Easy animated array around object Blender Eevee [Tutorial]

i wanted to go intro i'm doing a short tutorial today i try not to talk too much but um i can't guarantee it um it's basically just moving an array around an object in blender making it look super cool that's what we do here that's what we do so let's hop into blender all right so open up a new scene we're not gonna delete anything crazily enough so i'm gonna demonstrate this by using a really really really simple chain model which we're quickly gonna make in literally like three seconds so holding z go into wireframe mode shift a and insert a taurus um scale that down in top view hit tabs and turn to edit mode and select half of the verts and drag it along here hit tab and duplicate that with ctrl c ctrl v move that along a teeny bit and rx90 to rotate it 90 degrees so this is a really really really simple cube chain set up select both of them in edit mode and press ctrl j to join them together sorted we'll come back to that in a second let's create a path quickly shift a i'm going to insert a curve i'm gonna insert a circle yeah scale that up a bit hit tab now to make an infinity we're gonna move these two verts next to each other don't watch how hideous is looking right now we're gonna fix this in a second don't really have to be that particular about it and then make all the bezier handles parallel to each other like this then take one and fold it over this does not even sound scientific in the knees bring it to the other side and there you go you've got an infinity it looks simple but this took me eons eon i'm just gonna fix it up by just adjusting a little bit these handles and making it a little bit rounder um but again you probably don't need to be too fussy because just just the path like you're not gonna see this yeah you're not gonna no you're not gonna see it i don't know what i'm talking about right you're not gonna see the path oh man's going a little bit mad still now make this infinity sort of try and somewhat interact with the objects you've got on your scene again all of this can be changed this is just me demonstrating a very basic example cool i'm not gonna mess around with this anymore that is my path right if we go back into wireframe mode and select our chain link in modifiers we're going to add an array modifier and increase the count and change the offset so that they are overlapping just by a little bit so we've got our chain there and then the reason why i kept this chain link in the origin is just because trust me don't move it out of the middle unless you really know what you're doing with origins otherwise you're going to get a fat headache trust me then i'm going to add a curve modifier and select this bezier curve and as you can see it follows it perfectly and i'm just going to increase the count so now if you want to animate the chain to follow the path or the array it literally could be any kind of array um we're gonna hit n to bring up our transform keyframes select your mesh your your chain mesh hit i for location move along your playhead to the end of your scene and not that one you're gonna bring the x origin just move it along somewhere over there and then hit i again and then if we go into our camera you'll see that we've got we've got an animation i see it say it's sorted right um what else could i do i just want to show you quickly what this looks like if you put in a little bit of effort should be another background texture oh yeah there we go that was a problem sorry insert a background texture um i think this is kind of all i want to talk about in this tutorial just because um i actually need to go somewhere now so yeah this is this is where i'm going to leave this tutorial i hope you enjoyed it switch out that chain for anything you want and make this your own have fun with it um yeah i hope this was actually like not too long and to the point i'll see when i edit it but yeah thank you for watching tell me in the comments what you want to see because i honestly don't really know what i'm doing so it's nice if someone can like tell me what they want to see stay safe stay blessed i'll see you in the next video thank you for watching

Channel: intranetgirl

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Length: 5min 26sec (326 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 29 2020