Do you agree with my feature requests? What differences did I miss that matter to YOU? :)

14:16 Timeline Editor > Keying > "Active Keying set" choose LocRotScale (or the one you prefer) > now every time you press "I" it will automatically key LocRotScale

• The colours are changeable in the Theme preferences. • Changing the line weight can be done under Edit>Preferences>Interface>Line Width and set it to Thick. (this will change all lines though, more of an accessibility feature) • The view pie menu (which includes zoom selection) is on the button to the left of the alphanumeric 1 (normally tilda on US layout). • You also have Shift+B to do a zoom marquee. • Add a transform gizmo on the gizmo menu to the left of the viewport overlays. You can even have a gizmo with grab/scale/rotate all together as one gizmo with different handles. • To change the transform orientation the shortcut is , (comma) or obviously the menu at the top if that's easier. • Press and hold Shift to make transforms 10x more sensitive. • Ctrl will snap to the active snapping mode (selectable from the snapping menu at the top (the magnet)) • Shift+Ctrl will snap to 1/10th of the division • Set the keying set in the timeline so you can just press I to keyframe (or auto keyframe for easy animating) • (I'm not too hot on animation stuff but) G, S and R all work everywhere in Blender so in the graph editor, grab a handle and press S or G to move it around. • If you want things (keyframes, nodes, 3D object etc) to snap to an axis while dragging, start dragging and press Middle mouse button and it'll stick to axis. Otherwise, X and Y work to constrain to axis in the graph. • Select a keyframe in the graph editor and press L (for Linked) to select the entire curve (shortcut works everywhere in Blender) • You have F-curve ghosts as the button with the square and a diagonal through it t the right of the graph editor header bar. • The macro stuff, I've seen a lot of people with rigs setup that have those kinds of bone constraints built in and you just set up a custom property with the python data path to give you a slider in viewport. (Blender is 100x more powerful if you're not afraid to spend an hour learning specific python things) • Jump to first frame is Shift+Left Arrow, jump to last frame is Shift+Right Arrow. • Left and right arrow move you to previous and next frame respectively. • Up and Down arrow move you to next and previous KEYframe respectively. Something I love about Blender is that your shortcuts that you learn in 3D work in the animation tools, in the shader workspaces, in the sculpting workspaces, in the motion tracking workspaces. It's really consistent across the entire (massive) platform. I think it would really suffer from fragmentation if they tried to align certain workflows to other software standards. That being said, I do architectural visualisation and procedural stuff, not animation AND I've used Blender for 12 years vs 1 of Maya and 1 of 3DSMax so clearly I'm acclimatised to Blender. I've probably missed a few things here but it's great to see you giving Blender some coverage! It's an exciting time to be using it!

Sir Wade... just a suggestion here.... when and if you discover solutions to the issues that you have raised within this video it would be MOST helpful if you could produce and update episode showing how you managed to solve them. I'm sure a lot of viewers would be most appreciative. Thumbs-up buddy !

if you click the little + icon at the top right, next to all the different layouts in blender you can save the current layout with all it's view settings :) also when you hit G to move an object, you can press middle mouse button to quickly select a movement axis, instead of using the x y and z keys for your move sensitivity problem, while moving stuff you can hold shift to do very small movements

The 'X' key does the same thing as the delete key, you don't need to reach across the keyboard.

WADE: Opens two software and runs at the same time ME: Opens chrome PC: NOT RESPONDING

blender hotkeys shift E - break down poses ctrl E - push pose Alt E - relax pose Ctrl tab - for switching between the graph editor and the dope sheet really fast

