Key Frame Animation of Low Poly Character in Blender 2.9x

Learn how to easily key frame animate a low poly character in Blender 2.9x. This is the last in a series of three videos. In the first video we model the character. In the second video, we create an armature and rig this character. In this video, we keyframe animate an idle and a couple of run cycles.
Video 1 - Easy Low Poly Character Modeling in Blender 2.9x: • Easy Low Poly Characte...
Video 2 - Rig a Low Poly Character in Blender 2.9x: • Rig a Low Poly Charact...
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I've been modeling in Blender since about 2015 but more recently in the past couple of years. I've been making games and assets in Unity since 2011 and I'm currently working on a multiplayer RTS game that I'll be happy to announce later this year.
I use a Canon Lumix GH5 camera to record my videos with the Olympus 17mm F1.2 lens as well as the Laowa F2.0 7.5mm compact dreamer lens. Sometimes I also use a GoPro Hero 8, a Insta360 One X and a Sony rx100 mark vii. For audio I use a Rode NTG shotgun microphone connected to a RME Fireface UFX II sound card.
Thanks a lot for watching and sharing my videos :)

[@nogamerlikethis281]

The fact I spend months trying to understand CG geeks videos when this was here the whole time, thank you kind sir thank you greatly 🤝

[@sgttoxiiczz]

Yeah, I found CG Geek's videos hard to follow and lacked explaination. Imphenzia's content is a lot better to follow and learn from.

[@RCYT_]

@@sgttoxiiczz YES! CORRECT!

[@luckyizzac]

@@sgttoxiiczz yes, i love CG Geek but hes bad at teaching he didnt tell why to do things like make the inverse kinematics and those bone controllers he just told to do it which made things harder

[@sgttoxiiczz]

@@luckyizzac, CG Geek seems to be more of a content creator than a tutor. The 10 minute rigging tutorial that he did was really difficult to follow, and I ended up with a rig that didn't work. I found the Imphenzia rigging tutorial really helpful. When I make a mistake, I can quickly fix it without rewatching the tutorial because he did a great job at explaining.

[@jas-jr3rv]

@@sgttoxiiczz yep cg geek is trying too hard to be a hype youtuber these days and it's weird and forced. i cant even stand him anymore

[@kiba1704]

Hey Imphenzia! I know you have tutorials that show how to different aspects of game making, but it would be really helpful to go on with this exact model. Put him in Unity, show people how to make: 1. Idle 2. Walking 3. Running etc. with textures, controls etc. A complete workflow tutorial like this would go nuts, I promise! Cheers mate!

[@neverpure20]

14:25 You don't have to box select all the keyframes on that frame. Just selecting the keyframe in the red summary row at the top, selects everything below it automatically.

[@chewchewgumm4193]

can always learn something from every single video! and you are just so patient teaching these basical skills ,lucky for beginers . keep it up man!

[@Wolf-kx1pv]

I didn't think I would ever grasp this stuff enough to make a humanoid mesh, rig it and have it walk/run. Your tutorials are seriously the best out there, especially for a compete beginner like myself. thank you!!!

[@geniuspancake8274]

Thank you, you made my life so much simpler. I do mainly gameplay programming but I wanted to add some "life" into my game. I suck at animations and texturing and you made it so simple for me. So thank you very, very much for this video. The simplistic/cartoony look is enough for me, I was really getting tired of looking at boxes only.

[@DeepFriedOreoOffline]

Man, these tutorials are a life saver! I learned how to do all of this in Maya, but had stopped doing 3D work for years cause I couldn't afford my own license. Picked up Blender recently, and it's actually crazy how easy this is now will all the community addons!

[@matthewsuhanec73]

I want to thank you - your tutorials are marvelous - for me its the right pace to learn and you understand that repetitive makes it stick.

[@Roqueta22]

Imphenzia, thank you so much for these videos. Wasted 136k on a Bachelors of Science for media arts and animation and I've learned more from you then I did from the Maya elite teachers. Thank you sir.

[@__Rizzler__]

Man how do u know I needed it in right time jeesus Christ he is marvellous

[@__Rizzler__]

I was working for game jam I didn't know how to animate, that right time imphenzia uploaded, he showed his true colors

[@Vanalleswa]

after 2 years, this is the first video that explains exactly what i was looking for. great job and many thanks!

[@lars6186]

i started some days ago and now i got my first low poly character, rig and animations ready! That helped me out a lot! Thank you

I am amazed. In less than 2 hours (with stopping) I made my own low poly character with armature and animations. Thank you.

[@luanpereiradossantos5650]

Good afternoon Imphenzia, I'm Brazilian and I really like your content. Never stop doing your tutorials. Congratulations and thanks.

[@otherworlds9677]

Wow! Really great and seemingly simple. Should be lots of fun to play with. Thanks for keeping this so short too. Now I just need to figure out how to export this as a video to share with my friends.

[@trueblue97]

This channel is awesome. Literally the only Blender tutorials I even remotely understand. Thanks a lot!

