BEST ANIMATION ADD-ON IN BLENDER? | How to use Anim-Aide

[Music] this is one of the sickest plugins i've ever seen welcome to the 3d animation hub my name is brian and today we're going to be taking a look at animate with an e no no on the end yeah the limits of how this could be useful is endless now we won't cover every single feature this tool has to offer but i'll highlight some of the more useful functions and i'll show some examples as well now enough of me rambling let's hop in [Music] [Music] just really quick before we dive into blender if you weren't already aware we just launched our website to anime.ca so if you're interested in a super extensive blender animation course that's in the works right now where we offer everything you could possibly need to make a kick-ass demo reel you can check out the website for more info and sign up for our monthly newsletter the first one just went out and the response has been amazing we'll also be sending out a monthly animation tip slash infographic as well so that's one email every two weeks or so so expect some free goodies and with that here's animate all right so here's where you actually download animate now you guys better write down that url real quick because of not kidding i'm gonna have it in the description for you don't worry but once you're on the site come to code and then come down here and press download zip file all right once your file is downloaded you don't have to unzip it keep it as a zip file but come to edit on blender go to preference you want to click on add-ons and then install now let's find where we kept it it's right here animate and install now it shows up on your little blender preference you just press the check mark to actually activate it so now that it's activated when we press n or when you open this it should be right here and it also opens here as well in your graph editor and i think here again in your timeline as well so you can do different things depending on where you open it uh there are things you can do in a graph editor that you can't do in the viewport but we're gonna go through some of this stuff so this is an animation i created real quick just to try and show how we can use this tool as an example uh don't think too much into it so the first thing we notice is the character is bringing her hand down kind of in front of her and then looking down at it now what if we wanted to have the hand start somewhere here on the side and have her bring it down out of them on her side this is just an example uh well we would have to probably go into the graph editor unless we want to reanimate the whole thing and then start moving things around figure out where the character's hands gotta go no not this way this way you know it's just it would be just a nightmare seeping through the graph editor trying to figure this out now what if we had a tool where you could reposition a body part and it would reposition every other curve afterwards on that body part or on that control for you enter the animate with an e so how to actually achieve this is we go to the graph editor where we have this open the animate open we go all the way down to nm offset and that's the one we're looking for so i'm going to press offset activate and then i am going to move this hand right here i'm going to rotate it and now when i press deactivate nothing happens [Music] well okay let's try this again so turns out that the add-on doesn't actually work on the older versions of blender so i went ahead and downloaded the newest version 2.93 i believe and let's try this again so let's press activate same animation and let's bring the hand over here let's say you got a note that you have to say the hand has to be to her side instead of in front of her and let's rotate this bad boy and just set a key and now when we press deactivate boom the entire animation has shifted to the new position so instead of her bringing her hand down in front of her she's bringing it down to her side now another thing we can do since we move this why don't we also move the shoulder so press activate and i am going to move the shoulder here now bring it down a little bit and i'm even going to twist her torso a little bit all right and i'm also going to turn her head a little bit so she's kind of facing her hand now and while we're at it gonna move the eyes as well sure let's say that's good enough and i press deactivate there's some fixing up to do with the eyes but everything else is pitch perfect here let me see if i can fix the eyes right now in like two clicks all right deactivate there we go so in literally 30 seconds we had the character from moving her hands in front of her all the way to her side an entire animation followed now obviously you can go in and tweak things now if you'd like to make it a little bit more subtle have it work a little bit better but that just saved you probably 10-15 minutes of work i think this is a wonderful tool i wish i had it while i was working in a blender production that would have saved me a lot of time when it came to notes but that is not all there you can also blend the two animations alright so we're back in the original now now let's say you only want to have her have her hand on the side just for the initial i don't know 10 or so frames we can do that and we can have her convert back into her original pose and fade into it so let's go ahead and press activate click the controllers we want to change so the shoulder the chest the head and the hands and now i'm going to press mask and so this orange filter pops up in the graph rather i'm just left clicking and i want to say from frame 1 to let's say frame 7 or so then i'm going to press the pencil and now when i hold ctrl so i know i know it's a lot but you mask it and then you press the pencil so you can edit the mask and so now i'm holding ctrl and left dragging and what this allows me to do is fade the animation so this creates a fade between the two animations so it doesn't just snap so i'm going to drag this a little bit more let's say i'll do it frame 16 let's make our changes now i'm going to right click and i'm going to make my change so i'm going to move this and i'll fast forward through this part so you guys don't have to watch me make the pose again alright so we made our pose now i'm going to press deactivate and hopefully when we press play there we go so we have the characters starting up on the right and then fading and lifting into the original animation and this is honestly the this would have saved me so much time in production it's not even funny there was so many little notes like this that would have been you know a single pose would have fixed it but instead i had to go and reanimate everything afterwards to adjust to that note so it may have may have been a small note but me having to reposition the body and reanimate everything to work with it is what took the longest amount of time and if i had this tool it would have saved me a ton of time so again i'll have the link in the description for you guys to download you can test around with their other features as well you can set different kind of keys you can it has it easy and ease out and also when you press this button right here the ease and ease out also turns into an overshoot so you have the option to overshoot to try and make your workflow a little bit faster again i won't be going into all the different tools i just wanted to show you this this one in particular which in my opinion is the most important one now i hope you enjoyed this video i want to give a huge thank you to my beautiful patrons thank you guys for your continuous support of the channel i hope you learned something in this video i hope this tool helps you out and with all that out of the way happy animating and we'll see you guys in the next video [Music]

Channel: 3D Animation Hub

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Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 08 2021