Blender Tutorial - Theo Jansen Mechanism 3D Animation
Update: There is a better way “to use a bone as an IK target (without creating an empty), select the target bone first, then hold down SHIFT and select the bone at the tip of your IK chain. Pressing CTRL+I and choosing “To Selected Bone” from the popup menu sets the tip bone to use the target bone for its IK target. Note that the target bone cannot be a part of the bone chain that will have IK.”
http://www.blender.org/development/re…
Thanks, Theo Jansen, for the inspiration and the wonderful kinetic sculptures:
http://strandbeest.com
http://youtube.com/results?search_que…
We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants.
Thanks, dwyllie, for modelling the mechanism in Geometer’s Sketchpad. I used a screen capture of his video as a template: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CufN43By79s
I used this linkage for my wheel-less bicycle animation, http://youtube.com/watch?v=JoQj-tobYOw
and this no-wheels skateboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCwhQ…
My website:
http://thenerdshow.com
Blender is a free 3D animation creation program you can download from http://blender.org
