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Contents 1 Temporary link to and update page I am creating 2 Your First Animation in 30 plus 30 Minutes Part II 2.1 Rigging 2.2 Skinning 2.3 Posing 2.4 Gus walks!

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Your First Animation in 30 + 30 Minutes Part II] v2.41

Your First Animation in 30 plus 30 Minutes Part II

Rigging

If we were going for a still picture, our work up to this point would be enough, but we want Gus to move! The next step is to give him a skeleton, or Armature, which will move him. This is called the fine art of rigging. Gus will have a very simple rigging: four limbs (two arms and two legs) and a few joints (no elbows, only knees), but no feet or hands. To add the rigging:

• Set the cursor where the shoulder will be, press SPACE>>Add>>Armature. A rhomboidal object will appear, a bone of the armature system, stretching from cursor to mouse pointer. Place the other end of the armature in Gus's hand (Adding the first bone, an elbowless arm.) with LMB. This will fix the bone and create a new one from the end point of the previous one, producing a bone chain. We don't need any other bones right now, so press ESC to exit.

• Stay in EditMode, then move the cursor to where the hip joint will be and add a new bone (SPACE>>Add>>Bones) down to the knee. Press LMB and a new bone should automatically appear there. Stretch this bone down to the foot (Adding the second and third bones, a leg bone chain.).

Bone position: The bones we are adding will deform Gus's body mesh. To produce a neat result, try to place the bone joints as shown in the illustrations.

• Now place the cursor in the center and select all bones with AKEY. Duplicate them with SHIFT-D and exit grab mode with ESC then flip them with MKEY relatively to the cursor and Global X axis as you did with meshes (The complete armature after duplicating and flipping.).

Once you've selected all of the bones (AKEY), the Edit Buttons window should show an Armature Bones Panel which contains the Armature buttons (The Edit Buttons window for an armature.).

Press the Draw Names button to see the names of the bones, then SHIFT-LMB on the names in the Edit Button window (The Edit Buttons window for an armature.) to change them to something appropriate like Arm.R, Arm.L, UpLeg.R, LoLeg.R, UpLeg.L and LoLeg.L. Exit EditMode with (TAB).

Naming Bones: It is very important to name your bones with a trailing '.L' or '.R' to distinguish between left and right ones, so that the Action editor will be able to automatically flip your poses.

Skinning

Now we must make it so that a deformation in the armature causes a matching deformation in the body. We do this with Skinning, which assigns vertices to bones so that the former are subject to the latter's movements.

• Select Gus's body, then SHIFT select the armature so that the body is magenta and the armature is light pink.
• Press CTRL-P to parent the body to the armature. A pop up dialog will appear (The pop-up menu which appears when parenting an Object to an Armature.). Select the Use Armature entry.

• A new menu appears, asking if you want Blender to do nothing, create empty vertex groups, or create and populate vertex groups (Automatic Skinning options.).

• We'll use the automatic skinning option. Go ahead and select Create From Closest Bones. Now select only Gus's body and go to EditMode (TAB). You will notice in the Edit Buttons (F9) Window and Mesh Tools 1 Panel, the presence of a Vertex Group menu and buttons (The vertex groups buttons in the Edit Buttons window of a mesh.).

By pressing the Menu Button a menu with all available vertex group pops up (six in our case, but a truly complex character, with hands and feet completely rigged, can have tens of them! The menu with the vertex groups automatically created in the skinning process.). The buttons Select and Deselect show you which vertices belong to which group.

Select the Right arm (Arm.R) group and, with all vertices de-selected (AKEY, if needed) press Select. You should see something like Gus in EditMode with all the vertices of group Arm.R selected..

The vertices marked with yellow circles in Gus in EditMode with all the vertices of group Arm.R selected. belong to the deformation group, but they should not. The autoskinning process found that they were very close to the bone so it added them to the deformation group. We don't want them in this group because, since some are in the head and some are in the chest, adding them to the deformation group would deform those body parts. To remove them from the group, deselect all the other vertices, those which should remain in the group using Box selection (BKEY), but use MMB, not LMB, to define the box, so that all vertices within the box become deselected. Once only the 'undesired' vertices are selected, press the Remove button (The vertex groups buttons in the Edit Buttons window of a mesh.) to eliminate them from group Arm.R. Deselect all (AKEY) then check another group. Check them all and be sure that they look like those in The six vertex groups..

Vertex groups: Be very careful when assigning or removing vertices from vertex groups. If later on you see unexpected deformations, you might have forgotten some vertices, or placed too many in the group. You can modify your vertex groups at any time.

Other details: Our deformations will affect only Gus's body, not his eyes, mouth, or buttons, which are separate objects. While this is not an issue to consider in this simple animation, it's one that must be taken into account for more complex projects, for example by parenting or otherwise joining the various parts to the body to make a single mesh. (We'll describe all of these options in detail in later Chapters).

Posing

Once you have a rigged and skinned Gus you can start playing with him as if he were a doll, moving his bones and viewing the results.

