Fancy Character Animations in Blender

Learn how to create fancy character animations in Blender. We are going to use a free Mixamo character for the base and customize it with the preinstalled bolt factory add-on and geometry nodes.

Video Instructor: Nik Kottmann

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[nilsmuller-cleve]

I was always struggling to change properties in bulk.
Thanks to you I know now that I have to press the alt key.

[racerider]

I am not even aware of animation tools in Blender yet and was still able to follow easily. Best quick practical tutorials to get comfy with the interface and workflows. Please do part 2 for this where we can use particles/animation to add bolts/elements shaking off and dropping due to gravity/momentum. That would bring real life to the final result.

[firstnamelastname]

Thank you, as mechanical engineer learning blender, I didn't even know the bolt feature existed(💯+points)! Your animations look very realistic, this is a great channel, plus so much good learning in 1video✔️. You could say this video was "very well put together**", I'm gonna try it with flowers.

Hope your channel takes off even more!

(pun attempt **) Even though the fasteners were not connected(bolt to nut 🔩, washer, spring washer...) I was so pleased to find this fastener functionality, thank you again.

@Blender Daily : Making the items animate, like fastener assemblies loosening or tightening, or flowers going from little buds to full flowers is this easy? I will experiment, as I said just learning blender, but I have thousands of hours on standard mechanical CAD 3D drawing software.
Making videos that show complete fastener and parts assemblies and animating how they get built/disassembled/repaired is fun and useful so anything you share like that is appreciated. I will go and look thru your video collection, so any recommendations appreciated.

PEACE & HEALTH🌍🌎🌏

[halahen]

amazing ... I didnit think that there were a free website for blender... I'm happpy .. thank you a lot

[shivanshsoni]

Simple and easy tutorials with fabulous results. Thank you for teaching blender🎉🎉🤩

[Awakenbeing]

Again very good and well explained video. I always learn few tricks more. Blender Daily you are amazing !!

[caradellinowazer]

Great little animation. One improvement suggestion: add a particle system and loose a bolt from time to time. Of course this breaks the loop, but I think it to be a nice variation 😉

[benveasey]

Thank you, I learnt a lot. Could you do a similar video on creating pedestrians for an Archviz scene?

[srinujhonny]

Your voice is best for tutorial, ..thanks a lot for your work

[danyort]

yeaah, now i can make my own Pushistov!

[holyquran]

Can we use this kind of fancy character animation in gaming ? Unity programme?