Pro Game Animation Is EASY Now (Try This!)

[@Smeaf]

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[@FineBlender]

you are so crazy and i like you

[@aethelierproductions]

i can make my own web so i'm good thanks!

[@absamuraiff2261]

hey ive been doing art of like game ideas and i think im pretty good for someone whos not like copying much or watching much tuts at all and its been lonely can i like add u on disc and stuff and u can like teach me or sum cuz i rlly need it i wanna know what u think about my ideas also

[@manusvfx]

As a game VFX Artist, I would love to make couple of corrections so that people that want to try it out, don't get confused. Effects are actually made inside of an engine (Unreal, Unity, Godot) with help of particle editors (Niagara, Shuriken Particle System, VFX Graph) and not Blender. We usually use Blender to create meshes for our effects, but not to create effects inside it. So if you want to make effects for games then grab the engine first and look for tutorials for specific particle editor. Thanks for video though, glad that people talk about this beautiful specialization that not too many know about.

[@bigboy4006]

I was wondering about that. Your comment answered my question - thank you!

[@GravityBlood]

💯% Fact

[@arnaudkaho7137]

I'll also add : It's not nearly easy. It's technical, especially if you work for video games that aim medium computers. It's paid 100K$ a year for a good reason.

[@tannermorgan6089]

can you elaborate a little on what you mean by meshes for the effects. maybe an example

[@arnaudkaho7137]

You basically have two ways of doing VFX : 1) Particles (hundred/thousands of dots/3D/2D objects, doing thing) 2) Mesh shape. Basically a 3D object that you animate with blender or a vfx program. For example Niagara in UE5. @@tannermorgan6089 Once you can merge both to create what you have in mind, you are pro.

[@janniboy2766]

I swear i've never seen someone say as much and at the same time say NOTHING AT ALL like this in a long time...

[@NewSpark_]

Fr, I can't say that I've learned anything at all from this

[@katherinematejek5833]

For real what a waste of time wtf smeaf 🙄

[@brianbergmusic5288]

I wouldn't say we learned nothing at all. It's more like we learned the first 5 - 10% and the rest of the lesson is fragmented in some deeper rooms of the dungeon. The 'LINK' 🥁 at the end does seem to open up another level in the dungeon (admittedly, not 100%). Spoiler alert: the next vid features *Blender Nodes* recipes that require a lot of self-research to figure out WHY the node recipe works (I haven't yet been able to find some supplemental tutorials to help understand the second-layer of tutorials yet).

[@Muchac54328]

Literally nothing was explained in the video other than the obvious things. People focus too much on the memes and not enough on the fact this guy barely explains anything.

[@wholefoodstm4790]

Bro I thought it was just me, and then in the end he just points you to another video lol wtf

[@durvids474]

cuz the guy barely knows anything. He doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time. Look at the damn title, this isn't even game animation, this is game vfx. And most of this stuff you would be doing in the engine, not in blender, the guy's an idiot.

[@Max-zr7hr]

Right i thought the same thing!! It's crazy

[@overseastom]

If you're already slightly familiar with how 3d apps work, the video explains a decent bit tbh. You need to know how to texture a basic object though, and specifically how to apply a scrolling texture to it. This provides the alpha channel (showing which area is visible vs transparent), allowing you to make a simple flat rectangular plane become an animated curved flame shape instead, for instance. Then you have to chose what colours the texture will have (and likely animate their transitions too), and hey presto, you've got a simple texture animation. If it all sounded Greek to you though, then you'll wanna look up a dedicated scrolling texture / moving texture tutorial, and you'll be making them in no time. Good luck!

[@IridiumZero]

He knows nothing about anything, just another grifter

[@havishchinta7037]

I want his editor to edit my life

[@Derpduck.]

Same

[@Smeaf]

I'll get right on that

[@Smeaf]

Anything for you

[@sigmathanos5030]

​@@Smeaf what about me?

[@Smeaf]

@@sigmathanos5030but of course!

[@ConaaaMC]

This is simply one of the videos i have ever seen

[@CamUsername123]

This video was more about obscure memes than about anything to do with VFX. Feels more like a way to farm attention from kids than help anyone learn anything.

