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add new Asset Library
add video Sequencer for lip sync your static photo or 3d model
add Action Editor For Animation and render
add video Sequencer for lip sync your static photo or 3d model
add Action Editor For Animation and render
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00:01Hello and welcome. Welcome to RBA 2D 3D. What is RBA? RBA is Red Band Alley and I like to
00:09do nice
00:10easy videos to show you a very simple process of let's say creating a library for your animations
00:17so you can create animations faster. I also like to show you how to lip sync and a 2D image
00:25maybe
00:26a 3D model just engage you want your character to actually speak and I'll be showing you that in
00:32the video as well that probably be most likely video number two um action editor what action
00:39editor actually is that is where exactly like it says it's for creating your actions so we're
00:46going to set up let's say three separate parts in this part of the clip it can be very quick
00:51very
00:52sure so if you want to learn how to do the lip syncing you don't need a plug-in to
00:58do this
00:58this is a manual process okay I'm going to take you through every step of the way see you on
01:04a Sunday
01:04here we go okay your final blender whichever version of blending you got okay it makes no
01:10it makes no difference ideally okay so if you look onto the video the videos will tell you
01:15this is version version three version four you can use version five if you want to okay here we go
01:22your open blender it starts like this everyone knows that okay you can click on the cube like everyone
01:27does and just delete the cube right now what you want to do is think of a project name for
01:34your file
01:35i'm going to call it this right i'm going to copy my name and i'm going to take it off
01:40to three right
01:41i'm going to copy and paste it okay the first thing you want to do is go up here edit
01:46preferences
01:49okay when you're here you'll see i've already got a library in there hear that okay so this is what
01:55you do this is where you add your libraries okay just so you actually want to find that okay the
02:01process is nice easy and simple all you have to do is choose a location for your file so you
02:08press this
02:09right now myself personally i like to use downloads if you watch how i create my templates or if it
02:16goes i make every single thing inside my downloads that's where i make it okay it's again it's personal
02:25preference it's up to you where you want to put it and by standard default it actually goes inside of
02:31your documents inside the blender folder so yeah the assets yeah you can put it in there if you want
02:37it i say i'm putting mine here right because the reason why i do that is because sometimes when i'm
02:44working on it because i don't work on it every day so just to make sure nothing goes wrong after
02:50i finish
02:51working on it i copy and paste it onto my external hard drive and i'll leave it there until i
02:57want it
02:57when i'm wanting i can just copy and paste it i'll just show you all i do is go back
03:04to i take the file
03:05like this there's a file in here i copy the file and put it on my external hard drive okay
03:11that way i
03:12don't have to keep it on my computer and later on when i want to work on it because when
03:16you've got
03:16loads of characters yeah yeah you don't want them all in the same folder because you don't want to
03:22remember which one you're working on i'm working on a few hundred characters i think i only want to load
03:29the character that i'm loading right so anyway you copy and paste the file if you want to make it
03:35here
03:35and then copy and paste it in onto a hard drive you can leave it there it comes it's up
03:40to you okay
03:41this is what you want to do when you're in here just go here if you want to you make
03:47it as well
03:49it's called downloads okay now if i just do that all the files are going to go inside here and
03:55there's no
03:55folder press it again make yourself a new file okay give it a name so that's what i want to
04:05call mine
04:05right as you know because you just watched me okay open it and stick it in there the files here
04:12okay
04:13it's called rba asset library and the library is version 364 why did i call it 364 because some of
04:21the
04:22models in version let's say in blender in version 364 they don't do work in version 4 but they don't
04:29work in version 5 now some of the versions that you make in version 4 they don't work in version
04:353
04:36but they do work in version 5 yeah it's a backwards capability thing anyway just make your file okay
04:43before you close it go to the dots and save it so yeah okay now see see this thing down
04:50here hold this
04:52and drag it up now this part is a little bit tricky right you have to go right in the
04:57corner of here
04:58hold it click it hold it and drag it down okay if you make a mistake just click on it
05:04if you want to
05:05and then just go close it okay just hover over it because sometimes this part is tricky hold it and
05:11drag it down still that that's wrong okay right click close it hold it drag it down here we need
05:20three of
05:20these and i'll explain each one to you separately go here you want to change this to asset browser these
05:30your assets it's not my assets these are blenders assets okay hold this drag it up hold this and
