Blender Animation - My experience as a beginner.

Ok guys so here is my first venture into Modeling, Rigging and Animation,
( actually its the second attempt as I screwed something in the animation stage that I could not find or correct what went wrong, so I restarted from the rigged stage), as before this is from a tutorial by Tutor4U but this is a direct copy of that work ( as close as I could make anyway ). I find that I am learning a tiny bit faster now as I become a little more accustomed to the controls.

Every time I sit down to animate something in blender I always forget all the shortcut keys and so I go back to google and always manage to find the same tutorial that tells me all the keybinds.

Thanks for the heads-up I could only find a pdf for 2.5 as the nearest version I have the 2.78a, but i already recognise a few key seqences on it, so thanks again.

Looks good for starting off. Your animation is a bit stiff especially when it stands on the hind legs, but you learn how to fix that as time goes on.

Dat booty bump tho.. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

@R93, Thanks for the critique, it is appriciated, could you please give me a hint on what attribute to modify, If I understand I guess you are referring to an attribute in the ( blender ) graph editor, the tutorial had the original motion curve changed to a linear motion for reason of constant speed of the dog's movement. however please elaborate if I am wide of the mark.

@Abdul, I believe it was modelled on the gyration of a certain Kardashian !

Ok guys here are a couple more blender tutorials I found,  1st is a 'Nebula' Fly thro, that is done by moving the camera down thro a series of planes to simulate animation, The second is a true animation morph from ball to a wine glass any comments would be appriciated.

(These are my efforts of tutorials found on youtube, I have not yet included the original links but can do if needed)

Your dog animation was pretty good for a beginner if I'm honest but, like R94 said, its a bit stiff when it goes on its hind legs but this is a non-issue as you'll get better with time 100%. I always try and envision the physics / how movement would look like in real life when animating. Always remember that there's a speed ramp in sudden movement (and movement in general) - nothing goes from 0-100 straightaway there is always an acceleration in movement and a drop off when the action is carried out.

Well I have lost the Dog animation, because I am a muppet! It seems that because blender over-writes files in the temp directory and as I had not specified a descrete path I have destroyed / wiped the dog blend flies,  ( at least I can try to get the motion better ) I was going to just post the original dope sheet with the movement keys to see where the fault lay.

As a stop gap I have done my take on an asteriod animation using proc generated asteriods, with  assets from the star pack (x-wing fighter and R2d2)

Drifting Xwing

Ok here is a project that took many hours and over 2hr to render. I shall say that there is a really huge error in the animation that is now fixed, but I left the original  for your amusement and ridicule. ( I prob deserve it lol )

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