• Select the armature only, then select Pose Mode from the "Mode" Menu (The toggle button to switch to pose mode in the 3D Window toolbar.). This option only appears if an armature is selected.

• The armature will turn blue. You are in Pose Mode. If you now select a bone it will turn cyan, not pink, and if you move it (GKEY), or rotate it (RKEY), the body will deform!

Original position: Blender remembers the original position of the bones. You can set your armature back by pressing the RestPos button in the Armature Edit Buttons (The Edit Buttons window for an armature.).

Forward and Inverse Kinematics: While handling bones in pose mode you will notice that they act as rigid, inextensible bodies with spherical joints at the end. You can actually grab only the first bone of a chain and all the other will follow it. All subsequent bones in the chain cannot be grabbed and moved, you can only rotate them, so that the selected bone rotates with respect to the previous bone in the chain while all the subsequent bones of the chain follow its rotation. This procedure, called Forward Kinematics (FK) is easy to follow, but it makes precise location of the last bone of the chain difficult. We can use another method, Inverse Kinematics (IK) where you actually define the position of the last bone in the chain, and all the other assume a position, automatically computed by Blender, to keep the chain without gaps. Hence precise positioning of hands and feet is much easier.

We'll make Gus walk by defining four different poses relative to four different stages of a stride. Blender will do the work of creating a fluid animation.

• First, verify that you are at frame 1 of the timeline. The frame number appears in a NumButton on the right of the Buttons Window Toolbar (The current frame Num Button in the Buttons window Toolbar.). If it is not set to 1, set it to 1 now.

• Now, by rotating only one bone at a time (RKEY), we'll raise UpLeg.L and bend LoLeg.L backwards while raising Arm.R a little and lowering Arm.L a little, as shown in Our first pose..

• Select all bones with AKEY. With the mouse pointer on the 3D Window, press IKEY. A menu pops up (Storing the pose to the frame.). Select LocRot from this menu. This will get the position and orientation of all bones and store it in a pose at frame 1. This pose represents Gus in the middle of his stride, while moving his left leg forward and above the ground.

• Now move to frame 11 either by entering the number in the NumButton or by pressing UPARROW. Then move Gus to a different position, like Our second pose., with his left leg forward and right leg backward, both slightly bent. Gus is walking in place!

• Select all bones again and press IKEY to store this pose at frame 11.
• We now need a third pose at frame 21, with the right leg up, because we are in the middle of the other half of the stride. This pose is the mirror of the one we defined at frame 1. Therefore, return to frame 1 and, in the Armature Menu in the 3D Window header select the Copy Pose entry. (Copying the pose to the buffer). You have copied the current pose to the buffer.

• Go to frame 21 and paste the pose with the Paste Flipped Pose option in the Armature Menu (Pasting the copy as a new, flipped, pose.). This button will paste the cut pose, exchanging the positions of bones with suffix .L with those

of bones with suffix .R, effectively flipping it!

The pose is there but it has not been stored yet! You must press IKEY with all bones selected.

• Now apply the same procedure to copy the pose at frame 11 to frame 31, also flipping it.
• To complete the cycle, we need to copy the pose at frame 1 without flipping to frame 41. Do so by copying it as usual, and by using the Paste Pose entry. End the sequence by storing the pose with IKEY.

Checking the animation: To preview your Animation, set the current frame to 1 and press ALT-A in the 3D window.

Gus walks!

The single step in-place is the core of a walk, and once you have defined one there are techniques to make a character walk along a complex path. But, for the purpose of our Quick Start, this single step in- place is enough.

• Change to the Rendering Buttons (F10) and set the animation start and end to 1 and 40 respectively (Setting the Rendering Buttons for an animation.). Because frame 41 is identical to frame 1, we only need to render frames from 1 to 40 to produce the full cycle.

• Select AVI Raw as the file type in Format Panel (Setting the Rendering Buttons for an animation.). While this is generally not the best choice, mainly for file size issues (as will be explained later on), it is fast and it will run on any machine, so it suits our needs. (You can also select AVI Jpeg to produce a more compact file. However, it uses lossy JPEG compression and will produce a movie that some external players might not be able to play).

3. Finally, press the ANIM button in Anim Panel. Remember that all the layers that you want to use in the animation must be shown! In our case, these are layers 1 and 10.

Stopping a Rendering: If you make a mistake, like forgetting to turn layer 10 on, you can stop the rendering process with the ESC key.

Our scene is pretty simple, and Blender will probably render each of the 40 images in a few seconds. Watch them as they appear.

Stills: Of course you can always render each of your animation frames as a still by selecting the frame you wish to render and pressing the RENDER button.

Once the rendering is complete you should have a file named 0001_0040.avi in a render subdirectory of your current directory - the one containing your .blend file. You can play this file directly within Blender by pressing the Play button beneath the ANIM button (Setting the Rendering Buttons for an animation.). The animation will automatically cycle. To stop it press ESC. We have produced only a very basic walk cycle. There is much more in Blender, as you'll soon discover!

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