Blender is Changing Animation Forever

[@Smeaf]

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[@suryakrishna7898]

thank you smeaf

[@HannaLisova]

you're the best!

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@HannaLisova Jesus loves you. Repent and turn away from your sins today 🤗

[@wackynotion7681]

i don't have credit card how can i get this

[@ryvyr]

Cheers for overview ^^ Though in mutual consideration, plenty people would watch non-adsense, rather than skip/click off, if it were at very front/back/both

[@Amelia_PC]

5:08 When you said "Layers," I screamed internally a big "YES, that IS it"! I migrated from Motion Builder and 3DS Max to Blender, and layers are the thing I missed the most. Oh my... Layers! I'm eager for this upgrade.

[@carlosrg4659]

Lol I can feel your joy

[@TheVisualDigitalArts]

For Game Developers this is going to be a ....Game Changer.

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

*Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. *Revelation 22:12-14* And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[@brickwitti]

@@JesusPlsSaveMe No one cares

[@imnotev]

​@@JesusPlsSaveMe Galatians 6:9 Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@imnotevAmen

[@schizo_fox]

tools are getting better, tech is getting more powerful, devs are getting laid off and remaining ones are young and lazy.

[@SzotyMAG]

this is the proejct 2025 im looking forward to

[@TimeMasterOG]

The other project 2025 isnt going to even happen anyway...

[@literallykevin]

​@@TimeMasterOG gonna mentally pin this message so I can find it later.

[@TimeMasterOG]

@@literallykevin have fun with that kevin

[@hongquiao]

@@TimeMasterOG 🤞

[@Vortex1x1x1x]

I’m looking forward to both

[@GANONdork123]

People say Blender's UI is confusing, but like, have you ever tried using 3DS Max?

[@jalexorxe]

Different workflow, different UI, doesn't mean it's harder, it's based on non-destructive work from a set of modifiers, that's the spearhead of 3dsmax, that's why it's so versatile. And if you look at it from another point of view, of all the interfaces of other similar programs, 3dsmax is the most similar to Blender's, even though it has used the same method as Maya of being able to switch workspaces. Blender has learned from its competitors and adapted it to its workflow, and that's great.

[@tommyholloway7634]

3Dmax has the most user-friendly interface out of all the software I have used. Blender Foundation definitely should hire a couple of UI designers.

[@bryantbitrate]

No but I’ve tried using Blender

[@huiAPPOAJ]

People say 3DS Max's UI is confusing, but like, have you ever tried using ZBrush?

[@Alander787]

@@tommyholloway7634 How is Blender's UI not user friendly? Have you seen the one before 2.8? :D We've come a long a way. Every other DCC feels pretty clunky, sterile and not user friendly at all, atleast to me, especially Autodesk stuff... Something like 3D Coat, ZBrush, Marmoset Toolbag or Substance apps is just like you can pick it up easily in few sessions and it doesnt hurt your eyes.

[@mehmetemincelik1452]

Ah yes the Blender Mr Beast

[@Deriko31]

Sounds like a game Mr beast would do

[@PingerSurprise]

Mr Bleanderst

[@sybren.blender]

Thanks for showing off our work so nicely 😻 and for calling us genius 😋

[@Smeaf]

Thanks for all the hard work you and the team put in! 🙏

[@AntBoyification]

you guys ARE genius

[@MapleWhale]

Layers HOLY MOLY. As someone who uses a lot of art programs and then trying blender I really was wondering why there were no such things as 'layers'. Being able to target something specific without trying to wrestle through the other things was part of the challenge of learning the program. Mixing things sounds amazing..

[@MrBowmanMakes]

Watching this, it feels like I've been teleported back to animating in Maya in 2007. So many things Maya does really well for animation just haven't existed in Blender and have really been the barrier for me using Blender for any serious animation at all.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Who is this Smeaf character that suddenly uploaded a banger?

[@LudicrousAnimation]

Tugg speedman

[@infiniteac3334]

I swear, that unlocked an old memory😂 Xbox avatar custom sound

[@LofiNimbus48]

This going to be amazing for beginners and keeping organized, I’m super hyped!!

