Computer Animation and Simulation

Download and installation. Understanding the interface. The Blender screen (GUI): headers, how to quit Blender, how to start over, the 3D View editor, the Sidebar, the Object Properties panel, the manipulation and tool system, the Outliner editor, the Properties editor, editor types, the User Preferences editor, overlays in the 3D View editor, and scene manipulation.

Editor types. Resizing editors. Splitting editors. Cancelling an editor. Workspaces. Multiple scenes. Files and folders. Saving a file. Windows File Explorer. The Blender file browser. Navigation. Editor features. Making a new folder. Saving your work. The concept of files. The Append and Link commands. Importing objects. Activating import file types. Packing data.

The tool panel. The Add Cube tool. The Last Operator panel. Extrusion and the Extrude Region tool. Inset Faces and the Inset Faces tool. The Bevel tool. Edge and loop selection. The Loop Cut tool. The Knife tool. The Poly Build tool. The Spin tool, spin profiles, and spin duplication. The Screw tool. The Smooth tool. The Edge Slide tool. The Shrink or Fatten tool. The Rip Region tool.

The animation screen. Movement in the 3D View editor. Planning the animation. Keyframes, time, and interpolation. Animation speed and length. Inserting keyframes. Playing the animation. Automatic keyframing. Controlling the animation. The Graph editor and editing the graph. Other types of curves. The curve properties panel. Animating rotation and rotation using F-curves. Animating other features. Keying sets. Animation follow path. Displacement sound animation. Sound effect and Cast modifier.

Modifiers and physics. Force fields. Collision physics. Cloth physics. Soft body physics. Fluid simulation and fluid simulation examples. Fluid particles.