Mixamo addon for Blender

[@CGDive]

*LINKS FROM VIDEO* ❖Mixamo Addon fix for Blender 4: gitlab.com/x190/mixamo_blender4 ❖Mixamo Addon for Blender 3.6 and earlier: substance3d.adobe.com/plugins/mixamo-in-blender/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ❖*Discover even more awesome Blender Addons and Tools* addons.cgdive.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ❖Mixamo: www.mixamo.com/ ❖Retargeting Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLdcL5aF8ZcJux9f5Bvb1QlByiHWTK3ICP ❖Blender Animation Concepts (NLA videos) kzbin.info/aero/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvaLgirnTuH8-4Ro5Ou-YsZ

[@DeeTheGamerBoy]

Thx mate

[@taucher1945]

What You show beginning at 17:50, doesn´t work for me in 4.1.1 with the mixamo addon for Blender 4. Also I can´t edit an action strip by pressing Tab. When the strip becomes greenish and I click on it to select keyframes, the strip disappears.. Any Idea? Maybe You could update this brilliant tutorial to a newer version of Blender

[@CGDive]

@@taucher1945 I am making a note to test it.

[@CGDive]

@@taucher1945 I tested and it works exactly as before. Most likely you are missing (or messing :)) something in the NLA but I can't say what for sure.

[@rw8785]

Been looking for a tutorial this good about everything you covered for over 3 years. Nobody has laid it out so well, explained it so logically and covered several problems all in one great tutorial. Going to get familiar with your work over 2022. Well done, Sir!

[@CGDive]

Thank you very much. I hope you'll find more useful videos on CGDive :) I'll make a second Mixamo video soon covering a few additional workflows.

[@sakattodesign9927]

@@CGDive i have a problem left arm is missing

[@CGDive]

@@sakattodesign9927 That's terrible but it's too little info. No idea, sorry :)

[@gerrardstoun4684]

This video is 3 years old, but this is the only place where I found a solution to the problem of importing animations from 3ds max!

[@extrafrenzy2242]

Just a few hours after you posted this, I had tried the Mixamo addon for the first time, with one of their models that ended up having the weird bones and getting the error. So, it was great to find this video and see your explanation, and good to know that models I import to Mixamo for auto-rigging won't have that problem! Thanks!

[@CGDive]

Yeah, I wish they'd do a better job explaining this. Took me a while to figure it out.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@CGDive Welcome to Adobe! i also do scripts and CEP panels, that is really a hunt for information!

[@CGDive]

@@RomboutVersluijs What are CEP panels?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@CGDive They are those panels you can add which have custom made functions and added features.

[@toapyandfriends]

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER A MIXAMO ANIMATION IN THE GRAPH EDITOR WITH ALMOST NO KEY FRAMES... It took me like 2 seconds to edit this animation

[@CGDive]

Nice 👍

[@thomasmaier7053]

That's reaaaly smart. Your channel ist the most consise source of animation tutorials for Blender. Hands down.

[@CGDive]

Thanks, Thomas!

[@thomasmaier7053]

@@CGDive Any chance you'll be doing a mocap cleanup followup to this? I'm scared of doing it and you showing a way better solution (as always) and me having to start over :D

[@stevietee3878]

Absolutely amazing tutorial ! Clearly explained and full of enormously helpful information. Primarily a modeller, prior to watching this I was hesitant to tackle character animation but this has given me the confidence to dive right in. Thank you very much.

[@CGDive]

Awesome, thank you!

[@rajasaurusbrontozaurus658]

so when I bring the Mixamo character back into Blender, it has not coloration or skin. Even though it shows in Mixamo fine now, but when I Download FBX with skin, it just comes in as white. The skin does show up from the same FBX in Sketchfab fine. What the heck am I doing wrong in Blender?

[@rontarrant]

NICE! A couple of months ago, I discovered that characters rigged in Mixamo work well in Cascadeur and the resulting animations can then be imported into Blender. From what you're covering here, I'd say that Mixamo, Cascadeur, and Blender with this plugin would make an excellent workflow. And once the control rig is attached, adding a face rig should be quite possible for a complete animation workflow, start to finish. If you haven't given Cascadeur a try yet, I highly recommend it.

[@CGDive]

Thanks for the tip. I haven't tried Cascadeur yet but it looks awesome. I have a video on adding a face, btw. Let me know if you can't find it.

[@AroundTheHouseShow]

Ive watched this multiple times now whenever I’m working with Mixamo animations. Such a great tutorial. Thanks

[@mmxgn]

I was looking for the reason my characters were derping hard and your video is the only one that explained it. Thank you :)

[@CGDive]

Not sure what you mean by "derping" lol ... but If you mean that some of them don't generate a proper control rig, then look forward to a new video coming soon. We created some tools and workflows to make them stop derping :P

[@mmxgn]

@@CGDive That's exactly what I meant. Especially with some characters that have extra bones on their clothes (was trying to work with the big elvis).

