[Blender] Un-confusing the NLA Editor (Nonlinear Animation)

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The first NLA video is finally done... yes, there will be another one :)
Edit: the second one is also out: • [Blender] Character An...
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"The Nuts and Bolts of blender's Animation system"
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In this one, I tried to cover a lot of the interface and (more importantly) a few situations that can be very confusing. In the past, I almost gave up on the NLA because of these issues.
But once you understand a few key features and settings, everything starts to make perfect sense.
This video isn't "sexy" meaning that we'll mostly be going through the interface and settings. But I highly recommend it if you're new to the NLA.
In the next lesson, we'll create an animation using separate actions. And it's all based on the basic concepts that you can learn in this session.
0:00 Intro
0:44 Scene Setup
2:51 Moving Actions to the NLA
4:16 Tracks & Strips
4:51 Tracks Overview
8:56 Blending Modes
16:59 Extrapolation
19:51 Active Action + NLA
22:03 Quick Recap
22:49 Strip Name & Active Action Name
23:58 Muting Strips
24:48 Playback Scale (Action speed)
27:34 Tweak mode (Edit Mode for Action Strips)
30:02 Action Strip "trimming"
32:12 Repeat (Looping Actions)
33:47 Cyclic Strip Time(!?)
34:13 Influence (Action Transitions)
36:19 Beware the Keyframes
37:56 "Push Down" VS "Stash"
39:55 Coming up next!
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@RG-ef8vm Жыл бұрын

I've been learning blender over about the last 2-3 months, and almost EVERY "tutorial" is not a tutorial, but a demonstration that identifies keystrokes as the host progresses through a project. YOU, however, are a true tutor. You don't just demonstrate, you introduce, explain, demonstrate, and discuss. You do an excellent job. Thank you.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Thank you too. Appreciate the nice comment and I am glad the video was useful!

Жыл бұрын

"Cyclic strip time" is for cyclic animations, like a walk cycle. You create one cycle and make it a strip. Now if you resize the strip, the single walk cycle will play slower or faster. But if you turn on "cyclic strip time", then resizing the strip will not change the speed, but rather how many times the cycle is repeated.

@judedouch7838 Жыл бұрын

Have a look on this simple example for a better understanding of what Cyclic Strip Time does in NLA here : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oc6XeMeX18fUqmw.html

@ZzZz-dr7uq 5 ай бұрын

thanks

@PoMkAc27 3 ай бұрын

@@judedouch7838 it’s not about cyclic strip time but about animated strip time

@PoMkAc27 3 ай бұрын

Bullshit

@RafaWasHere Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this great tutorial. A lot of courses skip this because they say its too complicated but this explains it so well and simply.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful and thanks for the contribution :)

@ugoangeletti3556 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly who needs art school when you have online tutorials like these... Amazing tutorial!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. Schools have some positives. But they are indeed overpriced and not very efficient.

@TheNerd 3 жыл бұрын

yeah in theory professional advice should be a good thing. i guess art schools is more for learning a lot of the theory stuff like when you want to create a human charakter you need to know a lot about anatomy. the number of drawn faces i saw with wrong proportions (most commonly ears / eyes are too high / low) is insane. reaaaally good art but ears drawn at the height of the temporomandibular joint... nah

@efsfsesegsgesg8775 Жыл бұрын

true

@BrianLife Жыл бұрын

Yes!! Props! So good!

@Soturi4k Жыл бұрын

everyone I know who went to art school does a normal job somewhere else, aside from 2 tattooers and one of them sucks. Everybody else I know who is a professional artists in any random medium didn't go to art school lol.

@demiancoorey2394 9 ай бұрын

First class tutorial. The most thorough I have seen

@martyfouts771 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, concise, and thorough. Only one tiny thing missing: You can reorder tracks by hovering over a track, right clicking, and selecting a reordering action from the menu. (Up, Down, To Top or Top Bottom)

@combeechan 3 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most concise and informative NLA editor video I've come across. Thank you very much for taking the time to carefully compose this lesson.

