WEBVTT 00:00.820 --> 00:09.130 Welcome to key frames in this video you will understand what they are and how they are used be shown 00:09.130 --> 00:13.990 how to automatically add them and remove them from the time line view. 00:14.350 --> 00:21.940 Realize almost any thing can be framed and be able to use key frames to animate your lamp. 00:22.360 --> 00:24.940 So let's hop straight on over into blender. 00:27.330 --> 00:29.630 Right so let's start adding some key phrase. 00:29.640 --> 00:31.130 But before we do. 00:31.140 --> 00:36.250 Just in case we end up as were experimenting make a big mess of are animated lamp. 00:36.390 --> 00:41.160 Let's hop over into a brand new blender file and play with the default cube. 00:41.610 --> 00:42.120 Right. 00:42.120 --> 00:45.540 So I'm going to need the time line so I'm going to bring that out. 00:45.540 --> 00:48.630 I've changed my default file so I don't have to have the time. 00:48.630 --> 00:55.920 I know every time now I'm not going to worry too much about the length of time line or anything along 00:55.920 --> 00:57.160 those lines. 00:57.180 --> 00:59.280 So what is a key frame. 00:59.310 --> 01:03.990 Well a key frame is simply a moment in time. 01:04.080 --> 01:05.810 In our animation. 01:06.000 --> 01:09.090 So let's just set a key frame really quickly. 01:09.090 --> 01:15.780 So first of all on scan to hide this area here so we just got our 3D view in front of us and our timeline. 01:16.260 --> 01:18.490 So I'm going to click the record button here. 01:18.510 --> 01:21.050 And initially it won't do anything. 01:21.060 --> 01:26.880 However the moment time do anything in our scene even just move the cube ever so slightly. 01:26.910 --> 01:33.360 It records a point when we can see that on the timeline now those yellow line just here on the timer 01:33.630 --> 01:38.040 that indicates that that particular moment contains a key frame. 01:38.580 --> 01:49.590 Now let's say we go to frame 30 and move the cube up here and across a little and then at frame 60 we 01:49.590 --> 01:53.750 bring it down and across a little again. 01:54.120 --> 02:00.630 Now we see that there are three main states that the cubes in those that is starting frame this key 02:00.630 --> 02:02.300 frame here and this one here. 02:02.360 --> 02:11.120 And what key frames allow us to do is simply smoothly transition between those key frames automatically 02:11.710 --> 02:17.670 you imagine if you had to do that by placing it and setting it and placing it and setting it 60 times 02:18.000 --> 02:23.460 that's just not going to happen so a key frames allows to do things with a certain amount of automation 02:23.760 --> 02:30.990 and key frames of those points where let's say here we reach the top of our jump and then we start descending 02:30.990 --> 02:32.190 again. 02:32.190 --> 02:36.600 Now key frames can apply to literally anything and everything. 02:36.630 --> 02:42.600 And in blender any field that you have can be adjusted. 02:42.660 --> 02:49.920 So let's open up this area here and let's hide those again so you can see here what all the areas that 02:49.920 --> 02:54.990 are highlighted in yellow are ones that are actually being key frames of this point. 02:54.990 --> 02:57.540 So sometimes you end up with individual ones. 02:57.630 --> 03:03.240 Other times you end up with whole groups so you can see that the scale is highlighted but it doesn't 03:03.240 --> 03:05.450 actually change from frame to frame. 03:05.520 --> 03:10.200 And on the key frame the yellow and in between it guesses some numbers. 03:10.230 --> 03:13.310 So it's a smooth transition to the next key frame. 03:13.320 --> 03:23.710 Now what we could do here is on frain 30 for instance we can go to scale and make hits longer. 03:23.910 --> 03:26.760 So in the z axis we can make it a bit taller. 03:27.000 --> 03:33.660 And then as we're jumping up it stretches ever so slightly and then by the time comes back down again 03:34.560 --> 03:35.800 it's not stretching. 03:35.880 --> 03:39.480 So there's loads of different things you can do with these key frames. 