Blender Animation & Rigging: Bring Your Creations To Life (Udemy.com)
Learn To Rig & Animate Models & Characters In Blender, For All Skill Levels. Blender 4 Compatible. EARLY ACCESS!
Created by: GameDev.tv Team
Last updated July 2025
What you will learn
- Understand the basic and important principles of rigging and animating
- Start with a basic character rig, then more complex rigging and tools
- Rig characters with basic and automated advanced rigs
- Create simple & expressive animations
- Learn principles and how to create actions for your characters like run cycles and attack animations.
- Create character animations quickly and easily that are ready for game engines
- We’ll also show you how to export and have these working in game engines!
Course Description
Want to create amazing animations, just like you see on your favourite game characters?
In this course, you’ll bring your creations to life and learn how to rig and animate models and characters.
While the course is mainly character focused, the principles and tools you learn can be applied to animate anything in Blender.
By the end of the course you’ll be able to rig and animate characters ready for game engines, or anything else you want to use them for!
Understand the basic and important principles of rigging and animating
Start with a basic character rig, then more complex rigging and tools
Rig characters with basic and automated advanced rigs
Create simple & expressive animations
Learn principles and how to create actions for your characters like run cycles and attack animations.
Create character animations quickly and easily that are ready for game engines
We’ll also show you how to export and have these working in game engines!
Plus you get the added bonus of seeing Grant acting out all these animations as a template for the movements.
The course is Blender 4 compatible, and will be updated if there are any changes to the way things work in Blender 4.1.
Perfect if you have a basic/reasonable understanding of the Blender interface (so at least a few hours of modelling and using blender under your belt) and also if you want to create animations for your games and game characters.
You’ll get full lifetime access for a single one-off fee. The creators are qualified and experienced with modelling and coding, so are able to explain complex concepts clearly, as well as entertain along the way.
And you’ll get access to the Q&A where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.
So what are you waiting for? Dive in now and start animating!
Get in early for this much requested animation course! The course is still in development, with the first three sections (4+hrs of content) already live. More awesome content is being added on a regular basis. So don't delay, jump in now!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,792 Reviews
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Reviews
By Ilya Honin on 7/29/2026
Отличный курс по основам риггинга и компьютерной анимации. Очень грамотная теоретическая подача-постепенно становится понятно, как использовать инструменты в Blender 3D. Интересные и забавные практические задания, которые позволяют отточить базовые навыки. Рекомендую!
By Ahmed Elgamal on 5/7/2026
Coming from the Complete Blender Modelling course, I noticed that a lot of the content was repeated. Because of that, I only gained a small amount of new information and ended up speeding through most of the course. I was also hoping to learn more animation-related topics and expected more advanced rigging content, especially things like facial/head rigging, mouth and eye controls, shape key workflows, and using the NLA Editor to speed up animation scene workflows. Regardless, it was still a great course overall. Thank you, and I’m looking forward to more advanced courses in the future.
By Thiện Thi Võ on 4/25/2026
tôi mua khóa học này nhằm mục đích học và hiểu hơn về chuyển động của nhân vật . phần học thao tác với kiếm là tuyệt nhất . tuy chỉ là 1 hành động cơ bản nhưng mong sau này tôi sẽ có thể tiến bộ hơn và tạo các bước di chuyển như đang luyện tập kiếm nhu phim
By Vladyslav on 2/22/2026
Can't recommend this enough! I like the tutor's approach, I like how course is structured and overall I've really enjoyed it! I've learned quite a lot being a complete beginner with regards to animation. Thanks!
By Luigi Gaetano on 1/10/2026
ottimo corso ,spiegazioni molto esaurienti ed ho trovato molto piacevole seguire e fare i progetti step by step con l insegnante. lo stra-consiglio a chi vuole imparare ad animare i propri personaggi.penso ci siano anche i sottotitoli in italiano,ma ho preferito seguirlo in lingua inglese.
By Bartu Sağlam on 1/8/2026
Actually, I know how to do animation. The reason I took this course was because my existing projects weren't fluid and realistic enough; maybe I was fundamentally lacking something. I took this course to find those shortcomings, and I must say, I was impressed. I learned both what my weaknesses were and some new methods. Thank you, Mr. Abbitt.
By Sagar Panchal on 12/24/2025
I recently began learning Blender rigging and animation. Within a week, I managed to complete walk, run, jump, idle, and sword animations. I'm especially grateful to my instructor; his teaching method is excellent because he allows plenty of time to follow along with his demonstrations.
By Thang vu on 12/15/2025
the course provides good knowledge but the characters/assets in the course look boring and not like the thumbnail
By Samantha Maillard on 10/7/2025
Great introductory course to both rigging and animation! The instructor explains in a way that makes it easy to follow. Would definitely recommend to someone who wants to start learning animation in Blender.
By Anja Lindner on 9/25/2025
The courses are very easy to follow and it feels good to learn something with every course. I can't stop watching as I always want to know more as it's a really nice learning curve. The teacher speaks really clearly and with a comfortable pace. I was watching other courses before and stopped quite soon as it was just exhausting to follow but this one is just amazing. I can only recommend it! A huge thanks to the teacher for providing these amazing lessons!
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