Blender KeyMesh: Proof of concept

[@unicornhuntercg]

So it's basically CG stop motion....for free... Wow.

[@Dogman_35]

Technically all 3D animation is just CG stop motion.

[@kamelfakih8340]

@@Dogman_35 except the computer does half the work

[@BBSHOCKZ]

@@kamelfakih8340 how so?

[@kamelfakih8340]

@@BBSHOCKZ you add to separate keyframes and the computer animates the frames in-between

[@StarOnCheek]

@@Dogman_35 except the computer interpolates between keyframes, which makes it much closer to motion tweening than stop motion

[@MeBMan]

A new era of stop motion has begun!

[@flip4119]

I really hope this is this case. Earlier it was so limited by time, but now with the technologies making it so accessible we could have a true 'era' I feel. Plus I'm sure stylistic you could build upon alot of this style stuff in alot of directions. Similar I guess to the French animation scene in reference to older American animation.

[@adonas3903]

@@flip4119 At first I was like this is not stopmotion... But then I understood that's it is, actually a stopmotion just made with blender... Really cool stuff

[@mobi8046]

i heard that the lego movie was animated in 3d so this is not the new era of stop motion

[@Husk-E23]

Mobi wdym? just because it is 3d does not mean jt isnt stop motion

[@hi_its_jerry]

@@mobi8046 lego movie is the only movie i can think of that has done this

[@InterestingFeller]

Absolutely incredible I can’t wait for this to be released!

[@Shining4Dawn]

I was going to say there's no difference between this and literally sculpting a new mesh for each frame of animation in any other sculpting program, but then you added modifiers and my mind was blown.

[@d-o-n-u-t]

Either way, it makes that workflow faster.

[@FroggyGizmo]

There is a difference. Blender is 100% free

[@6gradosproducciones]

i believe there is some interpolation going on, so i don't think it is the same

[@1e1001]

@@6gradosproducciones no there isn't

[@1e1001]

@@noxabellus actually if you look in the video you can see that it immediately transitions the mesh when it hits the keyframe, kind of like animation of a boolean value, doing interpolation between two meshes is pretty difficult especially when there are different vertex counts

[@e-mananimates2274]

When I saw the title, I knew exactly what you were demonstrating! After watching it, my assumption was correct! I might not have the most experience with CGI software, but I never encountered a feature that lets you modify models on the fly within animation. Sure, you could create a separate model for each action, but I don't see it as intuitive as basically taking the same model and greatly tweaking it in another frame. This is like the model version of Grease Pencil, which is what brought me to Blender in the first place!

[@zenniththefolf4888]

This has so much potential, especially for cute clay bois like shown here.

[@OrangeC7]

This clay boi is really cute, too

[@skyemegakitty]

haha he spelled it the meme way! Its cute, totally not play out and cringey!

[@Dorumin]

@@skyemegakitty I find the spelling of cringy as "cringey" cringe, myself, but that might be part of the point. Or just me being weird

[@mooshlebooshle5073]

@@Dorumin the word cringe is cringy

[@bobalinx8762]

@@skyemegakitty I’d tired of people trying to act cutesy by misspelling words, too...

[@Narblo]

Just awesome!! Blender have become what I always envision it to be I am so proud of them. 14 years waiting for this :'D

[@uniworkhorse]

That's so cool! I don't think I'll ever have the chance to fully appreciate using it for a project, but it's amazing for animators without a doubt

[@bhaskarmurali6100]

pleasant to understand and watch

[@NebulaBubbles]

The little blob guy is so cute!! Also, the animation is very well made

[@ArunG273]

This animation + DAIN AI will look so smooth and good.

[@Geancg]

yes!!!

[@JayRuby-bv3uk]

DAIN AI is crap, SVP4 would be able to interpolate it in near identical quality and in real time

[@ArunG273]

@@JayRuby-bv3uk it works better than svp4 for me. So I don't agree.

[@tiagotiagot]

Wait, are you sculpting a mesh for each frame, or does it interpolate between meshes of different topologies?

[@Selicre]

Interpolating meshes like that is extremely untrivial, so I think it's a mesh per-frame and you interpolate them by hand with sculpt tools.

[@SlayerDUDE1993]

in blender you have object mode and edit mode, when you enter edit mode you edit mesh data, when you out of edit mode, you edit container which contain that mesh data, so it pretty much looks like that in this concept he just create a new mesh data inside this container for each frame so it's no interpolation, its just like if you draw frame by frame inbetweens like you usually do in 2D hand drawn animation.

