CG Cookie school has shared a new beginner-friendly course that covers Blender fundamentals and upgrades your vehicle rigging and animation skills.
You will start the course with a pre-made Monster Truck model. The mentor will explain how to create a vehicle rig in Blender and to upgrade rigging and animation skills. In the second part of the tutorial, you will animate the truck, make it loop around, and do a jump with freehand animation.
The mentor notes that the course is beginner-friendly as all the steps will be explained in detail, and the first part of the course will cover all the Blender fundamentals.
Chapter 1: Rigging Crash Course
You will start with a Rigging Refresher to make sure you're up to speed, then the mentor will give you essential rigging tips and workflow guidance.
Chapter 2: Rotating Stuff
In the second part, the mentor will share short, hands-on exercises that will buff up your rigging skills. You'll learn how to create perpetual motion in multiple different ways. Also, the tutor will show you how to use drivers and Python expressions to make a wheel that follows a path and conforms to the ground perfectly.
Chapter 3: Rigging a Spring
In this chapter, you will learn the rigging techniques for creating a fully functional advanced spring.
Chapter 4: Rigging the Monster Truck
In this extensive part, you will rig the truck's body, struts, and wheels, as well as the suspension. Also, this part covers Ackermann steering, ground detection, a fully functioning suspension system, and UI script.
Chapter 5: Let's Animate our Monster Truck
Finally, you will make the Monster Truck follow a path and loop around the track, and animate the truck over one of the jumps.
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