Character Animation in Blender

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This is a recap video of the multiple streams that were recorded while animating the character "Snow" in an acting shot. In this video Rik briefly touches the steps he took in order to make this shot. If you want to see more about a certain step of his workflow, please check the timestamps below. These will lead you to the designated stream and will start at the right timestamp.
Time stamps to the live streams:
* Shooting Reference (00:55):
• Live Character Animati...
* Scene setup (02:55):
• Live Character Animati...
* Blocking 1 (03:40):
• Live Character Animati...
* Blocking 2 (05:43):
• Live Character Animati...
* Blocking to Splining (09:40):
• Live Character Animati...
* Lipsync (19:34):
• Live Character Animati...
* Polishing (28:10)
• Live Character Animati...

[@no-one3795]

Man. Animating the character must have taken a lot of time.

[@animemermakesfunnys]

Yeah, animating a short scene like this can take anywhere from a day or two, to many months. it all depends how much you're willing to work on it, and how patient you are :D

[@no-one3795]

@@animemermakesfunnys Thanks for the info 🥰

[@animemermakesfunnys]

@@no-one3795 :)

[@femisuccess124]

@@animemermakesfunnys Please, how can I learn character animation as a complete beginner, and be able to animate fairly well in about 6 months

[@animemermakesfunnys]

@@femisuccess124 Watch youtube tutorials, learn keyframes, and have fun with it

[@seandberg]

Thank you for the character, going to school right now and just did 2 months of animation and still need sooooooo much help. So once again THANKS!!!!

[@ukmonk]

Great video thank you!!

[@macieksadowski2713]

WOW! Love it!

[@Leysonvisuals]

Great one ,Please make a video of rotomation please ,please

[@bambino3624]

Private Snowball making some moves.

[@not_amanullah]

This is helpful ❤

[@not_amanullah]

Thanks ❤

[@HummusHere]

Hello Guys Hummus Here! You’re reading this comment! 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

[@alainconstant2956]

How many frames per second was the animation project doing while the reference was playing

[@rewixx69420]

LINUX BLENDERING

[@bankolibankong2946]

Why did u delete the streaming sessions from blender page, they where useful asf, watching you in real time

[@vishal3336]

If you have free tym then make a video on "adding SFX to animation" and final editing.

[@Sean-bo2lb]

Hi I am rookie and looking for customizable scene & character, so far learning blender is slow, so many ways to achieve little.

[@emmanm5633]

does this rig has already the pose libraries actions? or did you do it manually?

[@ШколаиностранныхязыковЛиберти]

Hi, thank you for a really cool character! And I need help. IK and FK gizmos work perfectly. But how to make a regular meta rig (with bones) work? I need it for, say, implementing Mixamo animations to this character. Regular meta rig doesn't work out of the box with this character. So I click "A" (in a View Port), then "Ctrl + P" - and choose "With Automatic Weights". And then I face a big problem: when I move the mesh in pose mode with a regular meta rig, Ik/FK gizmos just stay at their initial places. Could you say please how to fix this issue?

[@fact__5]

Please tell me bro which graphic card u used for this

[@AbhishekSharma-fg1ho]

how to hide controllers in blender and also how can i make controllers value 0 like we are doing in Maya

[@dubbingstar_yt8997]

Big fan bro. ♥️♥️you from India...how many days are required ?... For animating a clip like that...PLz reply

[@animemermakesfunnys]

animating a short scene like this can take anywhere from a day or two, to many months. it all depends how much you're willing to work on it, and how patient you are :D

[@neilmarshall5087]

Learn to do research. If you bothered to look at the Blender Studios released videos you would see the 5 videos Rik did.... Starting with Live Character Animation 'Acting' with Rik Schutte pt.1

[@softwarelivre2389]

There is a saying that goes in the lines of "art is never done, it is only abandoned". We'll always find something to improve, it is never done until you say it is done.

[@ihatetomatoees]

Do not redeeemn sirs

[@wlz3780]

how to make your Gizmo not hidden while navigating it? it looks like Maya manipulator. i need it

[@katlegothemaven7563]

hey guys how do I use this rig on another character mesh?

[@videopro__]

I have problems with this rig after I pose the character and I set my first key frame when I set another pose and I try to play back the character just deforms weirdly please someone should help me

[@monkey.5075]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@nileshsawant2094]

I have some issues with the snow rig when i save the file n reopen it

[@zinne1978]

How do you switch with auto snapping IK FK

[@SURREALMOOKIE]

😆😂 🔥🔥

[@jamesklark6562]

How do I animate a character strolling about and interacting with a scene?

[@richmondosei4283]

can i get the sculpt videos of snow?

[@LORGENH]

Please tell me your computer specs

[@TheOpunPun]

question : how do you click on graph editor (like X location ) then you can selected only X location the other can't be selected while you crop? sorry for my bad english

[@musicandlength]

Shift + H

[@emmacotex2288]

Are you on Instagram

[@Gullar12]

Ok ok

[@Leysonvisuals]

Great one ,Please make a video of rotomation please ,please

[@phalhappy8612]

Hi, I want to start learning animation soon, but before I start I want to clear this question and hope you can help. I saw sometimes people animate a walk by keeping the character at same place and sometime they make character move away from the root bone. Obviously, these two technique has their own name but I am too moron to figure it out. May I ask what are these two technique called and why use one instead of the other. Thanks 🙏

[@EvanMapleMaggot]

If you have a chance not to move root bone you need to keep it in place. U need root bone for walk-run-idle-attack-defend-jump CYCLES for example. This way you can use your animation later in every place you want by moving root bone in any place and any tempo. Also this will allow you to use animations in UE or Unity much easier. If you are making a scene with action like "Hero stands up from the bed and walks into bathroom to take a teethbrush" or anything like this, you still need to NOT touch root at all. Root will remain in world origin. Root bone is needed when u have finished cyclic animation and want to change location to it. Im not sure my english was good but hope it will help you

[@Gullar12]

Ok ok

[@ulrichyao807]

Blender studio please make tutorial and course in french.🙏😔 Blender studio s'il vous plaît faites des tutoriels et des cours en français 🙏😔

[@HarryClipz]

I never knew the mixing the constant and spline together, i just block using the spline. I wish i could show a quick video to get some critique

[@CasMcAss]

connection, right?