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Blender: caterpillar tutorial (creation and animation)

Written By Blender Short Tests on Monday, Feb 29, 2016 | 07:15 AM

 
See how to make and animate caterpillar or tank tracks. Three methods of animation: straight, curve and independent tracks. See my portfolio https://dziarskilisek.pl/portfolio See also Flying rats - the movie where I used this method to create caterpillar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZf7gF6k504 00:00 intro 00:20 creating wheel 02:30 creating caterpillar (array and curve modifiers) 07:40 combining objects (parenting wheels and tracks to tank) 09:40 animating along single axis (adding driver) 14:00 animating along curve (follow path constraint and drivers) 18:00 animating independent tracks (graph editor)