Blender 2.82 : Character Animation (In 3 Minutes!) 

NOTE: In 2.82, Copying and Pasting multiple mirrored/flipped frames at the same time sometimes doesn't work. It used to work in 2.79, 2.8, and 2.81. If you're using 2.82 and don't know what's going on, you'll have to copy and paste flipped keys 1 at a time. We'll just have to pray that they fix that in 2.83. Can anyone using 2.83 beta confirm if this has been fixed or not?

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So...you wanna learn how to do a thing in blender huh ? y-yes! N O T A P R O B L E M !!

2D animators: Who are you?! 3D animators: I'm you, but *faster*.

It's amazing how a little bit of animation breathes life into something that's lifeless. Turning a T pose sculpture into something alive.

Thank you now I can walk

Also, when you have the last keyframe setup, you can move the timeline back one frame and it will loop back to the first keyframe perfectly, it's looks a bit more smoother that way.

As solo indie game dev this shit is priceless man. Thank you!!!

Smile and wave boys. Smile and wave.

The fun begins~♪ I went to school to learn how to animate, but never learned proper modeling and rigging. Yeah, I know, each is its own job basically, but those hiring nonetheless expect you to be able to do it all, for some reason... ...

This 4-minute tutorial is infinitely more helpful than any of the super long ones that make animating seem way more complex than it needs to be.

Me: Watches the video and says "Ok". Tries to move bone. Figure warps into the Universe.

Thanks. In your every 1-2 minute tutorial I still find something that I didn't know. Leaving smarter than when I came - that's what I love your stuff for.

Holy crap. I'm so blown away at the amount of effective teaching you put into this! It was a brilliant primer, thank you so much.

I spent basically all of yesterday messing around with rigging and animating a tail and I want to share what I have found: Because fully animating tail sway is a lot of work, I tried both wiggle and spring bones. Wiggle is easier to set up but jiggle has better effects. Something to note is that setting influence in the spring constraint has a different (and in my case better) effect to changing influence in the spring bones menu. The only problem with that is that the constraint settings reset whenever you stop the spring bones. So that is tail sway pretty much done. Next up is manually controlling the tail. You can't manually control it due to spring being a constraint, but you can use other constraints. Spline IK on a curve path gets really nice and easy to control tails, however spline IK overrides spring bones. What I did to work around this is create a duplicate tail with spline IK and deform off, then used copy transforms on the actual tail bones to mimic the duplicate bones. This means I can easily change the base tail shape to a curve while still getting the automatic sway and bending of spring bones. Easy tail animation once set up. Also, applying hook empties to the curve path allows me to set keyframes, animating the curve itself. There are a few bits to improve still: -The constraint influence resets if spring bones is disabled and is a pain to fix. -A way to change the influence for all bones at once and during an animation would be nice, so that I can quickly change how much it keeps my chosen form over the spring effect. -Setting the frame to 0 doesn't reset the spring bones effect, you need to drag it further back to return to normal or turn spring bones off and on again. This isn't too bad, but forgetting it can lead to confusion and the effect becomes bigger for longer tails with more bones. I'm pretty happy with this setup and hopefully others can make use of or improve upon it. TL:DR of how I set it up: 1. Setup spring bones on the tail to get the desired sway effect when moving. 2. Create duplicate bones and spline IK these to a curve path. Use hook empties to manipulate the curve more easily and allow you to set keyframes. 3. Copy transform the tail bones to the duplicate bones. 4. You should end up with a tail that has automatic sway while also allowing easy animation through a curve.

Thanks for the great tutorials ! Your videos are the only ones on RU-vid that I don't skip the first minute of. I love that you get right to the point of the video and don't mention what the video is about 5 times and tell us why your making it or who wanted the video ect. Like other youtubers.

You're one of 4 people I listen to for solid Blender advice. Thank you for the education. You're helping a lot of people with these videos(including myself), and you need to know that we appreciate you.

as a student on a time crunch..you're a life savior

GENERAL TIP: if your animations don't look great, look into the Principles of Animation for a better grip on the art. Most Principles are applicable to any kind of animation, not solely 2D cel animation. It's also really helpful to use reference footage, professionals do it too all the time. Set up your phone camera to record you doing an action or two you want to animate. You'll feel goofy the first few times but try to shake it off and embody the character you're animating. How does he walk? What does she wave like? How would he do this kick? Is she more upbeat, or cool? As a 2D animation nerd learning 3D since I can't draw for shit, it's absolutely mind-blowing how simple this is by comparison. Like the only way 2D is ever this easy with just keyframes and easing, is when the result looks like fucking garbage- think every mainstream American adult cartoon made in the past 15 years or so.