[@nixellion]

As a game animator who also does some vfx I'd also like to add another correction to the ones given by @manusvfx - this video is not about Animation, it's about VFX. It's different fields which require different skillsets, and most studios, even smaller ones, have different people for animation and vfx. It's actually quite painful confusion when people at work assume that if you're 'an animator' you can do vfx as well, because 'hey, it's moving, it must be animation!'. The correct answer would usually be either "no, I am an animator, I don't do VFX", or "ok, I can do this VFX but that's another job title, so I'd like to get paid extra for that".

[@LushVFX]

I'm the VFX artist who made the effects for Temtem at 01:57 hehehe glad you like them 💖

[@theshadowunity8260]

did you make it in blender or unity or unreal?

[@readyforlol]

@@theshadowunity8260 I'm not the OP, but I also do VFX and these are not made using Blender but the game engine you work on (unless you need meshes with specific shapes, but in most cases you make them with quads). TemTem was made in Unreal, so I assume they made those on Unreal. The engine doesn't matter much though. Engines don't make games, people do. You could do these on Unity or Godot if you wanted to, so just grab whichever engine looks more intuitive to you.

[@nugget7865]

1 minute video prolonged unnecessarily

[@vatsoffice]

for real

[@K43B]

He needs money

[@FreeStyleCrhymeR]

a video that ı opened up for learning something suggests me to watch another video for this. now thats great.

[@hp4985]

Fun fact, smeaf is actually a 3d model with a million scrolling animations rendered in unreal engine 10

[@Smeaf]

Don't tell them the secrets

[@STICKOMEDIA]

@@Smeaf lol

[@yongyong-m1p]

Thank you Mr.Beast!!

[@OBITOSMA]

THIS IS VISUAL EFFECTS NOT ANIMATION!

[@matiasadrianmahler322]

Glad to see some other VFX people on the comments XD. Im also a Realtime VFX Artist and although I initially felt a little suspicious about the title, this was a great video and it amazed me how you synthetized the core of it al in under 7 min. Great work!

[@matiasadrianmahler322]

Also super funny edit!

[@dxnxz53]

the editing of this video is hilariously good

[@_Caose]

I hate and love your videos simultaneously. Talk nonsense for minutes to explain 30 seconds of good information.

[@Olectralab]

Thankyou sooooooom much! great editing!

[@theboogeyman2295]

letsgoooo finaly a smeaf videoo :DD

[@Smeaf]

With more to come

[@foofightfox]

Hey smeaf, this was an awesome video! I have a video suggestion for you: how to make an arcane style animation in blender, Ive found heaps of tutorials but none that really nail the characters, camera movements and environments like the show.

[@brenosantos5579]

That'd be awesome!

[@Smeaf]

That'd be a doozy of a video! I'd love to see what kind of vids you've seen, since it is more or less a very specific art style

[@foofightfox]

@@Smeaf I’ve seen videos using software such as Fotosketcher to generate the painterly-esq textures and also videos that speak about camera projection, but they never really give you a Tutorial, it’s always an explainer on the theory of the style. For reference of the style there’s cinematic ads for the game Valorant and also a love,death,robots episode which is called in the tall grass. This NPR style is becoming more prominent in animations even being seen in puss on boots, and I know for a fact that there’s heeaaaps of people that want a clear, concise and easy to follow video that can enable them to make their art, and that’s your specialty!

[@jamaalsineke2405]

I wish you could make this a series....like water ,fire, earth destruction

[@MarcelE80]

Informative and cracks me up

[@Smeaf]

That's what we like to hear

[@insomniclipse9400]

I love vfx because it uses a lot of different skills. Textures are made in photoshop, models in blender, the shader is made in the engine. The shader itself is a whole beast to tackle as well requiring math knowledge and knowledge about computer graphics as a whole. On top of this if you know C# or whatever you can implement that into your vfx as well. The amount of skills necessary to be in the top 1% of game vfx artists is crazy.

[@stroidzz873]

I really like Smeaf's videos. There are so many memes and the editing is very well done. Good job to whoever edits Smeaf's videos!!

[@Rocket_PC]

this video could've been a single minute

[@Fls_officiall]

Thank you so much for your videos

[@Smeaf]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@victormustin2547]

your meme folder goes so fucking deep

[@StudioSunshineGames]

Saved for future use! That will definitely come in handy, so thanks again

[@Smeaf]

Awesome! Glad it could help

[@nitentv5142]

Damn Smeaf, this series of tutorial got me hooked than The Last of Us show.

[@Smeaf]

Lmao, ain’t no way!

[@hggabriel6176]

Thank u Smeaf

[@Smeaf]

Thank you for watching!

