Bouncing Text Animation - Blender 3.0 Tutorial

[Applause] [Music] hi guys it's dina here from rendercraft academy and welcome to another tutorial in this tutorial i'm going to show you how to create basic text animation like you saw in the beginning of this video it's very simple and easy to follow tutorial so let's get started so as you can see currently i'm working with blender version 3.0 and let's go and create a new file under general so here in this left corner you will be able to see all the shortcuts that i'm going to use and now i'm going to press a to select everything and with x i'm going to remove it so now we have this empty scene so the first thing that i'm going to do with the shift a i'm going to create text to the scene and let's replace this text by going in edit mode by pressing tab and here we are going to replace this text with bounce board and now we can go and press x and 90 to rotate it for 90 degrees on the x-axis and let's go in text properties here in this properties menu and now we can go and change and replace this font here by going under font and here you will be able to open the font menu and i'm going to use this area black you can use any other font as you like and let's add some geometry to it by going under geometry and here i'm going to hold shift to be more precise so something like this is going to be just fine and to add some style to it we can go and add some bevel to it by increasing this depth here to about here and now we can go and change bevel type from round to profile and here i'm just going to move this slightly down and now we have this front face popping out a little bit and here you will be able to add it as you want so something like this is going to be just fine and now we can go and press one and with g and x i'm going to move this in the middle of the grid so now we need to convert this from text to mesh by pressing right click go and convert to mesh so now we will need to separate each letter as the object so here we can go in edit mode and we will need to enter in x-ray mode because we want to select back vertices as well so here i'm going to select the first letter and i will press p to separate it from mesh and here you can see that we created a new mesh so now i'm going to repeat the process for each letter so i'm just selecting letters and by pressing p i'm separating them like so and now we can go and remove the first one which is empty container by pressing x and now let's replace this text here we will need to rename it because of the organization so i'm just going to change the name here by double clicking and changing the text and the last one is going to be e so now we have these six letters which we will need to animate so first i'm going to switch from layout to animation workspace and currently set to dope sheet so here i'm going to switch to action editor and let's lower down number of frames for our animation to 40. now i'm going to scale this up and move in front orthographic view so here i'm going to create one single animation for one single letter and later on we are going to apply the same animation to all other letters with offsets so first i'm going to select the first letter which is b and i will open the end panel so first i'm going to insert single keyframe on z location now i'm going to move to fifth frame and here i'm going to write down 0.3 so now you can see that our letter b went up so here we can go and insert another keyframe now on 10th frame i'm going to select the first keyframe here and it's shifting d we are going to duplicate it to return b on its starting position and now let's go and add second boss so on the 13th frame i'm going to write down 0.15 right click and insert single keyframe and now we need to return it to starting position so i will duplicate the 10th frame by pressing shift and d and move it to 16 frame so now if you play this animation you can see that we are having bouncing effect but we need to add a little bit style to it with curve editing so here i'm going to press ctrl and tab to go in graph editor and right now if you go here under update transform you can see that we are having only z location active and because those are small values we cannot see it very well so here i'm going to press ctrl and middle click and move it to the left to zoom it out better and now i'm going just to scroll in and here you can see how the curve is behaving so you can see that our letter b is going in there really slowly and after that coming really slowly down so i'm going to select all these bottom keyframes and here i'm going just to change handle type by pressing v and currently set to b3 and we want those to be vector so now you play this animation you can see that we having fast up and fast down and we also have the same effect for the second bounce so now i'm going to select the first here and if we want our b to go a little bit higher than it is right now we can press g and y and move it a little bit higher and with s i'm going to scale it up a little bit now i'm going to repeat the same here for the second bounce so to about here has to scale it up and now we have this bouncing effect so now we need to apply the same animation to all other letters so now we can select second letter which is going to be o and here i'm going to press ctrl and tap to go back in action editor so now if you select this b letter you can see that we are having animation called b action and now i'm going just to rename it real quick to animation now i'm going to go and apply the same animation to the second letter and now if you play this animation you can see that they're both coming at the same time and do you want to offset it a little bit so here i'm going to move to fourth frame make this uni animation unique by selecting that number here and select a to select all the keyframes and by just pressing g and move it to the fourth frame now our animation is going to begin from the fourth frame and now if you play this animation you can see that we have the offset that we need so now i'm going to repeat the same process for the other letters as well so next is going to be 12th frame i'm going to apply the animation make it unique and vg i'm going to move to 12th frame next let's move on the 16th frame for the letter n apply animation make it unique and with g i'm going to move my animation to start from the 16th frame i will just find the animation make it unique and now with a i'm going to select everything and the g move it to the felt frame and the last one is going to be e so here i'm going to add animation make it unique and on the 24th frame i'm going to move it here and now if you play this animation you can see that we are having correct bouncing as we need it so as you can see we are done with animating so now we can go and add also the rest of the elements that we need for rendering the animation which is going to be materials lights and also backdrop as well do you want to learn how to use blender and become a good 3d 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from flat to smooth next we will need camera to the scene so with the shifting day i'm going to create simple camera now we can go and move it up and also here i'm going to press n and i will rotate it for 90 degrees on the x-axis and other ones needs to be zero now let's move it back by pressing g and y and also here everything is going to be just fine i'm going to enter in camera view or you can press zero now under camera settings i'm going to change focal length to be 22 millimeters and now let's move our camera slightly down and a little bit closer like so and you can see that we are having gap which we need to fill it up so i'm going to scale this on the x-axis and now let's switch to rendered view and you can see that everything is dark because we don't have any light to the scene so with the shift and a i'm going to create simple area light let's pull it up to about here and increase power for example let's try the thousand and i'm going to scale it up g and z to pull it all the way up because we don't want that ugly shadow there and here i'm going to go and increase it to 5 000 like so and now we can go and add materials to it so here for backdrop i'm going to use green green color like so and now i will need to create material for letters and this time i want to use baby blue color so something like this now i will share that same material for all other letters so i'm just selecting them and applying the same material and this is going to be the last one so now on the render settings we are going to change render engine from ev to cycle because we want higher quality of the render for device i will use gpu compute and denoising as well don't forget to turn on denoising and also don't forget to turn on the motion blur because we want to have a really nice effect to the animation and under color management you can go and play with the color so here for example you can go and add higher contrast to the scene so i'm going to use this medium high contrast and under output settings you will be able to select resolution of your scene and also here you will be able to select to select frame rate and for the output you will be able to select output destination and for file format you can render it as a png sequence or you can render it as a av jpeg and also if you want to to render it as a mp4 you will need to select this fmpeg video and here under container you can use mpeg4 and now if you press render render animation your rendering is going to begin so that was it i hope you had fun creating this bouncing text animation and if you have any suggestion or questions let me know in the comments below so i will see you in the next video bye [Music] try [Music] i don't know

Channel: Render Craft

Views: 28,874

Keywords: #Blender, #b3d, #animation

Id: PG8FYs8Ttj4

Length: 10min 58sec (658 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 01 2022