Content is always refreshing!!!! Favorite line "annnnnd ya done!!!" Keep up the great work💪🏾

God Bless you sir! I've watched an hour of other videos that got me nowhere you just helped me figure what I was doing wrong in three minutes

Never before have I thought "Oh I know nothing about this topic, lets watch a video about it" Then felt like I understood how to do that thing after a 3 minute video. Good job

bro you have the best tutorials they are always fast and goes to the point you dont care about the gettting more then 10 min and money you just are genuinly a good person have a good day

this guy explanation and energy is top notch liked and subbed

perfect tutorial. clear instructions, short time, and no added filler.

Always great advices without the boring step by step thing! I love this channel!

Quicker than mine indeed! I learned a lot from you boy! Thank you!

Just a heads up: If you use the dopesheet instead of the action editor, you can actually just select the keyframes of any object and move them around instead of having to ctrl-a all the bones every time you want to modify the animation.

Good video! Pro tip though, when animating looped animations, the first and last key frame should NOT be the same. The last frame should be one frame short of the first frame. If they are the exact same, the result in an odd pause moment. It's not that noticable, but a good example of a weird pause is the Pikachu animation he used in this video where you can distinctly tell where the animation begins and ends it's loop

came here from your rigging tutorial, and i'm missing the colored UI that displays out and around the model to animate with. Am I missing a view option, or is there more rigging that I have to do? I'm so lost! lol

Thanks for just getting the fekking point m8. I look up how to animate, and thats what I got. You are a blessing to us all and an example to follow.

im new to all of this. and I'm going crazy!! respect to all of yall who do this

These videos are so fast and efficient and really well explained, thanks for the great content!

you resolved all my animation problems in 3 minutes ! Thank u so much

win, you took something that would have taken close to 30 - 40 mins to explain (in a video) and just gave me the beef. good work

Thanks for giving back my motivation after those year long dry tutorials.

Came here to say that the tutorial is extremely useful/informative and your voice is so entertaining

I just used this to create my first 3D animation! I'm not gonna forget this!

Wow, finding this specific thing took me quite some time, thanks

I usually don't subscribe to tutorial channels, but that 'NOT A PRAABLEM' gimmick you've got going on PLUS being an excellent teacher on the topic. Ima subscribe and stick around, Cause it's not a problem at all ;)

Awesome man! Are you going to do one on graph/curve editing the animations?

Man.....your content is itching to be funded by whoever watches your video (in a need to learn the stuff that you teach in all of your videos). I wish that all your wishes come true! :)) (*ahem only good ones ;)) )

I'm usually pretty skeptical of tutorials that answer questions like this in only a couple of minutes, but by god do you get to the point.

Great video!!! I forget the controls as I switch between tasks while developing; this was a great refresher!! Thank you. :)

I LOVE THIS DUDES TUTORIALS (very very useful)

Oh, dude, this is helpful, I plan on making an indie game without mocap, thx!

That was fun! To the point, didn't drag it out, and full of content!

I wish all the tutors would be like this. You save the life(time), man

U sir , earned my sub I can't thank how much time u saved

this is a great tutorial, long tutorials put me off.... sure i'll have to replay this a few times but you see what you're gonna do instantly..... well done

i love your videos keep doing them fast as hell

this is a quick, and well explained Tutorial! thanks to you!

You just earned yourself a subscriber, buddy boy. Well done.

Nice and short.. to the point...this really helped!!!! Thanks!!!!

Thanks to your tutorials, I can now make a 3D stickman animation. Also I have finally decided on making a 3D game. It is better for what I want to do.

BIg thanks! this video is the best blender animation tutorial i have ever seen!

I enjoyed this quick and easy tutorial so much!

Your tutorial is short but easy to follow. I want this instead of a very long video :)

What man? You Cow Boy or something? NEAT Presentation! :D:D

This is more helpful than any hour long tutorial. thank you.

3:14 was a really nice tip, i didn't know that, very helpful!