[@Rockingbird221]

I've watched almost all videos on this channel，learned so much from here。I decide to support you on Patreon，keep doing good stuffs！！再次感谢~~

[@CGDive]

Thanks a lot for your support! Much appreciated. 謝謝！

[@MIKE-cw8mm]

Bro, i saw every possible tutorial for this topic and this is by far the best one! Thanks a lot. Good work!

[@CGDive]

Nice. I'll make another one soon to cover a few more details :)

[@hendrikwalther5139]

This video helped me immensely! I learnt so many different things. Everyday I am more astonished how many features blender has.

[@davidao6635]

I have to be honest with you, your tutorials are absolutely amazing and easy to understand!!! (I’m not saying this for being nice) this is one of the best tutorial video I’ve seen. Thank you so muchhhh 😊 keep it up 👍🏻

[@JUANVELASQUEZ123]

This is by far the best animation tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you so much!

[@dvd-b5676]

Mixamo is a game changer for me, your comprehensive tutorial helped me massively, thank you!

[@somerandomname18]

New builder here and your content was very helpful. I understood a lot.

[@chachaami66]

Wow, I got an error while using Create Control Rig on Demon T Wiezzorek model on Mixamo, and this is clear explanation why my character does not work! You are a sight for eyes. Thank you every much!

[@CGDive]

Cool! Soon I'll release a second video in which I'll cover how to fix those characters that don't work out of the box.

[@faisallohani7307]

Such a simple and precise way of explaining. Best tutorials on blender and mixamo.

[@CGDive]

Glad you think so!

[@Tbug20]

I did not realize how much I needed this video

[@CGDive]

Nice :P

[@muhammadnabeel9612]

Finally, found the solution to my animation problems. Thank you

[@Promeneur]

(Excuse my bad english) Great thanks for all your explanations ! The best I have seen on this subject.

[@avihusiso6888]

first good tutorial i watched about rigging🙃🙂

[@hahumbra]

Just in time solution. And perfect for unreal. Love u, man

[@petercox27]

Fantastic video explanation - best one on KZbin re: Mixamo Add on by far - thank you!

[@RiffSharkMusic]

this is GOLD! thank you so mach for such a detailed explaination

[@lukeskywalker7029]

Thanks for this great video along the other two on using lender with mixamo! Really appreciate the comprehensive language you use to explain everything

[@realwmm]

Thank you! I am relearning Blender and also planning on doing things with Mixamo. This was very helpful.

[@xXVeranXx]

This is a fantastic tutorial, thank you! Answered all of my questions :)

[@CGDive]

Great to hear!

[@adrianrevill7686]

Thanks, i had given up on the addon as it seemed broken. Now i will give it another go

[@CGDive]

Once you know what works it should be quite stable 😉

[@erz3030]

this is crazy informative! Kudos for going into so much detail and explaining so much!

[@toapyandfriends]

I can't believe it I applied a sitting talking mixamo animation and I just looked into the graph editor to edit it and there's almost no keyframes at all in the graph editor for a long mixamo animation on this new rig

[@chameleonedm]

6:57 I really hope a product manager at mixamo gets sent this exact sentence. It would drive them up the wall haha

[@CGDive]

haha, yeah, mixamo can be a mess :)

[@raiahtisham6856]

thanks its too much helpful for the lover of blender and mixamo

[@AndyTanguay]

Thank you for this...saved my bacon today. Had a good size piece to get out FAST, and this helped that. Whew

[@CGDive]

CGDive - saving your bacon since 2020 :D Glad to help, Andy!

[@nv7287]

13:20 Eyedropper select new imported animation> Then select your mixamo rig that you will apply animation too> apply animation to rig

[@CalBain]

That was absolutley brilliant. Thank you!

[@MrGravicaper]

Concentrated magic seems to have arrived. I'll have to study the spells in this video.

[@CGDive]

Haha, nice 🙂

[@eretlippand9965]

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

[@fabbrobbaf]

Perfect timing once again for me. Thanks a lot!!

[@infintiyward]

The best blender tutorial channel for rigging/animation. Thank you again man

[@alocrisis]

hi good day and awesome tutorial ..... but need help trying to make the IK on the mixamo hand rig allow stretch ....i have tried to tinker with it but no success..... i want to make it stretch like one piece's luffy..... the spine does it but i cant get the arms to do the same......

[@IspyrGameDev]

Really well done 🤙🏾 Just want I needed, new sub just from this video.

[@LFA_GM]

Thank you very much for such straightforward add-on demonstration. Very helpful.

[@VIMES_]

Great - would watch again ;) Thx!

