Combine Mixamo Animations with the NLA Editor in Blender
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- How to use Mixamo animations with Blender 3.0 and how to combine multiple Mixamo animations in the Blender Nonlinear Animation (NLA) Editor.
Mixamo has free 3D characters and animations which can be combined together using Blender's nonlinear animation editor (NLA). This tutorial will show you how to download characters and animations from Mixamo and import them into Blender. It will also show you how to upload your own 3D character to Mixamo to be animated. We will cover the Mixamo Blender add-on and finally the best part: How to use the Blender NLA editor.
If you've never used nonlinear animation before, it's about to change how you look at 3D animation. It changes animation keyframes into animation actions that can be moved around and mixed together.
Some other things we will cover is rigging with Mixamo, inverse kinematics, the human generator addon and just a general overview of how to use Mixamo with Blender.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Downloading Mixamo Characters/Animations
4:30 Uploading Characters to Mixamo
7:13 Mixamo Add-On for Blender
8:27 Combine Mixamo Animations in Blender
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I watched multiple tutorials before I found yours. And this was by far the easiest one. Thanks a lot!
Wow, that is so awesome to hear. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
OMG This tutorial made me see the light! Other tutorials were confusing - I could never get my character animations to seamlessly blend, but this tutorial made it so easy!!! Thanks!
This is absolutely fantastic tutorial. Clear, concise and easy to follow. Many thanks, sir.
Thank you man! You are the only one, so far, who spoke to me the NLA tutorial truth. Easily Subscribed and liked.
Your explanations are exceptionally good, clear and easy to follow.
You just solved me a big problem, thank you for that!
Ive been working in Blender for years and I swear animation and all its myriad of functions are a complete mystery to me. Thanks for helping me get into it a little bit.
Hey there! There are entire areas of Blender that I can not wrap my head around (like Geometry Nodes). We all help each other with what we can. Really happy you commented and that you found it useful. Thank you and take care!
100% the best animation tutorial for mixamo I have found thus far. I will say you cover Mixamo itself a little more than necessary, but you cover the NLA editor very well. Now I just need to figure out how to create my own animations in a similar way.
Great feedback, really appreciate it. Thank you!
I have watched so many Tutes on this, and yours is the only one that made sense.
Thank you so much for your articulate and informative explanation.
You're a bloody Legend mate.
Haha! I don’t know about “legend”. Really glad it helped and I made it because I did that exact same thing and had trouble figuring it out myself. Thank you for the kind words and take care!
Everyday I'm learning new stuff and this tutorial is on my liked list. Thank you so much for walking us through
You are literally the best one on CZcams i ever watched so far explaining such things straight to the point and have clear instructions, Chapeau!
I don’t know about that but I definitely appreciate the feedback! Thank you so much!
you are right Morcos Nabil
he explained it more in detail than others I've seen
Amazing! This is going to help my workflow big time! I'd used the NLA before but never fully understood how to blend actions. This is a game changer!
That's awesome, have fun!
Dude, you're amazing, I've been researching how to do it for about 3 days, I learned it thanks to your video, thank you very much.
Haha, I don't know about amazing but I'm really glad you found it helpful. And I always really do appreciate the comments and feedback! So thank YOU!
you have saved my life. thank you for explaining it so simply!!
I love it when I find a tutorial that gives me exactly what I'm looking for :-) Subscribed
I love it when you do too!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks for this very useful tutorial! I fully agree with the compliments already given: Clear & concise tutorial! Added to that you have a voice that is very easy to listen to, good sound settings (almost no noise) and clear intro and timestamps!
Man that is nice of you! Thank you so much and I’m happy I could help in some way! Thank you!
this is the most easiest tutorial on the blender NLA editor I have seen on the internet! thankyou so much!
That is a huge compliment, thank you so much and I’m very glad you found it useful!
This was so helpful! Finally I can combine multiple animations from Mixamo into one model to control them in Three.JS. Really appreciate the video
Hey bro i cant lock animation in place in mixamo, how to do that
Great job very clear explanation easy to follow, understand, thanks a lot for this
This is such a great video with clear instructions! Thanks
Hi Brandon, many thanks for your straight forward tutorial! Great work... and perfectly explained.
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words. Really glad you found it helpful! Take care!
Wild!!! Saving to my Animation Reference. Thanks Brandon.
well explained and easy to follow. Now have some basic Mixamo animations blending nicely together. Thank you !
Awesome! Blender and Mixamo are both great. Thank you and take care!
Exactly what I was looking for. Perfect. Thanks.
Glad I could help!
Excellent video. Thanks for the add-on link. It's a time saver!
No problem, thanks for watching and the feedback!
this is an amazing tutorial really helped with learning the nla editor
Thank You very much. I needed this tutorial. Im subbing to your channel.
Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for the crystal clear tutorial. New Subscriber here. More power to your channel
Very glad to hear it helped. Thank you!!
OMG BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS SO BADLY and here comes ur tutorial! It was very easy and it actually works THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS TUTORIAL!
Man, you are very welcome and thank you so much for leaving the feedback. I always love hearing that a video was helpful to somebody. Thank you!
This was really good!
