Animating a Robot Arm

This Exercise is part of the course: Animation Workflow & Body Mechanics

Part of the Learning Flow:

Animation in Blender

1. Animation Workflow
Like in every craft, your workflow drastically affects how well animation is accomplished. Working smarter (not harder) is an essential skill for animators to learn.
2. Animating Jumps
It's time to apply what you've learned and start animating. Dive into body mechanics with these jump exercises!
3. Animating a Kick & Weight Lift
Amping up the complexity just a bit: in this chapter, you'll tackle two different animation shots, kicking a ball and lifting a heavy object.
4. What Next?
So you've finished the lessons, exercises, and quizzes - What do you do now? I'll give you a hint: Keep practicing.
- What's Next? 1 min

Interested in this Exercise?

Watch the course trailer to see what's inside, read the about tab, and then start learning on CG Cookie today.

Watch course trailer Start Learning

Heya!

Start Learning

Software: Blender 2.78
Difficulty:

Object Constraints + Animation

OVERVIEW

This exercise is designed to be an application of the information learned in Chapter 3 of the Animation Workflow & Body Mechanics course. The purpose is to familiarize yourself with animating object constraints to accomplish specific tasks. While "moving a box" sounds easy, it can be trickier than you think.

INSTRUCTIONS

Download theProject Source Files from the Downloads tab *if you haven't download them from the course page already. Unzip the file.
a blank Blender scene and link in the appropriate Crane arm files as demonstrated in this lesson and modified in this lesson.
Animate the crane arm lifting a box, moving it to another location, and leaving it there.
Render your animation as either (A) an openGL viewport render or (B) a lit Cycles render.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo.
Finally, submit your exercise by clicking the Submit Exercise button in the top-right corner of this page and pasting your video's URL.

Rules of the Exercise

1

Animation uses the provided crane arm rig.
2

Crane arm picks up a box, moves to another location, and leaves it there.
3

Animation of the constraint is free of errors.

No questions found.

Heya! Login with your CG Cookie Citizen account to download Exercise files.

Needs grading:
Graded:
Passed:
Did not pass:

crew

Wayne Dixon

Level 8

Rank: 6

Since 2009, I have been producing high quality character animations for everything from commercials to children's music videos. Working remotely for several small studios, I have been responsible for the rigging and animation of several videos that have received over 100 million views on Youtube. (Making for some very happy clients.)