Hi Sir, I have a few suggestions that might be usefull: you don't to have to switch from Pose mode to Object mode all the time, you can turn off "lock object mode" in the Edit menu, this thing lets you select objects that are in the same mode, but not the other ones. For example you can go from an armature in pose mode to another armature that is in pose mode as well, but not to an object in sculpt mode, and it's the same thing for every mode. So when disabled, you can click on any object, it will switch to whatever mode it's in. It's cool to have it because it prevents you from misclicking on something behind what you tried to select, and on some occasions waiting for the soft to change the mode, wich can be long sometimes and frustrating depending on the mesh, especially if you misclicked. Then, if you press Shift Space in a bunch of editors, it will bring a set of tools right under the cursor (move, rotate, scale, and so on), and it's contextual, so in edit mode, the tools shown in this thing aren't the same as in the object mode, even though there are similar ones (move scale rotate once again). It's an active on release type of menu, so when you press it and go to another tool, releasing will active, but if you press shift space and leave the cursor on the tool that was already active, the menu will stay even if you release. For the precision stuff in the graph editor, I think you already know this, but you have "value" and "frame" sliders to move keyframes with precisions (you can type in numbers), it's in one of the menus when you press N. You may also know this, to be able to go at the beggining or the end of the timeline, you have to press shift left or right arrow (arrows are used to go frame by frame). One final thing not related to animation, but to addons if you have some, there's a filter feature in the workspace propertie panel (the top panel in the properties, where you have the modifers, render settings, contraints and so on, it's also in the N menus in the viewport) wich allows you to disable addons on the fly in one project, just so you don't disable them in preferences, wich will disable them in every project you have and will keep them disabled when starting a new project if you forget to reenable them.

11:45 No need to hit keys to change sensitivity at all: the sensitivity of rotation and scaling is dependent on how far your mouse is from the object origin at the time you hit the transformation key.

26:20 - Yes, Blender has "ghost curves" (there's a button to create them at the top right of the graph editor)

Considering that EVERYTHING in Blender is python touchable, most of the 'profile' options and such can very very easily by scripted. You can set up entire scene builds, window setups, settings, display, literally anything with a simple script that can then be assigned a hot key or control combo. There is an amazing level of power in python scripting and fantastic documentation and support for getting it done. Highly recommend. You don't even need to have any coding skills, Blender itself will hold your hand and tell you what to type and what to do!

18:08 You can move the key by pressing G in Blender, just like You would in Maya with the middle mouse button. You can also select / constrain the axis of movement for the key in the graph editor with g + x,y,z like You would in the viewport

with the hotkey comlaint about focus on selected: the "~" key brings up a pie menue that lets you do that also, with the having to aim in the graph editor, you can use g to grab (or s to the handles) and if you press middle mouse while in the grab, it will snap the motion to vertical/horizontal EDIT: looks like you allready knew this one. also, if you hit "i" over the dopesheet/graph editor, you can choose "all channels" or "all selected channels" rather than selecting location/postition etc.

I use Blender without a numberpad on my keyboard, and while it wasn't obvious at first, anything you do with the keypad can be done easily with only the left side of your keyboard and the mouse. I see lots of comments with help on your other complaints, but I didn't readily see another comment suggesting this, so I'll add this 1 suggestion: Hold ` (backtick/grave) and you'll see a circle menu that lets you easily switch to any view by dragging your mouse or hitting the associated number, including focusing on the selected object. (It's super fast to hit `3 or press ` and drag the mouse to the bottom right) You can also hold Alt then drag/swipe the mouse while holding middle mouse to snap to orthographic angles. If you instead drag while holding middle mouse and THEN hold Alt, it'll snap to 45-degree angles, which is also useful.

It was 2005 when I first tried Maya 4.5 as a 3ds Max animator. Maya's Graph Editor came across so much easier and more intuitive compared to the one avaialble in 3DsMax. This is important stuff, As the animation process has to feel fluid and easy with as few clicks as possible. Insightful video, Thanks!

Some useful tips: G, followed by Shift + X would isolate the translation to y and z axis, Shift + Y would isolate it to x and z, etc. G, followed by X once translates in global space on the x axis but pressing X again switches it to local space. If you have the default set to something like 'Normal' then it would switch between Normal and Global but in reverse. This isn't a solution for the undo problem but since I'm used to this I never switch spaces the traditional way unless I need to set a new default space so it's not really an issue for me. This also works with rotation and scale of course. I hope the undo thing does get changed though, it doesn't make much sense imo. As mentioned in another comment, Timeline Editor > Keying > "Active Keying set" lets you select the default keyframe type so pressing I just adds a keyframe of that type directly. In the graph editor, Selecting things in Blender is pretty fuzzy so you don't have to worry about aiming at the keyframe exactly. After you select a keyframe, press L to select the entire curve. Pressing K also selects the entire column of keyframes on the same frame as the selected keyframe. Once you have the desired keyframe(s) selected, you can use the same transform hotkeys as in the 3D view to manipulate them. So you could do something like press I to add a keyframe and then press G then Y to move it up in the graph. (I guess you knew this one, got a bit further into the video after typing this.) Blender doesn't have a lattice tool but it does have proportional editing (can be toggled by pressing O) which lets you propagate the transform of the currently selected keyframes to other frames around it by the selected falloff preset. After pressing G, if you press Ctrl and Shift together then it translates the keyframes at 1/10th of the default increment. This also works in 3D view. Yes, Blender has Ghost curves. It's the kite like icon at the top-right of the f-curves window. Blender does have pose libraries. If you select a rig and navigate to it's rig properties (the tab on the right which looks like a running stick figure), you can see a section titled pose library. The functionality sounds exactly like how you describe it. Blender can do stuff like "Macros" you described using "Custom Properties" and "Drivers". My hand rigs work the same way. It's a bit complicated to set up so I'll just leave it at that. Good video btw! Probably the most unbiased and fair comparison between Blender and Maya I've seen. I hope the developers see this video and implement some of the features you want. Can you explain that first feature on you wishlist again, though? I didn't really understand it. Maybe someone else can help me out here.