05:36you can drag it down a little bit about there because you want a gap right go here and drag
05:42yourself
05:42another one put another one in there so it looks a bit complicated right it honestly when i explain
05:48it to you you won't understand it this is where the models are going to go so any animation that
05:53you make
05:53will be here okay and you're going to save the animations right here you press this
06:00and you will save the animations right that's the custom that's your asset library that is it it
06:07doesn't get no harder than that this one here r4 r4 yeah you gotta press this change it to video
06:14sequencer you know when you go to a website hold this and you pay to lip sync your content yeah
06:23the process
06:24is pretty good pretty easy but if you add up the cost at the end of the year
06:30yeah if you do a lot of animations it's going to cost you a lot of money but this way
06:34you can do for
06:34free okay so anything you do in the model it's here right anything to do with saving it is basically
06:42there but anything to do with sound movies or anything like that you put it here the only thing here
06:49that
06:49you want to be interested in you see here add just add this adds up so i'll add a photo
06:57a screenshot a render
06:59doesn't matter however you want to look at it so you press that and you go from the photo and
07:04you press
07:05the photo and you're loading right that's your first scene inside of your movie right so that's how you
07:12load an image go here this is how you lip sync i'll compress that i want to show you this
07:19okay now in
07:20my downloads as you know i've got an mp3 because i've shown you that okay because if you open my
07:25downloads
07:25you'll notice i got an mp3 right that's what i got so what i'm going to do i'm going to
07:30have to
07:31drag it this one here is the model i'm going to use i'm going to put them inside there
07:37right so now what i'm going to do is here okay so click back on this open your file and
07:43open your
07:44sound here you see the sound file here and i'm going to recommend you you you can scroll the mouse
07:51wheel
07:51to zoom into that okay this is how you lip sync your character manually of course you can download the
07:58plug-in and put it in but i'll show you this here now blender 364 doesn't support lip sync it
08:09doesn't
08:09support it so you have to do it manually which i prefer to do that okay if i change the
08:15version of
08:15blender and go to version 440 and yes you can download the plug-in put the plug-in inside blender
08:24and then all you have to do is settle the lip sync inside of the actual plugin but honestly
08:31if you use the plug-in it's pretty hard um so anyway i'm saying just trust you you can use
08:38any
08:38version of blender i'm not going to recommend that you use plugin i'm really not as i said just just
08:44open
08:44the movie sequencer through here add your sound okay now this sound here is all ready for my character to
08:52speak okay so whatever i wanted to say all this all she says here is can i do that that's
09:00what it says
09:00okay you can set the timeline set the timeline here again easy right click here set to strip
09:08do that and you color it all in red i mean what yeah okay now whatever's in between that gap
09:18exactly when you press the render go here if i were to render that out whatever's in that gap is
09:26going
09:26to come out with the movie so if she does say can i do that when i export the actual
09:33photos there's no
09:34photos there look you've got to add the photos so you add the photos to the sound so whatever sound
09:43your character is making you put you put the sound you put the photo on and go to where the
09:49sound is
09:50so if you say a b c d you put the a sound there you put the b sound there
09:57not the b sound you put the b
09:59photo there so look at her face anyway i'll explain it as i'm going through it okay as i say
10:05this part
10:06is the number two it's easy honestly it really is okay what's this file this part here okay make sure
10:14this is on action not on doping make sure it's on actionator okay when you bring the character in and
10:20you go here right all the animations will be here we don't have any animations okay so it's almost completely
10:26settled okay go over here select this look here oh look my library is there press that
10:34and this now is my library see here this is my library okay sometimes you have to press this
10:42and this is the hardest part about this sometimes you press your fiber go here and say use current
10:50location here yeah current location press that okay you can just press that and as you can see
10:56sometimes you have to do that and sometimes you don't so just pick your file for now and put it
11:00there
11:00i'll show you what happens if you go here now the import i'm going to import my model this is
11:08a
11:08model that is downloadable if you want it all about mfbq content and memory content is free click that
11:16importing these model was created over in a software called make human and all i make human i think make
11:22human is absolutely incredible um yeah and the fact that you can do everything for free is even better
11:27um as a it's a it's almost a good blender well yeah almost i'll say um blender has a few
11:35problems
11:35go here show the textures so your character looks nice i think hello we're doing a video today girl
