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[@Donminiac-OFFCIAL]

This program seems to be very useful for making realistic movements, but what about unrealistic movements? Imagine if this program could emulate things like squash and stretch, smears or exaggeration.

[@badfitz66]

That could be just a simple case of just allowing the spring movement to stretch and scale the bones (not sure if that's possible yet in cascadeur though)

[@fergadelics]

I do stretches in cascadeur and such but have to do things on purpose that are normally accidents. But if it’s has done the heavy lifting it’s nbd to get messy in blender.

[@Ikxi]

​@@badfitz66yea that'd be awesome

[@InnerEagle]

If there is a business, it probably is doable

[@pawnix4122]

Your request doesn't make sense. Do you also ride a motorcycle and get annoyed that it doesn't have four wheels? This is a Physics Based Animation software (PBA). It was made to solely make hyperrealitic human movements. If you want to make cartoon animations, then go into literally any other software that has ever been concived by humans as those are what are currently being used for cartoon animations.

[@thomasmann4536]

no, it's not the end, it's the start. But don't overhype it. I work at a games studio and my senior animator said it's a good tool for juniors for quicker posing, but experienced animators will get done what you did and keyeing in basically the same amount of time. there are many crucial things about animation that it doesn't do for you, such as extremes or proper timing.

[@nehemiahsomers4141]

Not to mention, it only works for realistic animations- anything even slightly exaggerated you need to use a program like Maya that gives you total control

[@Bigbob508]

i made a backflip animation and after the animation is complteed in unreal it brings me back to the start position and idk what to do i even have root motion on yes or whatever.

[@thomasmann4536]

@@Bigbob508 does the root bone actually move though?

[@Bigbob508]

@@thomasmann4536 I’m not sure how to check but the animation does jump back a lot in the animation montage but even so it goes back

[@thomasmann4536]

@@Bigbob508 in unreal, open the animation, uncheck root motion, on the left side go to the skeleton tab, click on the root bone. if it moves it will draw a red line as the animation plays

[@secretterminal2179]

The thing I understand that most animators really dont enjoy is the recursiveness of making good looking animation. This tool seems to essentially remove all of that extra work which is wonderful because that means more artists can focus more time on making something look interesting rather than on little small but necessary details. Really makes me in particular excited for the possibilities it opens up in terms of pipeline efficiency

[@Kreuzrippengewoelbe]

"focus more time on making something look interesting"... instead of learning the basics.

[@secretterminal2179]

@@Kreuzrippengewoelbe this is a response to an argument I wasn't trying to make but ok

[@SVAFnemesis]

so...are you an animator?

[@Danktart]

@@Kreuzrippengewoelbe Why use a giant truck to move cargo when you can learn the basics of walking it from point a to point b with your own feet manually! Leave it to youtube to have these dumb comments.

[@tallgnome3229]

@@Danktarti don’t necessarily oppose these sort of tools but thats a dumb analogy

[@l4chl4n47]

Cascadeur is really impressive, can’t wait to see what people come up with now that it’ll get more traction in the animation community.

[@remcee2]

i still cant animate lol

[@Bigbob508]

i made a backflip animation and after the animation is complteed in unreal it brings me back to the start position and idk what to do i even have root motion on yes or whatever.

[@shubhuwithkotaropfp]

Fun fact cascadeur is made by nekki the same russian game developer group which had made shadow fight 2 and vector Edit - it wasnt nekkin but nekki

[@progressSH]

that is a fun fact

[@Bigbob508]

i made a backflip animation and after the animation is complteed in unreal it brings me back to the start position and idk what to do i even have root motion on yes or whatever.

[@murtog1]

Finance guy: Game changer Animator: cool but won't this further strip my animation of any uniqueness Studio boss: we're gonna need that sequence faster now ... oh and for less

[@TheBrazilianHue]

If people are willing to do it for less, then yes. Prices are also determined by how much people charge, not just by how much people are willing to pay.

[@BattleAxe-z8i]

@@TheBrazilianHue It gets easier to pay them less when you have tools that take away some of their influence in their first place. Tldr: You can pay them less if you can prove their job is easier

[@thirdeyenz]

Long time games animator here - this is cool! I'd use it for things where either my skills or mocap recordings are lacking to achieve a certain effect or to quickly add realistic secondary motion faster than keyframing it. You still need to know how to animate to get correct timing, posing and spacing so it's not the end of animation by a long shot, just like mocap wasn't. It's just a useful tool.