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@doctari1061 2 жыл бұрын

You asked about the “Cyclic Strip Time”. It’s my understanding that this is for things like flashing lights on and off. If you create a single curve that switches the emission on an object from “zero to 10” then you only set this once from say Frame 1 being zero and Frame 3 being 10, the when you select Cyclic Strip Time, then Blender creates a sine-wave that cycles up and down repeating every 3 frames until the end of the strip. It save you needing to create all those inserts across the entire strip. The first “blink” of the light is automatically repeated at equal intervals over the length of the strip. At least that’s how I understand it. It works like that in the door sheet so I think they are just adding the same functionality here in the NLA. I haven’t tried it myself, but it’s what I assume is being provided. Cheers

@llYuki0okami Жыл бұрын

A little tip fo begginers: in situations where we have several ActionStrips stacked on top of each other that affect each other. If we click on, for example, the middle one and want to edit it (TAB), our character is no longer influenced by ActionStrips that are above the one we are currently editing. It is very inconvenient when, for example, one ActionStrip is responsible for placing our RootBone and the other for the movement of the hand, and when editing the movement of the hand, the character teleports to a different place because the ActionStrip with RootBone stops working. There are two solutions; One thing is to move the edited ActionStrip to the top in the NLA, for some reason editing the ActionStrip the ones below still work.. The second is to click on the star next to the name of the Track on which the ActionStrip you want to edit is located, and then edit it, then most of the effects remain, for some reason ... remember to uncheck the star after editing.

@unskillednaive416 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your work...you are only one who talks about Blender Animation tools in detail...... Keep going brother👍👍👍👍

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@d3x84 3 жыл бұрын

@@CGDive That Tutorial was awesome. i really fell in love with blender animations and that cleared up a lot ofr me

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

@@d3x84 Nice :)

@joechristo2 2 жыл бұрын

20:58 it doesn’t override it because it has no keyframes and the layers blend from bottom to top

@AroundTheHouseShow Жыл бұрын

I’ve come back to CGDive whenever I need a refresher on the NLA and the knowledge and information in these videos have saved me many times. Very grateful. Keep up the fantastic work…

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive feedback! Really appreciate it!

@BasedMando Жыл бұрын

3:10 Rotating 360 degrees on Y-axis with XYZ Euler was a chad move bro, LOL! Love your videos. Can't thank you enough for the amazing value you've added to my art!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

haha, thanks! I am super happy you find it useful.

@salamota 3 жыл бұрын

Finally, I understand NLA & action, thank you

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for watching!

@RealityXHD 2 жыл бұрын

I've never seen nla or even any other feature of blender well explained like this! Good job! Keep it up!

@ShuyaTheDark 2 жыл бұрын

This feels like an eye-opening experience. Suddenly the mess I had in the NLA and Action Editor makes sense.

@CGDive 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@etta777 Жыл бұрын

Blender Foundation needs to put your tutorials to some official learning course. Very quality materials, man! Thanks for your work!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

haha, thanks! :)

@HeinerS Жыл бұрын

Even in August '22 still the best video on NLA. Subscribed.

@tactilevisions 2 ай бұрын

The NLA is like a piece of ancient alien technology, and you're Indiana Jones patiently explaining his understanding of it

@CGDive 2 ай бұрын

ahahahahaha

@mikemurphy8744 3 жыл бұрын

Great explanation! It's a hard concept to understand - now I finally get it. I've literally watched hundreds of tutorials and I appreciate the time that it took to do this one. Well though out and executed.

@Torque9967 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the videos you made until now about animations and rigging. I had the sentiment that I was in a course, specially with the mind map of the other video, the content is a level of professional. A big thank to you.

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks! The rigify videos are a course. The new blender for games series is also a course. Enjoy!

