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TOP 10 BLENDER ANIMATION TIPS | to help you Animate Faster!

BrianKouhi

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Description: In this video I share my Top 10 Blender Animation tips.. these 10 tips helped me animate a lot faster in Blender! Hope you learn something new - and If you enjoyed the video, please make sure to SMASH that LIKE button, it helps get the vide out there a bit more, and helps out the channel!

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Tip 1 - Saving your Workspace permanently!
1:38 - Tip 2 - Individual Origins
2:37 - Tip 3 - CTRL + TAB
3:25 - Tip 4 - SIMPLIFY
4:!2 - CTRL + Middle Mouse Click
4:45 - 3D Cursor!
6:21 - 2D Cursor!
7:30 - TWEENER
8:33 - Motion trails
9:40 - SECRET TIP for Speeding up workspace!

20 Comments

@BrianKouhi Creator 5 years ago (edited) Pinned

Want to learn how to animate like we do? 🔽
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@devinramsden5412 5 years ago

A lot of youtube blender tutorials are about how to make cool renders or model/sculpt efficiently. But there are few videos about actually animating so anything helps thanks!

@blenderinthegrass 5 years ago

Here's a tip I discovered on my own. Not necessarily an animation tip, but helpful. If you need to nudge an object, as opposed to moving it and trying to hit the right spot, it's easy to do. Just hit "G" and move the object by a very small amount, as in "G X .01 ENTER" then hit "Shift-R" to nudge the object .01 units as many times as you need to. Hope this helps someone.

@jonevarty2205 1 year ago (edited)

The last tip actually saved me so much time. I never knew you could do that and it makes so much sense. Like, even if you have hidden everything except the character, you still have so many things as backup data thats slowing down your scene (if i am making sense, if not please correct me). By having the character linked to a brand new scene, its just your character-- thus its much faster.

@spedrunroblox9551 4 years ago

get this man a medal

@soirema 2 years ago

Scene changing the best, your an absolute goat

@ranteloke 3 years ago

CTRL + Middle mouse is an absolute life saver - thank you for the tip!

@terrancealbrecht 4 years ago

Thanks for the tips!
I recently became aware of Blender's 'Local Collections' in 3D Viewport. It allows to to show and hide specific collections for a specific viewport.
It can be accessed under 'Collections' in the View tab in the viewport side panel.
Very helpful if, for instance, you need a viewport with camera view with everything in the scene visible, but need those things hidden in your 3D viewport so they don't get in the way when animating a character...

@deygus 4 years ago

Finally! Someone that actually helps with decent animation tips! Been really struggling with learning more complex humanoid animations.

@joaovictoradeodato 5 years ago

Great tips! One that for me is an absolute MUST when animating is the Alt + B shortcut. It masks and hides the viewport with whatever you selected. It's a cool alternative for the New Scene tips as well. For me it's a game changer with big scenes and lots of characters and props etc.

@pamhampton2588 4 years ago

Good tips. Everyone probably knows this, but you can use the brace [ ] keys to select all keys before or after in both the dope sheet and graph editor. Very handy for moving whole sections of animation.

@garrison_vfx 4 years ago

Shift E was a really useful tip I didn't know about!

@brihiggins 4 years ago

In 3D Studio 4 you could grab the key frames within a motion path and adjust them in 3D space. I miss 3D Studio 4.

@Unordinal 5 years ago

2:45 - In addition, you can go up to the top left and click Edit > Lock Object Modes and uncheck it. This makes it so that you can be in Pose Mode with an armature and are still able to click on other objects and armatures, which feels very nice IMO.

@PeterSpiers 4 years ago

I liked this video purely for the 10 second intro that got straight into it

@MidnoonGaming 9 months ago

Tip 10 was chef's kiss!

@XAli-fi3pz 4 years ago

One of the best video I seen on blender tips

@timothycook 5 years ago

Nice vid. I didn’t know scenes would link for animations; great to know.
I use tab to pie to switch back and forth between characters, but with shift-tab auto selecting pose mode for me that will save tons of time.
Thanks for the very useful tips. 🤘🏻