[@DodaGarcia]

It’s shape keys so that would mean he kept the mesh

[@1e1001]

@@DodaGarcia no it's mesh keys

[@r.pizzamonkey7379]

@@Selicre it's interpolating. If you look at the keyframes at the bottom of the screen after he adds the modifiers you can see there isn't one every frame. I don't know how they're doing it but somehow they've made it smoothly interpolate through completely dispirit meshes, which is honestly astounding.

[@alejolab]

This brought me memories of the first Arnold renders with the droid on the table ;)

[@wij8044]

Wow, what an amazing concept!

[@RobynO_O]

oh my gosh this is awesome! And adding the modifiers just takes it to the next level !!!

[@babybambi8389]

Andrei, you have just saved me hours, days, weeks... big thanks to you.

[@pauliussargiunas3491]

I've been dreaming of this for so long, it's so messy when you actually have to do this by just duplicating meshes and animating visibility...

[@thedudeguy242]

This is super neat, It's like having the workflow of 2d animation in 3d

[@hermandaniel4008]

BLENDER IS TOO GOOD

[@Gocchin]

woa, POGCHAMP SIR

[@dv6165]

Nice! It would be cool if you could clone the mesh of your rigged character at any time in the animation, do a few crazy inbetween frames using this sculpt technique and then go back to your rig.

[@sasaha8389]

This is not rigged...

[@Tach_ion]

This provides the answers for the problems I envisioned

[@helloimnothing7954]

This is nice, makes your animation looks like another style of art.

[@Nox__]

Oow very cool for making jelly models like i wanted before

[@StormTeeVee]

I would REALLY love to see Guildies tackle this!

[@ylk4612]

That's so amazing!

[@jamesbarker6373]

Ha! I was trying to keyframe mesh objects last night but couldn't figure a way to do it using vertex groups and shape keys.

[@iamYork_]

Great Job!!!

[@GamerReality]

What does the project look like now?

[@naspleo2252]

Nice, a very cool idea to animate in Blender. Thanks for sharing!

[@KillerTacos54]

This was such a satisfying video to watch

[@captainjasons]

WOAH. Fantastic.

[@Saandy_]

Is it possible to add textures? Adding some fingerprints would really tie everything together!

[@Trng-gk1db]

you can add texture and fingerprint to it. the hard part is where would you find a texture for it

[@SwitchAndLever]

@@Trng-gk1db that's actually extremely easy, there are lots of fingerprint textures online, and videos on how to make a believable clay shader.

[@Tyranojex]

I believe this video shows how to do exactly that and includes the textures in the description kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYXYZIupqNxpbbM&ab_channel=SouthernShotty

[@madwlad799]

Oh yes it is totally possible kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYXYZIupqNxpbbM

[@MrPanker]

this looks like stop motion

[@Drowsar3280]

It is stop motion but not in real life

[@Kyle-hi5od]

Stop motion but smother better and easier

[@cheetoschrist5685]

That's the point dum dum

[@GinoZump]

I wish my blender was so responsive and didn't crash each time I change a texture

[@DodaGarcia]

GinoZump try something like Vagon!! They’re very affordable if you use it for the more compute intensive parts like texturing and rendering

[@JayFreely]

Try a better computer

[@showmedesign]

Very nice usecase, great work!

[@hippocks146]

Simply awesome! 👍

[@AzanAli-gf2eb]

BLENDER IS FUTURE

[@LFHiden]

I wondered how they do it Thank you!

[@excellenceinanimation960]

Wo! This is insane I wanna try this!! It’s so awesomeeeeeee!

[@arashbeigi7647]

just amazing

[@RetroPlus]

That's gorgeous

[@notsemi4867]

Maybe more of these squishy frens w/ cool new animations ?!

[@brandoncyoung]

Ingenious

[@nicky0123]

I'm glad I can animate by sculpting

[@deod087]

I was trying to do this animation technique for many years

[@deod087]

P.s. i'm only 18 years old 😄

[@babybambi8389]

please do more of this type of animation tutorials.

[@1stcircletube]

Great!!! ❤

[@pa_kay9698]

Woooooow❤️❤️❤️❤️want to try it!

[@brendanodoms5401]

great idea

[@speedyturtle1537]

Beautiful.

[@DaneCotar]

claymation! :)

[@DodaGarcia]

Looks beautiful but I gotta say the ending was a bit unsettling

[@carlosrimari3664]

Great job ⭐

[@SangHendrix]

This is amazing.

[@andyelgrand0]

well... you can alternatively also turn the greasepencil object to a 3d object so you dont have to stop frame it in blender 8.3 and subsequent releses

[@fredericgeraud76]

nice work! bravo!