[@farce2734]

Mind if I ask you the tools that got you started in animation. I'm trying to learn about game animation

[@thirdeyenz]

@@farce2734 Sure, although I started in 2001 so my path won't be relevant to you. There was no KZbin full of tutorials. I owned a copy of 3DS Max and bought a couple of books on 3D animation which were pretty bad and wrong. I did one year of a 3 year 2D animation diploma. I'm basically self taught. These days I'd recommend getting Blender and following along with a bunch of tutorials, starting small, plus you should buy The Animator's Survival Kit and Disney's Illusion Of Life. These will teach you how to really animate, rather than just making something move like a lot of tutorials will do. It's about timing and spacing and so much more. But yeah just start small and eventually you'll figure it out. Everything you do will look like crap but you'll think it's the greatest thing ever so don' t take negative criticism to heart, it's a long journey to get good. I consider myself okayish at best. Good luck.

[@crockignole5327]

It is pronounced " KassKaDer". It is french ; it means "Stuntman"

[@mike_diz]

It's pronounced каскадёр because the software is by russian devs :) Although I'm pretty sure the french and russian pronunciations aren't much different.

[@carthkaras6449]

@@mike_diz But they chose to use the original french loanword, then I don't know. Maybe it's a tribute to the french cascadeurs who basically do the stunts for all the big american actors.

[@zixea3318]

2d artists: AI IS GOING TO KILL US WE ARE GOING TO DIE 3D artists: thank god we can make it easier now.

[@travisgatlin536]

Should be noted that if you're used to Blender's controls, there is a "Blender Preset" in the Input settings. Makes things a lot nicer to navigate if that's what you're used to.

[@batman3698]

Oh, that's amazing. Thanks

[@AronNemeth95]

Great intorduction 😁 But I wouldn't say "the end of animation", rather the beginning. At least it makes it easier for beginners to get into animation imo.

[@khalatelomara]

Kaskader … 😭

[@Sharal3D]

I'm so happy I didn't learn all.tgis 😅 this right here is the logical way to do stuff instead of reinventing the wheel.each time

[@anthonyknight170]

The developers gotta be smoking on some expensive stuff to believe they are allowed break the gold standard that is spacebar for pause and play.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

7:07 "We all know what that is" - Yeah, Skiiing! :D

[@darrennew8211]

I'm honestly surprised it took this long to get to the point where such a program is available. It doesn't seem *that* hard to do, compared to something like cloth sims or softbody, and it certainly makes everything more realistic. I wouldn't be surprised if big studios like Disney already had something like this 10 years ago.

[@Ikxi]

beta was out in late 2020 already though back then I didn't really care about it now I'm looking at it and salivating haha

[@vaisakhkm783]

honestly, this is late... now everyone need artistic things like in ATSV than realistic animations

[@nisbahmumtaz909]

@@vaisakhkm783 uh, special shaders have been around for even longer than dynamic phys rigs time and place for everything, my lil clueless youtuber

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@nisbahmumtaz909 :) ofcourse it's there, but everyone not hyped thismuch about it

[@ExplicityDesigns]

@@vaisakhkm783 ATSV who?

[@Sonario648]

This is a clickbait title. This is simply another animation program, which some people may or may not use depending on whether they like the entire process of animating or not.

[@MartinMartinez-ww9fz]

I know makes me want to hit the "do not recommend this channel" option on this video. I probably will do it.

[@khalatelomara]

Puts his thumb sideways in mouth Great outro😂

[@Derpduck.]

It is genuinly an impressive program, but my computer cannot handle it.

[@adrawdesign]

Honestly this program is underrated and not so many useful uses of it as tutorials but this is an amazing one ☕❤️

[@owencmyk]

Can confirm this exact program is how I got into animation. I love how simple it is

[@mrirurfkjsdo]

It seems 'simple', but it is not that much if you want to use it seriously !

[@owencmyk]

@@mrirurfkjsdo I do use it seriously for pretty much all of my video game animation, it's very simple and easy to use compared to other software, and it doesn't take more than a day or two to learn the ropes. If you're having trouble just try sticking with it, you'll be surprised

[@mrirurfkjsdo]

@@owencmyk I also use it and since its release... and it wasn't really yesterday. But I maintain that to use it seriously, it's not as 'easy' as many think... and like all 'sophisticated' software it requires a lot of learning work. But I agree with you, for relatively simple things, it's a real step forward ! ; )

[@TowerWatchTV]

That is very sad. You should have been interested in the process of making the animation. Not being given a result without even moving your muscle. Pathetic. What did you learn in the end? NOTHING big freaking nothing... Congratz.

