Tutorial Alive! Animation course in Blender + Effective Rigging in Blender [2024-03-17]

[TheAnointedOne]

Everyone swears by this course but for me it's hard to follow. His accent and monotone delivery makes it hard to follow.

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

 

[Astrid Hofferson]

Everyone swears by this course but for me it's hard to follow. His accent and monotone delivery makes it hard to follow.

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

I agree that his accent and monotone delivery makes it difficult to concentrate, but I watched at x1.5 speed and it helped. So you can try

 

[iceSid]

Everyone swears by this course but for me it's hard to follow. His accent and monotone delivery makes it hard to follow.

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

Yep, his accent to me is terriable. I am watching the video 2 times before doing what he is teaching. Good point at least he delivers the important stuff welly.

Also i checked Maya and i could only find 3-5 years old tutorials of cracking it. I dont know the pricing of it in dollars, but in my local currency its 3/4 of a minimum wage :skull_emoji:

But the thing is that, if you wanna make it big, you gotta be a master in one thing

 

[nmlss_]

sorry, will it help me learn spine for 2d? or if anyone know where to learn spine skell.

 

[TitaniumDickDiamondBalls]

Everyone swears by this course but for me it's hard to follow. His accent and monotone delivery makes it hard to follow.

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

I would say, problem with understanding strong accent is "skill issue". I'm not a native, but his Frenchness aside, he uses pretty simple English. The only problem I see is that sometimes he skips "obvious" ( for advanced users - like switch to Edit mode, how to get X or Y context menu ) steps and a person who watches the course may get lost and get stuck.

 

[dan_roger69]

Everyone swears by this course but for me it's hard to follow. His accent and monotone delivery makes it hard to follow.

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

This course is not for a Blender beginner. If you are new to Blender take the introductory course from CG FastTrack on

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. Although modeling in Blender is not necessary to learn animation, by learning to model you can learn basic Blender settings that will help you navigate the animation course.

 

[DarthYBE]

Also wouldn't a serious animator use maya instead of blender? Blender has alot of counter-intuitive quirkiness that's tantamount to pulling teeth.

This kind of seems odd to say. Maya is the industry standard so yes, if you want an industry job it makes sense to learn. This course is posted to an F95 thread, a porn thread, for the express purpose of making that, & the cheapest way to do that is Blender. Not to mention all of the free resources, assets, & models that can be found for Blender that most other popular 3D artist use in this space. So yes a serious animator would most likely use Maya, but also, a serious animator wouldn't be looking for a bootlegged course on a porn thread to jump start their career.

 

[iceSid]

sorry, will it help me learn spine for 2d? or if anyone know where to learn spine skell.

If you mean the rigging/char-skelleton, he has a full course convering that, which is also posted here

 

[amubot]

This kind of seems odd to say. Maya is the industry standard so yes, if you want an industry job it makes sense to learn. This course is posted to an F95 thread, a porn thread, for the express purpose of making that, & the cheapest way to do that is Blender. Not to mention all of the free resources, assets, & models that can be found for Blender that most other popular 3D artist use in this space. So yes a serious animator would most likely use Maya, but also, a serious animator wouldn't be looking for a bootlegged course on a porn thread to jump start their career.

true, i'm here coz i want to be a serious porn animator

 

[DarthYBE]

true, i'm here coz i want to be a serious porn animator

That's great, & you can also learn skills that could be put to something more SFW if you ever choose to do so. I hope we see what you decide to create here in the future, & you have a lot of success in doing it.

PS: I also didn't want my comment to come off a smug, because I do understand what he means. Here on F95 though, Blender makes the most sense to promote, especially since most 3D porn artist use it.

 

[Pedro121]

Goddamn bro
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Here's a compressed version, complete with course files. Though it has hardcoded english/chinese subs.

