WEBVTT 00:04.040 --> 00:04.600 Hi guys. 00:04.610 --> 00:08.120 Welcome to this section we're going to be producing an animated lab. 00:08.190 --> 00:12.600 Really excited because this is the first time we're actually going to bring our models to life. 00:12.620 --> 00:14.680 So what we're going to do first of all. 00:14.810 --> 00:19.760 Well Mike is going to stop you modelling a basic bit of a lamp but before you go on and get too detailed 00:19.760 --> 00:22.530 on your model we're going to very quickly start animating. 00:22.550 --> 00:25.730 And before we get too excited with the animation we can start rendering and then we're going to go to 00:25.730 --> 00:29.090 modelling and then animating and then rendering and were going to keep going around that loop so that 00:29.090 --> 00:33.890 for example you don't model yourself a lamp that can't move right because it kind of collides with itself 00:34.160 --> 00:38.330 and you make sure that you put the correct materials on the lamp so that it renders properly because 00:38.330 --> 00:41.340 rendering is going to be a little different this time because they're going to be using what might be 00:41.570 --> 00:46.660 the cycle's render engine so that the cycles of the engines are very computationally heavy. 00:46.730 --> 00:49.850 So it means it's going to take tens of minutes to do a render. 00:50.150 --> 00:55.040 That's very important that we set your computer up so that it's using the right settings. 00:55.040 --> 00:58.420 Otherwise it can take twice three times longer than it needs to be. 00:58.430 --> 01:03.050 There's no quality difference when you do that it's just your time is very precious and we don't want 01:03.050 --> 01:07.060 to sit there waiting for our computer just heat up unnecessarily. 01:07.160 --> 01:12.110 And after we finished introducing the cycles render energy Well I'm going to go into rigging so rigging 01:12.110 --> 01:13.420 is the way that you're going to use. 01:13.670 --> 01:19.010 Blender's very powerful tools to constrain the way that your model moves so you actually give it an 01:19.010 --> 01:21.810 invisible skeleton on the inside of the model. 01:21.890 --> 01:26.570 And blender will do some fantastic calculations for you called inversed kinematics which is going to 01:26.570 --> 01:32.360 allow you to move the end of the lamp and it will work out what has to happen so all the joints upstream 01:32.360 --> 01:37.070 of that in order to produce that motion so that's super useful super powerful and will set you up beautifully 01:37.070 --> 01:40.990 for future animation and rigging that we're going to be doing with bunnies and things. 01:41.000 --> 01:43.520 So Mikey once they have done the rigging What do we do next. 01:43.550 --> 01:47.120 You've touched on it just they're We're going to move on and do some basic animation we're going to 01:47.130 --> 01:52.450 tackle some of the principles of animation and get that lamp moving actually bringing it to life. 01:52.610 --> 01:56.020 So without further ado let's hop straight over it. 01:56.010 --> 01:58.620 So there's that. 01:59.630 --> 02:06.050 Hey everybody so before we get into the lectures themselves let's go have a quick overview of what we're 02:06.050 --> 02:10.550 going to be doing what one of the first things we're going to do is introduce you to the cycle's rendering 02:10.550 --> 02:11.070 engine. 02:11.120 --> 02:16.060 It's much more realistic much more detailed that you can get from it as we can see here. 02:16.130 --> 02:20.050 Our lamp is casting really nice shadows and a nice light as well. 02:20.050 --> 02:25.110 So we'll go through the process of creating that and creating some basic materials for your lamp. 02:25.250 --> 02:30.640 Now cycles is going to be the one that you will pick whenever you want to do something photorealistic. 02:30.640 --> 02:34.480 Now I'm going to hop back to solid shading for the moment we can see that here. 02:34.490 --> 02:40.700 The lamp is going to be made by using a curve just like that bowling pin was going to bring together 02:40.970 --> 02:45.620 the knowledge that you've learned so far and that is critical the knowledge that you've learned so far 02:45.620 --> 02:50.210 is going to enable you to produce some wonderful models. 02:50.300 --> 02:54.640 And after we've managed to put together this lamp we an animated. 02:54.860 --> 03:00.930 And that's right we're going to bring this lamp alive by animating it using a bone based arm chair. 03:01.070 --> 03:06.540 So underneath here we have a special type of rake called a armature. 03:06.650 --> 03:07.670 It's bone based. 03:07.670 --> 03:14.150 And if I change it to pose mode we can actually start grabbing things and moving them about when we 03:14.150 --> 03:17.900 can see the bones so that's turned the bones on we can manually move it. 03:17.930 --> 03:22.090 And you see how the rest of the lamp is moving as well. 03:22.100 --> 03:28.040 As I move just the lamp head itself well that's called inverse kinematics and we'll learn all about 03:28.040 --> 03:28.840 that as well. 03:28.940 --> 03:36.200 Eventually ending up in an animation where we animate both the camera and the lamp itself so we end 03:36.200 --> 03:43.960 up with a wonderful Tracht animation as the lamp itself jumps from one side of the screen to the other. 03:44.090 --> 03:47.830 And this is going to be super exciting bring in everything it's alive. 03:47.860 --> 03:49.730 I can't wait to get into it. 03:50.030 --> 03:51.170 So let's go ahead. 03:51.170 --> 03:54.930 Crack on with it now and I'll see you all in the next lecture.