[@edwardevans1498]

The irony@@TowerWatchTV

[@BobJones-cd9mt]

Old animator here. This looks interesting. Not having to add physics elements manually is good. As long as I can turn off the AI when i want and back on again within the same animation while making it. I will download free version and have a look at this. Nothing has caught my eye for years. I still use 14+ year old animating software. Because it works. Thanks for the heads up. All the best.

[@nelyrions1838]

Blender dev team needs to make something like this inside blender. Would be incredible. Its not the end of animation, far from it. It's a great tool to speed up the process and help enhance animation.

[@avistryfe4534]

Well. Imagination and ai tells me eventually youll be able to full animate using only keywords. At which point theyll start selling you keyword access for like 10$/word+59.99$/yearly sub to access updates to their platforms. Since everyone is out for blood in the video game industry.

[@eliadugato6644]

I've been followed this software's developement for years now. Honestly don't know if they're actually using AI but even before they did implement it this software was impressive. Remember shadow fight 2? Well this is basically what they used to animate the characters

[@ClaudioMalagrino]

"Kaskas... Keskadur... Kesk"... Anglo-saxons, tsk, tsk. 🤦‍♂😆 Thanks for the video, Cascadeur is an excellent tool.

[@Squidmoto3]

Looks incredibly cool, now that I'm working with a publisher I want to improve all my animations and I think this is the fastest way to get the biggest results. Thanks for showing it off!

[@kusog3]

I think I saw this software from Corridor Crew, but I didn't really bother checking it. Thanks for the show case! Now I just need to find the anime fight scene I did back in my college days

[@Ninjagojosh]

This is so cool, I can see putting hours into figuring out the ins and outs of this and coming out with some epic results, really push the limits

[@hi_its_jerry]

i discovered this lil gem in july of 2021 and i was surprised that nobody in the community was talking about it at the time. i even thought of making my own review of the software but eh im too lazy for that lol. really glad to see you covering it though!

[@NuViewDesign]

Thanks for being the CG technical scout that you are! 👍👍

[@zlobzor]

I don't think it's the end of animation, but it's a nifty, different way of doing things. Traditional animation gives you far more control over the results. This gives you some lovely offsets/followthrough with minimal effort. It certainly raises the bar for "non animators" doing animation! Can't say I'm keen on the entire rig moving when you move something, but I assume that's something you can turn off. It's definitly cool.

[@yashthorat69]

Gotta get that thumb snack in the end 💀

[@Mrsmifff]

It doesn't really change animation so much as offers another tool. This just makes every joint into its own world space which is awesome but honestly still something I'd pass on for now personally

[@TheDrodder]

It's all super interesting. Personally, the big players like blender and Maya all have some style of physics/rag-doll plugins that match this style of quality already. Its a toss up cause out of box it gives you stuff already...curious to see where it'll go

[@cybershinobi4136]

I tried this thing out ages ago, great software its finally getting some spotlight I see

[@codiivt]

this kind of tool is incredible for indie game developers who want to make more realistic-looking animations quicker; i'm decent at posing, timing and novice animation and whatnot, but a single person producing mostly-realistic animations when their focus is on an entire game is impractical, to say the least obviously, just using the base animations this spits out misses the point; it's an extra tool for people to use, not something that will REPLACE animators. i think that's the main point that people are missing with this kinda thing; it's not REPLACING anything, it's just assisting, like how programming AI co-pilots work. they're meant to assist a programmer in the creation of a script, and speed up the process

[@Gr13fM4ch1n3]

The guy behind this program is a mad lad.

[@USBEN.]

I want this in blender.

[@oscarreyes4511]

Everything this program does, I have done it in Maya for years. The only difference is that in Maya you use a bit of code to achieve the same results.

[@mcstarioni4871]

wow you so smart, like "everything" really? must be you are a full time full stack ML-Physics-Ui-tester maya pluginner, so cool, and in just a "bit" of code, wow, how can i be a programmer as good as you?

[@mcstarioni4871]

also devops , mlops, ux analytics, so much of a talent

[@mcstarioni4871]

how stupid are people to buy it, they could have just asked you for this, years before, too bad you kept it in secret

[@_plaha_]

​@@mcstarioni4871You can start from fixing your shitty attitude

[@tartyto]

What a time to be alive, nice video man.

[@Mondrubberduck]

Your background music made me wanna do a quick abs-workout.

[@CGMatter]

Lol

[@therealbraindawg]

Been using it for a while now, I love Cascadeur.

[@Danifiction20]

Do you use ,Cpu,gpu, ?

[@DJNicke]

As a former Disney animator, I cannot WAIT to play with this program!