[@CGDive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ricardovega1407]

Best tutorial ever!

[@CGDive]

Haha, thanks!

[@toapyandfriends]

I fixed MIXAMO for Blender 4.0 video & download link on my channel in Fast Animation Studio Toolz playlist

[@CGDive]

You did??? Don't go out, random strangers may try to kiss you and stuff. haha The official development of the addon may be discontinued (not yet confirmed) so a community-updated version would be awesome!

[@toapyandfriends]

@CGDive Ok.... Thanks, I kind of bundle. It was my add on sort of so if its functionality stops working my add-on is less great.., ... I do the same thing with EV express and haven't been able to get a hold of the developer to get him to update it so I might update that one as well.....great, I'll keep checking and then a if it goes off the market. I'll just put it on a github and respond to issues.... Somebody else left a comment on my KZbin channel. That they're working on a version 2.0 so not really sure...

[@CGDive]

@@toapyandfriends The rigging nodes addon also seems kind of abandoned which is unfortunate. But it's a pretty big addon, not sure if you want to get involved blenderartists.org/t/rigging-nodes/1238994

[@nodirraimov5300]

Wonderful video with a lot of things to learn, thanks a lot for your time and afford

[@CGDive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@YoIomaster]

amazing video my man! thanks, subscribed!

[@RunescapeGod]

I was just wondering how to do this, this clears a lot of information up! Thanks man!

[@pesindiafc9363]

Really Amazing Video Bro... Thank you so much for such tutorials... You are the Best...

[@EZSub]

I was using mixamo but without the add on , it s much more flexible with the rig , thanks for your tutorial it s really helpful you really dive into it. other rigging tut also i found about NLA on your chanel. edit: the addon doesn't work with properly 3.0 yet for me, i ve tested it with 2.92 it works

[@CGDive]

Oh, thanks for letting me know. I'll test and change the title tomorrow when I have some time :)

[@EZSub]

@@CGDive if you create the control rig in 2.92 , 2.93 save it and open it in 3.0 it works. you can import your animations. i just like 3.0 thanks to you !

[@ArtVandelayInc]

@@EZSub If you do this way, you can't use the IK/FK switch on 3.0. It just simply doesn't work

[@VitusPolikarpusSM]

Thanks for the tutorial, I'll try to put it into practice

[@manojsrivastava2918]

Seamless explanation :)

[@eucharistenjoyer]

Man, your videos are so packed with good info and with no time wasted, thanks a lot! Do you have any tutorial on how one could export these "edited" animations with the mesh and the base original mixamo rig? I mean, to use in Unity and stuff. I'll try just selecting them and exporting the .fbx later, I suppose if I export only the deform bones with the mesh that could work?

[@CGDive]

I am not sure if I covered that in a video. If you want to export a mixed animation, you should bake the result first using "Bake action" (you can press f3 and search for "bake action")

[@blenderzone5446]

thank you so much for this video buddy!

[@mgh666]

Super tutorial! Thank you very much for taking your time and sharing your cear explanation in detail!

[@Alex-nh1hb]

So helpful thank you!

[@NawadaKMuharram]

Very very Thanks 💖

[@UbongaShorts]

EPIC!!

[@Jean_Mi]

Thanks ! Well explained

[@activemotionpictures]

I will try this for heavy usage :) Thank you for another amazing video!

[@AB-td5oo]

Amazing Video

[@KatlinSchirmer]

Wonderful, I want to try that too! Thank you, greetings.

[@aliihsansenel]

It was so helpful, thank you!

[@muglermugler5590]

you are the best! thank you so much.

[@matka5130]

Thanks a lot...exactly what I needed

[@geminimanvfx]

youre' god sent , I'll credit you soon

[@CGDive]

Thanks! 🙏

[@MartyJames23]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[@pexiles]

Thank you for this, it was very helpful. I do have one question, when im blending two animations, it transitions great, except for a foot. The foot just kind of distorts while in middle of a blend, is there some kind of fix for this?

[@georgebonejr7639]

Thank you video! Your awsome for sharing

[@update7302]

You are the amazing love you a lot from pakistan

[@aumhren3480]

superb tut, bow to thee, master divine, sorry, dive. unfortunately for me, somewhere at 13:00, rig stopped working for me. python raised an error. oh well, back to the basics. thx for sharing, have fun, aum edit: using blender 3.1.2

[@CGDive]

I just tried 3.1.2. Works for me. Are you using the latest version of the addon?

[@maleeshamevan]

saved my life!!

[@fabricem966]

thank you very much ! you are the best !

[@jordy1393]

Struggled with this for years; amazing tutorial! Thank you

[@kiwi6421]

Fantastic tutorial!

