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BrianKouhi
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Hey, welcome to my channel.
I'm Brian, a Toronto based 3D animator and educator.
I use this channel as a platform to help educate and teach 3D animation to anyone interested!
My main reason for starting this channel was the lack of quality information available about the industry and animation when I was new and needed help. I had no other option but to spend tens of thousands of dollars on institutional schools to learn 3D animation and learn the secrets of the industry.
If the channel's free content isn't enough and you're looking to sharpen your animation skills and give yourself a strong animation foundation, then consider TOAnimate. Me and two other animators have spent over 3 years creating the most comprehensive and laser focused animation curriculum, using Blender. We know all of the struggles of a student looking to learn animation and so we've tried tackling each one to make the learning journey as smooth as possible!
Learn more at TOAnimate.ca
I'm Brian, a Toronto based 3D animator and educator.
I use this channel as a platform to help educate and teach 3D animation to anyone interested!
My main reason for starting this channel was the lack of quality information available about the industry and animation when I was new and needed help. I had no other option but to spend tens of thousands of dollars on institutional schools to learn 3D animation and learn the secrets of the industry.
If the channel's free content isn't enough and you're looking to sharpen your animation skills and give yourself a strong animation foundation, then consider TOAnimate. Me and two other animators have spent over 3 years creating the most comprehensive and laser focused animation curriculum, using Blender. We know all of the struggles of a student looking to learn animation and so we've tried tackling each one to make the learning journey as smooth as possible!
Learn more at TOAnimate.ca
Learn to ANIMATE in Blender (in 28 minutes)
If you're an animator looking to learn Blender, watch this video and start animating in less than 30 minutes.
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👆 We've spent 3 years developing the most comprehensive and laser focused animation curriculum online, teaching more than most institutional animation schools at a fraction of the cost. Give it a look!
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Navigation
2:00 - Setting up workspace
3:52 - Timeline in Blender
6:40 - Setting up the Graph Editor
9:30 - How to add audio and audiowaves
11:55 - How to save your workspace
13:08 - How to bring a character into Blender (Linking and appending)
16:10 - How to see your character's texture
16:39 - How to animate your character
18:48 - Attribute editor
20:18 - Helpful tips
21:46 - Built-in In-betweener
22:31 - Graph Editor tips & hotkeys
23:36 - Moving controllers locally or globally
24:20 - Individual origins
25:08 - Copy/paste keys (and paste inverse!)
25:43 - How to playblast your animation
27:33 - Bonus tip
#b3d #animtips #mayatoblender
⏩ DOWNLOAD FREE RIG HERE: www.toanimate.ca/free-blender-rig
👉 Master Blender in 7 days with our Blender Basics course: toanimate.teachable.com/p/blender-basics
👉 Animate like a pro and bring your ideas to life with our Ultimate Animation Course: toanimate.ca/?
👆 We've spent 3 years developing the most comprehensive and laser focused animation curriculum online, teaching more than most institutional animation schools at a fraction of the cost. Give it a look!
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Navigation
2:00 - Setting up workspace
3:52 - Timeline in Blender
6:40 - Setting up the Graph Editor
9:30 - How to add audio and audiowaves
11:55 - How to save your workspace
13:08 - How to bring a character into Blender (Linking and appending)
16:10 - How to see your character's texture
16:39 - How to animate your character
18:48 - Attribute editor
20:18 - Helpful tips
21:46 - Built-in In-betweener
22:31 - Graph Editor tips & hotkeys
23:36 - Moving controllers locally or globally
24:20 - Individual origins
25:08 - Copy/paste keys (and paste inverse!)
25:43 - How to playblast your animation
27:33 - Bonus tip
#b3d #animtips #mayatoblender
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Amazing men
Ex Maya user here (and happily animating in Blender for years) and I want to say this, when it comes to character animation, Maya is still way better
going to maya and trying to forget 3d cursor 😂.
i loved it
I have a question, if I want to obtain better performance in the animation process in the Blender viewer, what component of the PC influences this process the most? A CPU with more cores, or a single core but faster? Or is it a faster GPU that has more influence on previewing the animations in the Blender viewer?
Cool but how can i render my animation with that sound now?
You can go the render settings and change video to mmpeg and select mp3 as audio.
Hi, is it possible to get a job as a video editor in a animation studios?
It's possible, but it will likely be more of a post-processing work. Most likely smaller studios working on ads will have video editors.
👍👍👍
does it work with grease pencil
I found the easiest way to switch from Maya to Blender was to change the keyboard map to the Industry Standard layout. I even set the theme to the Maya theme. I felt right at home and I never did switch back to the Blender keyboard layout. I've just kept it at Industry Standard so when I use Unity, Unreal, Quixel Mixer, etc. it's all the same navigation.
That's a good bandage, but it comes hard to learn new things in Blender or follow tutorials, since most people are using the default layout and hotkeys. So it's definitely a choice to make.
@@BrianKouhi I have had no problems following tutorials. When the say press S to scale, I just press R to scale. As long as I know what action they are doing, I can figure out the key to press. Sometimes I watch Maya and 3dsMax tutorials and just translate them into Blender. I have many years of experience with Max and Maya, switching over to Blender with the industry standard key layout was a piece of cake.
U r soooooooooo smart
omg ty sm😭
I truly do appreciate this video. As someone who is still figuring out my career path, seeing the dirty truth in each industry is extremely helpful. I love art, animation, and everything in between but the whole 12 hours a day for average pay is a pretty big downside in my book. Also from what I’ve heard its a very unstable industry where consistent job opportunities is almost impossible.
How do I do it for Sci Fi space environments? Can I change colors of the HDRI?