11:43and here we go hopefully half hopefully people like it okay now what you want to do is set up
11:49your
11:49character right so turn around whichever position makes no difference now there's two ways to show
11:55your skeleton you can click your character you can come back to skeleton you can go to view and it's
12:01got
12:01bubbles all over it like a snowball and yeah just turn it off okay it'll use any group colors
12:09and you can turn it off as well you don't need all that yeah just go here make sure it's
12:14on top one
12:15and then just leave the character like that if you want to see the character and the skeleton you press
12:20that and you can see the skeleton right yeah i don't do that because it's a long process right
12:27i only come in here to turn off these ones here my standard default it could be like that but
12:33it's not
12:33standard default is like that as they come on makes no difference but as i said i just like to
12:40turn
12:40off this is how we do it i click my character and this is how we animate as well i
12:45click my character
12:46i go here i press the up the character you can see the character but you can't see the skeleton
12:52no so what you do is you go here and you turn on the skeleton that's a whole lot easier
12:58than going
12:58down here and doing that well yeah it's the same thing okay now my character is ready to animate
13:06basically now how do i say we don't win with the red line we can increase that if we want
13:12to
13:12okay we only turn red because of the audio so basically you see here this gap
13:20whatever whatever whatever is it i'll zoom in a little bit
13:25the reason why i'll right click and go shrink it to the audio is because i know that whatever my
13:32character is doing she has to do it within a certain amount of time this is the maximum time for
13:40my
13:41character to do exactly what he says okay if you want to play the thing you have to just click
13:47here
13:47can i do this and press the spacebar can i do this can i do this can i do this
13:51can i do this can i do this
13:52can i do this can i do this okay so um that's what i'm going to tell you so to
13:57play the sound
13:58you you've got to press spacebar and stopping you press spacebar again because after a while
14:03it really gets on your nerves it really does um as in emma's voice comes from a software called a
14:10level lab i like to mention the companies just so everyone understands that yeah and um i usually
14:16forget the young lady's name and um i can't remember her name i know something with a d um
14:25d anyway i can't remember the young lady name the same anyway it comes from 11 lap and if i
14:31remember
14:32her name before i finish the video and i will tell you okay this is what you do you select
14:38the whole
14:39character right you want to right click and you want to insert the keyframe here's the best part right click
14:46right you want to go to your location and rotation so yeah see the keyframe this is what you're doing
14:54at the moment she's not talking she's just standing there okay i'm not going to go through the whole
15:00process i'm just going to show you how to do it right so you do that you come down here
15:04because you want
15:04to save that right go to here and now you go to your files see here where it's all great
15:12i'm doing this
15:14and you see how it's red look now i'm doing this to show you okay like i said do that
15:18pick your file
15:19go here and save current location right press this and press now look i can press it save it
15:29and inside the file you will have the young lady which is here right of course the shot
15:36on the character is the camera if i click the camera if i open it click on the camera and
15:42press that
15:42it shows you the shot that i've got on the character so ideally i'd like to show you how to
15:50set up two
15:50cameras one for the face shot and one for the body shot just so when you come to lip sync
15:56in if you want
15:58a nice clear shot of the face i show you how to do that now how do you move the
16:02camera because if i
16:03remove the look i can't remove the camera well this is what you have to do you gotta press view
16:09so as i
16:10said i don't have two cameras in here so i'm going to set it up as a body camera okay
16:15so i'm going to
16:15get on here and i'll call it body okay which is my body camera right so press the green bar
16:22okay when you
16:24open when you open the view press this open it click on here click on here and pick what you
16:32want
16:33you can pick a body if you want to just press just press that okay now you want to lock
16:37the camera to
16:38target right now when you lock the camera watch i can move i can move the character and the camera
16:44stays
16:44where it is look okay if i untick it i can move the whole lock okay take it hold this
16:53thing and
16:54corner line up your character get her in the shot ideally so just kind of get get her in a
17:02nice clean
17:02shot so you can see what's going on with that okay now that is all settled and i'm going to
17:10say leave
17:10that like that i'm going to recommend that you unlock the camera and come out of it okay the idea
17:16of that
17:16is so you can still move around the screen and your camera stays over there okay
17:23if you don't want to see that you can just go to the camera here point it and as i
17:29say you don't
