Understanding Keyframes and Animation Basics

Blender Animation Essential 6 min min read Updated: Mar 05, 2026
Understanding Keyframes and Animation Basics
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What are Keyframes?

Keyframes store the position, rotation or scale of an object at a specific time.

Blender automatically generates the frames between two keyframes.

Example Animation

  • Frame 1 – Cube at left
  • Frame 120 – Cube at right

Blender creates movement between these points automatically.

This technique is the foundation of all animation in Blender.

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