5 Insane Animation Features in Blender 4.0

[@BrianKouhi]

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[@Charely1925]

Animation Layers and Ghosting coming to blender! Now I'm excited for that!

[@BrianKouhi]

100% a game changer!

[@gendalfgray7889]

What is ghosting?

[@ukmonk]

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!!

[@ukmonk]

the butterworth feature is sick!!

[@matbrady123456]

I'm so glad this channel exists. It's the animator's version of the donut tutorial. Well done.

[@monicavivianabarreraruiz9729]

Amazing! Thanks.

[@edmunddarko783]

We are ready..Great model you have on the screen.

[@BrianKouhi]

Haha thank you! His name is Cain and once he's ready and rigged, he'll be a free addition for our animation students 😁

Thanks for the nice overview of these features :)

[@BrianKouhi]

My pleasure!

[@heckensteiner4713]

Animation layers! AHHHH! Can't wait! I gave the NLA editor a good try, but things just didn't work out between out between us.

[@BrianKouhi]

NLA is not for the faint of heart, that's for sure 😅

[@ukmonk]

Some great new features. Nice video thank you!

[@PCgmesforever]

Really nice video demo :) do you know if there are any planned release dates for animation layer and ghosting yet?

[@jamesburnette6982]

Thanks for condensing that info for us. Got a question, when creating poses for the library do you have to start out in a neutral pose in order for the slider to work?

[@BrianKouhi]

Hey James, all you need is to have keys on all the controllers you want to save as a pose. There's no limitation on whether it's from a neutral pose or not, you could go from one extreme pose to another, as long as they both have keys on all the controllers used. Hope this helps!

[@walterjunior2836]

Hi Brian, i saw many improvments on the rigging workflow in Blender 4.0, so may I ask if you have any plans on a advanced rigging course as sugested in the video of Max rigging showcase?

[@BrianKouhi]

Hey, we definitely are. We were in the planning and scripting stage, but now with all of the new features we've scrapped the previous course and are working on a Blender 4.0+ version of a comprehensive rigging course, taking full advantage of all the new features Blender offers. Course creation unfortunately is very time consuming, and so we likely won't be ready for release for about a year or so.

[@jam-etc]

hey, this is a super random question but: I've noticed the manipulators in your viewports, they have these really great thick lines for selecting- ie, rotation for example. How do you achieve that in blender, is this an add-on of some kind? (as seen around 7:00) the extremely tiny hard to select manipulator handles are super annoying, so if there's a way to change them I gotta know!!!

[@BrianKouhi]

It's a built in option actually! In Edit -> Preferences -> Interface, change the "Line Width" option to Thick and you should be good.

[@jam-etc]

​@@BrianKouhioh oh wow! I may be doing it wrong, it increases ALL the lines in Blender UI 😵‍💫 is there a way to do it JUST for the manipulator, by any chance??

[@NachoSPena]

Hey Brian! Nice stuff as always. Do you know if is there a way to align one object to another during a range of frames? (typical situation, you have made a walk cycle moving the master control and your feet are sliding because your master translation doesn´t match feet translation) I´m a maya user and there are several tools like animbot that let you do this. It would be great also to see a space switcher for poses or animations and a picker editor !! :D Thanks!

[@xanzuls]

Really dope.

[@ilhankncoglu9254]

HOW TTF DO WE CREATE POSES FOR GOD SAKE PLEASE SHOW ME

[@BrianKouhi]

I made a video on that when the feature first came out in Blender 3.0 beta kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJLUdoOQis6ma8k But I may make an updated video since there's been some changes in the newer versions.

[@HelloFabs]

Not sure if you are going to read this, but I absolutely love how bright are your controller bones!! how do you manage to get them to look like that? :) Is it an addon? Thanks in advance!

[@BrianKouhi]

I haven't touched any color settings but I have my controllers set to thick. In preferences (can't remember which tab exactly atm), but there should be an option on the top called something like "line width" which you can set to THICK.

[@HelloFabs]

Thank you so much Brian! I'm currently saving up a bit of money to buy your course!

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

We ready!

[@BrianKouhi]

😁😁

[@hamedazhang1985]

موفق باشی داداش

[@gendalfgray7889]

4:18 Pressing alt to edit selected items is counter intuitive, why you would select them in the first place? In every editor from pictures to game engine you edit selected items. At least they did it, great anyway, may be one day they get rid of fake users.

[@pelakalion]

All the updates are interesting, but I think many of them should have been implemented in Blender already. Anyway, great progress :)

[@BrianKouhi]

You're not wrong, I think most of these were planned to be implemented in the previous years, aside from the pandemic, I'm sure there's other good reasons for why they couldn't push them through.

[@xanzuls]

they should've had more people donating money before they constantly ask for features for a free open source software.

[@JhonatasFarias]

did they improved the preview render for complex animations in order to preview it in the target FPS like 30 or 60? Even reducing the stuff in the viewport to the minimum and toggling some off we struggle to preview a fluid animation... Or even something like Maya's Playblast would be great, Playblast renders fast..

[@BrianKouhi]

Hey, turning on Simplify always helps with performance (having the viewport at 0 subs and render at max). Alternatively you create a separate scene inside the same Blender file to animate your character in, then switch back to the main scene with the set and props that you may have. In terms of 'Playblasting', it's been here since 2.8. All you have to do is set your folder location in "Output", then go to the camera view you want to playblast and go to View -> Viewport Render Animation. Most animation files run very slow, especially when there are multiple characters, props and sets. In most productions animators mainly rely on playblasts to see their animations because it's near impossible to get 30+ fps real-time feedback in heavy scenes.

[@dodeedada]

Blender weight paint is a nightmare...total disaster ...they should have improve it...

[@ayaashraf674]

how i rigg a rain charachter in blender 4.0 i try to do that but i have issu in move rest of hands and fingers and also layers part not appear which contain a face and fingers

[@LawrenceAaronLuther]

8:02 my ex already taught me about this

[@BrianKouhi]

👻

[@ayaashraf674]

also how i could find rigged avatars to work on it in blender