcase
Lecture 68 Texturing The Pillars
Lecture 69 Texturing The Roof
Lecture 70 Texturing The Tree
Lecture 71 Creating The Stained Glass
Lecture 72 Texturing The Archway
Lecture 73 Making The Marble
Lecture 74 Texturing The Passageways
Lecture 75 Scattering Books On The Floor
Lecture 76 Creating Cracks In Floor
Lecture 77 Breaking Away The Pillars
Lecture 78 Creating The Tree Roots
Lecture 79 Breaking Away The Marble
Lecture 80 Creating Flying Pages
Section 9: Creating The Creature
Lecture 81 Creating The Creature Head
Lecture 82 Creating The Creature Body
Lecture 83 Creating The Creature Hands
Lecture 84 Creating Creature Details
Lecture 85 Texturing Our Creature
Lecture 86 Texturing Our Creature Details
Lecture 87 Texturing The Pants
Lecture 88 Texturing Timelapse
Lecture 89 Rigging Creature With Mixamo
Section 10: Animating Our Scene Using Motion Capture AI & Mixamo
Lecture 90 Blocking Camera Animation
Lecture 91 Blocking Camera Animation Part 2
Lecture 92 Creature Animation Jump & Growl
Lecture 93 Create Jump Attack & Walk Animation
Lecture 94 Create Lifting Animation
Lecture 95 Motion Capture With Rokoko
Lecture 96 Motion Capture With Deep Motion
Lecture 97 Motion Capture With Plask
Lecture 98 Retargeting Motion Capture
Lecture 99 Retargeting Motion Capture Part 2
Lecture 100 Retargeting Motion Capture Part 3
Lecture 101 Nonlinear Animation Editor
Lecture 102 Making The Walk Cycle
Lecture 103 Making Character Walk Across Library
Lecture 104 Finishing Creature Animations
Lecture 105 Combining The Two Animations
Lecture 106 Cleaning The MoCap Animation Part 1
Lecture 107 Cleaning The MoCap Animation Part 2
Lecture 108 Cleaning The MoCap Animation Part 3
Lecture 109 Creating The Run Cycle
Lecture 110 Second Animation With Motion Capture
Lecture 111 Creating The Character Movement
Section 11: Cleaning Up The Animation
Lecture 112 Cleaning Up Second MoCap Part 1
Lecture 113 Cleaning Up Second MoCap Part 2
Lecture 114 Blocking The Timing
Lecture 115 Fixing The Tweaking Issues
Section 12: Medium Level Animation
Lecture 116 Scaling Up The Monster
Lecture 117 Medium Level Detail Animation Part 1
Lecture 118 Medium Level Detail Animation Part 2
Lecture 119 Medium Level Detail Animation Part 3
Lecture 120 Pickup Animation Part 1
Lecture 121 Pickup Animation Part 2
Lecture 122 Fall Down Animation
Lecture 123 Punch & Fly Animation
Lecture 124 Medium Level Animation Cleanup
Section 13: Creating The Scene Physics
Lecture 125 Pillar Breaking Physics
Lecture 126 Books Falling Physics
Lecture 127 Finishing The Physics
Section 14: Adding More Detail To The Scene
Lecture 128 Making The Snake
Lecture 129 Making The Vines
Lecture 130 Adding The Sand
Lecture 131 Making The Gem Material
Lecture 132 Making The Pedestal
Lecture 133 Making The Door
Section 15: Animating The Fingers
Lecture 134 Finger Animation Part 1
Lecture 135 Finger Animation Part 2
Lecture 136 Finger Animation Part 3
Lecture 137 Finger Animation Part 4
Lecture 138 Finger Animation Part 5
Section 16: Creating The Ground Implosion & Rocks Simulation
Lecture 139 Rocks Simulation
Lecture 140 Rocks Simulation Part 2
Lecture 141 Ground Implosion Physics
Lecture 142 Adding Dust Particles
Section 17: Creating The Fire Simulation
Lecture 143 Creating The Fire Simulation
Lecture 144 Making The Torch
Lecture 145 Parenting Torch to Character
Section 18: Tweaking The Animation & Facial Animation
Lecture 146 Adding to the Walk Cycle
Lecture 147 NLA Strip Blending Modes
Lecture 148 Adding to the Walk Cycle Part 2
Lecture 149 Making The Torch Fly Our of Hand
Lecture 150 Different Camera Techniques
Lecture 151 Finishing Camera Animation Part 1
Lecture 152 Finishing Camera Animation Part 2
