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Move Along a Curve

Move Along a Curve - Blender Tutorial

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Move Along a Curve

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- [David] In today's Blender's Tips, Tricks and Techniques, I want to talk about moving things along a curve. Now, I had this question emailed to me and I thought to myself, you know, this is actually a really powerful thing we can do inside of Blender but it's not totally obvious at first. So let me show you how to animate something along a curve. First, it helps to have a curve. So let's go ahead and click on Add and just go head and add a Bezier curve. You may not see it at first. So if you hit S, you can go ahead and scale it up. And my favorite thing to do is to always hit Control + A and apply the scale 'cause if not, weird things start to happen if you just leave the scale alone. And besides, you can always hit Tab to go into edit mode and adjust the curves from here. Right, let's get out of there. Go ahead and click on this cube. Go to modifiers, add modifier, curve. Bezier curve and whoa, what's…

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