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>Your first animation in 30 + 30 minutes</H1
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>&#13;		This chapter will guide you step-by-step through the animation of
		a small "Gingerbread Man" character. We'll describe all actions 
		completely, but we'll assume that you have
            read the entire <A
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>&#13;		In the first 30 minutes of this tutorial we'll build a 
		<I
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		in the next 30 minutes, we'll give him a skeleton
		and animate a walk cycle.
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>&#13;		1. Fire up Blender
		by double clicking its icon or running it from the command line.
		Blender will open showing you, from top view, the default
		set-up: a camera and a plane. The plane is pink,
		meaning it is selected (<A
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		Delete the plane with <B
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>&#13;		Now select the camera with <B
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		and press <B
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		like the one in <A
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		will appear beneath your mouse,
		with the first button checked. Check the rightmost
		button on the top row and then the <TT
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		button. This will move your camera to layer 10.
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>&#13;		Blender provides you with 20 layers to help you
		organize your work. You can see which layers are currently
		visible from the group of twenty
		buttons in the 3D window toolbar (<A
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