[@risingofgames]

i'm here thinking about how good the music selection for this video is and then the xbox character editor starts playing and - dude. this video is just amazing. the editing is on poing. its really well put together and, well, has good sound selection. i love how this sounds omg i love music and i alo lkove blender. might love you too aswell. woah when i clicked on this i was not expecting such a beautifully crafted youtube goodie, so for that i lay my grattitude upon thee, warrior smee

[@ISpeakOnlytheTruth]

I was getting really into this video then I started hearing the video game music from two minutes in and now I'm going through a music nostalgic rabbit hole. Thanks bro. I'll be back later.

[@ShienlanMiitsues]

The slotted actions are a part of the 4.4 release at the moment, which is to be released on Feb 5th, 2025. Exciting stuff!

[@kevinrosso8649]

This is Blender finally looking at what the industry needs, and not doing stuff on its own. These features are the basics animators already use in other DCCs

[@d3j4v00]

this is a serious game changer, thanks for elevating it! I was thinking back to when i gave up on blender and realized that it was the same time i shifted from modeling to animating.

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

Where are you going after you die? What happens next? Have you ever thought about that? Repent today and give your life to Jesus Christ to obtain eternal salvation. Tomorrow may be too late my brethen😢. Hebrews 9:27 says "And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after that the judgement

[@d3j4v00]

@@JesusPlsSaveMe thought about it? Bro, i've been there. I've met Jesus and we're tight but we are here under this video to talk about cool developments in computer graphics, not to proselytize. Be cool.

[@pranav_indoria]

​@@d3j4v00well said brother

[@animusynthetika]

I just want to say I LOVE the Jet Set Radio music in the background. Perfection.

[@coffeebirds_ideas]

This is basically the power of Maya in the package that we love. Amazing

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

Blender’s UI/UX had always put me off using it, and even now I’m just constantly noticing things that could be organized better, streamlined, etc. I’m excited they’re working on it.

[@villain42]

check out "b for artists" it's a streamlined ui version of blender

[@jbdh6510]

you can donate and/or contribute to Blender to make UI improvements

[@anonymousd5582]

@@jbdh6510 If they listed donations for specific features sure, and the contribution part is a huge pain in the arse if you're not an already fully experienced developer for blender, good luck having it be implemented in blender without 15 revisions and a whole year, all for the price of . . . all of your free time and 0 payment . . . yeah. Guess why open source projects don't have that many significant outside contributions.

[@GilliganTF2]

Me being hypnotized with that Pomni jacket

[@amosreginaldjr.4200]

This reminds me of PowerPoint, ‘start next animation AFTER previous animation ends’

[@IntrovertDevs]

5:10 musics giving nostalgia vibes

[@Nkanyiso_K]

This is gonna be Awesome ⭐️

[@TheJan]

never used blender but i watched the whole vid

[@Skyn3tD1dN0th1ngWr0ng]

What a calm a relaxing voice, sir... Ahhh... I miss "old" KZbin content...

[@AsherKadmiel]

you say about a 12 day old video

[@Skyn3tD1dN0th1ngWr0ng]

@@AsherKadmiel I said about the "format" nowadays everyone screams in your face and offers you sponsor ads... or aids...

[@小笼包-m3o]

Would be cool if they made better simulations. Like C4D. So far simulations are the weakest part of Blender. Edited: I would say: making it at least 5 USD per month would make it better.

[@principedelapaz3593]

yes but is not easy to developing a good system simulation blender need more good developers and the good developers need much money but i se now with the good donating community is the time for make some upgrades for the system simulation on blender i hope that's in the next 3y👍👍

[@reeeyou]

It is on their roadmap but not a major priority yet.

[@power_animationz]

if blender could have to node system like in houdini it’s all over

[@cyano3d]

@@power_animationz geometry nodes is very close to it when it comes to pcg

[@zedeon6299]

That's why you should donate more or develop it yourself instead of complaining

[@andreylukyanenko4735]

Bro, you are so good at explaining things.

[@khichastudio465]

Your videos are so fun to watch and at the same time so educative .I Appreciate the amount of hard work you put into your videos. I guess these videos are like a short animation project for you.

[@nh8444]

The Jet Grind Radio music is always appreciated.

