Vertex Animation is underrated!

Vertex animation is common place in industry standard animation software, yet it seems to be overlooked.

SFM animators don't have access to it or probably don't know what uses it can have, so here's a clip of me explaining it!

The channel in the video is
his_animations and he is doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to TF2 blender animation support! Be sure to check him out!

[Soupy]

God watching scout get fuckin obliterated while animation is calmly being talked about is so fucking funny

[cloudshifter]

For those using Maya there is a free plug in for the same function. It moves vertex as animation with influence to nearby verteces

[froggers-]

This poor scout got his ass kicked in such detail that some guy uses the footage to teach animation

[fridge.]

Scout just being strangled the whole video

[sonnyboi]

Why is demo giving scout the heimdall treatment

[MRWISK-]

Those back shots are uhtrochis
May God be with Scout

[Edge]

This guy calmly explains animation while animating something really terrible lol

[myrminki]

WHY IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I HEAR ABOUT THIS

[keybladegames_real]

Must be nice but im not good enough at animation to move on to blender yet. I have yet to figure out smooth animation

[average-art]

I always wanted to know. Cause I wanna see how to animate my characters better. Ty for this

[VodkaDoge]

but remember, sfm is the original tf2 animation, and nothing will ever compare to the memories it created

[Anime_EnthusiastLmao]

i was looking for a good SFM app for a while to get started with my Fnaf sfm. Can't say I was dissapointed cause I wasn't.

[Geobeetle]

See, this is what I don’t get. Why the hell do people subject themselves to the horrible SFM engine when they have more control AND an easier time with something like blender? Valve isn’t even hosting the saxxys to incentivize people to use it anymore

[chJohnJobs]

I could be wrong, but i remember there was a way to do this in sfm without needing a special model

[Retrofins]

Bro I've been working with blender on and off for almost 3 years now and never figured that out

[quamors]

I would actually take the time to learn animating on blender. Unfortunately I don't have enough time and am even having problems animating on SFM.

[anticstudios]

For me the shape keys weren’t working properly with those models and I wasn’t even able to edit the values of the shape keys

[C.A._Old]

Nowdays SFM need that but Valve No Longer Care About Them.

[Musetrigger]

I wonder if I can use this to fix cloth problems too...

[MemeCheryl]

be sure not to overdo vertex meshing on humanoids, or else they're gonna end up looking mushy in the finished animation :D