03:39.510 --> 03:43.750 Now if you want to delete one say well actually that one at the top there I don't want it's not going 03:43.820 --> 03:47.590 to go up anymore it's just going to go along this y axis. 03:47.700 --> 03:55.440 Then down on the set of keys down here on the timelines header we can click that and select certain 03:55.440 --> 03:56.400 types. 03:56.430 --> 04:01.530 In this case I'm just going to go available so it removes all the settings that we've made at this particular 04:01.530 --> 04:06.270 point and then we can click the little key with a line through it and that will remove the key frame 04:06.270 --> 04:07.290 at that point. 04:07.290 --> 04:12.700 And then the queue will actually just slide long between these two key frames. 04:12.840 --> 04:14.540 And of course this will apply with everything. 04:14.550 --> 04:23.800 So with the record button on if I lift it up and rotate it it will then graduate between those. 04:24.510 --> 04:28.350 Positions rotations scales pretty much anything. 04:28.410 --> 04:29.270 Everything. 04:30.550 --> 04:32.330 Very very powerful. 04:33.370 --> 04:35.610 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 04:35.620 --> 04:42.100 I'd like you to use the knowledge you've just acquired to animates the lamp sir and make the lamp using 04:42.160 --> 04:44.170 automatic key frames. 04:44.170 --> 04:49.060 Do stick to that 5 second animation and remember to have fun. 04:49.060 --> 04:50.800 What poses can you come up with. 04:50.820 --> 04:53.590 What little ditties can you make your lamp do. 04:53.650 --> 04:56.160 Pause a video now and give that a go. 04:59.220 --> 05:00.760 Okay guys welcome back. 05:00.960 --> 05:03.140 Let's go and animates our lamp. 05:04.840 --> 05:08.000 Right so let's hop over to the animated lamp. 05:09.120 --> 05:16.070 Okay so we've got our animated lamp here and I want him to or her is I don't know anyway. 05:16.170 --> 05:21.130 I want it to hop along the wall along this way. 05:21.150 --> 05:27.090 So at the moment our default pose if I select everything and reset the rotation is actually facing the 05:27.090 --> 05:27.700 wall. 05:27.900 --> 05:32.510 So the first thing that I will want to do I am looking at my hierarchy in everything. 05:32.610 --> 05:37.650 I'm going to be moving this base and if I just move it at the moment the rest of the lamp will stay 05:37.650 --> 05:38.360 still. 05:38.670 --> 05:42.100 I need to parent the lamp rake to the base. 05:42.180 --> 05:47.430 So if you haven't done that you may have struggled with working out why that wasn't all moving together 05:47.460 --> 05:49.060 but that's fine there. 05:49.080 --> 05:57.900 Finally I'm going to go into Poe's mode here so let's select the Whereis it's the lamp rake were imposed 05:57.900 --> 05:58.610 mode. 05:58.770 --> 06:02.800 I'm going to grab this lower bone and rotate it by 90 degrees. 06:06.170 --> 06:06.550 Yeah. 06:07.020 --> 06:08.550 And finally pose. 06:08.670 --> 06:10.150 And then oh. 06:10.160 --> 06:10.650 Being blind. 06:10.650 --> 06:13.520 Apply the pose as the rest pose. 06:13.530 --> 06:16.980 That's fine so let's skip round to the front view. 06:17.010 --> 06:18.520 I think it's front view. 06:19.760 --> 06:21.970 Front or back yet front absolutely fine. 06:22.220 --> 06:27.470 And I'm going to do this in this or for graphic projection. 06:27.650 --> 06:34.340 So the first thing I want to do is make sure that the recording of key frames is turned on and I'm going 06:34.340 --> 06:42.970 to have a couple of frames of something I'm asking to set that to 0 0 0 at this moment in time. 06:42.980 --> 06:45.860 I don't really want to lift that up there. 06:45.860 --> 06:47.480 There we go the base. 06:47.570 --> 06:53.040 I'm going to set it as zero there or just lift it up and then set it back down to zero. 06:53.060 --> 06:53.360 There we go. 06:53.370 --> 07:00.410 So we've got our lamp down at the cero and then something's going to happen and it's going to end up 07:00.560 --> 07:08.210 over on this side over here so it's going to probably jump up or something and then land back here so 07:08.210 --> 07:11.560 let's just see if that distance is right. 