[@Tremori_A]

Yessss ive been wanting you to make a video on this program.

[@aresagathos2075]

Neat for human. What about tentacles ? What about motion capture cleanup ? Support for fingers ? (more floppy, open bellow shoulders, more closed above)

[@nickfai9301]

Thanks. Waiting for the next tutorial.

[@VRWarLab]

THE END??? More like the beginning!!!

[@shinmai]

2:41 good call on not trying to pronounce Bezier, given the hilarious joke of not being able to pronounce Cascadeur (for anyone earnestly trying, just imagine a portmanteau of cascade and saboteur and you'll get there, the word means stuntman in French)

[@BAD_HOBO]

Looks like a useful tool for artists of the Overwatch34 caliber

[@Patrix8558]

huh, I thought word Cascadeur existed in EN in some form, but I guess not really now to think of it? Over here, it is a word for "stuntman". So basically "cascadeur" means "stuntman" or something akin to that i suppose..

[@betapotataOld]

I’m guessing what’s going to happen is, just like image generation ai, all of the animations will look and/or feel the same. It makes realistic movements but is extremely limited in expression, or like another comment said, “unrealistic movements”

[@edwardevans1498]

You can only blame yourself for “unrealistic movements”

[@betapotataOld]

@@edwardevans1498 I think you misunderstand, unrealistic movements are everywhere in animation. When done correctly and intentionally, they’re great

[@scottlee38]

Cool. Should add this Tool to your Blender tutorials!

[@mr.j7899]

Just like how MoCap said it would end manual animation.

[@justinfrey6371]

Hell yes! I played around with this software years ago and just couldn't get my head around it. This video both explained it FAST and reminded me it existed.

[@CreationTVstation]

Nice tutorial! i feel more confident to try this out after your explanation! Thx!

[@timforcade1029]

BTW, Cascadeur = Stuntman

[@inkchip7351]

Honestly this is the ai i asked for now if they can aid in retopology instead of anime girls we'd be golden

[@BirhanDursun]

Simply full body ik

[@bman5988]

I always thought this would be how all major animation software would work-years ago. Seems like a pain to always start from scratch. This looks like an excellent tool to quickly block in complex motion and then add a nuanced performance on top of it. I really don’t see how it’s AI at all, but buzzwords I guess…

[@rob679]

Apparently there is built-in neural network to calculate the poses (so that's why arms move when you move the leg controllers) then there are physics added to the IK on top of it. They seek the way to enable custom train data for the posing.

[@bman5988]

@@rob679 wow, I wonder if they trained it on mo-cap data and if it will learn from the user’s animation style.

[@thFaust]

@@bman5988 I am pretty sure the answers to those questions are: yes and no. :-)

[@risingkhan935]

rigging in this software hurt my brain so much tbh

[@Eddierath]

You still have to practice and master animation principals TRADITIONALLY, to understand how this tool can be an extension of your foundation... It doesn't provide extremes , correct timing, even ease outs/ ease ins will only be good depending on the situation. It won't replace animation in the sense that you can come to the PC knowing nothing and this will make youre work look pro... I don't know why folks been trying hard to sell this idea. SKILL matters.

[@nisbahmumtaz909]

Ngl this literally looks like SFM (source film maker) but with physics Which means it'll be a god-tier animation software EDIT: would love to see a followup video with how you include exporting + integration options into Blender! really appreciate this vid

[@ShogoKawada123]

You just export to FBX from Cascadeur and import that FBX into Blender...

[@mrirurfkjsdo]

By reading several com's, many seem to think that everything is very simple, and a correct animation done in a few minutes... It seems 'simple', but it is not that much if you want to use it seriously !

[@BattleAxe-z8i]

The definition changes when you're the artist, just like how some 2d artists claim AI drawing are not a replacement for human work when their market and job positions are turning into fog. Most people won't care about the minutia of the finner details when they can have an animation done for a tiny fraction of the price

[@goldencarrotmlp2157]

If this gets embedded to blender I'll use it

[@jamesclark2663]

Considering big companies have been using this tech for years now I'd say it's hardly the end. The only real difference here is now it's more accessable to your average person rather than being proprietary tech locked up behind some huge souless mega corp.

[@shubham-yd7xm]

Thank you for informing this tool ❤❤

[@mrjed]

ah yes the Yoga position: Downward Goats Eye

[@renarddubois940]

Mmmh I mean i'm a pro 3d animator and honestly, it's doesn't really feel faster than what we do to animate, and i think we have more control.. it depends tho, can you lock in on of the inbetween frames by setting a key?

