Blender Tip: Rotation Modes Explained

[@Mephistel]

That tip at the end with the empty is glorious, even 5 years later. Thank you.

[@JaredOwen]

Glad it's still helping people out!

[@thatoneship5125]

Thank you for your comment, I don't know if I would have seen that very useful trick otherwise! And thanks Owen for the great tutorial!

[@litteladventureslucasmygui7623]

Can you explain how you make a 3 minute video with blender

[@joshuachampion5973]

5 years later you're still helping people out. I almost pulled my hair out trying this until I watched this video.

[@AlimayoArango]

This is an excellent video. Its well explained, shows good examples of the rotation modes discussed and taught me Blender principles that I did not know about. Thank you very much Jared for making this video and I look forward to seeing more videos like this. I had wondered about the rotation modes before and how when they were to be used.now I don't have to wonder any more. Thanks again Jared. Excellent job!

[@JaredOwen]

Alimayo Arango Thanks for watching and sharing. It's good to know my video is helpful!

[@caryfitz]

Very concise and helpful. I think I'm going to be a big fan of custom orientations. Thanks!

[@lunarpooch4398]

your trick at the end just helpet me so much thx my sweet snukums

[@JaredOwen]

Glad I could help!

[@silvaright]

The last tip felt like finding the holy grail, thanks a lot mate, you are the best.

[@tjwiets6691]

Thank you for that last tip, locking to an empty... Makes spinning something that's tilted much easier!

[@rodrigoorthmannnielson5048]

Thank you so much for this! I've been searching how to do a proper rotate animation for a object planification for ages! Saved my life!

[@JaredOwen]

Thanks Rodrigo - glad to know this helped you out!

[@jasoncatlyn7331]

Thanks for the explanations! 👍

[@-Rook-]

Excellent work on this video, its clear, concise and stuffed with great tips that are all still relevant even in the latest Blender.

[@JaredOwen]

Thanks for your comment Rook! Glad to know my video helped

[@SugarLightStudios]

Man i was actually facing a lot of problem while character animation when i animated in one direction it used to take the other path,starting and ending pose was perfect but in between was not working the way i wanted Now i know whats the problem and can fix those problems Thanks a lot,i was searching for this and hope you keep on making these sort of videos

[@johngddr5288]

Holy crap. So essentially what I got from this is... If you don't know the math in Quaternions, essentially you have no easy access to the graph editor when animating in Quaternions. So, what Quaternions have against Euler, is that it essentially makes you focus solely on posing in the 3D Viewport, and not worry about the Graph Editor at all. If you want a rotation to ease in or ease out, you need simply need two keyframes for the rotation, whereas in Euler, you would just have one keyframe, and then adjust the Bezier Curves in the Graph Editor. WOW! Honestly, I was preety intimidated by animating in Quaternions, but now it doesn't seem so bad. In fact, it seems way more freeing than Euler Rotation, not having to worry about the Graph Editor is a huge Plus.

[@-Rook-]

This is very true, its best to stay away from the Quaternion numbers and focus purely on the viewport rotations. 3Blue1Brown has an excellent video that explains Quaternions and 3D rotation about as simply as it can be explained but even then it gets very deep in complex maths. Its notable that Quaternions are about the only mathematical concept that I have heard of being referred to as 'evil' by noted mathematicians.

[@maxmagnus777]

Searched for the gimbal, got this instead. Works for me. Tnx for the video :)

[@JaredOwen]

+Martin Miljkovic Glad to help!

[@trogenanesu]

Thank you so much man been locking for this for a while .

[@AlberTesla1024]

Thank you so much, especially for the ending part.

[@IPASAustralia]

Great little tute! Thanks for posting.

[@dustypowa]

Very usefull and clear, thanks Jared !

[@PonteRyuurui]

ace

[@yousifucv]

Helped me through a problem I was having, thanks!

[@SymphonyKol_androidLover]

Thanks a lot man, was stuck in this issue for some times. Thanks again

[@JaredOwen]

Glad to help!

[@asthalis]

Thanks for this extremely useful video ! I was trying to animate a Rubik's Cube with Quaternion system AND bezier curves and I think i'm going to stick to linear rotations to avoid issues.

[@JaredOwen]

Glad I could help!