07:11.570 --> 07:13.300 That's probably a little far. 07:13.670 --> 07:15.920 So let's go to here and perhaps back here. 07:15.920 --> 07:21.620 I'm just trying to make an ark down to here so there and then midway between here and here is about 07:21.860 --> 07:27.850 150 but you tend to fall quick of you jump so I'm going to scoot just a little bit further this way. 07:27.920 --> 07:36.080 Agma starts the jump around here and set the 3-d cursor around this corner set the pivot point to the 07:36.080 --> 07:37.510 3D cursor. 07:39.820 --> 07:46.050 And just tip it forward ever so slightly and then will have it going forward. 07:47.420 --> 07:50.810 But also that's going to have to go up a little. 07:50.840 --> 07:58.320 Otherwise you get this kind of sliding effect and the top of the animation is going to be. 08:00.510 --> 08:02.340 Take that back to the active element. 08:02.340 --> 08:08.580 Lift it up as that too high or indeed as that just passed through something. 08:08.590 --> 08:10.600 No that's just our plane. 08:10.710 --> 08:14.070 So let's turn the plane off so I can't see it. 08:14.070 --> 08:16.430 All these things in the way. 08:16.810 --> 08:18.800 Lighting plane there again. 08:19.140 --> 08:21.590 Whizz back round to the front view. 08:24.460 --> 08:28.810 Zoom in zoom back out again unny to see what's going on of course. 08:28.810 --> 08:34.840 So we're starting down here we're jumping up and we're landing about here. 08:39.600 --> 08:42.340 And a lot of this is just done by i. 08:42.720 --> 08:47.720 I'm sure if you spend a lot of times that's actually going forward there. 08:47.730 --> 08:49.680 Before I want it so. 08:51.350 --> 08:54.040 In fact here I really want it kind of rocking back. 08:54.040 --> 09:00.640 First sound I'm only starting on this base by the way we can move on to other bits and bobs in a moment. 09:00.710 --> 09:05.650 So let's zoom in down to this base and just focus on it a little closer. 09:05.660 --> 09:11.180 Have to zoom in there because the 3D cursor itself I can't set it because the Red Arrow was in the way. 09:11.180 --> 09:13.800 So let's start here. 09:13.910 --> 09:18.160 Let's move forward a couple of frames and rock backwards first. 09:18.440 --> 09:24.440 Let's get a lamp leaning backwards as well when we're in pose mode. 09:27.430 --> 09:30.670 So you've got it going backwards. 09:30.670 --> 09:37.730 In fact we don't have a beginning of our POWs So let's have it in a more static position first. 09:37.750 --> 09:39.230 Then it leans back. 09:41.190 --> 09:44.100 And about fair we want it leaning forward. 09:44.130 --> 09:46.350 So let's lift that up. 09:47.580 --> 09:52.150 Perhaps not that much of a ways it's going to be a violent move forward. 09:52.440 --> 09:54.030 And then we're going to lift up. 09:54.110 --> 09:58.840 And of course as we come down he's going to want to start Crouch. 10:00.790 --> 10:03.470 Ready for the landing which happens. 10:03.490 --> 10:05.610 Let's move round two. 10:06.450 --> 10:07.150 There. 10:07.140 --> 10:12.130 So let's really move that back here. 10:12.240 --> 10:17.560 And then finally we haven't done the final bit of the animation there so that's. 10:19.130 --> 10:21.430 Move it down a little bit more. 10:22.640 --> 10:25.470 Let's get the lamp rocking forward. 10:27.090 --> 10:28.660 I need a pivot point around there. 10:28.660 --> 10:32.780 First of all to rotate it back down to nothing. 10:33.870 --> 10:35.210 A few seconds later. 10:35.310 --> 10:36.600 Rock forward. 10:37.650 --> 10:42.560 A few seconds later but these are going to get closer and closer together. 10:48.070 --> 10:50.500 So we end up with this rocking effect. 10:51.730 --> 10:55.680 And then a final rest position where it's flat again. 10:55.750 --> 10:57.700 I'm just doing this by I. 10:57.730 --> 11:01.100 And then finally let's hop over to the posing itself. 11:01.100 --> 11:02.510 You've got it landing. 11:04.690 --> 11:07.450 And that's going to start coming forward. 11:10.900 --> 11:16.130 And as it starts going back it's going to stretch out to prevent itself from toppling. 11:19.770 --> 11:22.350 And then in to our final rest pose. 11:22.370 --> 11:26.690 So I'm pretty much doing a 2D animation here only on one plane. 11:27.780 --> 11:31.830 But of course I'm going to get rid of that marker it serves no purpose. 