Blender's animation tool you should always use

Everything you need to know about the motion path tool in Blender.

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00:00 intro
00:26 Arcs and spacing
01:14 How to generate a motion path
01:56 SheepIt collaborative render farm
02:21 Why using the Motion path
03:17 Motion path tool and properties
08:05 More about the motion path
10:02 Updating the motion path
10:39 When and how to use it
12:01 The future of motion path

Sheep it tutorial video by Creative Shrimp :

Aaron Blaise Animation - Original test shot for Yao from Disney's "Mulan"

Encanto ref :

Blender modules :

The Future of Character Animation & Rigging: a Q&A feeback session :

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[mrmcgreg]

I opened YouTube to take a break from animating the squirrel in your amazing course and the first thing I see recommended is your video on animation :D

[nisbahmumtaz]

THIS was the feature that I really enjoyed seeing in Source Filmmaker, and REALLY wanted something similar in Blender. Thanks a lot for this!

[IvoDanielBrito]

Great video! I'm now learning to animate in Blender, coming from Autodesk Maya, not to replace but to be able to learn that skill.
The edible motion arc tracker is a must, and for me also the ability to have non weighted tangents in the graph editor.

[matusstiller]

Nobody's gonna talk how good the animations look?

[heckensteiner]

Editable motion path would be sweet! Blender is missing a lot of great animation tools I still miss from Maya, but the software has evolved tremendously since I switched just 4 years ago so the sky is the limit!

[Illasera]

Oh, finally someone covers the motion path tool.

Without knowing the way your object (or part of it) takes and the duration it takes for it to reach, you are working on blind.
(Also, make sure everything organic moves in an arc)

[pro_rookie_gamedev]

That tackle animation within the first 3 seconds blew my mind. Your skills are insane, which makes sense because you're a professional.

[timothycook]

Incredible! I didn't really understand the power of this tool as I didn't really take the time to understand it. Thanks for this thorough explanation of how to use the Motion Path tool. I'll definitely incorporate it into my workflow now.
I just want to add, your approach to explaining the "why" for each step is welcomed for Blender tutorials.

[BonnyBaez]

Saddest part of Pierrick's videos is when I hear "This is the end of this video..." Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

[ArminJohansson]

Fantastic blender animation teacher found! I'll be learning a lot from you sir!

[blackswan]

you are my Blender Hero ! Pierrick, thanks from Germany, Czech, Italia ! we love you

[dissonanceparadiddle]

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?! this is amazing!!!

Being able to someday edit the path itself built into blender would be amazing. For now i goes guess drawing the arc you want with the grease pencil and then using it as a guide to get the curve on line with it will have to do...

Would buy that addon if i wasn't broke at the moment😅

[Astronet]

I've been following you for years and I it seems sometime in the middle of this year I will have like 2 months of free time and I cant just wait to get my hands on your alive animation curse. Your animation skills are insane!

[njs-tv]

I came from 2D animation and i always struggled with 3D until i found Motion pathing, its like Onion skin for 3D, you need it . BUT I really wish Motion paths could be toggled to show the orientation of the bone on that frame, that would be a great help too

[ErenSaritas]

it needs a "auto update motion paths" section. cos it doesnt update when i adjust on graph editor. its bad to click on update button on every change.

[cinnamintie]

I actually really like the motion trails 3D addon you brought up at the end, I've been using it for a few weeks and its pretty nice. Though I'd much prefer if Blender had a built-in feature for it.

[martyfouts]

Thank you. I'm working my way through Alive! (and highly recommended) but it's nice to also see short videos like this that cover specific tools.

[dominicdecoco]

I opened YouTube to take a break, but this video is too good so i couldn't ignore it, thank you very much for such content!

[Kolyanikolayev]

Why doesn't this work in real time?
Once you change the animation, motion path doesn't change and you need to update it.

In many programs, as soon as you change the animation, your motion path changes automatically.

Blender not good here