@mazingstudios 2 жыл бұрын

This is so useful! The amount of work you put into this is amazing. Very clear and easy to follow. Many thanks!

@RenoSydney Жыл бұрын

Thank you for demystifying the NLA and action editors, and continually making high quality Blender tutorials!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for your support!

@JulianGallese Жыл бұрын

I've been looking for the perfect actions/NLA tutorial for years, finally found it! This tutorial series explains everything in such a great way, thank you!

@resaliputra4910 2 жыл бұрын

I thought I knew quite a lot about NLA but there were still some great nuggets in this video and super well presented that re-learning the stuff I already knew didn't feel boring.

@arunbabu3814 2 жыл бұрын

Underappreciated video to be honest. Great content CGDive !

@LoriGriffiths 2 жыл бұрын

This was exactly what I was looking for. Wonderful tutorial, thank you for making it.

@gregerolsson1713 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! And good tempo as well. Thanks a lot for your hard work!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support, Greger!

@AlberTesla1024 3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this, Thanks.

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

One more coming soon :)

@AlberTesla1024 3 жыл бұрын

@@CGDive I am waiting for that one too.

@michaberg8403 Жыл бұрын

The best video for this complicated topic.Thank you very much

@Chafmere 3 жыл бұрын

This is a serious life saver. Thank you!

@chicao.do.blender 2 жыл бұрын

just found your channel, second video, and you're amazing, thank you really

@IrocZIV Жыл бұрын

This is an excellent overview. Exactly what I needed.

@rimonmath Жыл бұрын

Very well explained. Thank you very much for this beautiful video :)

@rken100 3 жыл бұрын

wow freaking amazing so much detail

@bscott2hot 2 жыл бұрын

Superb! I've been confused about this for a very long time. Thanks for the concise video. You're a very good teacher.

@ssatguru 2 жыл бұрын

Hands down the best video on NLA. Thank You!

@nucleon. 2 жыл бұрын

A very good, comprehensive and easy to folllow tutorial on the NLA Editor! Especially in pointing out on what can get confusing. Thank you for your effort and sharing your knowledge.

@hydrocosmo Жыл бұрын

This and your previous video have been SO helpful, thanks a ton man.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked them!

@eyloa6386 2 жыл бұрын

I like your videos so much! Again, your teaching skills are amazing! Thank you for taking the time and sharing your knowlegde with us!

@FredAubert Жыл бұрын

Wow .. .your tutorials are just Fantastic, thank you for all those precise instructions and ideas!

@mixchief 3 жыл бұрын

This is extremely informative, @CGDive. Pure golden, thanks.

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks man 😊

@vladartov2817 10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! One of the most helpful and structured tutorials on the matter.

@AnatomyLab 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial! Thank you!

@jafarsadiq6226 2 жыл бұрын

You are great blender teacher. Thank you for sharing valuable knowledge

@habitdaemon 2 жыл бұрын

Very comprehensive and answered some questions I didn't know I had.

@kangtoodull Жыл бұрын

This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot !!!

@ShadowMakerSdR 3 жыл бұрын

This is a very thorough video. Well done and with a good voice over. I can't get over the fact that you hardly seem to 'hm' at all. Impressive!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man! As for the "hms", I write a script for my videos these days. Then I also edit out some of the "hms" while editing the video. If I just hit record and talk there would be more "hms" than actual words :P

@NoCodeFilmmaker Жыл бұрын

Bro! Brilliantly simple breakdown of a complex topic. You truly made this easy to not fully understand. Amazing job!!!

@nategreyson6014 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, you are amazing.

@pinkyi6023 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! You have explained everything so clearly!

@spaceboffin 2 жыл бұрын

Superbly explained. Thank you,

@chrisbell277 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, thank you

@benjamingundlach9233 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, you are a real lifesaver. Great video, great explanation, easy to understand 👍

@BATCH3 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for explaining all these valuable details!