11:45 i don't really know if manipulators sizes in Blender can be changed but if you rotate the object manually (via hotkey) the more your mouse cursor is far from the object the more precise you are XD Oh and... 8:25 bonus trick for the first AutoKeying keyframe: just hit G, R or S and left mouse quick (whitout actually doing any transformation) to set the keyframe

(Note: I'll avoid commenting on things you've got completely right, such as on Maya's strengths or things from Primo that could be added to Blender. This post only serves to correct you on some things.) 6:00 -- Lol, you can just use the ~ key instead of the numpad. 10:00 -- Hit either G, R or S, then click-and-hold the middle-mouse button to pick an axis, and then leave the middle-mouse button to rotate/translate/scale in precision. But yeah, gimbal customization would be great to have. 14:17 -- What's wrong with having to select what you want to key an attribute you aren't going to key repeatedly? Although, if you want to get rid of needing to select it in cases of keying repeatedly, just create a keyring for what you want to key, and the mean pop-up will go away (Hint: The "Available" keyring is best-boy). Also, fun-fact: "Almost" everything can be keyed in Blender with a "I" by simply hovering over the values, colors, etc. 16:30 -- You're correct on the curves -- the fact that I can't select by curves in Blender drives me up the wall too. That said, I don't agree with you on "deselecting the key to deselect the tangent" stuff; I personally appreciate the decoupling, because it allows me to scale / rotate / translate just the tangents and not the keys, which can be very useful sometimes, especially when I'm doing Motion Graphics in Blender. 18:00 -- ....Just press G like you do in the viewport, man. The hotkeys exist for a reason, but you're still taking the slowest route by doing it with a mouse. The middle-mouse intentionally kept for panning / zooming around throughout the entire interface (not just in the viewport), and that should clue you into Blender's biggest strength when it comes to interface design: Consistency. If something works at one place, it's likely to work at another, hence why it's not really as much as a learning-curve as most people make it out to be. (Edit: Seems like you've already covered this in 25:45.) 21:00 -- You might be correct on this, but honestly, I've never even needed to use the Normalize feature considering I can easily just hold Ctrl + Middle-Mouse to quickly zoom and stretch the graph as I like. It's much more flexible, and faster, for me than having to tell the computer to do it for me, especially in very specific and finicky situations. 22:07 -- This is probably just an interface gripe, that's fine. The other two in the menu are actually useful, especially for cleaning up redundant keyframes. If you're animating fast, this can be super-useful. ...Although, I can understand the reasoning behind getting rid of the other two options now that we have "Add-to-Favorites" menu, which can be configured for speed, and thus you can manually add those other two options to Q. 25:55 -- Yeah, because Blender seems to have been, from the start, heavily hot-key driven, which only started to change from 2.5 onwards. Don't worry though, like you said, somebody would create a patch or add-on or something eventually to make it easier for non-hotkey users. (Also, I've always animated with a mouse because I have no money for a screen-tablet. Why would someone "animate" in 3D with a tablet rather than just drawing, sculpting, or 2D-animating with it is beyond me.) 26:15 -- Yeah. It's "Create Ghost Curves" on the top-right menu of the graph editor. Though, since I've never used it before, I'm probably the wrong person to point this out. 27:00 -- There might be a Blender Theme that you might like that could address this for you. Speaking of which, do start exploring themes. ;) 31:22 -- Blender has a Pose Library (although, you probably knew that). 35:15 -- Unpopular opinion, but gotta say it: Legends animate on spreadsheet. 'nuff said. Some of the gripes you've had are plenty justifiable, though some are simply a problem of you not knowing of good alternative options that Blender already has. That's understandable though, considering the fact that Blender is MASSIVE, and even I still don't know everything it's capable of doing, let alone somebody who just started using it. And new features keep being added frequently on top of that.

