A Complete Beginners Guide to Animating in Live2D Cubism

Making a Live2D model and wondering how to add animated toggles or idle animations? Or maybe you're looking to animate your illustration or emote in Live2D?

Here's a complete beginners tutorial on how to use the Animation tools in Live2D cubism!

I don't cover the full scope of the animation tools, just what you need to get started making your animations - as you learn and grow it can get much more complicated such as combining animations and toggles!

I also quickly cover how to setup animations in VTubeStudio if you're looking to create animations for your VTuber model!

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BGM: Retro Dragon LoFi (Custom BGM by FlyoverRob!)

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Workspace Layout
02:34 - Scene Setup
03:27 - Timeline
05:30 - Start Animating
08:30 - Baking Physics
10:44 - Graph Editor
12:48 - Exporting
14:23 - VTS Setup
16:13 - Final Thoughts

[Stealthy_Mouse]

Psst. if you want to lengthen the animation time like Cutie Dragon does starting at 10:44 - you can do it all at once rather than one graph at a time by:

- Staying in keyframe view and click + drag to highlight all the frames you want to re-time.
- Go to the very bottom middle of your screen where you will see the arrow next to a '%' sign (visible below Cutie Dragon's subtitles) and click.
- Here you can adjust animation speed by percentage, 100% being normal, 200% doubling the time it takes to animate and 50% doubles the speed at which the animation plays.

[meeeeeeeeeeeeeewi]

IM GONNA CRY. FINALLY. IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG BC NO ONE EVER MADE A CLEAR ANIMATION TUT, , , TYSM 😭

[trashmousey_]

Omg, the timing is impeccable, just yesterday I was looking for l2d animation tutorials. Thank you so much!

[Freytana]

Very robust coverage, Thank you for the video!

[valaticusaracus]

Thank you for the video. I'm already familiar with animation in Live2D, but even so, I found this video useful

[toksanvods]

Thank you for the great video as always!!!

[Mnm_c]

Thank you for your guidance, Cutie Dragon. 🙇 I'm working hard to become a Vtuber artist someday; your tutorials are helping me achieve this dream. Thank you! 🌸

[reishihoang]

Right when I need animation tutorial the most, this vid come to me! Thanks a lot!

[andyhsuable]

The steps are very clear and easy to understand and your model is very cute.

[mirandovarios]

When I export my animation sometimes the animation looks pixelate like a 144p video. Do you have this problem? : ( Idk if its like that because the colors of the caharacters, gradients or maybe I am doing something bad 😢

[furyrust]

Loud and clear while also straight to the points! Thank you so much sensei! ❤❤🎉

[AikaNovaAI]

thanks a lot, found what I was searching for very fast and it was perfectly understandable + fast explained

[ZuhriPujira]

this chanel is my favorite, the best teacher❤

[NhaNhLil]

It's really wonderful of you to share!! It's obvious to understand and clear tho.

[BestestPotato]

When I drag the model into the timeline and put in a keyframe for a parameter, the model becomes blue and has an animation where it becomes white and then red and disappears, after placing just one keypoint. How do I fix that?

[nono-wexp]

This helps me a lot!! Thank you so much

[kristinehare]

YES!!! FINALLY YOU HAVE THE ANIMATION TUTORIAL YES!!!... can you do a tutorial on how to apply physics in the animation this is where I got stuck please help whenever I bake the physics It won't move in the animation huhuhu.... it's really much easier if this solves

[Vera._fficiall]

Hello there! I wanted to ask how to add video/music into live2d. Because all of my animations contain music and background video 😭

[MrEshaker]

Hey, i started it first time and only have a blank picture.
When i drag down the picture, i only see the "placement & transparency" line.. can you help me please, why i dont see the others?

[b-meuwu]

Anytime i post animation to twitter, it become pixelated. Do you know how to fix it? I already checked the high quality box