Questions tagged [animation]
Use this tag for questions or issues pertaining to animation and Blender's animation system.
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Animation - temporary parent
During an animation, I want to move "Object A" along a path and at some point attach"Object B" to "Object A" before releasing "Object B" further down the path.
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How to indivdually animate each ik target
so I am trying to animate a 4 legged spider and I wanted two of the ik targets (legs) to move 10 frames ahead of the other two. However, every time I select the two ik targets and move the keyframes (...
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How can I edit an action strip while seeing the global NLA animation playing?
I'm playing with the NLA editor so I can use action strips, but I think I don't understand how it works.
From what I understand, I can see the NLA (global) animation only if there is no action opened ...
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Bad animation render quality on bloom light. (eevee only)
So I have a very low light atmospheric shot that I am trying to render in 4k to quicktime, but on two separate occasions the bloom effect is very pixelated.
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How to determine the "Type" of an fcurve?
The official blender documentation for the type "FCurve" includes this:
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Channel Driver (only set for Driver F-Curves)
However, it does not ...
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Can't delete empty NLA tracks and unused animation strips
These two are not working also "Remove Empty Animation Data" option are not working too.
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Pelvis Movement
I want this bone to only manipulate the hip, I have checked the weight paint and it is correct. I know it's a beginner's mistake but I would like that when moving the bone the ENTIRE MODEL DOESN'T ...
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How to play animation with desired framerate?
I've created an animation for export and want to see how it will look in realtime. When I'm trying to play it in blender I'm getting ~11 fps. In solid mode I'm getting ~20 fps. How can I play this ...
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Rendered Animation Not Working, Stays on Frame 0
Newbie here.
I am trying to render a simple animation but blender is not working. Need help on understanding what are the additional things I need to set up. Whenever I render an MPEG4 video, the ...
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Rig Changing Poses By Itself
I'm animating an action in blender using a rigify metarig, but it's acting weird. There are screenshots for each step so you can follow along and see clearly where things go wrong.
This is the first ...
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Is there a way to animate the pivot point of a bone?
So I have a bone where I'd like there to be 3 points of rotation, and depending on my animation, I'd like to be able to switch pivot points easy. I can't seem to figure out a way to do this where all ...
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Why is my liquid simulation not showing?
I have applied the fluid in physics property but the liquid doesn't seem to be showing. Did I overlook something or is there something wrong with my model?
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I can't scale my key frames correctly
I am trying to animate a character. I am following a tutorial by David Andrade as I'm new to Blender
Currently there are 10 key frames, 1 key frame per frame. I wanted to change the timing of the ...
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Why is the ice cube not falling into my cup?
When I play the animation, the ice cube just float on the glass but it was supposed to fall inside.
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Black Hole Rendering And Keyframing Issue
Rendering Issue
I tried creating a black hole by following a YouTube tutorial . I did everything correctly. (Rendering format is Cycles). I tried rendering it, but it didn't came as shown in the ...
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Animation Best Practices
I always struggle with getting the timing of everything perfectly for my final renders when animating. Playback as I model / animate hits around 12FPS, but when I render at 24FPS, everything is moving ...
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Modify frames of a non-visible object
I want to extend an animation that has already been created. Originally, it has 550 frames, but I want to lengthen it to 750.
To do this, I want to move all the frames from 250 onwards.
I tried to ...
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How to bake metaballs animation for UE?
I want to make a simple animation using metaballs in blender and import it into Unreal Engine. But since metaballs will only work in blender, apparently I need to bake the animation somehow.
If I can ...
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Keyframe animation is lost at FBX export
I have a short keyframe stop motion animation with a couple of objects. Some have a parent-child relation.
In Blender it plays just fine, but when I export it to FBX, (and reimport it to Blender) ...
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Execute function on object property change
I'm searching an equivalent to the observer design pattern.
I want to execute a script function every time an object position changes.
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How to rig Anime Hair on a Dragon
Hi, can anyone tell me how I can create a kind of hair texture and then rig it onto my dragon so that I can animate the hair in a flying animation?
I've already tried with a particle system, but it ...
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How to cut a key? (limit linear extrapolation)
How can I set a start point for ''linear extrapolation''? For example: start from frame 250 then make same act until frame 400. When I choose linear extrapolation, it makes same act in the whole ...
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Animating blood dripping down surface of mesh
Can anybody please point me in some kind of direction for animating blood/tears/whatever dripping down the surface of a mesh? Maybe particularly the "correct" method a studio would actually use?
I've ...
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Animated CopyLocation bone constraint delay problem
I have set my rig with IK where I am trying to copy location of Bone of different armature (Sword) to my main IK bone (LeftHand) using Copy Location Constraint.
It works well but when it is animated ...
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How to make a 3D mountain mesh change shape in the rythm of a song?
this here is an animation made with AI tool Deforum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oee78kHxLDw
The frames are generated with Stable Diffusion and translations are applied between the frames. The ...
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Blender crashes when Partenting rig with my model
I created a character. Now I wanted to rig it. I made my rig, and then I wanted to parent my model to the rig with automatic weights. When I clicked it, it showed the loading symbol for a few minutes, ...