Sir Wade, you are getting a ton of love from these Blender videos. I hope this encourages you to do more of these. I think they're fantastic, and it's really helping the Blender developers. Keep going.

When moving handles in the graph editor, you can use the same transform hotkeys as when in the 3D viewport (g= location, s= scale, r = rotate) and you can also contrain those movements to horizontal (x) or vertical (y). I agree that it's not as fast as the middle mouse button in Maya but I actually appreciate that Blender's transform tools aim to be consistent throughout the various modes/panels. Thanks for this video. Very helpful while trying to learn

18:12 In Blender Use G while moving keyframes in graph editor. Just like in 3d viewport. You can also use s and r and other shortcuts :) You can hit G and middle mouse drag drop for locking on axis or you can press y to lock vertical axis. You can hit ctrl + click to select left or right side of current time Alt + click to select all keyframes in same time When you select a keyframe, you can ctrl + rightclick to anywhere to create new keyframe in vertical line ...

You can effectively select a whole curve by selecting a keyframes on a spline in the graph editor then pressing 'L'. The L hotkey usually grabs links items in blender windows, for example it will select all connect parts of a mesh you have selected.

The best thing about blender is the hotkeys make sense and appplicable in almost all the viewports and panel. 1- You are bothered in key framing. There is a feature in upper border of timeline to lock keyframe type after enabling that you can place keyframe only by hitting "I" key. 2- use "Ctrl+tab" to switch from timeline to graph editor more fluidly.

13:02 to open graph editor in Maya you don't necessarily need to go to "window>animation>graph" , you can easily split the view by right-clicking on one of the Layout View buttons in Toolbox , choose "two pane stack " which will split the view like you did in blender, and then change the bottom pane to graph editor. but here is the cool part, right click on one of view buttons again and choose "Save Current Layout" now anytime you run maya single click on that button and it will split the view and open graph editor in buttom pane for you, which is a lot quicker than blender!

About the middle mouse thing, blender actually does have this! If you press “G” then middle mouse drag, it will lock to whatever axis you’re dragging closest to!

15:33 "I hate not being able to grab the curve" Relatable lol

man I needed this video

Pose Breakdowner and Relax tool in Blender definitely sounds like what you had at DW, including with overshoot etc. Built in and I use it all the time. And pose libraries are a big part of my workflow in Blender, and super quick with shortcuts once they are set up for the rig. Thanks for the vid, and great to see you exploring with an open mind! Keep it up! PS +1 for checking into keying sets. Not perfect yet, but powerful.

Using both Maya and Blender consecutively, I really hope the Blender Devs make some updates to the graph editor and how keys are made.

Good video! I learned a lot watching it! By the way, some answers to your questions. 9:45 You can hold the middle mouse buttom and it automatically locks the axis (also works for the graph editor), or you can look at the axis gizmos icon on top right to know which axis you want to move along 11:40 hold the shift key after pressing r to make it rotate less sensitively 33:00 In Blender you use Shift + Left Arrow to do that, Sift + Right Arrow take you to the end key, and NumPad 0 takes you to your selected key

From my experience -- Shift+Left/Right arrow takes you to the first/last key in a set timeline. If you have a selected object/bone, and you hit the Up and Down arrow keys lets you go to the next or last keyframe.

Absolutely agree with the transform gizmo and graph editor complaints. What i've noticed is that blender usually prioritizes improving modelling, rendering features more than anything else in every release. Animation is probably on the lowest priority. Modelling is quite fun in blender and probably 70-80% of blender artists are modellers. They never go beyond that. And those who do animation are those who do small animations here and there for their scenes. Hence, rigging and animation gets less feedback to devs...(thats what i think). There is scarcity of free quality rigs as well....which again i think because most people dont go deep into rigging. I hope the blender devs watch this video and work on the graph editor especially. Maya is much superior when it comes to GE and whole animation in general.

