Full Body Action: Blender Animation Tutorial 

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@@alexonstory Keep it up! It's amazing.

Hello! I doing content about animation in blender. I will gratefully if you check my content. Thank you!

Ngl,u look like a youtuber mauro

:D Thanks Juan! I do like his style of teaching!

Hello! I doing content about animation in blender. I will gratefully if you check my content. Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback Suri Fox! It's helpful to know my videos are coming across and providing value. I do think most anyone can animate.

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That's a very nice note thank you Sohail! I'll be making many more animation, camera and story tutorials:)

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I always love seeing how someone works :)

Thanks for the note, really good to hear! Happy the video is helping and easy to follow!

Thank you for such a great comment! It's nice to hear what and how I am saying is coming across!

Thank you for the comment Andry! I'll be posting more videos for sure.

Thank you Stephen! I'm happy your enjoying what I am sharing and how I explain the different processes. Thanks for the note!

Very cool! Good luck with the different disciplines, you got this! Thanks for the note!

Right on! Thanks for your note. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NDjxGteZIIk.html So happy to see you followed along. You now have a finished animation test to show off! A bit more practice and you can put a reel together! If that's something you want. Little by little we all get better by putting in the time. Thank you again for sharing! Keep going!

Keep going! I'll be coming out with more tutorials that will hopefully add value to you as you keep learning. Posing and Timing are you best animation friends.

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Happy the videos are helpful and your learning from them! Thanks for the note! Let me know if there is anything specific you want explained.

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Thank you for your note! Good luck on your Animation journey, you got this! Bit by bit we all keep improving.

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Thanks for your note Jagjeet! Happy to hear that :) Yes he's got some great work for sure!

Happy the video is helpful! hehe yes animation is a challenge, but start slow and you'll get it. I did make an intro to Blender Animation that might help you out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sM4_rbrQMpo.html

Happy to hear that! Thanks for the note! Yes will make more video for sure. Taking a small break but will be back soon.

That's a very nice note, thank you! Taking a small family break now, but will be back at it. If there is anything you want to see animated and explained just let me know.

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haha :) Thanks Ker! Happy your here! Let me know if there is anything specific your looking to learn and I'll do my best to demonstrate it.

@@alexonstory Godsend fr. the thing I like about your channel is...you explain things clearly in a simple way that even any other paid courses outthere can't explain...thank you.(I think you started these tutorial things recently right?...thats why you're underrated)

Thanks for the note Ker! It's great to get feedback. Yes, started posting tutorials about 2/3 months ago. Really happy to see it's doing some good!

haha nice! Yeah anything that helps us visualize and understand movement we'll do. Thanks for the note Zir3ael! Happy this video was helpful!

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Thanks Aden! I'll be working on more for sure. If there is anything you want to see animated and explained just let me know.

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Hey Sohail! Sounds like maybe your arms are in IK. Let me know if that's not it. IK/FK video, if you need an explanation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c1iv0dbtMJ4.html Go into pose mode. Select the star control above the head. In the properties on the right side "N." Go to View, then Properties, Arm-IK-FK.L and .R should be set to a value of 0. Then you will be forking in FK, like I did for the video. It's also best to open your character file and work like that. If you append the character rig you'll also need to append something else, which I am forgetting what that is. ibb.co/KVTYt5t Hope that helps! Let me know if it's a different problem.

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Thank you for the note Dolph! Happy to! Most of us learn best from seeing it done. Good luck! If there is anything you want feedback on just send me a link and I'll be happy to take a look!

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That is so awesome! Really happy my video helped you out. Your shot looks great!!

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I am happy to hear that Jarek! Thanks for the note! If there is anything you would want to see animated and explained just let me know.

@@alexonstory Thank you, I would love to learn about various principles of expression and characterizing a model through movement, and hear a take on characterization from you

@@jetex_beats8722 Really important topic for sure! One of the 12 principles of animation is Exaggeration. The point of this principle is to increase entertainment value through presenting anything (character design, facial pose, body pose, movement) as more extreme or dramatic than it really is. By doing so you help to set apart your character from others. The more extreme you go in one direction the more unique the personality of that character comes through. That character then becomes memorable. Hope that helps!

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Wow this might be the best complement I have received on this channel! Thank you for that! Very nicely written. And yes what a cool character! I remember seeing a few reruns as a kid. Thanks again!

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Thanks Jeetu! Yes will make many more. Just taking a small break now but will be back at it soon. Anything you would like to see animated and explained?

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@@krissosful Some really cool work :)

Thank you I appreciate that! Everything takes baby steps. 3 or 4 baby steps and you have taken a big step. Keep at it!