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ocean animation not working
i watched a few tutorials for this and i can't understand what i'm missing out. they just type "#frame/50" or any number and then just press play and their ocean is oceaning, but nothing ...
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Interpolating continous rotation
I need some help with animating a rotating object.
I am attempting to rotate the object with the help of a generated rotation matrix. I insert a keyframe for for every 5 frames with quaternion ...
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Export motion path
I am working on motion planning for automatic vehicles and like to use blender for two things:
Define scenes with obstacles, both static and moving, and export them to do calculations with
Feed some ...
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Changing color of mesh in which shape keys is applied based in z direction for different areas in a mesh
I have a 3d mesh {I-beam} in blender which changes shape{bends} using shape keys i want a way to make the color of the mesh change according to the z direction of the vertex of the mesh from their ...
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Material change bleeds into other actions
I want to create two separate actions: one moves the object, and the other changes object color via a material.
For some reason color change appears during the move action.
In fact material changes ...
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Exporting animation to FBX
I have a problem with exporting animation from Blender to FBX. After I export to fbx, I open fbx file with FBX Review and can not see any animation. When I import fbx back to blender there is no ...
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Animate Text bpy.ops.transform.translate
I am trying to find the right code to animate text that follows a bezier curve in python blender api. I can add the keyframes, and they appear to be working when I drag through the timeline, but when ...
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Scaling animation export from Blender to Unity distorted on some planes
I have encountered a problem when exporting an animation of the scale of planes to Unity.
I have an animation made in Blender and exported into .fbx. Each plane (leaf texture) changes its location and ...
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There are some strange issues with exporting blender bone animation to UE
When I organized the bone mesh in Blender and created an animation for it, there was bone distortion when importing it into UE,
I am using Blender3.0
I am using the MMT plugin
My character bones have ...
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Rigid Body Object Jumps back when keyframing "animation" off
I am trying to get a box to float into the air, fly in a direction and then midair activate physics so that it flies off and falls to the ground without me having to animate that. I tried keyframing ...
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How to manually merge active actions for GLTF export?
Currently working on a project that involves animating a truck bed camper unfolding, which has to be exported to GLTF with a couple different animations.
The animation is created in Blender using ...
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Merging fbx animations of the same model
I have about 10 animations of an FBX model. The geometry of the model is the same but each animation is different.
I want to merge all 10 animations into a single gltf file, i.e. I want to have a ...
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Blender to unity/ ue5 [closed]
I created some animation, which is going to use in game development software like unity and ue5 , I created the animation in blender using blender's control rig + ik features will the animation work ...
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Any easy way to retarget an animation to another rig?
I've got a motion capture extracted from a video using Meshcapade (well, it's awesome!).
It gives me a basic character, rigged and animated.
Now, I want to transfer that animation to another rig. I ...
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How to do a Led Hourglass animation
I need a hand with animating a 'digital/LED hourglass'.
The idea is pretty simple: imagine an hourglass animation, but with LEDs instead of sand (like what you see in these videos: https://www.youtube....
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How to create an immersive VR animation music video in Blender? [closed]
This animation music video is really cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYKgKyce4tw
I would LOVE to experience something similar but in VR. i.e., having a first person point of view, and traveling ...
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IK Mechanism Snaps Back To Normal Pole Angle After Moving A Bone After Mirroring Pose
Whenever I mirror a pose when animating, the pole angles on the legs flip unless I move one of the bones, then the IK mechanism snaps back to the normal pole angle. I know the problem is only a click ...
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Animate a Circle Radius without Enlarging Border / Mimic Ripples / Concentric Circles
I am trying to make an animation to mimic a sound wave rippling through the air. The thing is I don't think I can use the wave modifier because I want the wave to be visible but the rest of the area ...
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How can I manually calculate bpy.types.PoseBone.matrix using Blender's Python API?
I have this .blend file which has a simple scene, and a python script. There's a readme section in the script, but to give a general idea:
There are two identical meshes in the scene, one skinned, and ...
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spline alembic animation not working in cycles render
1st image is the rendered image where the Alembic spline animation are not working and 2nd is the screenshot of the viewport at same frame where splines Alembic animation is working.
How to make sure ...
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Render only changing part in the animation
Is it possible to speed up rendering animations by telling Blender, where the changes occur?
Example: I have a chess board, and first, let's say, 40 frames is for one pawn moving, and the camera still....
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solve twist on animated object - custom orientation
I have a regular hexagon with 36 triangle faces.
I have created a custom orientation/workplane.
I can rotate the triangle face on the Y axis using the custom orientation as the edge and it rotates ...
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Making a mosaic fly apart corner to corner
I've been trying to solve this problem for days but get stumped every time. Their seems to be a black art of adjusting the physics settings for objects that are close together that simply eludes me.
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Moving a Bezier handle only moves the keyframe
When I grab a bezier handle on a keyframe it only moves the keyframe. This is with the aligned bezier handle type enabled as well. To top it off, when I make a new keyframe ahead of the broken ones, ...
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