11:31.880 --> 11:34.320 And so let's just see how our lamp is looking. 11:34.320 --> 11:37.820 There's something very weird happening at the beginning I'm not happy with that. 11:38.240 --> 11:40.040 Because it's it's rocked back. 11:40.050 --> 11:43.900 It's lifted up and we don't want it lifting up at this point. 11:45.660 --> 11:46.340 Okay. 11:46.350 --> 11:49.690 And it's moving forward to here. 11:49.890 --> 11:52.010 I don't want it moving forward at all. 11:52.020 --> 11:53.440 Select the wrong thing. 11:53.540 --> 11:58.030 Sure they select the wrong thing when you intend to move items about. 11:58.030 --> 11:59.980 And let's pull it backwards. 12:00.000 --> 12:01.990 Let's just see. 12:03.610 --> 12:05.000 Look ridiculous. 12:05.410 --> 12:09.550 But of course you can play with this to your heart's content and get it just right. 12:09.550 --> 12:14.750 In fact at this point I'm going to delete the key every key phrase that's available at that point. 12:15.670 --> 12:23.030 So we've got it going up and I just want it's flying forward before it takes off. 12:23.350 --> 12:25.670 So here we are rocking back. 12:27.090 --> 12:31.480 Let's have it rocking forward again before it goes into the sky. 12:37.620 --> 12:39.560 Rotate that round. 12:43.950 --> 12:44.750 And it's Move. 12:44.760 --> 12:46.820 Move forward ever so slightly. 12:46.860 --> 12:49.740 So you do have to be really careful because it's move forward. 12:49.760 --> 12:51.840 It just looks a bit silly. 12:52.850 --> 12:53.480 That's a bit better. 12:53.480 --> 12:55.930 Let's just play that and see how it looks. 12:58.990 --> 13:05.980 Well it's low gravity by the looks of things so I haven't hit rock lots then very big slide through 13:05.980 --> 13:07.980 there and going down there. 13:07.990 --> 13:12.560 Now there are certain things we can do to tweak that but I'm quite happy with that for the moment. 13:12.610 --> 13:19.750 And one final thing at the top of fats I am going to just get the lamp to look at us. 13:20.310 --> 13:27.780 So I'm going to grab our post position here and I'm literally going to grab him to look around. 13:29.270 --> 13:30.120 But just the head. 13:30.140 --> 13:31.760 Just want my head looking. 13:33.060 --> 13:34.940 See if I can grab this in. 13:34.970 --> 13:38.810 Sue me in our perspective Moe probably isn't helping with my zooming here. 13:38.970 --> 13:42.300 Let's get him to look so well where's the camera. 13:42.300 --> 13:44.000 That's the first question. 13:44.890 --> 13:46.830 Well we can sort that out in a moment. 13:47.530 --> 13:48.050 Yeah that's. 13:48.070 --> 13:50.740 That looks good enough let's go back round to the front. 13:53.190 --> 13:55.750 Just rotate it around a little bit more. 13:56.070 --> 13:57.490 Let's see how that looks. 13:57.520 --> 13:59.740 It jumps up looks round. 14:01.190 --> 14:03.710 And swings his background for landing. 14:03.710 --> 14:04.810 Perfect. 14:05.180 --> 14:07.180 It's looking pretty good. 14:07.190 --> 14:13.930 Let's just see how that looks with the rake turned off so I can see our model. 14:14.970 --> 14:16.880 So let's turn the lamp Rick off. 14:18.070 --> 14:22.070 Let's just have a look at that playing so start animation. 14:22.150 --> 14:23.780 I'm struggling for screen space here. 14:23.810 --> 14:25.000 Start animation. 14:25.170 --> 14:26.620 You're going to jump off the screen. 14:26.620 --> 14:27.380 Yup. 14:28.770 --> 14:32.750 So let's just see if we can lower that down a little on the course. 14:32.760 --> 14:35.150 It just loops round and round around. 14:35.890 --> 14:38.310 So I can probably just pull that up a little. 14:40.420 --> 14:41.380 Excellent. 14:41.470 --> 14:43.780 I'm liking our animated lamp. 14:43.930 --> 14:49.600 Now of course before we can go and share this with people we need to make sure that we can export and 14:49.600 --> 14:54.850 not have our computer taking a small lifetime to do anything and we'll cover that in the next couple 14:54.850 --> 14:55.570 of lectures. 14:55.570 --> 14:58.780 So you can start sharing your animations with people. 14:58.780 --> 15:01.570 Take care and I will see you in the next lecture.