How To Model And Animate In Blender 3d

Beginner Blender: How to Model and Animate a Robot

The best style to acquire Blender is by getting your hands dirty and working on a project. In this tutorial series, you will model and breathing a robot, create a simple scene and render a final video. You lot volition learn how to make the robot nosotros used in the final episode of The Hello World Program, 'What is Bogus Intelligence?':

Here's the final product of this tutorial serial:

Allow'southward begin!

Download the Blender, audio and prototype files here: https://github.com/nielsenjared/blender-robot

To utilise Blender, you will need a keyboard with a numeric pad and a three-button mouse with a scrolling cycle. If you lot haven't already, download Blender. This tutorial was created using version two.77, simply you lot should be okay with the latest release. After you offset Blender, y'all will see the default setup below. The interface tin can be a bit intimidating at first, but don't worry, it volition all make sense in the stop. The main panel is the 3D View. At the lesser is the Timeline. On the correct are the Outliner and Properties.

When possible, I'll be teaching y'all keyboard shortcuts, rather than selecting actions via menus. To become good and fast at Blender, you lot will desire to know all the shortcuts, and so why not start at present? In this tutorial, keyboard and mouse deportment will be in Assuming. Shortcuts that read NUM1, NUM2, NUM3, etc. refer to the keys on the numeric pad. LMB and RMB refer to the Left Mouse Button and the Right Mouse Push. In a nutshell, the LMB is used to click buttons and the RMB is used to select objects.

With your cursor in the 3D view panel, printing N to open the Transform tab. This provides you information on, and allows you to enter values for, the position, rotation and scale of objects in your scene. We'll be using it a lot later.

Now press NUM1 to switch to front view and NUM5 to switch to orthographic perspective.

See how the Cube is highlighted in orange? That ways information technology'south the object currently selected.

Press X to delete the Cube.

A popup card volition ask you to ostend. Click with the LMB or press ENTER.

Now that that's out of the way, let'southward build our robot. Press SHIFT+A to access the Add together menu. Under Mesh, select Cylinder.

Zoom in with curlicue bike and press Tab to enter Edit Mode. In Edit Mode, you lot can run into the points and lines that compose the Cylinder highlighted in orange. These points and lines are called vertices and edges and 3D objects composed of vertices and edges are chosen meshes.

With your mouse hovering over the Cylinder, press CTRL+R to access the Loop Cut and Slide tool. Yous will run across a violet line appear around the middle of the Cylinder.

Printing two to create two loops, and hitting ENTER twice, one time to ostend 2 loops and twice to confirm placement.

CTRL + TAB opens the Mesh Select Way carte. Select Edge

ALT + SHIFT + RMB to select the lower loop.

Press Southward to Calibration and blazon 1.1, then press ENTER.

Select an edge on the upper loop and printing ALT + SHIFT + RMB to select all of the edges in the loop.

With the border loop selected, printing M to Take hold of it, Z to move information technology only on the Z-centrality and type in .v. Printing ENTER.

CTRL + TAB and select Face

ALT + SHIFT + RMB to select the upper loop of faces.

Printing S to Scale and enter .9, then press ENTER to confirm.

Printing NUM7 to switch to acme view and RMB to select the circular face.

Press E for Extrude, so ENTER. This creates a new face on summit of the old face.

Press Due south to Scale and enter .v, then press ENTER to confirm.

Printing NUM1 to switch to front view.

Then Eastward to extrude a new face, ENTER to ostend and G to Grab, Z to constrain it the motion to the Z-centrality and enter .2. And then press ENTER.

Switch back to top view with NUM7. Press G to access the Knife tool.

Slice the circle in half by hovering the cursor over the 'superlative' vertex. Click LMB to start the cut, then move the cursor to the 'bottom' vertex. Click LMB to place some other point, then press ENTER to finalize the cut.

NUM1 to front view, so press NUM2 six times to rotate to the lesser of the mesh.

Select the lesser face.

Using the Knife tool over again, with 1000, piece the circumvolve in half, pressing ENTER to finalize the cut.

That'south the trunk. Now permit's add a head. Printing NUM1 to return to front view, then printing Z for wireframe view.

Add together a Cube with SHIFT + A.

Scale it down .8 with Southward. Press ENTER to confirm.

Printing G to Grace, Z to constrain the move to the Z-axis, and ii, to motion information technology two Blender units. Printing ENTER to confirm.

Scale the Cube on the Z-centrality by pressing Due south, then Z and .half dozen, followed by ENTER.

Printing Z to return to solid view. Then select the front face of Cube.

Printing Eastward to Extrude a new face and scale it down with S and enter .8, followed past ENTER.

Press NUM3 to switch to side view and press E again to Extrude a new face. Then G to Grab it, Y to constrain it to the Y-centrality and enter .1 to move, followed past ENTER to confirm.

Add a Cylinder with SHIFT + A.

Printing R to Rotate and X to do then on the X-axis and enter ninety to rotate it ninety degrees. Press ENTER to confirm.