@TheresThatMan Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video - this is the best explainer of the action / NLA workflow in blender that I have seen. Solved a half-day-long problem just by watching and understanding this video.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@makia.7440 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your time! Really good video I didn't see ather video explaining like this.

@deepak3dart Жыл бұрын

Wonderful tutorial and well explained. Thank you. Now this three panels are much easy to work.

@SandroSanakoti 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you’re my hero

@MichaelKarius 2 жыл бұрын

Finally this all makes sense to me, you´re a great teacher! Thank you for your work!

@BlenderFun_ 2 жыл бұрын

really good nla tutorial...i have seen so much nla tutorials...most of them made me more confuse than before...great job!! +subscribed

@ceyhunsevilmis 2 жыл бұрын

Great tut, thanks 👏👏👏

@alexmassy 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, that is perfect ! thanks a lot for the explanation!

@evilferber2704 3 жыл бұрын

@CGDive That's... You... Ehhh :D You have no idea for how many years I've been waiting for this video. I'll drink to that today. And to You :). Cheers and Thanks!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Nice. Watch part 2 as well :)

@KriGeta 2 жыл бұрын

this video is just amazing! from all NLA fundamentals and easy to understand, yay!

@Kimb4000 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the work you put into this video. I have learned a lot of much needed info from you on the nla.

@RealGaryGibson 10 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial! It really helped me to understand the NLA editor.

@vstreet7583 3 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant explanation. Clear and concise. Now I understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. THANK YOU! Dg

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again! :)

@OnyxIdol Жыл бұрын

In depth and valuable information, thanks

@gaston. 2 жыл бұрын

such valuable well laid out information for such a confusing interface. Thank you for sharing!

@0fficez0mbie 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for such a detailed and well structured tutorial. I love that you sign-post the areas that caused you confusion at first, to save us from having the same troubles.

@soundsbeard Жыл бұрын

this video is gold

@martinmardoek4663 Жыл бұрын

Very thorough explanation. Thnx!

@davebulow2 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is an excellent explanation.

@theothergameygamer 2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to have checked this out - very informative.

@TheSuperRaspberry 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this is the best tutorial on NLA in Blender I've seen so far. I learned a lot which will help me to master my final bachelors thesis! Thank you so much for your effort

@CGDive 2 жыл бұрын

bachelors thesis... feels good to know I am "teaching" people who are much smarter than me haha Glad the videos are useful!

@patrickespinoza 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this, some things in the Dope sheet and the NLA editor are so cryptic

@erik352 3 жыл бұрын

Very clear tutorial. Thanks! Learned a lot!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that 😁

@massivetree7937 2 жыл бұрын

This is by far the best information I've found so far on NLA in Blender.

@BrianLife Жыл бұрын

So well explained! You are great!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

You're too kind!

@rudypieplenbosch6752 2 жыл бұрын

This was exactle what i was looking for, thanks.

@JavierSam_Uy 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic explanation. Clear and concise, even though the NLA Editor is rather complex. Thank you very much.

@carlosedubarreto 3 жыл бұрын

More than a month to finaly watch this video . It was sitting on my browser for all this time. Ita amazing.... so much info that I've got confused explained here... amazing!!!!

@CGDive 3 жыл бұрын

I know how it is. I have a long list of cool videos to watch :) Glad it was useful, mate!

@wernerkruger-hr1of Жыл бұрын

wow...thx for explaining it so well

@MrZooBreak 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Job! Now I understand it!

@bibbisbibbis 2 жыл бұрын

Very well explained! Thank you very much!

@Salaar_Masud 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful - thanks a lot!

@saitkayhan Жыл бұрын

THIS IS A GREAT TUTORIAL. I'M LEARNING SO MUCH

@JulesL_82 3 жыл бұрын

I followed this first one, good job!

@AndyMGar 2 жыл бұрын

Superb explanation. I came across this after sampling a couple of other similar videos and yours is much, much, much better. Not sure where you come from but your English is as good as your explanations. Many thanks.