Animating with Blender

Summary

The short animation process is a time-tested set of steps that, if followed, will help you to see your animation project through to completion. The process involves an extended preproduction phase during which you develop the story and work out the overall timing through the creation of storyboards and a story reel. The production phase finds you working directly in your 3D application, building models and sets and actually performing the animation. Finally, postproduction is where you render your work and composite and edit it into a final animation.

The greatest mistake committed by first-time producers, and the one that will certainly kill a project, is to jump into the production phase without adequate preparation. Without a producible ...