[@rectangle_]

You did a good job making it interesting. Thank you for a great explanation 😊

[@buddhathegod]

I didn't understand much except grouping and layers, but idk, seeing someone excited about the features did make me happy. Still trying to get into rigging and animation in blender, I still find it super confusing and odd in comparison to Maya. But I've made the full transition from Maya to Blender apart from animation, so it is the next hill I'm hoping to climb in Blender. Here's to hoping the new simplified system that you mentioned comes out before I get to it!

[@cyano3d]

Thanks for informing us about the new improvements i had no idea

[@heathholley2605]

The Knucklebones music at 6:33 zapped me back to life

[@anglodel]

Interesting video and news (I’m just discovering your channel !), and… man, the music you used ! : so muche nostalgia and surprises. Thx ! (Oblivion, Breath Of The Wild, Minecraft, and… Minish Cap covers (?), and a lot of others I missed. Marvelous :) )

[@raneanubis]

immaculate music choice.

[@AaronBowley]

i'm so glad you said this, i've always wanted to learn blender but the ui drives me absolutely insane, things that are sooo easy to do and right there at your fingertips in C4D are beyond annoying in blender

[@onelaststop]

Not sure how any of this changes animation forever but Blender still does not support USD staging

[@Pixelz_3D]

Now that's actually cool update that's going to start to compete with maya for animation

[@Iridium.]

Took a while . Great addition indeed. The constraint animation needs to be part of the action itself!!! Thats a huge thing!

[@nilryth]

Animating with editable motion paths sounds so good, reminds me of playing with the Bamzooki zook kit software as a kid. It feels crazy that a silly tool for kids had that years before Blender.

[@skade245]

This is the only project 2025 I'm interested in.

[@theoneoverseeraotoariseoft6549]

the implications of these features are crazy, can't wait!

[@maroan1073]

That background music brings me a good old memorys 4:02

[@jalexorxe]

This will only change the way of animating within Blender, which is 10 years out of date. These same functions were already available in Maya and 3dsmax years ago and were better. So it will not “change animation forever”, it will make it easier, more organized and following current standards for Blender users.

[@conservativeliberal]

that costs 235 per month or 1875 yearly thats simply out of the question idk many people who can afford that probably only pros this will change animation forever since blender is free and literally anyone can jump into it and now its gonna become even easier were probably gonna see a huge spike in indie 3d movies or games and all that stuff

[@hound_of_justice]

@@conservativeliberal Only if you earn over 100K dollars, otherwise one depending on country is elligible for indie license which makes both of those packages cost only 260$ per year each.

[@CrankHead-z8z]

Rigging that needs to be changed to in par win Maya. U can't make complex facial rigs in blender easily, and the deformation result is bad, that's why even blender studio doesn't attempt to do them much, unless it's extremly cartoony stuff. like sprite fright and forgot the name of the second movie. If u pick any blender character rig vs maya ucan easily see the difference.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

​@@hound_of_justiceput that next to Zbrush an other tools then bam huge annual sink then if you get more tools from them its 3000 annual oh my

[@deadsetanime7102]

Agreed. I'm looking at this video and I am not seeing anything new. We've had non-linear animation in LW for over a decade. Changing existing animation individually in instanced clips is nothing new. As far as cost, well I'm still on the perpetual license model. No maintenance or yearly subscription costs.

[@lamiaifa]

love your videos bro!

[@hvanmegen]

finally, animation controls like I used to have in Lightwave 3D back in the day! Awesoooomeeeee!!!

[@martinschemmel84]

I first understood "rigging nerds" and I thought "wait.. we got rigging nerds since forever... but is that a Blender feature?"

[@zakiroyhan]

I didn't know you're on skillshare! That's Awesome!

[@Sandk2ng]

That clay material you're using for the animations is absolutely gorgeous! Could you teach us how to do it? Thanks! Also, wonderful video

[@ones_flow5652]

I'm way more in fear that I don't understand all this new stuff as I didn't in your video. I hardly learned the actual animating stuff the last weeks and now I have to change half of it.

[@riccardofissore7996]

grouping animations is exactly what I was talking about today with my colleague

[@frizzledphoenix6670]

Love the use of one of the songs from Jet Set Radio in the music bed.