[@CaliforniaandNevada]

I tried to get blender on my chromebook but it dosen’t work. Here’s how to download blender. I ended up with Blender 2.79b. Ready? Go to settings on your chromebook, go to Linux (Beta), when you do it just open it up, type sudo apt update, when it’s done type sudo apt upgrade, then type sudo apt install blender. ✅

[@fruithoo]

exactly what Im looking for . thanks!!!

[@piperisle9674]

Thank you very much. I understand a lot better now.

[@srisaij7140]

wow that a hard work awsome

[@GSXRTeo]

Excellent Tutorial.

[@randy52000]

i was actually expecting an explanation of the differences in food blender modes

[@JaredOwen]

🤣

[@vikaspatil6273]

I have a question did you use the same method for space shuttle video

[@TheBarneyMusic]

Thank you so much!!!

[@speedyzerotwo]

Thanks for the Tut, really helped

[@Mechaghostman2]

Thank you this helped a lot!

[@maio5685]

MY LIFE SAVER

[@datapower2317]

exactly what I need!

[@notionSunday]

thanks for posting.

[@elbertvillarreal]

I Love You Man!!!!!!!!!!! Your video save my day!!!!! Thanks!!!!!

[@JaredOwen]

Oh wow - glad to help! Thanks Elbert

[@markussperl4345]

thanks a lot

[@Arovna]

I am right now, trying to make a simple plane with a square form rock left ro right at its center, using quaternions, on the Y axis, and I don't understand why when I animate it, it goes spinning on the other two directions because I didn't order rice, I ordered, fries to eat with my hamburger, stop forcibly enrolling me to an option that adds a fee to my subscription (see the parallel" I didn't ask it to rotate on any other axes than the one I'm interested in but it does, and it's still quaternion and I don't know what am I doing wrong or where I should redirect my attention to correcting that a simple. plane. I just want it to rock, like extend your arms in a T pose and tilt your upper body left to right , not suddenly flip or spin like a tourniquet or spinning top >,

[@dorkusschmleck9781]

I am perplexed why Blender does rotations this way. If you rotate the rocket 90 in Y, as Jared does, and set the "transform orientation" to Gimbal (usually it is default to global) you will see that the X Axis is now the negative Z axis. Why doesnt the Z axis rotate with Y? This is the key to the whole thing, I suspect.

[@maxcfi7718]

how did you learn to use blender?

[@donthularohith4a116]

can you make a new episode about how a cd

[@bobabooey8367]

thanks Jared,how do I animate the blades on a Boeing Chinook helicopter that are not perfectly horizontal?

[@JaredOwen]

You can use the array modifier to spin an object around an axis. Check out this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWbXloqDfbp3ndU

[@RomboutVersluijs]

AFter all those years, i finally decided to look this stuff up. Still wonder why Those axis act so weird. I kinda missed that in this video. Does anyone know whats going in exactly?

[@cristianosimao3d]

See this video. Explain this problem in all details: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJSbk2WApJygpNE

[@cristianosimao3d]

For a full explanation about this problem see this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJSbk2WApJygpNE

[@ultr4nima]

What option do you have on so that the red, green and blue lines rotate with the object aswell? Mine remain the same when animating and it's a pain to work with

[@harrykurakula6390]

You might have found the answer by now..For anyone else dealing with this, switch to local space and you can see the gizmo rotating..

[@ultr4nima]

I didn't find out the answer already, also the local space option was turned on the entire time, so I don't know if that's the issue or not

[@BuzzKirill3D]

I was hoping you'd explain what "W" is in quaternion...

[@JaredOwen]

To be honest - I'm not really sure. I just know that it works! You might doing a google search for quaternion.

[@kiranpechetti454]

How to make a games map Maya software

[@pengyuzhang1179]

thank you!

[@MrShooterBoyX]

Hey Jared, I was wondering if you could still find this rocket file. I wish to use it in my essay about quaternions. I hope you will contact me soon.

[@JaredOwen]

Hi Shooter - thanks for your interest! Unfortunately I don't give out the blender files for my videos. However, I would be happy to help answer questions if you want to build your own with Blender.

[@athisankar5492]

What is these software

[@JaredOwen]

www.blender.org

[@omarsalim7307]

What the app name

[@jeremydetina9453]

thx!

[@PooMaster-ln3oo]

If it's meant to sound like oiler, I refuse to ever pronounce euler properly. Merika is the best! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

[@kiranpechetti454]

Hi bro

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

Gimbal lock reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@saisuaye]

You should have a look to de maths, they aren't that difficult