CHANGE THE INTERFACE THEME TO MAYA. Go to User Preferences -> Theme -> Drop down to Maya. It will make the selections much clearer. You can also change the line thickness of various things I'm the 3d view by scrolling down in the Theme tab to your liking.

This is an incredibly detailed and well reasoned comparison! Please do more with different software and different features! Very few people doing this.

All of Blender's hotkeys for the timeline use the arrow keys, you can move forward or back a frame with the left or right arrows, and jump to the beginning or end of the timeline with shift + left or right arrows. Up and down arrow keys jump to the next keyframe, while shift + up or down keys jumps in ten frame increments.

In blender, try pressing g and then holding the mouse weal. The object will snap to the axis you move to. you can let go of the mouse weal and it won't stop snapping. It's working in the graph editor too, and also for rotation and scale. also you can set a hot key to anything by right clicking. Sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my first language.

11:04 you can choose (move rotate and scale) from show (viewport gizmos) and you will have all the three showing at the same time or select only what you need or when

17:37 You can hit G to move keys in the Blender graph editor and hold down middle mouse button to lock onto one direction. 26:19 Ghost curves. The little button on the right of the triangle with the exclamation point button at the top of the graph editor. 33:20 Shift+Left or Right Arrow goes to beginning or end frame.

Hey Wade! I just discovered your channel today when I saw you were learning Blender. I wanted to touch on something you said near the end of the video about posing fingers. In Blender, that kind of automation of having a "Bend control" and a "Splay control" and things like that are handled by your animation rig. It takes some work to get the rig operating like you want it (it's something I really enjoy. The engineering behind the relationships for various bones.) but once you have it set up it works just like you described. For instance, I can position my IK hand target where I want it, then just scale up the finger splay bone to spread the fingers out. Rotate the palm curl bone to get the pinkie to drop. Move the finger curl bone to get all the fingers to curl up. And then make adjustments to individual fingers. So posing becomes additive. You just work with the bone that approximates the pose you're trying to get, then go down the line into more and more granular control. I hope I understood your question there and my explanation made sense.

You can select the entire curve by ctrl+alt right clicking a keyframe in the graph editor

26:20 Yes there is a ghost curve option in Blender: Its in the menu bar of the grapheditor left of the funnel symbol (filters).

Hey Wade, got the solution for some of your problems: 1. You can choose what you want to Key as default without selecting each time you set a Keyframe: In the Timeline editor menu, the second option is "Keying", select it and in Active Key Set you can choose what you want to key, you can select Loc, rot, scale, or whatever you want. 2. To see only the selected Curve: Go to the Curves Editor menu, First option: View, Check "Only Selected Curve Key Frarmes"

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Maya keyboard shortcuts actually make a lot of sense. They have been thought for people muscle memory to kick in faster: QWERTY is actually the type of keyboard, which makes the sequence a lot easier to remember and to connect to those particular functions. It's been explained in 1998 when Alias|Wavefront released the software on SGI. I remember the presentation like it was yesterday (I was literally impressed by the immediacy of the UI and hotkeys system).

Great video! At 14:48 in Maya you say "the fastest way is to right click - insert key". You can hold down the "i" key and middle mouse button on your selected curve(s) to insert keys. Much faster and gestural. As you middle-click drag, it shows where it will insert the key, and when you release the middle-mouse, it inserts the key.

The point about hotkeys being all over the keyboard is so spot on. I talked to a Blender user at work, and he could not understand why moving your hand to frame selected was a bad thing. He even said to just move my right hand off the mouse to the numpad area. QWER F and the pivot snapping to grid or vert are perhaps my favorite things about using Maya.

4:31 You can use the “Append” function to import a workspace from one Blender document into another.

that shirt is so clean, good stuff

I've used maya/Alias/softimage/XSI for 24 years now in VFX animation, and have been messing around in Blender recently as so much seems to have been thought through smartly, and quality of life changes are on rapid turnaround by the Blender Foundation and community which is great. I haven't delved into animation hugely yet, but on top of some of the very helpful suggestions below here are a couple of additional tips for the graph editor: Proportional Editing - Select a key to T/S/R whilst this is on (hotkey 'o'), and middle mouse drag to change the falloff. Really great when adjusting dense data keys. One other for dense data - select noisy curve keys and hold 'alt 0' to smooth. The longer you hold, the smoother the curve gets. Handy. Curve vis - not ideal, but I'm starting to get used to click dragging the eye icon to the left of the curve list to quickly show or hide curves. Not being able to directly select a curve is indeed a pain, but selecting a key and hitting 'l' for linked keys is a decent workaround for the time being?