[@puntloosPD]

BROO i frikking love the memes

[@Smeaf]

They flow through my veins

[@A5h3n.]

2:16 nice, blinx the time sweeper.

[@funguy398]

Love algorithm appealing thumbnails

[@lemekicampbell1226]

This is why we subscribe to Smeaf.

[@Badlynamedchannel]

For anyone wondering this video references the Riot Games VFX video a lot, and many of the B-roll effects shown are by students of VFXA / VFX Apprentice which I would HIGHLY recommend for anyone wanting to get into the industry

[@Smeaf]

It's a no brainer

[@majestic8274]

I want to but money is a slight problem rn

[@Badlynamedchannel]

@@majestic8274 They have a free track and they're open to questions from anyone, definitely a worthwhile thing to try

[@Peas3D]

Great video Smung, thank you for helping me continue to make (and never publish) my indie games. Thanks for the content, have a good one

[@Smeaf]

PEA! You're welcome, glad I'll someday get to become a Pea Published Game enjoyer

[@Peas3D]

@@Smeaf Smeaf easter egg inbound.

[@fals_volks3127]

hmmm.....im watching smeaf just want to make a animation....but this.....game animation change my goal.....as always mr.smeaf.....thx for very very good tips end vids

[@Smeaf]

Thank you for checking them out!

[@fals_volks3127]

@@Smeaf waiting for the next mr.smeaf vids

[@sonneponne]

Ohh this will be so helpful once I actually get my projects going! (some of these days hehe)

[@thegoose8663]

Nice bait.

[@the7jinn]

i love smeaf

[@Smeaf]

[@Kaqua3D]

Almost graduated from Smeaf Academy

[@Smeaf]

Epic moment right here

[@hipjoeroflmto4764]

Sparking zero DBZ took reference of this video lol

[@christianwoodbury2480]

I’m late! Edit: I now want to turn my computer on and try this out!

[@Smeaf]

I expect you to *_S P R I N T_* to your PC

[@NebMotion]

This guy knows how to KZbin

[@GohersWay]

3:40 is where it starts. Its a Note to meself so move along.

[@GohersWay]

If you think this is the most pathetic tutorial from this channel then why not tell me the name of a similar but good tatorial on youtube, and i will definitely going to check it, because i kinda need one.

[@RagdollRocket]

I laughed my ass off and learned a ton. Great.

[@Smeaf]

You love to see it

[@darinselby6543]

I have a unique airship design, all sketched out, that I'd like to 3D animate. What will take my sketches and 3D animate them?

[@siaviangaming5504]

dog backflips made me laugh so hard (4:05)

[@TIGXR]

HUH HOW DID I MISS THIS VIDEO ON RELEASE?

[@Smeaf]

It's a tragedy most foul

[@FunFected]

Do you know that the dog or whatever thing in his profile picture, is now died. We all have been making memes of it but may he rest in peace

[@Smeaf]

He lives on, through Smeaf

[@rain4917]

Smeaf tutorial on editing please

[@Raitan2008]

it's easy, but you gotta know blender and all sorts of steep learning curves stuff.

[@LazyDev27]

I feel like all of this a person should understand by default.

[@fafaaysheh]

You did not explain how I can use it to delete the cylinder I can not continue

[@scordiocraft3075]

What's the Clut of the lamb music doing at the end 🤣🤣🤣😂

[@royrich2833]

Thank you I wanna learn game vfx and try to get better but there is like no video on how they work In depth and seeing so many portfolios with crazy ones made wanna know HOW

[@Smeaf]

Yeah, it's just a bit of a hard topic to cover, without going step by step

[@HideNknow]

This is some really good informations

[@Kienflyby]

3:40 "it's super easy" 😭

[@KreativeIndustry]

thanks for the tutorial! you broke it down very well and made it so easy to learn and understand. but idk if you knew this, but you can't just export blender shaders into other game engines

[@DroideYT]

New subscriber with notification bell, I am a Roblox game creator already reaching 3 years, so I must improve my games even more, so I decided to make those animations within the new games I will make, thank you

[@Zander-ij4]

Im actually taking the same course but for unreal engine 4

[@znedj]

Amazing.

[@blenderbuilder]

Yo bro these videos are straight 🔥but how would you put something like this into a game like unreal engine, or Roblox studio?