[@curiousity271]

Outstanding Imphenzia...No doubt that your each episode tutorial and other tutorials have enlightened us all...You have been once again my favourite GURU....Thanks a million.....👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@aleksandersanya1817]

Very cool series, I basically learned to create a character and animate it in three days after two years of slowly trying to understand all this.

[@finlee98]

Thank you Sir, you're tutorials are easy to follow and I like it.

[@13venneman]

The orange frame boxes to help direct where to click are a massive help for me.

[@picstales]

Much thanks, I tried alot tutorials but always got stucked in armature, but your tutorial has make me animate for the very first time

[@Shrarder0000]

As a primary programmer, these are very helpful for people who hate doing animation!

[@boerbol9422]

These tutorials are so fun to do. Bless you!

[@stellmax53gameanddev88]

You earned sub, im 20 years old 5 years unreal engine dev good work keep it up, good job with animation expression with smol jump

[@spicyfoxx-hz6pl]

You are one of the people that make the world go round

[@meenaaswal1173]

Sir I have seen many of your videos and I found them very helpful, I have learn a lot from each videos of yours, you are awesome, thank you

[@pandurangansatish2973]

Awesome ! I modelled the Policeman character added mouth and eyebrow's too, rigged and now waiting to do keyframe animation. Thank you so much !

[@MrBrandonheer]

Thanks for existing dood. Your channel is so helpful.

[@wesdl8593]

Just in case anyone is confused at 3:00 when he clicks on that lower bar that normally is not there for auto keying, that bar is a horizontal screen split and set to timeline. It’s just dragged to the bottom of the screen.

[@eagleman8882]

Where do you find it to drag it to the bottom?

[@CozmiGames]

This was SO frustrating for me. I originally had the bar at the bottom with the playback controls (buttons for recording, skip forward, etc) but in messing around it disappeared. Then I could ONLY find that playback controls bar again by changing the "editor type dropdown" to "timeline" but then the "action editor" was gone. I spent a huge amount of time on Google, KZbin and just messing with things and could never get that playback bar on the bottom again in the Action Editor like in the video. However using the comment by @wesdl8593 above, I changed to the timeline, made it a split screen, moved down to the bottom, switched back to Action Editor and NOW I finally have the playback controls on a bottom "bar" so to speak. But its actually a timeline window just squeezed down to the bottom. I can't believe nobody else in the whole world seems to have this issue. Ok 2 hours later and now I can resume with the tutorial video. What a nightmare!!

[@shanepelcha1049]

Man your cranking them out love it

[@TacticalPascale]

Another fantastic tutorial!

[@goodsonguitars]

I followed all of your tutorials. I built my character, rigged it and colorized him using your guides and materials. I took him into Unity and all of his colors changed. Any ideas? Thanks for all your hard work and videos. They really helped me get back into games and 3D after a very long break.

[@adamkonig3753]

As a game dev, these videos are super super helpful and easy to follow and have given me a lot of tips to improve my blender flow. Thanks!

[@ismaelomaribanez]

Greatest teacher ever. Thanks for existing.

[@heronmichaels881]

perfect timing, thank you!!

[@LaEstrellaProductions]

Amazing as usual cant wait for more

[@godetotoro]

very good no only in content, but also in presentation

[@sukidhardarisi4992]

Brother, you just made my day, if It hadn't been for your detailed series, I wouldn't have finished my first project in time but also I don't know why some times blender keeps crashing for weight paint mode stuff, lemme know if its common to have crashes in that mode

[@Adeno]

Perfect tutorial, I learned a lot. Now I can improve my stiff or super fast characters lol!

[@BL0NSKY]

That's a nice one, thanks for the entire series. low poly rlz!

[@akashin6385]

Very clear and easy to follow. Well done.

[@outlawmugen2429]

Thank you for the tutorials. Really appreciate it

[@JMcLarren]

Me before watching this video - Rigging is hard Me after watching this video - Rigging is easier and way more fun. As someone who wants to get into game dev and/or animation, your videos are incredible. I like to put your 10 minute videos on and try to absorb as much as possible, which generally leads to me watching them for about an hour each. One day I will be able to model and rig a character myself within 10.....hours.

[@lln6123]

Your such a great teacher, thank you.

[@nichegames9590]

My animation needs all kinds of help! Thanks for the video.

[@GavinPlesko]

You can also click the summary button at the top of a frame to select all keys :D

Amazing series!

[@christians6164]

I love this series. I've come a long way due to this tutorial, but something I'm having a lot of trouble with is dealing with animations with other objects. For example, I have a character who has some tools but they only appear for some animations and not others. Dealing with that in the action editor / NLA panel has been really messy probably because I'm doing it wrong. Would love to see some content on that!

[@Mertin967]

Awesome tutorial!

[@koopanique]

Fascinating, very clear and understandable

[@vbamboo21]

thank you sir! very informative.

[@VeggyThins]

loving your content, I'm learner blender so fast it's crazy!