17:29need to see ideally and because when you work on your character all you want to do is see the
17:35character and nothing else now you see the shot on my character it's not bad but i want it better
17:42than
17:42that and put on in two tricks nothing happens press this this here is the name of the character so
17:51i'm
17:52going to call her p12 okay and i'm going to put in a pose so i'll put p a okay
18:01that's the name he names
18:02the photo here look right it's not a photo that's her animation for her right scroll down and press refresh
18:13look the picture changes right now that gives you a standard default picture of your character okay
18:21um it's not bad but then i want one a bit better than that and i could do some color
18:26on that
18:26and i want it to look like emma as i say that could be any character on the planet yeah
18:31okay let's go a little bit further okay now if i go over here and press render it's absolutely massive
18:38i think great render as i say now if i look at my character
18:41i need to just give you a moment i'm just trying to sort it out i'm trying to scale it
18:47down as i said
18:48it shouldn't scale it that big it should be down here somewhere so as i said don't want to get
18:54a
18:54size of the photo see the photo and as i say if that's how it does it right so i'm
18:58going to put this here
18:59i'm going to close that before you go and render your shots
19:03from your template just go here change this to 512
19:10okay and change this to 512
19:15okay now what you want to do is if you scroll down not on this one i think it's here
19:21press the
19:22td screen scroll down and you'll see the film transparent turn it off that's it that's all
19:29we have to do in there right now if i go back and go to render look at that i've
19:35got a far more
19:36better shot of my character now if you want to save that i press this press save okay so this
19:43now you
19:44can basically more or less set up your danger of that now it's going to happen where i want to
19:47save it
19:48i want to save it in here i want to save it in here okay so that's where i want
19:54to put it so it's called
19:56e12 and the code is a save that in there and what i want to do i want to replace
20:07that photo so i'll do
20:08here you ask me where the photo is open it up yeah load this photo and say yeah now as
20:17you can see
20:17my little archive now looks a whole lot better than anything else i said i don't have to worry about
20:24the size because if you want to change the size of it i'll just go here and change the size
20:29of it
20:29and don't make it massive because you don't need it massive and 512 is more than enough for a basic
20:35screenshot and of course you can go smaller than that if you want to as it yeah okay that's the
20:41whole
20:42entire process so basically you've learned how to basically map your content so you've got yourself
20:49an archive okay you can do the same process in an inverted blender before you go don't forget to save
20:58the blender template go here i save it inside the same file like this now watch what happens if i
21:08go here
21:09and let's say i go to sleep wake up tomorrow i don't have to delete the cube i can still
21:15here load
21:17say no go to an upload wherever wherever i put it i can copy and paste it back you don't
21:24have to copy
21:24paper you can leave it where it is open it and they open and look everything continues again tomorrow
21:32so tomorrow in the next part of the video we're going to be learning basically how to animate the
21:39character and save the poster here right that part is super super easy i'll show you how to do the
21:46body
21:46first and then i'll show you how to make a file inside the file so we can basically set it
21:52up for the web
21:53camera for the face camera and then of course in the third video i'm going to show you approximately
22:02how to settle the voice animation because depending on what your character says yeah that can take you
22:10a very very very long time depending on the story in the game world as i say so if you
22:17want to use
22:17AI to do that yeah you can and as i say it does i want to do it in blender
22:22for free of charge and yeah
22:24the process i'm using it's nice easy plain and simple so in the future i don't have to settle my
22:31lip sync
22:32because my lip sync is already here i'm using the video sequencer for lip syncing right i'm using
22:40the action editor to add more actions ideally but i'm not i'm only using the action editor to select
22:51my actions right so even though most people create animations in here i don't do that i create my
22:58animations here and i save them in here and i load them into here yeah i'll do it different
23:06because most people don't make them in here they save them in here and they load them in here yeah
23:12i'm
23:13doing the same thing except instead of doing all that in here yeah it's basically and in the mlp cube
23:20world this is only here so i can show you which animations she's got and which ones i actually want
23:29to render that's it that's it it's not there for any reason and what's out personally okay that's the end
23:35of
23:35the video i really hope you enjoy my content i'll say i apologize a little bit too long but we
23:41did
23:41collect the whole entire process as in part two we just need to add the sound to the character but
23:48of course there's no point adding sound until she actually moves out of something see you later bye