Lecture 153 Viewport Render Test Animation
Lecture 154 Final Animation Tweaks Part 1
Lecture 155 Final Animation Tweaks Part 2
Lecture 156 Final Animation Tweaks Part 3
Lecture 157 Timelapse Tweaking Part 1
Lecture 158 Timelapse Tweaking Part 2
Lecture 159 Timelapse Tweaking Part 3
Lecture 160 Timelapse Tweaking Part 4
Lecture 161 Timelapse Tweaking Part 5
Lecture 162 Timelapse Tweaking Part 6
Lecture 163 Facial Animation Part 1
Lecture 164 Facial Animation Part 2
Lecture 165 Facial Timelapse Tweak Part 1
Lecture 166 Facial Timelapse Tweak Part 2
Section 19: Creating & Animating The Creature Facial Rig
Lecture 167 Creating The Creature Shapekeys
Lecture 168 Creating The Creature Facial Rig
Lecture 169 Animating The Creature Face
Lecture 170 Creature Face Animating Timelapse
Lecture 171 Timelapse Tweak Final
Section 20: Finalizing Our Scene
Lecture 172 NLA Strips Transitions
Lecture 173 Creating The Outside
Lecture 174 Creating The Outside Part 2
Lecture 175 Creating The Intro Text Part 1
Lecture 176 Creating The Intro Text Part 2
Lecture 177 Tweaking The Interior
Lecture 178 Setting Up The Lighting
Lecture 179 Depth of Field Part 1
Lecture 180 Depth of Field Part 2
Lecture 181 Compositing Our Scene
Lecture 182 Using Cryptomattes For Compositing
Section 21: Doing Test Renders & Baking Simulations
Lecture 183 Test Renders Part 1
Lecture 184 Test Renders Part 2
Lecture 185 Test Renders Part 3
Lecture 186 Test Renders Part 4
Lecture 187 Test Renders Part 5
Lecture 188 Test Renders Part 6
Lecture 189 Test Renders Part 7
Lecture 190 Test Renders Part 8
Lecture 191 Test Renders Part 9
Lecture 192 Test Renders Part 10
Lecture 193 Final Tweaks
Lecture 194 Final Timelapse
Lecture 195 Baking Ambient Occlusion
Lecture 196 Baking The Fire
Section 22: Rendering Out Our Animation
Lecture 197 Rendering Out Our Animation
Lecture 198 Finishing The Intro Text Part 1
Lecture 199 Finishing The Intro Text Part 2
Lecture 200 Finishing The Intro Text Part 3
Section 23: Using AI to Add Sound Effects to Our Animation
Lecture 201 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 1
Lecture 202 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 2
Lecture 203 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 3
Lecture 204 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 4
Lecture 205 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 5
Lecture 206 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 6
Lecture 207 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 7
Lecture 208 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 8
Lecture 209 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 9
Lecture 210 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 10
Lecture 211 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 11
Lecture 212 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Part 12
Lecture 213 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Timelapse 1
Lecture 214 Using AI to Add Sound Effects Timelapse 2
Lecture 215 Using AI to Add Ambient Sounds & Music Part 1
Lecture 216 Using AI to Add Ambient Sounds & Music Part 2
Lecture 217 Using AI to Add Ambient Sounds & Music Part 3
Lecture 218 Fade From & To Black
Lecture 219 Final Timelapse Tweak
Section 24: Viewing Party & Goodbyes
Lecture 220 Viewing Party & Goodbyes
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to use AI in their Blender workflow.,This course is for anyone who wants to create an animated short using Blender & learn all the skills for doing so.,This course is NOT for someone who wants to quickly create an animation using AI as there is still a lot of manual work involved.


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