Press S to Scale and enter .25, then press ENTER.

Press K to Grab and, Z to constrain to the Z-axis and enter 2, and so press ENTER.

Printing G to Grab, Y to constrain to the Y-axis, enter -.7, then press ENTER.

Press NUM1 to switch to front end view, so Thousand, 10, .325 and press ENTER.

Press Z to switch back to solid view and select the front face of the Cylinder.

Zoom in if you need, using the scroll wheel. And then Press Eastward to Extrude and ENTER. Scale the new confront down with S and enter .75, press ENTER to confirm.

Printing Z to switch back to wireframe view and NUM3 to switch to side view.

Press E to extrude a new face up, then G to Grab it, Y to move it on the Y-axis, and enter .02, then press ENTER.

Switch back to front view with NUM1, and back to solid view with Z. Create a loop cut vertically around the caput with CTRL + R. Click LMB or press ENTER to confirm.

That's the head. Now permit's connect it to the trunk. Z back to wireframe, then add together a new Cylinder with SHIFT + A.

Calibration the Cylinder down on the 10 & Y axes past pressing South and SHIFT + Z to exclude the Z-axis. Enter .fifteen, so press ENTER.

Motion the Cylinder up by grabbing information technology with Grand, pressing Z and enter 1. And so press ENTER. Next create a serial of loop cuts with CTRL + R. Be certain that you mouse is hovered over the cervix and that the purple line is horizontal, then enter 32 and striking ENTER twice.

Z back to solid view. While belongings ALT + SHIFT, select a vertical edge with the RMB.

Under the Select menu in the 3D View panel, select Checker Deselect

While holding ALT + SHIFT select any horizontal edge with the RMB.

Under the Select menu again, select Edge Ring.

CTRL + TAB and select Face.

Extrude all the faces with East and press ENTER. Press S to scale the selected faces and press SHIFT + Z to do so merely on the Ten and Y axes, then enter 1.1 followed by ENTER.

With the cursor hovering over the cervix, press L to select the entire Cylinder.

And SHIFT + H to hide everything else.

Select the summit and bottom faces of the cervix (hold SHIFT to exercise so together).

And printing X to Delete and choose Faces.

Press ALT + H to unhide the subconscious faces.

Now for the arms. Select a confront on the neck, and press L to select the entire cervix once again.

Toggle to wireframe view with Z and duplicate the neck with SHIFT + D. Press ENTER or LMB to confirm.

Rotate the new Cylinder on the Y-axis with R, Y and type in xc, and then press ENTER.

Press S to Calibration the new Cylinder and SHIFT + 10 to exclude the X-axis, then type in .75. Press ENTER to confirm.

Grab the arm, G, and motion it on the X-axis, X, 1.75. Printing ENTER.

Move the arm downwards with 1000, Z, and enter -.35. Printing ENTER. Press SHIFT + S to access the Cursor menu and choose Cursor to selected.

Add another Cylinder with SHIFT + A.

Rotate it ninety degress on the Y axis. R, Y, 90 and press ENTER.

Then scale it downward, South, .15, ENTER.

Move it to the cease of the arm with G, X, 1, ENTER.

Press A to deselect the Cylinder.

Now we're going to cutting the mesh in half. Press B to access the Box tool. Click and hold the LMB to draw a box around the left half of the robot.

Printing X and Delete Faces.

Our goal is to take a smooth border down the middle of the mesh. You might need to clean upwardly leftover faces. Utilize B for the Box tool to select them and 10 to delete.

Tab to Object fashion. In the Properties panel, select the Modifier tab.

Click the Add Modifier button and select Mirror from the menu. The click Use.

Tab to edit mode.

Press SHIFT + Southward and select Cursor to Center.

Now let'due south add a mouth. Z to wireframe mode. And so add a Cube, SHIFT + A.

Press S to scale the Cube, and enter .6, followed by ENTER.

Press S to Calibration once again, this time on the Z-axis, by pressing Z, and enter .one, then press ENTER. Move the cube up with K, Z, ane.5 and press ENTER.

Press NUM3 to switch to side view, then press S, Y, .5 and ENTER to calibration the Cube .five on the Y-axis.

Press M to Grab, Y to constrain the motion, and enter -.25 followed by ENTER.

Press SHIFT + H to hibernate everything else.

Printing Z to switch to solid view and NUM7 to switch to tiptop view. Select the summit face. Press Eastward to extrude a new confront, then ENTER. Scale the new face down with Due south, .9, and press ENTER.

And scale it over again with Southward, Y, .9 and press ENTER.

Switch to side view with NUM3. And back to wireframe with Z. Extrude a new face with E and press ENTER. Grab the new face and move it downward on the Z-centrality -.07: M, Z, -.07.

Press ALT + H to reveal the hidden faces and press A to deselect everything. Printing NUM1 to switch to front view. Now, using L, select the head, eyes and oral cavity, only not the neck. Printing NUM3 to switch back to sideview. Move the head forward slightly by grabbing with Grand, constraining to Y, and entering -.25. So press ENTER.