Getting Started with DRIVERS in Blender for Beginners!

In this video, we talk about how to use drivers in Blender to link the movement of objects together! This can allow you to animate doors, clocks, hinges, engines, and much more - anything where one motion is driven by another motion!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - Modeling the Clock and hands
1:22 - Setting the object origin to the proper rotation point
2:32 - Adding constraints to limit the rotation of the hands to just the X axis
3:23 - Using a driver to link the hour hand to the minute hand
4:32 - Using a driver formula to make the hour hand move slower
5:42 - Other driver tutorials for Blender

[TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you're doing with drivers in the comments below! :)

[Andreamacor]

Hi Justin, You are very good at explaining things, they understand each other on the fly without even listening several times. Congratulations and thanks for the videos you make.

[SuperFlyCH]

That's great, never heard of drivers before. It is amazing how many features are baked into a freeware program. Kudos to the devs! Oh, and to this channel... :)

[elefantspidsmus]

This plays nicely into your tutorial of constraints and cog wheels. Your model with cog wheels, I believe, had the limitation, that exactly the drivers override. I left a comment in that tutorial with such a model for those who are interested. And thx for these simple starter tutorials. It is always important to get the grasp of simplicity before moving on, and for that you are a great help.

[MikeBurnsArrangedAccidents]

Brilliant! This video is the one that made things sink in for me and I finally understand drivers now.

[mipe]

Whoa, dude, you are getting into some serious stuff with your Blender tutorials!

[stephen]

great vid ! ty ! drivers are great for using a simple object's movement to animate the factor of a mix shader when you are scripting animations - otherwise its crazy hard to script material changes

[someshsahu]

Nice explanation thankyou so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[dentreveal]

Great intro, definitely part 2 please

[greggjohnson]

Superb video! Very clear and concise. Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much.

[Tremori_A]

This is prob much better than my random assortment of object constraints arrays and empties for a 3 layered pauldron that's supposed to shift with the rotation of the arm

[chuctanundaspiderbone]

I'm like. "Some day, I need to find out what drivers are and what I can use them for." Turns out, I should have actually done that, because it would have helped me. Thanks for this clear and concise description of yet another handy, but overlooked Blender tool.

[danbreland]

I would like to see a tutorial on how to setup an empty to drive a landing gear up and down like on an airplane or space ship.

[meinbherpieg]

Great stuff. Thank you for the content. Its very helpful to have someone explain these concepts clearly and holistically.

[davidbell]

nicely done. clear target, accomplished.

[ArtistryMusication]

This was a super helpful tutorial and easy to follow and understand, would love to see more examples of different types of math problems for drivers ('cause I really suk at math). Nice job thank you!

[uplinktruck]

Ok, that was really cool. Had no idea Blender could do that.

[ecou]

The video was very helpful. I would like to see more use case for drivers.

[emiliorajme]

Wow. This is an amazing Blender feature. I'd love to see more complex examples as a gearbox or a relative movement animation. Great work!

[petebateman]

I use drivers to pull things out as custom properties, so I can control, say, a doors opening from the n-panel Custom Properties section.