WEBVTT 00:00:00.572 --> 00:00:03.171 Hello, welcome to another video 00:00:03.172 --> 00:00:06.083 of the Blender Animation Workflow Tutorials. 00:00:06.084 --> 00:00:08.059 On today's video, we are going to start 00:00:08.060 --> 00:00:10.451 diving into the animation specific editors 00:00:10.452 --> 00:00:13.051 and I will give you some tips on 00:00:13.052 --> 00:00:14.716 how to use them more efficiently. 00:00:15.756 --> 00:00:17.783 The first editorial to cover in this video 00:00:17.784 --> 00:00:19.916 is going to be the Timeline. 00:00:21.528 --> 00:00:23.659 The Timeline can communicate the current timeframe 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.259 and overview of all the frames in the scene. 00:00:28.496 --> 00:00:30.627 It's the first place you go to pick 00:00:30.628 --> 00:00:32.760 the animation settings of your shot. 00:00:33.228 --> 00:00:36.139 By default, you move in the Timeline 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:37.596 by pressing Right Click. 00:00:43.056 --> 00:00:45.759 Also, it works like in the Viewport. 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:48.671 If you press Ctrl + Middle Mouse, 00:00:48.672 --> 00:00:49.972 you can zoom in or zoom out. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:53.039 And if you press Middle Mouse, 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:56.783 you can go up, down, left, right. It's like panning 00:00:56.784 --> 00:00:57.772 on the Viewport. 00:00:58.552 --> 00:01:00.683 To be completely honest, we don't use 00:01:00.684 --> 00:01:02.972 the timeline of the Timeline that much. 00:01:03.596 --> 00:01:06.351 We usually like to keep this editors 00:01:06.352 --> 00:01:09.471 as small as possible because we use the Dope Sheet for that. 00:01:11.552 --> 00:01:13.527 So we still have access to all the options, 00:01:13.528 --> 00:01:15.815 but it's not consuming screen space. 00:01:17.584 --> 00:01:19.299 I'm going to startp now explaining the options. 00:01:24.084 --> 00:01:26.683 Keying Sets are used to set keys 00:01:26.684 --> 00:01:28.972 to multiple properties at the same time. 00:01:29.752 --> 00:01:32.456 With a Keying Set selected, when you set 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.471 a keyframe, Blender will add keyframes 00:01:35.472 --> 00:01:37.916 for the properties in the active Keying Set. 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:41.556 The one we generally use for animation is 00:01:42.128 --> 00:01:43.740 LocRotScale. 00:01:44.572 --> 00:01:46.652 So if I add a keyframe, 00:01:47.952 --> 00:01:51.071 it will create a keyframe in the Location, 00:01:51.072 --> 00:01:52.996 Rotation and Scale. 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:55.128 You can also 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:59.027 go for the Whole Character, 00:01:59.028 --> 00:02:00.172 this one we use sometimes. 00:02:01.056 --> 00:02:03.396 And then if you have an Armature, 00:02:03.656 --> 00:02:05.995 it will select all the points inside your Armature. 00:02:05.996 --> 00:02:08.595 So if you are to keyframe, 00:02:08.596 --> 00:02:11.455 it will add a keyframe in LocRotScale 00:02:11.456 --> 00:02:13.951 and in all the properties 00:02:13.952 --> 00:02:15.096 of all the bones of that rig. 00:02:16.084 --> 00:02:17.800 Next the Playback options. 00:02:19.100 --> 00:02:21.439 We use the Playback options to improve 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:23.883 the performance of the Viewport. 00:02:23.884 --> 00:02:26.171 With the Playback options, you can decide 00:02:26.172 --> 00:02:28.199 which are the updates 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:28.928 when you press Play. 00:02:35.740 --> 00:02:38.495 Now, if I go to the 3D View and press Play, 00:02:38.496 --> 00:02:41.200 in this case, by default, it's a "space", 00:02:42.916 --> 00:02:44.839 all the editors, as you can see, are updating, 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.972 and all the Viewport are updating. 