Tutorial: Animating a 7 Segment Display in Blender 4.2
Model and animate a seven-segment display in Blender version 4.2! We'll be creating the hexagon segments, duplicating and linking them, adding materials and a simple animation. I'll also be going through some more experimental concepts I've been tinkering with for the past weeks!
Download the tutorial files here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110078441/
Advanced project files:
Robot arm concept: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110076640/
Rack and pinion concept: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110075979/
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00:00 Introduction
00:26 Modeling the base hexagon shape
01:33 Duplicating and linking segments
02:23 Exploring the segment shape
04:27 Extruding and adding details
07:11 Adding materials and lighting
09:27 Animating the segments
11:20 Robot arms concept
12:21 Rack and pinion concept
13:27 Final render
Polyfjord
My name is Asbjørn, I'm a digital artist from Norway. My pipeline currently consist primarily of Blender, DaVinci Resolve and Soundly, and I enjoy exploring workflows that use open source, free and/or freemium software. Since the summer of 2021 I've been...