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For the people in the future who wants to download these with decent speeds and not defaulting to 250kbps, make an account then download it. Wasted a few days trying to download these during odd hours without getting throttled. Didn't do jack shit. Thought they were always on high demand, tried it with an account logged in and I was getting 15mbps+ speeds. Smh

 

[LogicalWizard]

Tagging/bookmarking this

Legit wanna learn and maybe make a few bucks on the side

You know you make it when this site leaks your paywalled stuff LOL

 

[Fictionary]

Started this course and have been trucking along for the past month!
I loved it and but now I am on Chapter 3 and getting started on animating a squirrel...
And then I check and see next will be a mech....
When I only have interest in animating humans, genuinely.

So I may either skip the to the human part and see if I can manage to keep up.
Or find a different course that will keep me interested.

Because you learn best when you are enjoying it and this squirrel is killing my soul.

But if anyone has gotten through all of this and feels like the mech / squirrel changed their life, let me know lol.

EDIT:
Ya'll only reacting and NOT HELPING lmao.
Anyway chapter 5 is a bit above me. But I don't think I need to learn such complex rigs, I'm not trying to make "Play of the Game" Animations.
Going to try to find simple rigs and learn from failure / play. Godspeed to you all.

And if all else fails, there is a squirrel waiting for me

 

[iceSid]

Ok i will be giving this quote an update every now and then that i can.

So basically, i after i download everything i couldn't start right away beacause my mouse was simply bad (even the scroll button would not work). So after some days the new mouse arrived. Then i begun to watch the course.Stubbled at the very beggining since i really didn't know how to use blender. Figured it out later messing around with help of those "all blender basics you need to know" stuff. I found this modelling tutorial in my language, which looks pretty decent. But as i understood how blender would work, with keyframes, objects, values etc, i hooped right to the course.

Actually i am not able to watch it every day, because i got my very first job (i am pretty young so it would be good to have some income, since monther's single) Its some familiar with 9-5, but because i dont live in US it would be pretty much from 14:00 to 22:00. and i still have more 3 months of an technical course that i do during morning time, so my free time is taken.

I dont know if it all sounded like lazyness or stuff, but i really wanna learn this because i see a lot of potention on 3D animation. It started with me only wishing to make my own porn, but overall it can bring some good rentability with animation skill

well that's all for now. I will be in touch

OMG the amount of procrastination i had on this is crazy (shame on me). Left this dusting for a whole month, BUT FINALLY i finished chapter 2. Very straight foward guy. I have seen some takes from chapter 3 and they seem to have a bunch of new stuff. Later on i gonna craft something for output and here is my very first stuff ever on blender

 

[lobotomist]

So I was going through some old links and came across the links for the toanimate course, that I had downloaded a while back.

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password: blackpearl

I'm sure I had mentioned this before but the links had been taken down from vfxmed for copyright infringement, so I'm not sure If everything is still there but I checked a couple of the links and they seem to be alive.

 

[lobotomist]

So I was going through some old links and came across the links for the toanimate course, that I had downloaded a while back.

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password: blackpearl

I'm sure I had mentioned this before but the links had been taken down from vfxmed for copyright infringement, so I'm not sure If everything is still there but I checked a couple of the links and they seem to be alive.

I see some people liking my post, does that mean that all the links are alive? if so, can someone make a new thread?

 

[Ysolde]

EDIT: sorted the files from the extra 1.7GB file and found a few more

I see some people liking my post, does that mean that all the links are alive? if so, can someone make a new thread?

Thanks for sharing! All links are alive, but it seems weirdly incomplete. Missing the beginning, videos from the middle and the end. Here's the whole course, and below what those video links contain after downloading and comparing the runtimes:

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[Boss963]

So I was going through some old links and came across the links for the toanimate course, that I had downloaded a while back.

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password: blackpearl

I'm sure I had mentioned this before but the links had been taken down from vfxmed for copyright infringement, so I'm not sure If everything is still there but I checked a couple of the links and they seem to be alive.

TOAnimate - Blender Animation Course [2025-10-18]

 

[dan_roger69]

TOAnimate - Blender Animation Course [2025-10-18]

Thanks for the update. Link to the course appears to be broken.