00:02:49.052 --> 00:02:50.300 If I now go back 00:02:51.496 --> 00:02:52.484 and change it 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:55.655 to Animation Editors, and when I press Play, 00:02:55.656 --> 00:02:57.995 it will update on that Viewport 00:02:57.996 --> 00:02:59.971 and on that Animation Editor, in this case, Dope Sheet. 00:02:59.972 --> 00:03:01.895 But it can be also the Graph Editor 00:03:01.896 --> 00:03:03.352 or the Timeline. 00:03:05.952 --> 00:03:08.395 And now, if I go on the "Activate Everything", 00:03:08.396 --> 00:03:10.683 it will only update in the Viewport 00:03:10.684 --> 00:03:12.400 that I press Play. 00:03:19.472 --> 00:03:21.655 Some other option is the timeline are Auto Key. 00:03:21.656 --> 00:03:24.827 With Auto Key on, 00:03:24.828 --> 00:03:26.699 each time we move the object or bone, 00:03:26.700 --> 00:03:28.884 it will automatically generate a keyframe. 00:03:31.796 --> 00:03:33.459 These options here are the Playback options. 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:36.371 The one on the sides goes 00:03:36.372 --> 00:03:38.399 to the end of the frame range or to the beginning 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:39.596 of the frame range. 00:03:40.116 --> 00:03:42.299 This ones works here go to the next keyframe. 00:03:44.796 --> 00:03:47.499 And this one in the middle is for playing 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:49.684 or if we want to play backwards. 00:03:52.128 --> 00:03:55.195 The other options are the Frame in which we are. 00:03:56.496 --> 00:03:58.056 We can subtract it from here, 00:03:59.460 --> 00:04:02.371 and the Frame Range that we can change 00:04:02.372 --> 00:04:03.100 by typing 00:04:03.984 --> 00:04:04.816 or by sliding. 00:04:09.496 --> 00:04:11.783 We also have the Alternative Range 00:04:11.784 --> 00:04:13.655 which we can use to create 00:04:13.656 --> 00:04:16.099 a temporary Frame Range to make a playlist 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:18.751 of any specific region over a shot, 00:04:18.752 --> 00:04:21.040 without losing the original Frame Range. 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:23.171 Now, I'm going to jump into the Dope Sheet. 00:04:23.172 --> 00:04:25.615 The Dope Sheet gives the animator 00:04:25.616 --> 00:04:27.695 an overview of everything occurring 00:04:27.696 --> 00:04:28.684 within a scene. 00:04:29.152 --> 00:04:31.699 Inside, it contains a collection 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:33.000 of all the Animation Editors. 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.251 While a Dope Sheet Mode allows you to edit 00:04:38.252 --> 00:04:41.059 multiple actions as ones, the other ones 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:43.555 are dedicated to view an area specific 00:04:43.556 --> 00:04:45.895 that the blocks that are used 00:04:45.896 --> 00:04:47.196 in different contexts of Animation. 00:04:47.716 --> 00:04:50.055 But for animation, we mainly use a Dope Sheet 00:04:50.056 --> 00:04:52.084 or the Action Editor. 00:04:53.852 --> 00:04:55.827 And now, you might be asking yourself, 00:04:55.828 --> 00:04:56.660 what's an action? 00:04:57.128 --> 00:04:59.155 An action is the record 00:04:59.156 --> 00:05:00.300 that contains animation data. 00:05:00.872 --> 00:05:03.627 Actions can be duplicated, exported and imported. 00:05:03.628 --> 00:05:06.227 To switch between the different actions, 00:05:06.228 --> 00:05:08.255 you have to go to the Action editor, 00:05:08.256 --> 00:05:10.856 and then go to the Action. 00:05:12.052 --> 00:05:14.339 Here, you can change it to the frame was. 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:17.251 In this case, I imported a character 00:05:17.252 --> 00:05:19.696 from the latest Blender short film "Spring". 00:05:20.840 --> 00:05:23.439 And here I have Autumn, one of the main characters. 