That was truly Informative and awesome! Thanks!
Very glad to hear, thank you so much!
Not a lot of good content out there about this topic and using this tool specifically with Blender. So...nicely done, sir!
Cette vidéo sur Maximo est un pur bonheur. J'ai télécharger ce matin un modèle... sans connaitre le quart de ce que tu nous explique en si peut de temps. Donc je vais regarder cette plateforme avec un regard différent. Encore une fois(ce n'est pas la première) MERCI!!!
This video about Maximo is pure bliss. I downloaded a template this morning... without knowing a quarter of what you explain to us in a short time. So I'm going to look at this platform with a different look. Again(this is not the first) THANK YOU!!
Thanks for the video Brandon, way to follow and understand which is extremely helpful for folks just starting out using Blender. Much appreciated brotha
Awesome to hear, thank you!
@@Brandon-3D no, thank you sir! I'm crashing learning blender, have been for the past couple of years, my tutorial tab is chock full right now lol you've been added to the power mix my good sir
Thank you for the tutorial it has helped me bro🩸 ❤🙌🏿
Thanks a mill. Clear, simple and gets the job done. Top tute!😉
Thank you! Glad it was useful!
thank you for the tutorial. so helpful
thanks for the tutorial . really helpful
really good tutorial, and I watched many of these, please keep doing yours ;)
Will do, thank you so much!!
thanks a lot. i will suggest it to my friends
Amazing tut!
Great was looking for this for months.
Hey, glad to hear. I was too and when I finally figured it out, I wanted to make this to help others. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment!!
Thank you very much! exactly what I was looking for! instruction look very easy to follow!
Glad to hear it was useful! Thank you and take care!
Liked and subbed. This is amazing stuff!
Awesome to hear the feedback, thank you so much!
Now realize the "Brandon" referred to! Did my first animation based entirely on your tuations and was most successful! Thanks bud!
Wow! Thanks Brandon.
thanks it worked perfectly :3
The best tutorial for combinning
You did a great job, thank you
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing! I love this tutorial, very straight forward. I had a little problem where the Mixamo plugin didn't work. For anyone else having this issue, there's a problem with some characters in mixamo that when you are importing it to blender, the bones are not properly aligned. To fix this, just choose another character in blender and download the animation again. For me, the default bot had some problems, so I just went with the character called Cypher. I suscribed btw, ily.
This is a lifesaver 🔥
Glad it helped!!!
Thanks dude! so helpful
Thank you for this tutorial, it helped me to learn how to use blender more easily
You’re very welcome. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to leave a message! Take care and stay creative!
Thanks for this! I am having an issue with the baking together though, it’s not a deal breaker at all though. For real, this helped me so much. Opens a whole new door for my work.
THIS IS SO COOL! Thank you for teaching me!
You are so very welcome. Glad you liked it. Thank you!
7:36 was really helpful for me thank you!
Hey Brandon, very good. Thanks!
Thanks for demystifying this for me. I'm a longtime Lightwave user (30+ years) learning Blender. This is just like a feature in LW called Motion Mixer. Thanks.
Awesome, happy to help! I know absolutely nothing about Lightwave. 🤔 Thanks for watching!!
What a very clear awsome video keep this up will sub for your next video
Thank you so much! I will do my best :)
Thank you thank you so so much!! 🙏
I don't thought about it because I didn't knew about it but I needed it.
Lol. It’s always fun to accidentally learn something you didn’t know you needed to learn. Have fun with it and take care!!
개쩌는 블렌더 강좌다. 요점만 딱딱 집어줌. I truly appreciate you!!!
LOL. When I translated that with Google, I couldn't tell if it was a compliment or not. But if it was, thank you!!
Thanks great video
Thanks a lot that's exactly what we want long time ago you are the best
You’re welcome, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
finally! thanks❤🔥❤🔥
So helpful! You just saved my project 😁
Wow, very happy I was able to help!! Thank you for watching!!
this video changed the world soo easy Thank you
Awesome, very glad to hear. Thanks for the feedback!!
I needed this allot thx man
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!
thank you soooo much for this amazing tutorial, your explanation way is so good and this is one of the few tutorials where you learn everything from the host. Please make some more tutorials with mixamo with blende. Waiting for more tutorials.
Ajit, thank you so much! That is very kind and I will do my best to keep it up!
@@Brandon-3D Is there any way i can dm you for more tips if possible because im having issues doing one animation locked at a place and other one at moving placing and wanna learn blender more. I have also followed you on twitter.
@@GamingLegend-uq3on if other animation is moving location and other is not... then I would recommend either using an addon which makes the animation occurs in 1 location or you can do it yourself... there are some great videos which will explain that to you like C Bailey Films... that way you can blend in the animation easily
Thanks !!
Well explained
Thank you!
Excellent. Thank You.
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching!
👍👍 Excellent tutorial Brandon! I know less than zero about animating but gotta learn to add 'life' to my MSFS custom scenery... so just subscribed.
Regards from Thailand! 😁
Thank you Jimbo! Blender is so awesome, I’m glad I was able to help in some small way. Take care!
@@Brandon-3D You're quite welcome and hope you won't mind some stoopid questions in the future as I peruse your other videos.
great vid nice and clear
Thanks!!
