ROADMAP to 3D Animations with Blender and Godot Workshop

[acs]

Let's use this ticket to coordinate the workshop for the next esLibre congress in Zaragoza. The approach is similar to the one in: https://github.com/Voxelers/3d/issues/45

Quick initial ideas:

• The goal is to show how to animate 3d models with Open Source tools
• The use cases: games, films and in general, 3d multimedia contents
• Intro to what is animation #64
• Intro to Blender 3 and Godot 4 based on #41
• Quick review on 3d modelling based on #41
• Animating the Blender initial cube #59
• Importing Blender animations into Godot #60
• Exporting Blender animations as videos
• Basic animations: animating the global model (move around)
• Automatic animations with the physics engine
• Animating parts of the model
  • What define a part (meshes and vertex) and howto group the part and animate it
  • Rigging and animation
  • Low poly rigging and animation #67
  • Animating with skeletons a character
  • Animation with MoCap (Motion Capture) #63
  • Mixamo (free use)
  • https://freemocap.org/ (open source)
  • https://chordata.cc/ (open source)
• Controlling the animation from logic: blender animation controlled in godot (related to #60 and #62)
  • Combining animations #66
  • Adding collision shapes to animations #65
• A 3D character walking in a world using Godot (similar to the basic world in Roblox Studio) #62
  • Add collision shapes to animations: stop the walking if a static body is hit #65
• Face animations #75
• Open Content assets/models/animations #61
• Create the slides (#41 as inspiration) #68

[acs]

To send the workshop: https://eslib.re/2023/enviar/propuestas

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[acs]

Things to check: https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1569642169878646788

[acs]

I need to explore if animation is different from movement/motion, if animation refers to the illusion of movement ... it is key to define the concepts as we will use it. For my animation is adding "life" to static scenes. Let's see.

According to Blender: Animation is making an object move or change shape over time. Objects can be animated in many ways:

Then we can start categorizing animations in:

• Physics
• Static character animation (deforming)
• Movement
• ...

My main focus now is the use case of a 3d character (probably a simple human) walking in a 3D world. It is a basic step to start creating to be explored worlds. And then, we can add additional animations later.

[acs]

We will need a world in which to move around our animated characters. I think I will use the word avatar instead of character. But probably an avatar is the digital twin of a person (alter ego). And a character has no limitations. Food for thought.

[acs]

We are opening a lot of cool things in the past 3 days. We need to settle down a bit all to define the focus for the workshop.

[acs]

I have already sent the proposal:

https://gitlab.com/eslibre/propuestas/-/merge_requests/321

[acs]

I have doubts about the goal of the workshop. Try to explain the animations concepts or just show how to animate so people experience the process? If the experience is intense enough, they will explore later animations concepts and so on. And during the practical workshop, the core concepts will appear.