[@freecghelp5487]

Nice, this seems like the easiest method, and you explained it well, thankyou! It'd be cool if someone modified the addon to include rigify-like bone facial controls. I find that really handy for sculpting rigged characters without worrying about fixing morph maps. Can be good for iterative design workflows.

[@extrafrenzy2242]

I agree, face bones would be great!

[@CGDive]

Yeah, a face would be nice. I guess it can be attached with some effort. Or try suggesting a feature if possible.

[@BallsAndNinjas]

I would use the bound of the vertices weighted to the head to get a wide aproximation of where the jaw and main face landmarks could be. With some assumptions, one could look for hemisphere placed on the front and get a good placement for the eyes, then eyebrows, nose and forehead would follow. It would not be perfect but would give a good start. Some day, I should kidnap myself and make me do it :D

[@CGDive]

@@BallsAndNinjas Oh hey there. I love the addons you make. I'll definitely make a video about your Mixamo addon, looks awesome. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH6pk2Wnoaqoirc

[@BallsAndNinjas]

@@CGDive Hi, that would be wonderful! Let me know if you need help with anything: there is no documentation yet :|

[@ОлександрВасильєв-б5д]

If you still have an error with good bone orientation, disable "apply animation" tab when creating control rig and it will work

[@HellosudeepSingh]

thank you for this wonderful tutorial

[@CGDive]

Glad you like it!

[@aston81]

Thank you for showing the things that can go wrong and how to avoid them - very helpful!

[@اليابانيةبكلسهولة]

hi sir, at 17:26 in the NLA editor when i move the action to the right ,the layer at the bottom does not work ... like my vampire bite layer does not work , the timeline freezes at the first frame of goalkeeper until I reach the goalkeeper action and it applies , also , when I select an action it's in orange not yellow like yours ? Thanks in advance

[@CGDive]

The color of the action is probably just the Blender theme that was changed in differnet Blender versions. As for the actual problem, most likely the Extrapolation mode is set to Hold. Select your action strip (e.g. goalkeeper) and under Strip settings set Extrapolation to either Hold Forward or Nothing.

[@mibixdev]

Thank you man!

[@sebbanestudio]

Excellent Thank you

[@shibi6939]

good one!

[@jeremyrandall8282]

Oh yuuuurr thank you

[@BrianLife]

EDIT BELOW: Hi, can you please reply. I have a character that UI uploaded Nor rig. I rigged it in mIxamo. ( t-pose) I downloaded it. I am trying to add the control Rig but I get error and only some of the body is rigged ( control) its just not right. Please let me know what I could do. its so weird, its all from Mixamo...Im in blender 3.5_ EDIT: I re-downloaded it and its working.

[@davidReyGD]

nice! thanks a lot!

[@screamyquack6726]

Thank you so much!

[@todopeace481]

Thank you. I kiss your heart. :P

[@doragon18]

Thank you, really, thnak you so much.

[@michaelwaxter9622]

Which category did you click on at 15:13-15:14? I can't see or understand what you said. Awesome video! Very good content. Thank you.

[@CGDive]

NLA (non-liniar animation) :)

[@michaelwaxter9622]

@@CGDive I think it's really awesome of you to answer questions in the comments section. I'm sure it appreciated by everyone as much as i appreciate it. I love your website. I plan to go through the tutorials. Thank you!

[@CGDive]

@@michaelwaxter9622 Sure, I try to. As the channel grows it becomes more and more challenging tho :)

[@stephanbuth8195]

Thanks a lot! I have two anims with the control rig on the NLA now, but how can i adjust the position of anim 2, if it is not at the same start point like anim 1? Since there is the mixamo rig onto the anims, there are no center hip bones to keyframe. Edit: If this is handled in one of your courses, i would like to buy it.

[@xynerd]

mega thanks!

[@fabianobersovszky6987]

4:20 - I did everythink like in the video but the controls circles and boxes around the body are not showing up :(

[@CGDive]

There are too many variables like Blender version, addon version, etc. Try discussing on our Discord server discord.gg/YFH5HUv

[@vstreet7583]

Just brilliant! This is so so helpful. Clear and concise. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. THANK YOU! Dg

[@Nerthazul]

Great video! What does the *bake animation* button do? It is below *apply animation to control rig* button.

[@CGDive]

It's explained in the video 19:08 :)

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Hope you discuss the animation layers addon, wish that one was build into blender by default

[@CGDive]

I'll try to cover it. I think it mostly automates nla stuff, doesn't it? But I know that a lot of credible people swear by it.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@CGDive Yeah i tested out an early free version and was awesome. I guess for actual animators and people used to Maya its true gift. It makes work so much more easy. The manual method is jsut to much clicking like lots of stuff in Blender is.

[@ColossalCowzz]

You need an addon for blender in order for this to work. Also, my models color wasnt imported, not sure how t oslve that ?

[@NathanMoses99]

Thank you Bro