[@betterlifeexe4378]

Looks like IK with some extra layers of automation on top

[@calamitist]

this is not the end of animation, this is a breakthrough in animation

[@marks7192]

Seems like a cool tool for pre-vis work.

[@Leukick]

Man, if this had an ADDON for Blender......

[@hundvd_7]

Funnily enough, that's pretty much the same fundamental system as in, uh... Virt a Mate

[@MrDebranjandutta]

This along with stable diffusion img2img can yield some interesting results

[@shk3662]

I really really wanted video about cascadeur

[@earthsteward70]

This is actually going to change everything

[@dd_Dedsec]

This is what MBG Core guys use... See their videos and Animations

[@acat5338]

I remember seeing this a while back. Would be interested in seeing how it does with secondary actions such as clothing or hair. Also how it would do when making your own rigs. The current defaults would be useful for planning out 2D though.

[@Bigbob508]

i made a backflip animation and after the animation is complteed in unreal it brings me back to the start position and idk what to do i even have root motion on yes or whatever.

[@ShogoKawada123]

Making your own rig in Cascadeur is extremely easy, like far easier than in any other software. Any FBX file containing a skeletal armature and a character mesh that is fully weighted to that armature can be imported into Cascaddeur and then rigged and animated.

[@Bigbob508]

@@ShogoKawada123 idk how to do that but I did figure my problem out and it was cuz in the animation the character actually moved and then I’m unreal the root moved but could stay with the character cuz it went back as apart of the animation

[@rmjrmj4]

It's simple but way too many variables are moving to have proper pose to pose motion, you kinda have to move everything but everything is moving and if you lock it it'll have a chance of doing a unwanted bend. It's cool to play around with but not very practical unless your on a time strain and want something fast... not easy though, I also hope you can change the hot-keys so that it made more since and be much more practical to use. Good find though. I'm not shooting the messenger, just a humble 3D animator's advice.

[@bigheadman8590]

Finally bro I fuckin hate animating

[@pawnix4122]

I hope they add a mode which takes all of the little secondary motions into account.

[@LM-cc7qz]

All I gotta say is this looks like inverse kinematics.

[@moritzryser]

this is random but if your head would have the same shape as the blender logo cut out it‘d be really satisfying to watch

[@FrostbiteDigital]

I can't tell you how much this software saves time and improves workflow

[@FFgEDF-sj3bn]

how ur finger?

[@batman3698]

"cas-ca-deur" not "cas-csacs-casdeur" 🤣 But yea, it's a pretty cool program. I've played around with it a bit myself. The issue for me is getting used to the controls, and also rigging for it.

[@David0gden]

Thank you for doing what you do man, I've been Cascadeur curios if you will. Excellent tutorial, so easy to follow. 🤓👍

[@Bigbob508]

i made a backflip animation and after the animation is complteed in unreal it brings me back to the start position and idk what to do i even have root motion on yes or whatever.

[@Nikkattsu]

Can't wait until there is an animation software that can easily loop an animation with physics.

[@mikhailhumphries]

But I think the free version can only support 300 frames per export

[@TrackLab]

More than enough for indie animators etc. I would say. I can't think of a scene that goes over 300 frames without a single camera change, that would need this animation help. Just switch the camera/scenes/some transition, and you have the next animation

[@f4ust85]

Cascadeur = Stuntman in many european languages

[@Yeetboop]

Cascadeur is french for stuntman.

[@MatthewBrauchli]

Can we stop with the clickbait titles and go back to journalistic integrity please? CGmatter knows it's not the end of animation, the viewers know it's not, everyone knows it's not. It's an amazing tool that will possibly end a ton of grunt work in the animation industry, and possibly trim a few jobs down, but there's too much needed in terms of custom animation that needs to be owned by whatever company commissions it for their IP. Even the amount of manual tweaking needed by a human to make Cascadeur work shows it's far from automated - it just lends a professional eye in terms of correctly weighted movements and automates that small aspect of animation.

[@joshuafountain]

I haven't had any luck with this program, it's a bit buggy with the models I've tried and I've mostly given up

[@yesdadbut960]

Create this in blender with geometry nodes for 2 or 3 bones 😏

[@charlyvega4545]

In other words this is animating with simulations.

[@FlowerPower3000]

with perfect skinning... may be

[@UnderfundedScientist]

Pretty cool software

[@drukcg]

Cool stuff, thanks CG Matter!! A legend.

[@kat74809]

Can you make a video showing us how to import a model object with a motion capture animation file for example from Mixamo and apply AutoPhysics to the animation and do a compare and contrast before and after AutoPhysics?