You've actually just covered every issue I've had with Blender animation tools since moving over to it, I was using Maya for over 15 years and had my workflow dialled in for maximum speed. Many of those little speed things just aren't there in Blender Animation tools at all. Looking forward to them updating the animation tools if that's happening in 2.9

31:30 - Blender has a Pose Library feature, but it's a bit bare-bones at the moment

Blender is very well rounded, but it has a couple of areas that need serious improvement in my opinion, animation is definitely one of them, along with UV mapping tools and texture painting

There is a key for easy selection and deselect . Vertex, edges , faces, or handles . Just press "C" key and use your mouse For selection - left click Deslect - middle mouse click Disable feature - right click

Hello Sir Wade, glad you're giving Blender a shot! For the gizmos on keypress, you can right click on the Move, Rotate, and Scale buttons on the left sidebar and bind any Shortcut key to them. These will override the keymaps in the Blender settings and allow you to switch to those tools quickly during your animation workflow.

I love how unbiased you are comparing both tools, i am a blender and 3Ds max and houdini user, i think i might give maya a new shot, have used a while ago but wasn't really in love.

Btw the work blender works to easily snap to one direction in the viewport and the graph editor is to holding middle mouse button which is really handy sometimes.

You have in blender a quick pie menu for viewport navigation, its the ~ key near the numbers row. Super fast. The pie menus in blender are responsive as hell, so they are incredible. Other pie menus: Z for viewport rendering type, Ctrl+Tab for mode switching, "" for transformation orientation and pivot. If you use mouse when you grab, scale and rotate, you can hold middle mouse button to choose constraint axis (actually feels like a pie menu), shift when selecting to exclude it from transformation. No need to look at the keyboard. Works in almost every part of blender where you grab and move stuff (including graph editor, Nodes, etc). Also, double R to rotate more freely on multiple axis at once. Shift when transforming to transform more precisely . Also, maybe you can do the fingers stuff using shape keys? You create lots of shape keys for different positions, and you have sliders that interpolate between the start and end of the shape key, and you can mix between those shape keys.

You can enable the manipulators for rotate, scale and moving at the same time in the Gizmo panel, next to the Overlays panel, (11:45) to change the sensitivity of the manipulators you can press shift for fine adjustments

I'm still experimenting with both programs (We have to learn on Maya at my uni), but I'm starting to really prefer Blender. Mainly because when I first opened Maya my brain ran away in terror 😂 I really appreciate this video comparing the two 🤩

Blender users should really stop trying to be "experts" & preachers in the comments section that's not how you communicate, don't take his video as a bashing but his points are valid, if the defaults are not good or usable for a new users then don't expect them to dig in a sea of settings & workarounds just to make it a little bit better, if you have to work hard to do some simple stuff then it means there is a problem.........i know enough Blender and i could even add more issues to his list but i already know that people have complained about them to the Devs but since the Developers don't have someone to work on them , then everything will remain the same until they find developers who have time to tackle them.

You’re great Wade! I began following you as I realized the similarities between softwares myself and I was intrigued by your rig reviews. I’m so happy you give Blender a fair shot and aren’t simply saying, “rahhhh one is better than the other!” This is a perfect video for comparing the two when people say that Maya is still better in animation and Blender has a long away to go. This is a great breakdown of it and will probably be referenced from here on out, whether going from Maya to Blender or vice versa. Please put on your list to update this for future releases of both softwares! Like you said, 2.9 will add a lot and fix a lot as their updates always do! Will be interested to see how your opinions evolve with the updates! Again great video!

30:32 - The tool in Blender is called "Breakdowner" and it only appears when you're in POSE MODE context (select a bone, switch from object to POSE mode), in the left side panel tools (under Measure It tool).

30:36 That sounds like Blender's Pose Breakdowner tool. In the 3D viewport while in Pose Mode, check out the Pose menu, then In-Betweens -> Pose Breakdowner, and it lets you blend the pose of your selected bones from the previous keyframe to the next keyframe, by dragging left and right.

24:55 I think you don't realize that G, R, and S from the 3D viewport work in every window. Graph editor too.