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:25.571 And here, I have 00:05:25.572 --> 00:05:28.327 3 different actions. And this gives you 00:05:28.328 --> 00:05:30.771 a lot of freedom to create non-descriptive animation 00:05:30.772 --> 00:05:33.059 to create 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:35.815 different versions of your animation, 00:05:35.816 --> 00:05:37.999 without having to create different files for it. 00:05:45.072 --> 00:05:47.359 You can create new actions by clicking on 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.128 the "Create New Action" button, 00:05:50.116 --> 00:05:51.572 and then you will get a new one. 00:05:52.456 --> 00:05:55.159 You can delete by pressing Shift, and then 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:56.772 click in the "Link The Action". 00:06:01.452 --> 00:06:04.051 And if you want to keep this animation, 00:06:04.052 --> 00:06:05.560 even if you close the file, 00:06:06.340 --> 00:06:08.316 you kept click this button over here, 00:06:08.940 --> 00:06:10.915 and then you will keep your action 00:06:10.916 --> 00:06:11.956 when you close your file. 00:06:13.152 --> 00:06:15.283 Now, I'm going to show you some tips 00:06:15.284 --> 00:06:17.260 to use the Dope Sheet more efficiently. 00:06:18.196 --> 00:06:20.171 The first one is going to be how to move 00:06:20.172 --> 00:06:22.459 between frames and how to jump into 00:06:22.460 --> 00:06:23.500 the next keyframe. 00:06:23.916 --> 00:06:26.151 For moving between frames, we use the arrows. 00:06:26.152 --> 00:06:29.427 Right, we go to the next frame. 00:06:29.428 --> 00:06:31.871 And left, we go to the previous frame. 00:06:33.952 --> 00:06:36.655 If we go to the up arrow, we will jump 00:06:36.656 --> 00:06:37.956 to the next keyframe, 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:41.595 and if we go to the down arrow, we will go 00:06:41.596 --> 00:06:43.052 to the previous keyframe. 00:06:45.028 --> 00:06:47.055 The second one is going to be 00:06:47.056 --> 00:06:48.200 how to duplicate the key. 00:06:48.772 --> 00:06:50.799 In this case, you have to click the key 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.660 you want to duplicate and press Shift D. 00:06:54.752 --> 00:06:57.560 Then you can create a copy of that key. 00:07:00.056 --> 00:07:02.083 So right now, this key and this key is the same. 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:07.751 If you want to delete, you press X or Delete, 00:07:09.052 --> 00:07:10.300 and you can delete that frame. 00:07:11.652 --> 00:07:15.083 You can also do Ctrl C and Ctrl V 00:07:15.084 --> 00:07:17.840 to copy paste animation or keyframes. 00:07:19.452 --> 00:07:21.583 So if I want to select an animation and 00:07:21.584 --> 00:07:24.340 I go to the first frame, Ctrl C, 00:07:25.016 --> 00:07:27.251 and then when I get into the end, Ctrl V, 00:07:28.552 --> 00:07:31.359 then it will have the animation. 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.439 I just copied animation of the head, 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:35.052 so right now it looks really weird. 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:38.952 One way of selecting your frames quicker 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.916 is to go by Ctrl left click. 00:07:42.384 --> 00:07:45.140 What this does is just take the cursor, 00:07:45.816 --> 00:07:48.052 right now it's in frame 14, 00:07:49.352 --> 00:07:51.639 from that frame to the right, 00:07:51.640 --> 00:07:53.771 it will select everything, we can do the same 00:07:53.772 --> 00:07:56.527 on the left. So Ctrl left click 00:07:56.528 --> 00:07:57.828 on the left side of the cursor, 00:07:58.296 --> 00:08:00.895 it will select everything from the cursor 00:08:00.896 --> 00:08:01.884 to the left side. 00:08:02.300 --> 00:08:04.483 Now. I'm going to show you a tip of how 00:08:04.484 --> 00:08:07.552 on the to mark keyframes on any Timeline. 00:08:08.072 --> 00:08:11.296 If you press M, you will create a marker. 