[@yassinbadermedia]

Love the way you edited your video, I don't know if you did it your self by yourself, but I can feel the effort energy and investment into this video. Thank you* You are awesome, just subscribed.

[@mariusj6004]

I remember watching the presentation about this and was extremely impressed with how blender animation workflow could look like in the future. Many aspects are extremely outdated and very clunky to use. So hopefully this streamlines the animation process a bit more.

[@besknighter]

Seems like they are looking at what Epic did with Unreal and making their own version of what worked. I'm not even mad. In fact, I'm pretty happy because those are some really cool stuff.

[@amigarulez]

Blender didnt had original thought since inception.

[@BillGarrett]

This is freaking amazing

[@Rew-wl7yt]

0:43 thought this was an ad for a second and was about to click off thanks for the heart attack

[@dynstinn]

loving the pomni jacket

[@Guest-ke2sq]

As soon as I join blender, it is going to add this update. Nice :D

[@DEFFT612]

Dude at 4:11 I was not expecting the theme for customizing your avatar on the Xbox360 to start playing. It literally just like hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia, but also nice video keep up the great work :))

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

I miss the Daritos obstacle course avatar games

[@jackfady2663]

Just went to the comments section to say exactly that 😂😂, Loved it ❤❤

[@flodachieftori]

Love it that they called it projekt Baklava due to the many sweet layers!

[@SFtheWolf]

I had no idea that Lud and Schlatts Musical Emporium wrote Let Mom Sleep by Hideki Naganuma

[@theftking]

4:20 Well said. The NLE is indeed a nightmare the moment you have multiple strips that you need to keep in sync.

[@WHACKYFEAR]

quite right, but it can be easily fixed with the slots he mentioned at 8:26 anyway, hi theft I'm a fan

[@heh_bloxfruits]

finally my man posted

[@heh_bloxfruits]

omg smeaf noticed me

[@rjsantana007]

Loving the new camera angle and color Smeaf! Looks fkn good 💥

[@hasselhoff3379]

“Updates for Blender's new animation system” Houdini 20 & 20.5 has changed the animation. Adding nodes to armatures is nothing new. Great feature and I'm glad to see it implemented, but it's not a new feature in the animation world. The video is well done, but clickbait in educational content is so annoying and often misleading. Even in this video it is implied that Blender will be THE program for animation.

[@FutureRules]

I agree, most of the thing he is mentioning has also been a thing in Maya for YEARS, lmao.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

As someone who wants to snag iclone an character creator for half off yeah having more then a single program is nice

[@DeanGvozdic]

I think blender is doing some amazing things but yeah, I still animate most of my things in Softimage because it had all of these animation tools 15 years ago.

[@turtle1658]

Yes but that was not TOO much of clickbait and most yt titles need to be extremely hyperbolic so they can be clicked, especially so Smeaf could make money

[@Bizop99]

The difference between blender and programs like Maya is that blender is completely free and Maya is over a thousand dollars a year to own (just for the cheapest plan). Its changing the animation world because its effectively removing the need for existing animators, and new animators alike to pay copious amounts of money that frankly, none of us have, for animation programs. Blender may not be making new features, but it is making features like these accessible to anyone. Remember that their main agenda is to make a professional animation program that is completely free for anyone.

[@nguyen5247]

great video, side note, love the pomni jacket!

[@VEX1NS]

nice jacket 😎

[@BogdanBMSS2]

Bro got the drip

[@victordelacruz8440]

The convert text to mesh needs improvements that's on par with Cinema4D

[@BLUZ3D]

as a beginner animator i see this as an absolute W

[@xerxexworld]

Not only the animation should be easier/accessible, but also the character/assets creation.

[@OlafMeyer]

Just looks like Lightwave Motion Mixer, Scene editor, graph editor and dope sheet to me.

[@jordanhenshaw]

"Empower animators to keep animating" wtf does that even mean? That's not a motivational statement, that's a buzzstatement.

[@jdotem]

Welcome to meaningless platitudes the channel

[@fakeingirs]

This is starting to sound like Moho where you have smartbones and actions. The actions can be layered on top of each other so that one action might have a character closing their hand into a fist and the other action might have the hand fanning their fingers outward. Each action is tied to a bone that acts like a dial. Then you can mix the two. Or three or four or how many you want controlling the particular animation.

