Blender 2.8 Shapekeys and Morphing

Here is a new Blender 2.8 video in which I do a morphing from one object into another one (Suzanne) using Shapekeys.
It was a kind of test of shape keys and the Shrinkwrap Modifier work in Blender 2.8 and in this video you can see that they work very well.
In the next one I will export the animation that I created using shape keys to a game engine like Unity.
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[@jgiuguigiugigiugugiuuig4050]

Thank you! Joining two different objects as shapes was exactly what I was looking for!

[@andrewrichard3490]

Thank you for honing this brilliant tutorial. One of the best! Not one second of the viewer's time is wasted... I appreciate that.

[@MelHamer]

This solved an issue with one of my animations. Excellent job. Really nice clear instructions. Thank you Jayanam.

[@GuillaumeChatelainWeb]

Awesome video, as always. Everytime i want to do something in Blender or Unity i hope to find one of your videos explainig how to do it. And very often there is one ! 😋 And they always are perfect, quick, well explained and very useful. Thanks a lot for your work 🙌

[@JayAnAm]

Great, thx a lot

[@sams_3d_stuff]

Awesome man. I referenced your video on UE4 blend spaces in my college project. Thanks for all the help.

[@JayAnAm]

You are very welcome

[@gurubhaitube]

"join as shape" is best trick in this video that i was unaware of.

[@ektelion]

Amazing, I had no idea blender could do that! Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@Killercombodude1]

Exactly what I needed.

[@Numocron]

This was such an awesome Blender tutorial I love it. :D

[@Surimi888]

Really straightforward explanation, thanks!

[@Streamcatcher]

You are fantastic, thank you for this well explained tutorial!

[@JayAnAm]

Thx, you're very welcome

[@pintolagoma3042]

very useful and simple workflow..love it thanks

[@JayAnAm]

Thank you

[@animatorizwan]

Very cool and amazing digestible tutorial. 😍😍😍

[@JayAnAm]

Thx m8

[@GilFavor101]

I can't believe that works so well. Nice video here.

[@juliandarley]

very nice, thank you. i can think of immediate uses for this in making short videos featuring transformations into various animals or flowers, plants etc.

[@intetx]

Thank you! This function is great to import shape changes of my model of another save file!

[@2tmb904]

Thank you, this makes this so easy and was exactly what I wanted. Liked the video!

[@m0rph3u5.]

Great tutorial as always.. thanks for sharing

[@jeffg4686]

Very cool. thx

[@JayAnAm]

:-) Thanks

[@pie9351]

good tutorial thanks man ! nice fast and simple

[@hussard54]

Thanks !

[@JayAnAm]

You're welcome

[@A_S__N_S]

thank u

[@Morimea]

Thank you!

[@cristianoferro4096]

Thank you!

[@monkeysaur4305]

Thanks for this, very helpful! Is there a way to use this if you want to change shapes twice? For example to turn a square into a ball, then from a ball into a cone? I'd like to animate something in that kind of way, is it possible with shape keys? Thanks.

[@blendraphi]

Good workflow!

[@sushilphule]

You are awesome.......

[@JayAnAm]

Thank you

[@cycle4284]

very much usefull

[@vrtex17]

Holy shit, it's been so easy all along?

[@JayAnAm]

Yes, if you know the answer, most things are easy:-)

[@dwellersart7538]

Thank you sir

[@Yhan_Sugesta]

Awesome :D

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

very nice effect. thank you for sharing

[@sanyi9667]

is there a method to do this without the meshes having the same number of vertices?

[@FesNaqvi]

That's not possible without distorting the result.

[@MasonSStarkey]

@@FesNaqvi Blender will not allow me to join as shapes without being same number of vertices. is there a solution?

[@deadman-zc5ro]

@@MasonSStarkey Did you find any solution?

[@neverpure20]

I don't think blender supports creating new verticies in animation. I could be wrong though

[@bitmammothOG]

This works nicely with godot thank you very much :)

[@FireTails357]

Thanks this helps Big time

[@mrnomore]

thank you :)

[@ukmonk]

great, thank you :)

[@zapyray3371]

Is this a good method for creating growing plant animation ? , specially cause the leaves will have different colors and i want them to not show that on the stem

[@deathrattle1730]

Can you make a tutorial for how to set drivers for shape keys and another one for setting controllers for drivers so it won't be too confusing? thx

[@JayAnAm]

Ok, will put this to my tutorial list

[@dominikmally9925]

Thanks, that helps a lot. Do you think I can annimate the target with a bone-animation and than use morphing as the target 'grows up'?

[@kunibertrandolf1886]

I see where this is going

[@marcocecchini2083]

When I try with meshes like yours everything is fine. But when I try with some more complicated meshes, when I use the Join as shapes, blender says that the meshes must have the same number of vertices. Why? Please tell me...

