What “Transformer” Creation Course (Modeling and Animation) Could You Recommend?

Thank you, @adrian2301 for your trust in my skills 🙂! I’ve already started @waylow’s  Fundamentals of Rigging ,  “just” the chapters 3 to 8 are remaining 😉😁. And waylow’s other courses on rigging and animation are definitively on my to-do-list. The key-point for making it transform convincingly is, as I think, to break the final shape for the transformer (for example a car) cleverly into pieces and arrange them smartly. I suppose that you need many “fill pieces” for the robot which won’t show up in the final shape. And then you need to animate all these pieces so that they don’t block each other or fly through each other when reaching their final positions. This I suppose needs quite some organization and a course probably could be very useful for this. 

@chapeline I’ve just seen that Pierrick in his course use a “Bone Layer Management” where you can name the layers. Is this Pierrick’s creation or some other addon?

@chapeline This course is for sure awesome! I just downloaded it. By the way: Pierrick has interviewed Kent and Wayne some months ago: see here and here.

@chapeline Yes, this addon seems to be a useful Blender 2.8+ extension which I’ve already found when creating my Piero version. The reasons why I didn’t use it for that project is that it doesn’t solve the limitations of the current “Layer Management” and that I wasn’t sure whether it’s worth investing the time for learning how it works since there’re ideas to change that system to something like “Bone Collections” (see for example here).

@waylow I’m referring to your “Brought to you by Soda Stream” performance right at the beginning of Pierrricks interview with you here. I think, it’s expandable 😀👍! And as for the “Bone Collections”, I hope they’ll implement it soon … or [drum roll] …. or I’ll code it and then the Blender community has to live with the result forever 😉😁 !!!