The Ultimate Guide to Blender 3D Rigging & Animation

Tank tracks to characters Learn how to 3D animate and rig anything in this massive 17 part Ultimate Blender guide.

4.5 ★★★★★4,268 studentsCreated by 3D TudorLast updated Oct 25, 2025🌐 English

What you'll learn

✓Creating 15 different animation projects including but not limited to grass, wheels, trees, fish, tank tracks, fire, light, and clouds, and adventure trapst

✓Learning how to animate tank tracks so that they stick to any type of terrain

✓Mastering the art of character rigging and animating walk cycles

✓Finding how to make moths move around a light source using Blender’s particle boid system

✓Enjoying a full introduction to animating in Blender with 16 animation projects of increasing difficulty

✓Using Blender 3 and understanding its new interface and shortcuts

✓Completing an introduction to the basics of animation in Blender and learning how to animate with nothing but key frames

✓Creating create handles and drivers to have your tank tracks move realistically

✓Maximising the benefits of animated textures to create flames and fire streams

✓Smoothing out animations with interpolation modes

✓Building rigs with single and multiple bones

✓Mastering the art of weighting bones for 3D animation

✓Changing the shape of objects with multiple shape keys

✓Animating wildlife and morphing objects (i.e., taking one object and turning it into another over a set number of keyframes)

✓Creating a stylized smoke effect using Blender’s particle system

✓Graduating to working on more complex animation techniques such as inverse Kinematics, and animating a large scene

✓Using Blender’s camera animation options to create a simple but effective camera turntable setup

✓Utilising rendering to improve the quality of presentation for your 3D animations by rendering out in Eevee and Cycles

✓Presenting your animations in 16 different prepared environments (provided in the course resources)

✓Complete the course which is going to be the first steppingstone to creating different 3D animations for future and existing projects

Requirements

•To own a computer (Microsoft, Linux or Mac)

•To have downloaded Blender (available for free)

•A thirst to learn and excitement about 3D modelling and animation

•To download all course resources including 15 individual scene set-ups as seen in the stages of the course, and another separate scene featuring a massive adventure scene with deadly traps inspired by film