If I want to transfer files between maya and blender, do I need to change blender's unit to cm? Does it affect the use of blender?
You can't transfer files between Maya and Blender (for the most part). Unless you're saving your assets as OBJ or FBX. But rigs are incompatible between the two software. I'm not sure about changing the unit, the best way to find out is to test it out :)
Quick question about this function, as I haven't found any answers on this, can you add already existing Child Of Constraints (ones made before the addon was installed) to the Dynamic Parent , or do you have to create them again from scratch?
This is an outstanding tutorial and right on time. I’m animating my first custom character in BforArtists. Though this is a blender tutorial , I have enough experience to transfer the lesson to BforArtists. Since BforArtists a fork of blender with a icon driven and mouse driven interface. Plus, many more to blender doesn’t have. So this tutorial is right on time.
Glad it was helpful!
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😊 You had me at *_Free_*
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Recently I have switched form maya to blender. Can anyone tell me how to select multiple controllers and rotate all of them together while setting up a pose.. for example select all the spine controls and rotate together OR all the finger controllers and rotate together. I tried that in blender but its rotating only the last selected control.. Eagerly waiting for a response. Thanks.
Recently I have switched form maya to blender. Can anyone tell me how to select multiple controllers and rotate all of them together while setting up a pose.. for example select all the spine controls and rotate together OR all the finger controllers and rotate together. I tried that in blender but its rotating only the last selected control.. Eagerly waiting for a response. Thanks.
recently I have switched form maya to blender. Can anyone tell me how to select multiple controllers and rotate all of them together while setting up a pose.. for example select all the spine controls and rotate together OR all the finger controllers and rotate together. I tried that in blender but its rotating only the last selected control.. Eagerly waiting for a response. Thanks.
Select all the bones, hold down the "." key, and select "individual origins" as your pivot point instead of the default "Median Point." Each bone will now rotate on its own axis simultaneously.
You can also, after tapping "R," tap the "X," "Y," or "Z" key twice to make the bones rotate on their local axes instead of the global X, Y, or Z axis.
Great & insightful vid! (Loved the "lowball" reference btw 🤭)
I downloaded blenderkit addon but HDR is not working
00:00
4:18 Pressing alt to edit selected items is counter intuitive, why you would select them in the first place? In every editor from pictures to game engine you edit selected items. At least they did it, great anyway, may be one day they get rid of fake users.
That waveform tip is super helpful for doing lip sync during animation! Thanks! 👍😃
hi , i want rigging course, especially face rigging like max chracter
We're working on it! It's a very complex course to create so it will take some time 😅
ur prob msot useless channel in yt
Do these add ons work with any model including gaming rigged characters like the sims and Fortnite?
It's not the model that it's saving the movements of it's the rig's. You need to be using a Blender rig. So if you take a game character model and rig it in Blender, then you'll be able to do this.
@@BrianKouhi My characters were rigged in blender just with a earlier version. Thank you
These are great tips, Brian, thank you!
Recently i have switched from maya to blender. Can anyone tell me how to link a rig in blender 4.1? That old process is not there now in blender. So, object - relation - make proxy is not there in blender 4.1
Go to object -> library override -> make I'll be releasing a comprehensive lesson soon for Animators starting out in Blender.
Now i am animating in Maya for a project. It is really really a pain for me. Simple things are problem. Timeline, mirroring poses, copy-paste poses and copy paste keys (no copy paste poses in maya by the way), the workflow, the selecting things, all those simple things are big problems for me. I really surprise how do you compare maya and blender in animation point. How do maya animators work easily in maya.... Blender is much much more comfortable for sure... And now maya crashed and no recovery file at the certain folders... :((((((((
What a beautiful necklace, thank you for being valuable to Iranians
Working with Max just in the personality walk chapter, I still can't get past 10fps. But this seems to be a Blender problem since I get real-time playback in Maya on heavy rigs and my hardware specs are overkill (plus, it isn't like you can lighten that scene any further). It's just frustrating because the Foundation won't address it and hardly anyone mentions it because there's only a handful of professional animators doing production-level work in the software.
Is there away to apply this lighting without the background?
Yep, you can control the background transparency.
@@BrianKouhi ok thanks, do I have to just add a textured plane around the scene to get my own sky?
Yes! Please make more animation tip videos like this! 😃
thanks for this amazing video. Is it mandatory to have a degree in animation school before applying for a job? because you can buy online courses or watch tutorials and still have the same skills
Hey, not at all. The majority of studios only care about your ability to animate and how well you'll mesh with the team. Rarely anyone cares what your credentials are and from where.
@@BrianKouhi I really appreciate your response . Thanks
Can the Blender foundation fix their child of constraints
The child of constraints are genuinely dogshit and makes me want to move to 3ds max
How to get this rig
Thanks!
Wow youre really taking your time making the rigging course 😱😱😱😱😱, im going to buy it as soon as you release it, cant wait !!!!!
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This is important... 🤝 Thanks
Aight bet
You have Portuguese (Brazil) subtittle in the course?
Hey Bella, we have Spanish subtitles, but not Portuguese.
does your course ever go on sale? I really want to take it, I'm just going to have to watch for a sale if it does. The work y'all put in is really impressive and I really really hope there is a sale...
Hey Ben, We have promo planned for TOAnimate's 3rd anniversary which will be in early August! We'll send out emails to our newsletter subscribers with more information when it's live :)
@@BrianKouhi Awesome, ill be ready
Thanks for these ideas ❤
WOAH this is EXACTLY what I was looking for, this immediately FIXED all my animations LMAO
some time graphs movement are very very small, what can be the reason
Thank You ♥
But how to change the size of the COLOR pupil?