Transfer animations between files | Blender tutorial

Blender tutorial showing how to transfer animations from one blender file to another. You'll learn how to copy animations that you've created into another blender file in just a few soconds.
_____________________________
♫ Music in this video:
Pyrosion - Day In Paris

[kridaran_art]

Check out this playlist if you'd like to see more Blender tutorials:
Also feel free to ask me about any specific things in Blender that you would like to know, I'll be happy to help.

[juliec]

this video is a lifesaver, thank you so much!

[jumao]

You're the best bro, thank you for you work, you help me so much with my homework

[metehansirin]

Thank you, I was looking for this solution!

[Ikworsu]

Thank you ever so much! This helped me a whole lot.

[trph]

you save my life Kridaran Art! thank you very very much!

[P-onRoblox]

Thank you!
I felt silly struggling for an hour for this...

[GOATGAMERZOP]

BRO CAN U PLZ TELL ME IF I DONT WANNA OPEN FILE AGAIN N AGAIN . IS IT POSIBLE IF I OPEN 2 BLENDER FILES AND I WANT TO COPY PASTE A BODY KEYFRAME FROM ONE FILE TO ANOTHER

[unitynocode]

It works beautiful ... Thanks so much !

[MattVarner]

So, I have to make a target rig in a 2nd file before I can transfer an animation. Okay...I thought there'd be an easier way of doing this, but I get it. You might want to have a library of poses, but not necessarily do what I'm doing, which is creating an animation for essentially the same object in a "hero" file, and then wanting to transfer the animation I work out to that (basically) same object. You'd want to transfer an animation to perhaps a wildly different object, but you'd need the same armature setup (bone group?). Anyway...good to know.

[LUNTC-LEWD]

hi, how can I copy animations from one armature to another. the bone names match, but they seem to be of different size/shape and so it messes up everthing. any good advice/tool that I could use? thanks!!!!

[AllanCruz-pg]

Hello, my object with animation does not contain a rig, and I am unable to transfer the animation from the main project to a new project, do you know how to solve this?

[kouraphl]

is there another way like this but for 2d animation?

[limecrystal]

If I copy a model from another file and edit it to be a little more different, would anyone know that I stole it?

[anthonyobryan]

This destroyed EVERY animation in my target file except the one being copied. Fortunately I had a recent file with most of my animations in it. I will have to remake about half a dozen animations, but the remaining few dozen are in the recent copy.

UPDATE:

I was able to somehow recover all the animations in my target file (whew!). The better method, by far, to transfer animations between files is described here:

[KiKeoLiVa]

Thanks a ton, you saved me a bit of time for the game jam deadline <3