Complete Blender beginner workflow for Cinematic animation

Name: Complete Blender beginner workflow for Cinematic animation
Rating: 4.6 (86 reviews)

Tutorial suitable for beginners

Created bySime Bugarija

Last updated 10/2022

English

What you'll learn

I will introduce you to the free 3d program Blender
I will introduce you to modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering and more
We will create 3 animations in Blender
We will do post-processing in Blender and After-Effects
I'll show you how to create a dark, cinematic, mist atmosphere in Blender

Course content

1 section • 19 lectures • 5h 0m total length

01 - Introduction to Blender9:05
Learn Blender basics for cinematic animation: navigate the layout, shading, UV editor, and compositing; set up cameras, lights, and renders with Eevee or Cycles, and master essential shortcuts.
02 - Modeling cabin basic shape and render settings10:15
03 - Modeling cabin big details27:28
04 - Creating doors and windows22:17
05 - Lighting in Blender7:28
06 - Adding details16:51
Add cabin details by creating stairs, fence, and columns, duplicating and adjusting parts with scale, rotate, and extrude. Add bevels and loop cuts as course moves toward materials and unwrapping.
07 - Materials and unwrapping25:41
08 - Covering cabin with planks25:34
09 - Blender Kit12:28
10 - Procedural materials in Blender - Chimney10:41
11 - Creating ground14:09
Import ambientcg gravel texture into Blender and connect it to a ground principled bsdf. Adjust ambient occlusion, displacement, normal, and roughness, then use UV editing and test renders.
12 - Car in Blender15:25
13 - Trees in Blender8:08
Discover how to install and use botaniq from polygoniq or free 3D Shaker assets to add and duplicate trees in Blender for cinematic scenes.
14 - Volumetrics in Blender15:46
15 - Post processing in After Effects18:54
16 - Animating with Mixamo8:17
17 - Camera animation20:11
18 - Creating a scene 220:20
Duplicate an existing scene, animate the car, place a drone-style camera, add lamps and cables, and fine-tune lighting, ambient occlusion, and motion blur for a cinematic render.
19 - Transition and glitch effect After Effects11:55

Requirements

Free software Blender. No previous experience is necessary. After Effects is not necessary.

Description

In this 5-hour long tutorial, we will create 3 cinematic animations in Blender from start to finish.

The entire process of creating scenes is recorded step by step, so the tutorial is easy to follow even for beginners.

The tutorial is separated into 19 parts with an average duration of 15 minutes to make it easier to follow.

This is the workflow that I have learned in the last 4 years of using Blender.

All resources and links are included in the tutorial, and subtitles with shortcuts are also available.

First, we'll cover the basics in a 10-minute introduction to help you understand Blender better.

After that, we will learn modeling techniques and we will create the cabin to the smallest detail. We will use shortcuts to make the modeling process easier.

In the second part of the tutorial, we will talk about lighting and materials.

I'll show you where to find free textures, how to blend textures and create a bump, roughness, and other maps, how to unwrap and create procedural textures.

We will also work with objects imported into the blender from external sources. I'll show you the best places to download objects, materials, and the most useful addons I use in Blender.

I will show you how to combine volumetric and lighting in a blender to get a dark, cinematic, mist mood.

After that, we will animate the human and the camera and we will create and render 3 animations.

In the end, we will do post-processing in After Effects and we'll make more interesting transitions between clips with glitchy effects and with passes from Blender.

Who this course is for:

For blender beginners as well as more advanced users.