[@portugol9132]

Nice way to avoid Cast Modifier

[@JayAnAm]

:-)

[@mendezcreative]

great tut. is there anything blender can't do!!? :)

[@Streamcatcher]

I managed to grow a smaller version into a bigger version (while maintaining the wall thickness of the smaller version), but now i would like to make it grow from the base of the object instead of having it grow from the center, but how? UPDATE: I managed to do this by moving the pivot to the base of my objects before performing the steps in your tutorial

[@clausmygind3319]

I like your tutorial, but we are on version 3 now. When you set the second set of key frames at frame 60 you press "I" for insert key frames and you select "All channels". I don't see that option nor have I seen that option in previous versions of Blender. How can I do that in version 3. As is even though set the key frame values to 0 and 1 the animation does not occur, I suspect because the appropriate channels are not being applied. Would love you help on this.

[@ravanin]

Instead of the next step being exporting, could you do this with a textured character?? i have this idea of having a character model start very skinny and after gaining levels or woking out (tentatively in 5 stages) he becomes a muscular character model. But im worried that the shrinkwrap modifier is gonna mess up the textures or details of the models

[@Xanderdegroot]

great tutorial, but do i need to animated the shape key to export it?

[@Supernova12034]

I love you.

[@Kurabiye.Canavari]

How can shape keys data made on one object be transferred to another object?

[@edwinrg5768]

Hi, just one question. Does this effect work for 2d objects as well? like morphing a square into a circle

[@A.J.Interactive]

Can you please cover AnimAll??? also great tut!

[@MAP233224]

Is there a way to bake this sort of mesh deformation animation? I'm trying to inflate a jellyfish, so I put a Cast modifier with a Sphere and keyframed it from the rest position to an inflated position, but I don't know how to bake it. I'd like to export the two frames (rested and inflated) into Unity and then interpolate bewteen the two, or just export the whole animation with the mesh deforming each frame (30 frames in my case).

[@rama1234ish]

If you have the value at half way, is there a way to take the shape key off and the object stay at the halfway point? The reason that I am asking is because I did this, and I want to joint multiple objects but when I do they all revert back to the way they were at 0 value.

[@MrTroodon_Official]

Is there a way to do this with an animated character? I want to do a ontogeny sequence that has an animated character.

[@ukmonk]

just used your technique to simulate a car smashing into a wall and works great!

[@omartamer426]

How did you do that have you used his way to put the geometry of the crashed car on the car and used shape keys

[@ukmonk]

@@omartamer426 shape 1 was normal unsmashed car, shape 2 i deformed it in sculpt mode and animated between them. then when it hit a wall i animated key frames to show car crashing and smashing. works great!

[@omartamer426]

@@ukmonk thank you for answering

[@ukmonk]

@@omartamer426 you are welcome :)

[@wilemben]

Question: If i use shape keys to make an animation by keyframing them on the timeline and then delete them will it mess up my animation?

[@hitman17011986]

How will I morph between different materials for the two shapes?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Do you know how we can mass load classes now? The old method doesnt work and i read that you now need to make a list of all classes and than run a loop. Im wondering how i would need to load all classes in from other py files. I did read something that there was a special branch which has the old part so you could easliy mass load classes again. I dont know how to build BLender though,

[@zhekunwang8589]

starting with a cube ? or sphere ???

[@JayAnAm]

?

[@NJ4KTV]

This makes my lip syncing so much easier

[@saikopiratos]

ok shape keys are messing with my brain x_X i got a character with a rig, that is in a A pose but when i into edit mode it switches to a T pose, which i dont want. so how can i apply the A pose? when i go to modifiers it says i cant apply because shape keys.

[@georgekariuki8614]

Hi! Great content man! I am working on a small project that involves importing an stl file of misaligned teeth into blender, segmenting them and realigning them. For accuracy, I need to import an image of a curve into the blender background over a set of misaligned teeth then aligning them accurately along the curve. So far I have managed to segment the teeth, realign and animate them, but having a challenge using shape keys to get the gums to move accordingly with the teeth.The surrounding tissue, the gums, should be deformed to adapt to the new form of the jaw and tooth position. Can I reach you on email? Thanks!

[@rdawo6408]

hello, for some reason when animating it just jumps to value 1 instantly ... is there a way to fix this?

[@rajendrameena150]

Use record button of timeline, first set shape key value to 0 at frame 0, now move the timeline slider to 60 or whatever and change the shape key value to 1. Hope it will work

[@rdawo6408]

@@rajendrameena150 this is the only way to animate it but I figured out that in 2.8 if you remove a keyframe of shape keys the values get corrupted and you can't manipulate them any more ... soooo ...NEVER remove a keyframe .. just set the value to 0

[@gebaification]

Remember that solids must have the same vertex numbers.

[@v.037]

._. and if i need to use this for a game? Imagine how fps drop for the amount of vertex

[@void_pepsi6405]

you're just interpolating between 2 vectors for every vertex, its not very expensive. less so than skeletal animation, when you think about it

[@indian_techieee]

Here I got a problem, in 2.82 while selecting a join as shapes it sends an error message of selected meshes must have the same no of vertices. Any One of you Help Me to Solve plz

[@deadman-zc5ro]

did you find how to solve it?

[@joeabstractjoe]

🎵👍🎵

[@Justathereptile]

Can this work on two animated characters?

[@luminousdragon]

Yes. how exactly would depend on the two characters and how they are set up, but yeah.

[@Justathereptile]

@@luminousdragon Neat! thank you.