How can I animate object properties in Blender?

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I was wondering if there was a method to alter object settings at a set point in an animation in blender.

For example, I want to make the color of an object blue for the first 20 frames, but after 20 frames I want its color to change to green. Is there any known method of doing this? I could not find anything when I searched.

Possible duplicate of How can I animate my Cycles shaders? and Can modifiers such as “Subdivision” and “Array” be “animated”?. Welcome to Blender.SE, please search around thoroughly before asking. — iKlsR, Jun 22 '13 at 20:24
Sorry, I did not know what keywords to search, and so I could not find it. Next time I will search harder. — Matthew D. Scholefield, Jun 22 '13 at 20:53
Ok, np. also while an answer that is posted may be correct or suit your current need(s). Feel free to wait a while so your question can possibly attract more views and probably better or more indepth answers. — iKlsR, Jun 22 '13 at 21:59

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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If you right click on a property and click Insert Keyframe, you can animate that property like you would the location, rotation, scale, etc.

Insert Keyframe menu

This method works with almost all the properties including all values and most checkboxes.

EDIT: Gwenn commented and noted that you can also insert the keyframe by using the I key. Also, you can Remove keyframes with Alt + I

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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answered Jun 22 '13 at 20:24

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And where that is not possible, with the "I" hotkey – Gwen Jun 22 '13 at 20:32
Can't animate layers anymore, though. – hjaarnio Jun 22 '13 at 21:20
@hjaarnio whoa, when did that happen? Thanks for the heads up. – CharlesL Jun 22 '13 at 21:22
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@CharlesL http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/1067/how-to-animate-layers-in-blender-2-6 – iKlsR Jun 22 '13 at 21:25

How can I animate object properties in Blender?

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