Tutorial: Maya Animator Switches to Blender

Blender Animation Tutorial! How to animate in Blender 2.8 in 30 Minutes! This is the video I wish I had access to when I had to learn how to animate in blender. It took lots of trial and error, and a lot of me annoying my co-workers to get to this point so I hope you guys enjoy!

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Intro to Blender
0:00 Intro
2:31 Navigation & Basic moving around
4:23 Start of workspace setup
5:19 How to go back to Camera View
5:58 Turning on GraphEditor
6:12 Turning on Timeline
6:23 How to Add & Collapse windows
6:46 Adding Audio + Waveforms
8:27 Referencing a Rig In
11:54 How to select individual controllers
12:31 Play and Pause timeline playback
12:42 Adding audio scrubbing to timeline
12:54 Moving back n forth frame by frame
13:10 How I setup my timeline
14:06 How to set keys
14:56 Setting up the Graph Editor
15:47 Setting Keys without a window coming up
16:33 Starting to cover Hotkeys
16:52 Easier way to move controllers
18:25 How to Multiple Select or Box Select
19:04 Where is the Attribute Editor
19:37 Tool Set
20:11 Focus on Target
20:35 Select ALL button
21:30 Tween Machine
22:25 Breaking Tangents in Graph Editor
22:49 Stepped/Linear/Splined Mode
23:15 Changing Orientation World/Local
24:05 Rotating Multiple controls at the same time
25:20 How to Copy/Paste/ReversePaste Poses
26:50 Move Camera
27:15 How to Lock Camera
27:55 How to Play-blast

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My Story:

I was lost before and even during University, trying to get into the 3D Animation Industry without any luck or any guidance. I didn't even know the questions I needed to ask. My University misinformed me about learning 3D in my program, and I felt like there was no hope. 2 years later, I was working on the most popular kids tv-show world wide. (hey I gotta get your attention somehow)

I'll dissect the process of my Journey for you guys, and teach you what cost me tens of thousands of dollars to learn. Tag along, I'd love to have you here!

Thanks for watching and Happy Animating!

#blenderanimation #Blender3d #howtoanimateinBlender
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[joshmelnik]

The Blender community needs more professional animators, and more professional rigs! Nice video dude. Looking forward to more!

[JustSomeRandomIdiot]

I've been using Blender for years but I don't know much about animation so I'm watching this for "things I should know already" information and animation tips XD

[lawrencedoliveiro]

3:18 I’d recommend setting the “Zoom to Mouse” option in the Preferences. That way, your mouse position becomes the centre for zooming. This helps you navigate around your scene that much faster.

[dixie_rekd]

I have a few tips for newer blender users.
firstly if you name your file with a number at the end, the next time you save click the + next to the filename to increment the files name
if you have several characters sharing a rig, you can link/append actions from a master file onto any of this same rig, to share animations easily between characters, this works well with the rigify addon. it means you can make a library of animations and use those in any scene using this rig.
Blender has an incredibly powerful constraints system with literally thousands of uses. its not just for setting up a rig, but can be used on the fly when animating.
blender has an "animate everything" approach to the UI.... pretty much everything can be animated by hovering over it and hitting i, this works for everything from a location (as is to be expected) to material properties, lighting setups, hdri strength, texture coords, modifier properties, constraint properties, basically everything. this is pretty standard afaik, but it can also be used in conjunction with the drivers system, all animatable properties (basically everything) can be controlled with properties from other objects, not just matching properties but basically anything, you can change the rotation of a bone by adjusting the color of a light for example. or change the volume of an audio clip using the distance between two objects. this is done with zero code, although blender can be fully tweaked on the fly with python code.
another awesome tip would be quick menu, almost any command, button, switch, or input can be saved to the quick menu by rightclicking and selecting "quick shortcut", this quick menu is the Q key (at least it was, i use a custom input map and use a spare mouse button) this means you can instantly switch basically ANYTHING in blender with a single button press, its also context sensitive so using Q when hovering your mouse over the graph editor will give different tools, or say you set up some quick shortcuts in object mode, you have different quick shortcuts in pose or edit mode. its SUPER useful when you dont want to learn the admittedly incredibly complex hotkeys, it means you can basically use blender one handed once its set up. great for sculpting workflows.

[rmicrods]

Yesss Briannnn!! Blender ftw, I'm glad the changes to Maya's accessability are getting solid content creators like yourself to bring in more people into Blender. I've been using it for nearly a decade now and have never looked back. Can't wait till this goes live premiere, and looking forward to more blender content in the future.

Animation idea: using blenders epic cloth simulation and new 2.83 dynamic sculpt tools to have an animated kid running with a bright blue cape on his back fluttering in the wind.

[Visualbugtv]

remember: Blender is NOT Maya
just get use to Blender way to work, and be happy jejeje

[lawrencedoliveiro]

4:34 Those are predefined “workspaces”. You can easily customize them to suit your workflow. Their layouts are saved with the document.

[FlashMaster]

Wow Brian you're amazing! I was having a really bad time trying to figure out Blender, this video is going to be my holy grail to get used to animation in Blender, thanks a lot man!

[JamesLui]

The most Maya Animators really need this video if they gonna try Blender..
I can't find another video with good explaination as this video.. U a Rock Man.. Thanks so much.. thanks for ur co workers too...

[ramezmahdi]

Thank you so much for doing this! Really looking forward to that course! =D

[cedricaguilar]

I have been using Blender for some years but never went deep into animation, this video was very helpful to me.

[elodiedambrosio]

Thank you, explained shortly and exactly what I needed!

[TheZmandarita]

oh My God !!!! thank you so sooo much for this amazing video it's helping me a lot ❤❤ looking forward for your video in this playlist ^^

[kendricksparks]

Dude, really appreciate this. Love the channel!

[MSTERcontrol]

Dude! This video was super helpful. Thank you so much. I just subscribed. Cant wait to see more.

[ktpktpktpktp]

You can save a startup file to avoid turnig on the litle monitor icon every time in scene collection (and other stuff) also you have a factory reset if you messed up the startup file.

[anna_pvlva]

Thank you so much for the video!
I have to switch Maya to Blender quickly for a new project
and your tutorial saved my nerve cells😆😅

[puddingmotion]

double press key will rotate on local, example R + XX will rotate along X local

[AnityEx]

this is a lifesaver man, idk about maya but this is the kind of thing no one talks about enough thanks for these

[ImpMarsSnickers]

One great feature blender have and Maya lack is rotating curves in grapheditor, and also soft selection in grapheditor as well. This IS SUPER COOL in Blender!!!