[@nehvaleem]

That was quite fun video, but I find the title misleading a lot. You are talking about the VFX, not about the animations like keyframed or procedural animations of characters, creatres and so on (what I have had in mind).

[@fancypirate_1597]

out of all the problems one can have i cant delete the goddamn top and bottom

[@kostyayeremenko7904]

its vfx, not animations

[@swrcPATCH]

too much memes for my taste D:

[@Shattered3582]

exactly, we aren't gen alpha. we dont need constant shit posts

[@dockerydesigns]

Great! Please chapter your advert so I can skip it. Otherwise I have to jump around your video ruining your metrics. Help me help you.

[@JFKTLA]

Does it have to be vfx? What if all my characters are glb’s should I combine glb with vfx for animation or make the whole character vfx

[@Gambsmoore]

7 minutes of referring to particle effects as "animations" im just gonna go back to doing what I was doing.

[@jayramiro2004]

Any word of progress into this program turning into an app soon to the App Store. I’m really thinking of upgrading to a new iPhone pro because I don’t really want to carry around my iPad Pro for camera tracking 😂

[@Genie3292]

Nice! Wish i could find a VFXs artist like you to join my project

[@garyasparagus2722]

Bro really said i wasted ur time i want that extra ad money go to part 2...

[@SXINT_DREEZY]

Love the work, love the editing, great content, keep it up.

[@JoceMahlatji]

What is the name of app

[@TruelyCookie]

smeaf where do you get your textures?

[@godlee4779]

do you have to be good at math if u want to start animating ?

[@edgardsimon983]

no but u need a big amount of motivation cause that extremely time consuming

[@aahritya_tv]

0:23 let's cook animation

[@Smeaf]

Let him cook

[@Kholdster]

3:54 u sure thats a flat plane m8

[@wertawonka]

How can i get a 360 of a room or outdoor space to use in a game. Do you have a video for that?

[@puppetmarion]

These are some QUALITY videos on animation, keep up the good videos :D

[@Smeaf]

Thank you Mr Puppet!

[@mohamedlabeeb7162]

Just memes and ads. No real content.

[@a.m.thepro4956]

You didn’t even watch one minute

[@MilanKovacs-kc8ik]

Agreed. Anithing useful that was in this could have been said in a 1 minute video

[@wafflesarecool815]

6:03 'graph edilor'

[@Infinite12029]

Is it just me or do I hear Wii Sports sound effects?

[@mordfustang1933]

Awesome video my guy, can’t find a lot of vfx animation breakdowns on KZbin

[@mrnoodle-px9lk]

I wanna make the code lyoko monsters explosion can u make a video explaining how I can make it

[@R1zzio]

Well, yes but no. You cannot simply animate effects on a game engine, you have to do it either by code or using animation lapse if it's a particle effect, if it's a shader, you'll have to use code.

[@mangamadura3785]

why does it look like finzar edited this video XD ?

[@ভোমরা]

How to add this effect for youtube video like MrBeast

[@Adventure_lov3R]

Is it possible to upload this to ue5 for your game?

[@durvids474]

no

[@codenamezero7357]

Gaming company's are very advanced

[@Jargoed]

was that date 12th of may or 5th of december? help ( 0:11 )

[@Smeaf]

12th of May it’s so close!

[@Jargoed]

@@Smeaf cheers I got those british dates so this stuff is confusing.

[@Sooraj_cutz]

Bro your videos motivates me alot❤️‍🔥.. I am a bsc animation and vfx student..but i just joined the course.. What is the advice you can give me to learn animation?

[@Smeaf]

Thats awesome to hear! Join an animation program, it will skyrocket your learning path

[@cervintano]

what's the intro song please I'm dying to know

[@joshuaedley5191]

interesting!

[@mikhailhumphries]

How do you get it from blender to unity,?

[@whatTheblue]

Oh btw skillshare is a trap

[@co9776]

Can you do video about retopology

[@Smeaf]

I can

[@co9776]

@@Smeaf then next video about retopology 😊😁

[@zolaire]

3:03 for the first princible :)

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome! This was almost as good as me reaching 100K subs before you.

[@christianwoodbury2480]

Impossible! Smeaf is too OP to lose to you!

[@Smeaf]

I'm honestly fearing for my life right now, that pizza is going to be my last supper 🍕

[@mythicalhacker5]

@@christianwoodbury2480 I agree

[@christianwoodbury2480]

@@mythicalhacker5 so do i