I still haven’t sat down and learned how to mix these but I’ve wanted to for a min now so thank for for making me learn😂
Haha! You’re welcome friend. Have fun and thanks for leaving the comment!!!
You are a total lifesaver
You are too kind. Thank you!
( Merci de France Brandon pour ce tuto ) Thank you from France Brandon for this tutorial
Freaking great video. Thank you so much
Hey, glad you liked it. Thanks a ton for the feedback!!!
life saver, thank you
No problem, glad it helped!
Wow, game changer !!!
Thanks for watching! Here is the affiliate link for Human Generator if interested: blendermarket.com/products/humgen3d/?ref=422
for me the next animation is using the arm distance from the last one making things get all crossed like arms and arms in to the body. it is not using the individual animations arm distances from mixamo.
any idea how to fix this ?
anyone know why when i put i push them down. it messes up the arms and doesn't use the arm position from the next animation being used.
@@nottogood415 Hi, Another user said this was the answer to that problem: Solved: Use the mixamo plugin to add your animation (source skeleton) and apply, afterwards click push down from NLA editor and repeat for the next animation!
@@nottogood415 Another user replied with this: i figured out the fix. it is with a custom 3d model. i had to download it with the model attached to the animation. like how ya pick with skin or no skin. without the skin it remaps the position of the arm distance to the first animation you imported.. so yer it needs the model downloaded as well. for all animations and it worked.
@@Brandon-3D yer i did all of that. only way it worked was downloading the animation with the skin attached each time as i wrote on me last comment :). i have been doing it with the skin attache dot the animation now every time and have had no problems. it is really the same thing as downloading just the skeleton just do the same steps and delete the skin and animation after you pushed them down.
this dude is the best
Hey, sorry I’ve been behind on the comments. Thank you so much for the kind words!!
thank you so much!
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching!
thanks so much man
My pleasure, thank yo8u for taking the time to leave a comment... take care!
Brilliant..cheers
Bruh wish I found this first I had to go to 20 different videos to find an answer for each question but this literally answered all of them
Well I am sorry you didn’t find it sooner, but glad you eventually did. That’s exactly how I was hoping it would help people. Thank you for watching and for the kind words!
Thanks bro….very helpful stuff.🤔🍷🎩🎩🎩
Thanks John, awesome to hear. Thanks a lot for commenting too, it's always nice for a little feedback...especially positive ones. Have fun!
gracias!!!! very helpfull.
De nada! Thank you!
thankyou subscribed
Thank you very much!
Thanks heaps mate. Really clear and concise. I'm very new to this. My next aim is to upload daz 3d figures(using Facegen or Face Transfer) from daz bridge to blender then as OBJ. to mixamo. Import FBX back into blender then re-target to original clothed, haired, facially animated figure. I tried uploading FBX files to mixamo with no luck. With OBJ I end up with a workable armature Yet to sort out teeth, eyes and decent hair. Will look into Human Generator. Cheers
Awesome to hear, thanks for the feedback and good luck!
saved to favorites.
Oh man, thank you!!!
@@Brandon-3D this is going to be my go-to video!
Great video..First time I have found the statement that you use Mixamo assets for FREE Commercially and personally. Thanks
Hi Red, thank you! I didn't make it up LOL. It's on their FAQ page, so you're good. Thanks for watching and for the feedback, really appreciate it!
@@Brandon-3D Sure it's on their WEBSITE but probably Buried within a million word disclaimer. Thanks for your video. Alot of other people appreciate the content.
Thanks for knowledge. I want learn about blender for create animation short movie
Combining Mixamo mocap animations like this is really powerful. I haven't used the NLA editor yet, so I'm looking forward to using it.
Thank you for taking the time to create this video. I'm looking forward to checking it out! 😃
Awesome, yes I think the NLA is a game changer. Thank you for commenting and have fun with it!
@@Brandon-3D. Thank you! This is a great tutorial. I'm looking forward to trying things out very soon so I really appreciate your content.
I hope you and you family have a great 2022! 😃
@@MRUStudios Awesome to hear, same to you and thank you!!!
thank you very much.. it cut my rigging time.
super helpful tutorial.
Do you know if its possible to use NLA's with the mixamo control rig you can apply via the addon?
Great Job Brandon!!! #newsub
Awesome! Welcome and thank you!!
Thank you for this. I am getting errors with the Mixamo rig. It destroys the model/rig (doesn't look like yours, and even removes the animation even though all 3 boxes are checked), and throws up a Blender traceback error message. Has anyone experienced this?
my favorite channel please 1 more video with full details nla editor ,combine mixamo animation please
I'm working on it. It's a tough one because there are so many settings.
there is a time signature you can change the time to adjust the strip start and stop so you can put the strips on the same line one after another
Thank you!
This works perfectly, but if we apply Control Rig to have how to manipulate the main it doesn't work, at least I couldn't. Do you have any ideas on how to merge the actions after applying the Control Rig?
16:54 I keep getting the error "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'frame_range'" when trying to bake animation. I did it the wya you instructed. Edit mode, selected all the animations. What is causing this issue?