Focal Point School: Stylized Animation in Blender – Darek Zabrocki & JImmy Duda

Learn how to create stylized animations in Blender like an award winning, senior concept artist Jimmy Duda. This is an in-depth course on creating your very own animated film sequence from scratch. As a creator of ‘’Symbiont World’’ short film he will guide you through a full, extensive process of utilizing a holistic approach in which workflows and storytelling intertwine.

What You’ll Learn In Focal Point School: Stylized Animation in Blender

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

• Meet your instructor
• What is Symbiont World?
• Course Overview and Assignment briefing
• Why sketching is essential?

Chapter 2: Setting up base scene

• Gearing up your 3D tool set (softwares overview)
• Creating a base for your landscape (Sky, sun, water all directly in 3D)
• Blocking out the world
• Exploring camera angles

Chapter 3: Your new adorable buddy (Flobo)

• Overview of modelling techniques
• Understanding the difference between Hard Surface and Organic modelling
• Testing different shapes of our buddy
• Animating world elements around the character with Particles System

Chapter 4: Modelling Surfer Girl (Kontea)

• Intro to Character Modelling
• Animating your hero directly in the final pose
• Animating ponytail hair
• Animating clothes (scarf)
• Shading and texturing

Chapter 5: Creating and having fun with Environment

• creating the Islands (modeling, procedural shading)
• creating the clouds (modeling, scattering, shading)
• creating the trees (modeling, scattering, shading)

Chapter 6: “Wet Work” Creating water waves and splashes

• Animating water
• Animating splashes VFX

Chapter 7: Look, it moves! – animation

• Simple scene rigging (Character, wind, physics)
• Animating Flobo
• Creating fog and setting up alternative camera angles

Chapter 8: The magic of Animation

• Putting the whole scene together
• Modelling windmill, correcting the whole layout and optimize animation
• Overpainting and swapping the assets
• Painting and animating additional VFX effects
• Final Animation scene 01

Chapter 9: Seagulls FTW!

• Modelling and animating Seagulls
• Matte Painting techniques overview
• Final Tweaks
• Alternative Final Animation scene 02

Chapter 10: “Frozen in Time” Turning 3D Animation into Kickass Keyframe Painting

• Overpainting process overview
• Explaining optimized Photoshop layering approach
• Additional 2D effects

Chapter 11: “Sunset” Alternative Sequence

• Turning your sunny day sequence into beautiful Sunset animation
• Adding bloom and atmospheric perspective to your 3D scene
• Combining colors while maintaining Stylized approach

Chapter 12: Anime and changing composition

• Scene layout
• Shader Adjustments
• Camera Work
• Outro

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