[@wattosoldier]

2:08 that seems like a clicker of last of us xd

[@1ikron]

Круто =)

[@modernchair7104]

Новая эра

[@IsraelLutzMusic]

Amazing!!

[@aluckyshot]

Very cool

[@WangleLine]

this is so cool :D

[@zippyit]

Woo I'm the 1000th subscriber

[@cyber_robot889]

Охренеть, я давно искал этот видос, и оказывается ты его автор. Осталось замоделить нож в спину Еластрова. Привет от Чёрствого.

[@Suvitruf]

Я его просто на Ютуб залил, т. к. автор оригинала на Vimeo лишь опубликовал)

[@Gameinstituteindia]

nice work

[@babichfx]

Really cool!

[@RS-lh4gx]

Couldn't you do some of this with shape keys? The disconnected part probably not but if you don't add anything new to your topology shape keys could do some of this if I understand them correctly

[@Elhiot]

I love it !!

[@lucianhuja1079]

oh so this will be like an addon or something ? you can t achieve this in blender vanilla ?

[@rahuLsharma-mr9wd]

Incredible👍

[@yasmindesouza1002]

Que vídeo lindo, vou tentar reproduzir

[@Dylan-we5dz]

Is there anywhere I can download this?

[@NinoM4sterChannel]

1:44 so that's how they made Pixels...

[@deod087]

That's Voxel

[@pm8rsh233]

@@deod087 I think he means the movie, Pixels.

[@ChrisAllenMusic]

Looks like the code is posted now... gitlab.com/pepe-school-land/keymesh. And my read of the (simple) code is that there is NO interpolation between frames, just a switch that updates to a new mesh upon each keyframe.

[@angryjungles]

Nice animation

[@mikaelskotting1383]

Marvelous!

[@danielmurillo2346]

te quedo muy padre :O

[@rustypaperplate9085]

how long did this take to animate? it seems pretty streamlined but how much time did it take to put together, and would it take less time on subsequent projects now that you have the concept down?

[@cubesic3793]

You’re so damn underrated

[@nictanghe98]

now it just needs some propper interpolating. using some form of deepleaqrning whould probably render the best results.

[@jeremytitus6575]

Really good

[@apofis3d]

Cool! Original work

[@EvilEMG]

This makes me think, I should learn Blender. C4D is an amazing software too, eaither way, Cool video! This shows people how cool blender is! :) (Now, don't fucking say anything about C4D, I swear, Don't say anything about it. Im tired of people trash talking about it.) But if you don't, thank you! Have a nice day :))

[@rhiverflow]

Its cute (and short) looks like clay :/ i made one too but its myself

[@fabianesneider4339]

Genial

[@Tokaint]

This is the 🎂 comment everyone was looking for 🤣

[@rken100]

Wow

[@UonBoat]

Well I guess this is how Gal & Dino stop motion parts are made.

[@RockySmithsen]

1:46 he becomes the man behind the slaughter

[@RockySmithsen]

Pause it to see the frame right

[@DodaGarcia]

I gotta say I’m more disturbed by the ending where he suddenly grows a bunch of tumors. It’s really unnerving.

[@kotobdev]

is that the orange ball

[@rhiverflow]

Oh, did not notice extra

[@marieguillaume3548]

Can you share the . Blend ?

[@blobbi]

oooooooooooooooooo!

[@notsemi4867]

Please do a full tutorial

[@Suvitruf]

I'm not the original author. Ask here: vimeo.com/379550189 😅

[@rinatsahbiev1395]

awesome!!!

[@tokyomobster3072]

Please could someone explain what's great about this? I understand Blender, just haven't animated anything. Are they using shape keys and keyframing it?

[@kettenotter]

Tokyo Mobster nope as far as I can tell is more like alembic. Each frame is a new mesh. Shape keys require the same topology.

[@alejmc]

I’m having a hard time following what’s going on as I’m still a Blender illiterate... so, basically, all the sculpt tools, posing tools, modifiers (displacement and remesher) are Blender’s builtin features right? What this plugin is tackling is handling the keyframing of said sculpting/posing features am I right? Either way, if those sculpt tools are part of the KeyMesh I would get that... and if it is only the key framing of mesh data, well, I’ll take that too.

[@yash1152]

thanks for mentioning explicitly that it was an addon

[@alexandresantanalangunno1982]

WoW GG

[@quincy3d69]

Brillant !!!!!

[@cardboard8073]

Get Aardman animations on this! It'll make making their stop motion films easier during this time.