How To Make An Easy Gmod Animation Updated

A community member on our discord server has requested me to create a new animation tutorial. I've made an animation tutorial before on the channel and while it is pretty good, I still think I can improve on it with better information and guidance. I tried my best to teach you possibly how to create easy gmod animations. The methods are similar, but not the same.

My last animation tutorial video has had a significant impact on my channel. I released the video almost 1 year ago and it has become my 2nd most watched video off all time on my channel. If not soon it may become my most watched video on youtube.

No time for talking there's quite a lot of questions you may have lets answer them here:

Q: Where can I get Stop Motion Helper?
Q: Where can I download Blender?
Q: What is the command to open SMH menu??
A: bind H "+smh_menu" (know that "H" can be any key you desire)
Q: The console says: "unknown command bind H +smh_menu" what do I do?
A: Make sure you have installed SMH before starting GMOD. Restart GMOD and you should be ok.
Q: What exactly do I do with the SMH menu?
A: You make pose 1, record, move the timeline white bar to frame 10 then finally create pose 2 and hit record. Don't forget to ease in pose 2 to value 1
Q: How do I start a new Blender video editing project?
A: Startup Blender and press file, new then video editing
Q: Where do I locate my gmod screenshot?
A: Where your gmod is installed. Go into the files to find a folder named "screenshot"(if you used the camera to take pictures)
Q: What exactly am I meant to do with my screenshots in Blender?
A: You put them individually into Blender. Make them short as by changing duration value from 25 to value 1
Q: How do I move the screenshots in Blender?
A: If you click on them in them middle you can drag them sideways and up
Q: How do I shorten or lengthen my screenshots?
A: Click on the screenshot and change the duration value(default is 25)higher number is longer, lower number is shorter
Q: I can't save somehow
A: Try to save as and select any folder from your desktop where it should keep your Blender video project(make a new folder on desktop and call it Blender Projects)
Q: I can't render my video please help me!
A: If you are in Blender video editing, on the top right you see a few options namely resolution, start and end. Mainly you want to put START on 1 and END what the last frame of your video will be
Q: I don't know what my last frame is I need more help
A: Zoom into your last frame. If you carefully drag your last frame a bit around you will notice a number in the bottom right. That is the frame it is currently on. If you set START to 1 and END to that frame number, Blender will render from 1 to that frame only.
Q: Can I render in Full HD?
A: Yes just set the resolution to this: 1280x720 is HD for Full HD: 1920x1080

Q: Where can I learn more about Stop Motion Helper? And are there more features?

Q: I want to learn more in depth about Blender. Do you know any good understandable tutorials?

Q: Where can I get the standing pose tool that makes ragdolls stand up?

Credits:

Music used:

Sounds used:
Team Fortress 2

That should about do it. Hope you learned something new. Take care. Byeeeeee :P

[gromblereal]

I’m actually working on a helldivers 2 thing in gmod and I thank you for showing me and making me realize that the lack of easing in for the animations is what’s making it look jank

[BotYoutubevertification]

Good to see someone promoting blender as a video editor I thought I was the only one

[ΣωτήρηςΓεροσταθης]

You just inspired me to start do this thing and i love it. Thank you man. Also you are very clear on your word and not confusing, keep making these tutaurials they are awsome!

[cyrusdimalaluan]

Bro the moment the sad L4D music started playing on blender was genuinely worrying, i can't anymore 😭

[tailspin]

Thank you so much, animating on GMOD is so satisfying for me now! :)

[justasandvich]

thank you so much this will help me in the future to make animations to make people smile

[Uber_Rush]

very epic didn't know blender had video editing capabilities

[orculaeva]

I love this video so much and every detail, thank you so much

[Top-HattedMewtwo]

Thank you, This video was very useful and helped me a lot

[taithegamer]

Thank you so much i was just loking at the old one

[ThatDutchGuy]

Can i do it without Blender Source Filmmaker? because i'm low on space

[Levi-The-Levi]

Thanks so much for your help! I've wanted to make tf2 gmod animations since I was a little kid! Can you also do a tutorial about the face poser? Because I can't really make the tf2 characters look good...

[Ninturbo]

Hey um the J will not play my animation can you tell me how to fix that

[pepper_andrei]

for the lazy people : that dont want to type it in
bind H "+smh_menu"
bind J "+smh_playback"

[nt_old]

Didn't know you could edit videos with Blender. I might try using that to edit since Clipchamp lowers the quality of .avi files and my SFM renders are in that format.

[savelichTV]

I love watching the animation of Gariz Mod.

[SGMSOMP]

hey dude, thanks for the help man. Another subscribe you got from me!

[Cargo_The_Hedgehog]

How I can add more sounds? I dont know why but if sounds are not exactly on layer they wont work in render/video

[Kirby-Official-Channel]

Thank you so much finally i can do better my videos i was doing pause all times xd thank you so much sir

[MafuMafu]

Thanks for this easy and awesome tutorial. Can i use something else instead of blender tho? blender is very complicated for me