00:08:11.660 --> 00:08:14.415 And if you press Ctrl M in this black box 00:08:14.416 --> 00:08:17.015 over here, you will be able to rename the marker 00:08:17.016 --> 00:08:19.251 that is selected. We are going 00:08:19.252 --> 00:08:20.656 to call this one "Key Pose". 00:08:24.972 --> 00:08:27.000 You can do this on every frame. 00:08:27.572 --> 00:08:29.651 It's a quick way of sorting your stuff. 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:33.499 You can, for example, mark the beginning 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:35.995 and the end of your shot, you can mark an area 00:08:35.996 --> 00:08:38.283 in which you want to work, 00:08:38.284 --> 00:08:39.740 or another which is unfinished right now. 00:08:40.260 --> 00:08:42.027 It's a nice way of managing the keyframes. 00:08:44.160 --> 00:08:46.500 To set up the Frame Range more quickly, 00:08:46.916 --> 00:08:49.151 instead of having to go in here 00:08:49.152 --> 00:08:49.360 and change the sliders, 00:08:50.296 --> 00:08:53.260 you can select the one you want, 00:08:53.728 --> 00:08:54.872 Ctrl Home 00:08:55.652 --> 00:08:57.784 will set the start frame, 00:08:58.200 --> 00:08:59.084 and then 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:03.140 Ctrl End, and it will set the end frame. 00:09:03.660 --> 00:09:06.155 You can also do it with P, and then 00:09:06.156 --> 00:09:07.300 you will select the range. 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:12.655 But this range is the Alternative range, 00:09:12.656 --> 00:09:14.527 it's not the real range. So you can also 00:09:14.528 --> 00:09:17.127 deactivate this one and it will keep 00:09:17.128 --> 00:09:18.428 the general frame range. 00:09:19.728 --> 00:09:21.651 The last topic I'm going to talk in this video 00:09:21.652 --> 00:09:23.783 is going to be how to make a Playlist. 00:09:24.928 --> 00:09:27.683 The first step is to go into the Output options, 00:09:27.684 --> 00:09:29.659 which you can find with the icon 00:09:29.660 --> 00:09:31.999 of the Printer, and here you have the Dimensions, 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.339 which is a resolution of your shot, 00:09:34.340 --> 00:09:37.771 the Frame Range, the Frame Rate, 00:09:37.772 --> 00:09:38.760 you can change. 00:09:39.540 --> 00:09:41.515 Here you have the Output. In this case, 00:09:41.516 --> 00:09:43.751 we are going to export it to the desktop. 00:09:43.752 --> 00:09:45.416 We are going to call it "Test". 00:09:48.900 --> 00:09:51.083 As a quick tip, you can also press Alt 00:09:51.084 --> 00:09:52.956 and select the folder, 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.659 and then the window you're exporting to 00:09:55.660 --> 00:09:56.440 will appear. 00:10:00.184 --> 00:10:02.471 Here we have also the Format options, 00:10:02.472 --> 00:10:04.552 one we usually use is 00:10:04.916 --> 00:10:06.684 FFmpeg video. 00:10:07.984 --> 00:10:10.740 Then for encoding, we use Quicktime. 00:10:12.352 --> 00:10:15.628 And for the video, we'll use H264, 00:10:16.616 --> 00:10:19.215 medium quality good. And then 00:10:19.216 --> 00:10:21.659 if you want to have audio, you have to go here 00:10:21.660 --> 00:10:23.896 and select, for example, MP3. 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:27.639 Now that you have everything set up, 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:29.252 you have to go to View, 00:10:30.396 --> 00:10:32.527 Viewport Render Animation. Remember you 00:10:32.528 --> 00:10:34.972 can add this pattern to Quick Favorites. 00:10:38.196 --> 00:10:40.951 Now if we want to play view, 00:10:40.952 --> 00:10:41.784 Viewport Animation, 00:10:44.540 --> 00:10:47.140 and now we can open the Playlist to check 00:10:47.296 --> 00:10:48.752 the animation in real time. 00:10:55.096 --> 00:10:57.384 And this concludes this video. 00:10:57.540 --> 00:10:59.359 Thank you so much for watching 00:10:59.360 --> 00:10:59.984 and see you on the next one.