Free Training Animation Videos

Here is general free training animation videos:



http://www.guerrillacg.org/

Blender Sculpting For Animation:
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/11/20/anisculp-technique-using-the-sculpt-tool-for-animation/

Blender Facial Sculpting:

http://vimeo.com/user557357

Character Animation Walk Cycle For Maya

Walk Cycle Animation

Blender Scripts

Here is a huge list of very helpful additional tools for Blender.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:Py/Scripts/Catalog

Squash Stretch Ball Rig

Here is a good learning bouncing ball animation rig for Blender.

http://www.blendernation.com/2008/05/04/squashstretch-ball-rig/

Anime Characters and Rigs In Blender

Here is one female anime character:

Its all in Japanese but here is the direct link to the file. Also this is for non-commercial use only.

http://www1.axfc.net/uploader/File/so/14403

Maid San Enhanced: I actually took this character and made it a lot better. Still this character needs lots more work however its probably more than good enough for your own needs and for learning. This character is for commercial and non-commercial use alike.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=138358

Blender Beer Rig

For your amusement here is a professional beer rig in Blender.




















http://www.kajimba.com/index.php?entry=entry081015-224445

Generi Rig

This rig is famous among the 10 second animation club contests.

http://www.kreanimate.co.uk/site/index.php/Rigs/Blender-Rigs/Generi-Rig-for-Blender.html

David Walden Procedural Rigging Tools

David Walden makes excellent procedural rigging tools open to everyone for free just like you would see in a film or game company production.

http://www.davidwalden.com/mel.htm

Make Human Project

These character meshes have perfect topology and will work best for character animation. Not to mention that this program allows you to create many different looking characters. For right now download the 0.9.1 because version 1.0 is not done yet but we can start using it around the middle of this course I will let you know when its ready to be used.


















http://www.makehuman.org/blog/index.php