Hey, thanks for your note and questions! I think overall in a forward jump the movement of the body is driving forward and up. Generally both arms are swinging and helping the body complete the jump. Once you add a camera and pick a frame. You might want to favor one side of the body more the the other for clarity of silhouette. For your question. A jump can be completed both ways. With the foot and arm on the same side of the body leading the action and also with the arms and feet being opposites. Depends on the type of action leading into the jump. So a dunk in basketball would be different from a long jump. Your right about opposite movements in a walk. Knowing that twist is a great way to show power being stored can help in making a cool action shot. Another way to help sell energy being stored in the body is with C curves. Experimenting with both of those things in action is a way to exaggerate and make something cool. Hope that helps. Thanks again for the question!

Thanks for the note SIER101! Happy it's helping you. You got this! 1 step at a time.

he's a mind reader

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Thanks for the comment Lwazi! For sure I'll do more character animations :)

:D I also watched a lot of Bob's episodes! Very calming and inspiring. Thanks for your note! Happy Holidays!!

Hey ZomboidArea! I switched from Maya also. I got it to be pretty close like in Maya. I made a tutorial and covered that here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2RtKzrhubM.html You want to make sure in preferences under Keymap, that Spacebar Action is set to Tools. I switched 6 hotkeys and the rest is Blender native. 3 of the hotkeys are for navigating in 3D space. 1 is for switching between my viewports and the other 2 are playing my animation and framing. All covered in that tutorial also. Hope that helps!

Hey! Often times when making quick stories I will create multiple shots in one file. You do that by changing your camera framing over 1 frame. In that first shot once I had my framing. I went back to the start of the shot and adjusted my camera a little. Made the curves linear. That small change from the start of the shot to the end of the shot gave us the camera move. Hope that helped!

Hey 4lien! I have a part about just that in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2RtKzrhubM.html You want to make sure in preferences under Keymap, that Spacebar Action is set to Tools. Hope that helps!

Hey Farook! Yes I'll make more tutorial videos. Some for sure will be more simple. I did make a walking tutorial that might help you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MzJZ7yEEgRA.html

Thanks for the note! If your animating your feet and COG away from your root/move all control then the only way that I know how to get it back under the root is to zero out the controls. I'm guessing your hoping to keep your animation and get the root control under him. You can also move the pivot of the root control to be under the character. As your animating it is a question you need to ask yourself. Do I use the root to move the character through space or not. The reason I did not is because if you animate your character through space with your root and your character is walking your going to get foot slipping on the ground. Hope that helps!

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Thanks for the question Kevin! It comes down to preference. Both work. And for bigger action shots it's much faster to block the action with the move all. When we setup action in layout we'll use the move all cause it is fast. But for animation I would not use the move all except to place the character, like you said. If you use the move all control you need to be more aware of foot sliding and maybe some counter animation at times. Both work and it is important to try both and see what you prefer. Hope that helps!

Thanks slash!

Hey! I use OBS Studio.

Thanks Leo! agora.community/assets You can filter by Blender only assets. Great place to find rigs. Blender cloud is also an option. You do pay for a subscription though.

Thanks for your note! Yes for sure. I'll get to a run like that in a little bit. I am adding it to my list :)

@@alexonstory Thank you friend. I'll be waiting.

Thanks for the note! Yeah it looks like an option.

haha yes that's true! Cool model for sure. Thanks for the note. Wow 100!

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Good question! A bit of crashing is okay. I think it even improves the shadow and the look of the contact. If your having a character in a car yes I would constrain the character to that car. But after that you just pose the character the way you want. It's up to the animator to not show crashing. The best way to make a character feel like they are in contact with their environment is to make the contact feel reel. The pose is the best way to sell good contact. Hope that helps!

It's nice there are some many different ways to work with the camera and creating shots. In production each shot is it's own scene file. I like switching over 1 frame because I think it's the fastest and simplest way to see if your idea is working. I do like the marker thing. Need to play with it a bit.

Sounds like your feet are in FK. Try finding the switch to IK. Sometimes you can find them on the main control or the foot control. Hit 'N' on your keyboard and in the side options try to find something about your rig. You'll see options for displaying different controls. There should be a switch somewhere to change your feet from FK to IK. Usually rigs already come in IK. Maybe try loading your character file again. I have an IK/FK tutorial that might help explain what the difference between the 2 are. Hope this helps. Let me know if you still need help. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c1iv0dbtMJ4.html

@@alexonstory Thank you very much, I was able to find it, new faithful follower

Happy you got it! Thanks REAL!

Good catch. It's the period key on your Num Pad on the right side of your keyboard. Thanks for pointing that out.

That's great! Happy your here William!