Hey, welcome to my channel. I'm Brian, a Toronto based 3D animator and educator.
I use this channel as a platform to help educate and teach 3D animation to anyone interested! My main reason for starting this channel was the lack of quality information available about the industry and animation when I was new and needed help. I had no other option but to spend tens of thousands of dollars on institutional schools to learn 3D animation and learn the secrets of the industry.
If the channel's free content isn't enough and you're looking to sharpen your animation skills and give yourself a strong animation foundation, then consider TOAnimate. Me and two other animators have spent over 3 years creating the most comprehensive and laser focused animation curriculum, using Blender. We know all of the struggles of a student looking to learn animation and so we've tried tackling each one to make the learning journey as smooth as possible! Learn more at TOAnimate.ca
Hope you enjoyed this weeks video! If you're considering taking your animation skills to the next level, and want to master Blender's animation tools at the same time, check out our Ultimate Animation Course: TOAnimate.ca
How do you guys make these characters sculpting or modeling? Would love to get a detailed course or even an overview because they look high quality and better than 99 % of those out there.
A mix of Zbrush, Blender and substance painter. We're currently working on a comprehensive character rigging course, afterwards we may tackle a character creation one.
Blender is just getting better and better. Cant wait for ghosting features, this will help A LOT!!! and the new anim layers!!! Thank you for this video!!
Hey, it's mostly your preference. If you have a work area at home and don't travel often, a higher end PC will make the most sense. If you travel often and want to work on the go, then a laptop. The biggest thing is ram and GPU. You can get a higher-end PC with less money, compared to a laptop. You don't need a tablet/pen etc, usually 2D Animators who switch to 3D use a tablet/pen only because they're use to it (or for ergonomic reasons).
your course sucks!! it cost a lot but you only do is talk not doing any animation u only animating simple saddle animations lol.. idle animation took you so long and the narrative gives me wanna sleep.. dont buy his course waste of time and money! u will not learn!
HUGE thanks for this, ive been animating with this constraint problem dealing with it manually for over a year and was just lazy enough to not look into the solution
Hey Brian, loving you channel so thanks for that. A few months ago you mentioned you would be selling rigs separately plus also that animation picker, but can’t find it on your site. Do you have a link please or have plans changed?
Hey, we're totally still doing both of those, we just got delayed. We're currently working on the cinematic for the launch of the marketplace. Hoping to launch that by the end of the month or latest mid-next month. In terms of the Picker, our students currently have access to it but we did run into some bug, and so we're doing some more testing on that before releasing it to the public. Keep an eye out on our newsletter, as we'll likely announce them there!
@@BrianKouhiAlso Brian, just wanna ask your personal opinion please. Been using Blender for over 8 years and very comfortable with it now, I am more a generalist but mainly use it for VFX/Animation and just wondered if I should learn Maya? Is it THAT much better than Blender for animation please? Want to ask you as I know you use both. Sorry to trouble you!
Not gonna stop using Blender but maybe learn Maya as well as another tool or better off just sticking to Blender?, and will it be difficult learning Maya after I am so I used to Blender?
@@ukmonk if you're just focusing on animation in both softwares, it won't be that much different at all. You could learn how to animate in either software in just 2 weeks with the right lessons. Definitely a good idea to learn both software for the best chance of landing a job.
Don't know if you figured this out, but Dolores is not Mirabel's sister, she is one of the cousins- and Camilo is actually, a few weeks older than Mirabel from what I've heard
posting this mainly for me if i run into this in the future but nothing worked for me until i tried this so maybe it will help someone in the future im making anims for UE5 thus using the infima games UE5 rig: When making a single mag reload i can make it work fine with influence but now im attempting a dual/tac mag reload so i need two bones (mag1 and mag2) to be child of the left hand. What i did was: 1. like in the video, make a before and after frame for the influence 2. one frame two where i need to change influence, do: pose > apply visual transform to pose 3. click the X next to the influence, then move back and fourth in the timeline and it will sync up
I am currently using AUTO-RIG PRO and all of my characters are wearing different shoes with different height elevations. Barefoot, boots, high heels. It is the same way when you create a female character in a game like Grand Thief Auto or Saints Row. How do I attach the shoes to the rig of my characters and animate them without making separate animations with different shoes? Can someone help me?
People have given me different methods to try out and none of them work. The NLA editor doesn't work. Parenting the shoes and the character at the same time and clicking bind doesn't work. The action constraints don't work either. I've been looking for a couple of years on a video that can do this using auto rig Pro but I'm not successful. If I come across something I'll let you know. I really wish alot of people could make a video on this.
