rigging and animating a simple game character with blender

blender version: 2.41

tutorial version: april 12th, 2006
skill level: beginner
(screen resolution 1280x1024 recommended!)

getting started

preparing the mesh & building the armature preparing the mesh - flash animation ~ 1mb building the armature - flash animation ~ 3.5mb

weight painting & setting up constraints weight painting - flash animation ~ 3.5mb setting up constraints - flash animation ~ 3.5mb

animating a walk cycle animating a walk cycle - flash animation ~ 7.5mb end result: walkcycle.avi - divx ~ 260kb

exporting to mdl7 format - flash animation ~ 2.5mb the exporter can be downloaded here: export_3dgs_mdl7.py ~ 50kb