[@Imphenzia]

Great to hear that! :)

[@syntheticfiber7388]

Thanks! Helped a lot! Nice and neat explanation.

[@alessiochemeri2059]

that was awesome. thanks a lot. impressive tutorial, impressive lesson.

[@polar4099]

Dude thanks for the rig and anim video you explain everything you do so nice

[@ph4ts]

Thnak you for your tutorials. I've learned a lot!

[@whatthevrar]

thank you for these videos, We have recently started using Blender and created same series as yours on our channel as way to learn. Have also given credit to your videos.

[@feri8533]

simple and complete tutorial tnx so much 💓💓

[@juleswombat5309]

Another Awesome Video for all us mortals.

[@equpmv]

This year begins wonderful with this serie. Can you please make a 3D infinite runner game like Subway Surfers in Unity? Low poly, of course

[@zdtuttauniversity2715]

your videos are invaluable, thank you so much my friend!!!

[@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn]

great tutorial. love it :) Now I can finally make that breadbug shitpost I always dreamed of

[@jhovala]

thanks a lot...for sharing your knowledge!!!

[@pincadoo]

i love it! i would like to see rig and animation for objects like guns, turrets and stuff like this, could you do it? thanks in advance! i love how u explain :) keep up the good job

[@erikthegamer8727]

i MUST SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROUSITY SIR!

[@theturquoiseball1255]

Thank you so much! I made an animation and it came out perfectly!

[@masterhumanprimitive4040]

Great job

[@naodmulu1080]

thank you for this..you are heaven sent.

[@the_spade32]

Thank you for these tutorials, Stefan. You were very helpful!

[@rox8819]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@atikahrostam5778]

Thank you so much for this I've learned a lot!!

[@FebiMaster]

I think you can do run animation much faster if you animate it pose to pose, as in put main keyframes in intervals, then work your way down from there, it's also much cleaner and you have a point of reference for inbetween the animations

[@Imphenzia]

Hi, I've preferred to do them with the 4 key poses to get the "proper" motion between the keyframes - do you have a video in mind that shows the alternative approach?

[@yoeyoelayzarni2948]

So grate tutorial ! Thank you

[@thesoulsreaper5803]

what a legend !!

[@pit121212]

Thank you very much!

[@nincompoop17]

Thank you so much Stefan! Got me up and running in no time! (pun intended)

[@Josabooba]

Great stuff again - one thing I'd like to have known about which wasn't eluded to was the differing animation frame lengths across the different pose animations. For example the Idle was 40 and the run was 22 - but there didn't seem to be a specific set count for each... so if i went back and viewed the Idle, it was still set to the 22 (run) frame count length.

[@oliverioxaraukatz7410]

Same problem here. Have you found a solution?

[@rwells242]

Have same issue

[@antibiaka3708]

@@oliverioxaraukatz7410 do you?

[@antibiaka3708]

@@rwells242 have idea how to fix?

[@megalukes]

Any solution on this?

[@juliaalder2007]

I love it! You are so patient and talented. But how can I get my officer into Uniy? Do I have to apply the modifiers first or is this part of the export process?

[@NahidRahman11]

Very soon you are gonna reach 1 million subscribers

[@maskedgamer7565]

Mine didn't go exactly as it should go. It kind of moonwalks but it looks cool. My very first rigging and animation vid. The rigging part is not easy but the whole thing is alot fun. Thanks for your videos.

[@Chocoronat]

loved it

[@pixspaces4777]

That was awesome tutorial series.. thanks a ton! Can you also show how to do a Jump animation with this character too?

[@ivanstefanov9215]

very good thank you very much!!!!

[@rik0904]

thx , i only needed 10 sec from this video :D

[@BATCH3]

Thanks a lot! thats amazing!

[@Belidos3D]

Are you using a different audio setup for the intro? For a moment it really didn't sound like you at all lol

[@yuseiwong6398]

Thank you so much

[@-KenBo-]

Thank you so much!!!

[@tusharhegde8174]

you are genius

[@hemrimal1917]

You are the best!

[@Dan-li9qw]

thanks its works. What about if we bake the rig? how animate with it? can u make a tutorial for rigg that baked?

[@phamnhanduc2476]

thank you 🤗

[@najla8439]

Great!

[@shadamarwan2598]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. it's very helpful. i just faced one issue; when i add a cycles modifier to the F curve modifier the curves didn't appear. However, the cycles modifier had been added to the channels. Any help?

[@jntbatista7513]

Hello impenzia very good video of Blender ... but when you teach video of unity 3d

[@mohokhachai]

Nasty i have to reimport it and modified it in blender

[@otherworlds9677]

If you decide that your character is moving to fast during parts of the animation, but your happy with the movements, is there a way to add time between the keyframes, or an easy way to delete, copy, paste in keyframes?

[@abhinavcs8901]

THANK YOU!

[@greatrespect1549]

thank you

[@ThatCube1]

I like your new intro