[@YoregeSacraft]

The Pomni shirt is great✨

[@DelleDashe]

Love the Pomni jacket! (Coming from a fan of TADC and Murder Drones :3)

[@nikoheino3927]

im personally most excited about editable motion paths in the viewport. i struggle to get clean paths.

[@Redacted341]

Lmao I loved how you used the Xbox 360 avatar music

[@fadepanther6224]

Maybe I just haven't looked at your stuff in a long time, but I feel your excitement in this video. Like, HEAVIER than I ever have. I share it honestly. A bit of me is worried, as the world is... in a bad space right now, and has been for some time, but I do hope this new animation flow pans out for the Blender team. This program has... changed a lot even since I started using it. It hasn't always been for the better, but it has been trying to be.

[@RadikAlice]

Haven't updated from 3.6 in case critical add-ons for me break, but always down to hear about it (Or any open source software) getting better! But maybe I have nothing to worry about, besides the official ones the list is very small and most are big projects in that scene anyway

[@DrCaptainMorgan]

Animation Layers to block and polish would be huge.

[@litjellyfish]

its as needed as the stuff in the video imo

[@vygoツ]

Love the TADC merch :)

[@MountMatze]

nah, no intro. its not a documentary

[@AnittaDeady]

0:40 blue block moved before red one hit

[@rohitshekhawat001]

I was waiting for your tutorials, your tutorials are very interesting and funny

Essentially, animation slots are child classes of the master action

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Well, at least we have one thing to look forward to in 2025.

[@hotel_arcadia]

I was not expecting Jet Set Radio music

[@Cain-x]

One thing Blender needs to take a page from is the Auto-IK implementation in DAZ Studio, it just "works". Yes, Blender does have an Auto IK-Rig but its not as "auto" as DAZ's. This is more pronounced when you import boned characters into Blender but you cannot pose them as well as what DAZ can. DAZ also has a tool called Puppeteer which allows users to place poses onto a 2D graph, then use the mouse to "tween" between the poses in that graph depending on the mouse x,y position. You can also layer on animations using this tool. Then it has the Animate2 tool, which is like an NLA - from like 15 years ago. That means animators can quickly pose, prototype and layer on an animation very quickly in DAZ, and I dare say faster than Blender. Blender needs to have a good IK rig first, DAZ does not. Blender will win all day with refined and finished animations, but sometimes we don't want to go through all of that setup/rigging/etc... just to get a semi decent animation going.

[@affanity.x9268]

5:56 very important guys! ive been doin this manually the whole time by parenting bones inside bones to create layers.

[@KimJImagery]

I been tiring to model and animate in blender for year but it was just to complicated for me and the tutorials aren't much help, here hoping this project 2025 is better

[@FilmSpook]

There are TONS of great and easy to follow Blender tutorials for free, man. No excuses.

[@KimJImagery]

@@FilmSpook And all of them would leave something out to the point of having to use up time just finding the right one.

[@shori_shita]

I'm sooo excited! I'm making a whole anime series and this will come in clutch

[@Coleecool]

1:03 The chords in the song that plays here is oddly reminiscent of Love Theorey..

[@MScienceCat2851]

I wish so much they would improve simulations, like fluid and gas, and maybe even nodes like houdini. More efficient fluid simulating engine. Resolution of fluid in blender is like taking smaller shovel based on resolution and digging a hole. Which one is going to take longer to dig with, larger or smaller shovel

[@dongiovanni1993]

These slotted actions look a bit like animation clips in Unity. Each channel in those clips has the object name as a prefix. Actually, only for nested child objects, top level channels does not have prefixes. This way you can animate an object with all the children at once in a single animation clip. It's great when it comes to editing them all together. Nice to have feature. Good news, thank you.

[@riceontopstew]

I love the wii backround music

[@DuckyDuckMcDuck]

love the drip bruh

[@Beefy-Cheese]

4:08 That music, It's from the Xbox 360 avatar menu right?

[@wiebevdmeij]

OMG I love that the video is exactly 11:11