Thank you this is just what I needed, very clear and funny too. Thank you

Love you. Your tutorials are amazing!

thanks bro, your video very useful and easy to understand

I'm looking allaround to find how to set up the rig so that ( as in your video) when a limb is moved it doesn't detach from the parent bone but it drags it. How can it been set up like that? Bacause a lot of tutorials just parent the bones to each other but then it is only possible to rotate and not move them with G or they detach.

Can you do a video on pose libraries and how to export them? My biggest roadblock to actually animating is my fear that I'm not formatting or organizing them optimally.

one of the best way of doing tutorial. I like it.

How do I go about making the big circle at the base of the model that rotates entire model and armature?

Hey there Royal Skies, how does one parent an object not part of the model into the animation for testing? For instance, I have a low poly knight character that instead of a shortsword (which came with the model) uses a Greatsword. I've got the Greatsword model imported into the blender project, but when I move the character, the Greatsword stays in place. Any help is appreciated! Love your videos, just found them a week ago or so.

You're doing God's work mate

I did not follow along with this but it did help me out immensely just animation knowledge wise so thank you!

I need help. If I'm making a videogame character how do I save all the animations seperately so that in something like Unity I can apply them? I presume we don't just have one big timesheet with animations on it back to back?

hi i have a question. i tested a glb file on blender on default scene. it works how i wanted, but when i try import the glb with the scene i already set up, it seems like the character's fps doesnt match. i wanted to end the characters animation at 120 but yet it ended on 130+ it got me confused. is it something to do with character's fps animation didnt match with the scene? how do i fix this? thank you

thank you, your 3 minutes tutorial saved me a lot of time.

Is there a reason to use autokey AND selecting bones&locrot on every keyframe ?

How to bake animation in Blender with IK bones and delete them without changing anything? Cause I done animation and some of my bones are parent of IK bones for keep offsets but in unity I can't change parents and therefore I can't use humanoid type.

dam'n you are so fast! i am impressed.

This was awesome! I actually was able to make a run cycle today! Now the question is, how do I save this animation so I can make more animations? I tried looking at the Action Editor, but I have no idea what to do there to save this run cycle

can you make video about NLA(Non-Linear Animation) in Blender, so we can make layer animation

is there a problem if you have alread a model with animation on it. because everytime i import the model. i cant animate. the animation tool stays at zero and doesnt move even if you try to drag it.

Thanks! This helped me with a proyect.

I have a question - when I animate the character disassembles sometimes and sometimes the head isn't following the body how to fix it?

how do i change the framerate? and is there a valiue graph or something where i can control the automatic generated animation like when she moves her hand form one point to the other it shouldn't be the same speed the whole time.... i think animation is absolutely my "inselbegabung" i can watch this and remember it instantly..

if i select the rig in object mode it also selects the things for animations is there a way to only select the rig in one go?

How do you animate from layout? When l'm in layout I don't see the rig. Just the mesh.

Do you have a link or video that shows how you get/made those rig controls?

@Royal Skies LLC what addon do you recommand for rigging? I just got a few in my mind but I'm really not sure which one is it worth do buy, and what do you think about auto-rig pro and x-pose picher? thanks!

thank you for the upload!

When i change the position it does not animate. I create a key frame at one then move to frame 12 and create a new keyframe but the object stays stagnant.

hi sir i am use blender 2.79 its ik problem i complet add bone constraint but rotat as another angle please help how to solve this problem . i am extremely sorry my english not good

my keyframe dots are not showing up but the animation is still working...even when I right click on the lil #1 in the timeline and go to keyframe type it doesn't show...can u help?

Quick question...... Ia there a shortcut for adding a keyframe like in Maya? I'm coming from maya to blender and it seems complicated to just add one keyframe...... And have it be remembered.

hey how do you parent a weapon or any mesh to the characters hands?

Excellent thank you, 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉👍😁😁is it possible to save these animations to use on other characters, not just one character?

So helpful, thank you for your content!

I've just lost my animation and I don't understand why i hit the little record symbol. character is still in one of the poses after reloading just missing everything else? that mean its gone gone?

I just downloaded the model a little bit ago and i cannot figure out how to close(or do anything with her fingers and thumb) would really appreciate any help

Do you do any livestreams while you animate? I would like to watch the process in real time if thata something you do.

my blender doesn't seem to have pose mode, can you help me? edit: I figurede out the pose mode thing

really cool, but just one problem, i'm not getting any keyframes when pressing "i" and selecting location&roation or location&rotation&scale ??? is this a bug ?