I love videos like this, almost all of your nitpicks have solutions listed below by one user or another and I'm seeing a lot of great advice! I remember when I was switching from 3ds Max to Blender and I complained about a bunch of things on the forums and a bunch of people were like, oh that's because you do it like this, and my brain exploded when I realized how much easier it was to do EVERYTHING in Blender from that point on!

33:15 The hotkey for going back to the beginning of your animation in Blender is SHIFT + Left Arrow Key. To go to the end is SHIFT + Right Arrow Key.

3:00 linking and appending is very different. If you link it from a blend file, you basically have the same object as in the other file, if you edit it in the other file, the changes will persist. Which means, animation too will stay the say from the other file. A usefull addon is "edit linked mesh". What you need to to is use append. It fully brings the mesh and all of its data from the other blend file to the current project, so non of that Proxy stuff is needed and you can start animating just like you showed in maya

There is a gizmos option where you can turn on the move, rotate and scale gizmos, so that whenever you select an object, they are there by default. Edit: You can also assign your own hotkeys to different buttons at your wish

Hey my dude, i love the points. I know you said you wont use the hotkeys often, but in regards to your "I cannot change the size/sensitivity of the rotation/scale options" blender takes into account how close the mouse is to the center of whatever object you are manipulating. Scaling a ball that is farther from the mouse takes a lot more mouse movement than scaling something closer to the center of the mouse. Basically, when hitting s/r to scale or rotate, make sure your mouse is far away from the object to have more sensitivity Also, you mention that when moving things in the graph editor, you want to be able to lock. When moving just hit y or x to lock either up and down, or left and right. Just like in 3d, but ya know, only x and y now

Yes, you're doing it -you're helping making Blender better! Please get more involved with Blender development because we could really use someone like you with all the industry insight. Yay!

Comparisons like these are really helpful for the development of blender, especially for Animation, which is still kind of a weak point of Blender. The community needs the opinion of experienced animators to make the tools better and more efficient to use. So thank you for this and your hard work! Blender Foundation will listen.

25:40 That micro movement with G + Z in the unwanted axis (if that was what you were talking about) doesn't matter because hitting the axis key snaps it back to the axis.

Good to know: a few months ago the Blender devs did a big Animation workshop asking the community what could be improved in Animation and rigging systems, feedback, papercuts, .... All this to establish a list of features and things todo for the "Animation 2025" project. This video was quoted a few times by different people to illustrate points and have already lead to slight changes in the software

This was very thorough ! I work mostly in Maya and trying to learn some blender so this was a great video for that situation , thank you !!

If you want to lower the sensitivity you can just move mouse further from the object.

I cannot stress, how useful the comments were! Thanks everyone!

I am not an animator, but I love the format of your videos and they are very digestable and easy to listen/watch. Thank you for your content.

I have had the experience of meeting the guys from the blender institute in person and they are very approachable people, super nice, super smart something I like about blender is that direct contact, I feel they would really value your input and also guide you on finding alternatives to your workflow if there is already one, talk to them without fear

My thoughts: 4:12: great idea! 5:31 it's possible that the "," key on the number pad was chosen without using a tablet was in mind. When I am modeling I use the number pads a lot. But for animators using a tablet it's too far away 16:00 I agree this should be possible to uncheck curves

I think you can skip the "Add a proxy" step by just linking the armature directly. EDIT: Nope, my mistake, you do have to add a proxy.

I was right from the start. When I first started learning Blender, I combined the default shortcuts with the commonly used shortcuts from Maya to create a set of shortcuts that suited my personal preferences.

H hides anything in any window, shift + h will hide anything but selected, and alt + h unhides everything - useful for graph editor! You can also use g and an axis and r in any window.

When you are selecting curves in Blender, have you tried pressing 'L' when the mouse is over a key? L stands for 'linked selection' and should select anything that that point or key is attached to..

3:07 I think it might be possible to change thickness in preferences > themes

- you can click the little button in the top right next to the gizmo settings which are next to the overlay settings, the one that has a cursor and an eye icons, and disable the selection on mesh objects. This will tell blender to ignore selecting all the mesh objects in the scene - speaking of the gizmo settings, you can assign hotkeys to location rotation and scale, and pick the default orientation for those. You CAN adjust the scale of the gizmos in the user preferences via a slider in the viewport tab, but you can't assign a shortcut to that. - you can also click drag on multiple fields in blender. This is also true for toggles. Just click drag across toggles to set them to what the state of the first toggle in the chain. Such toggles include the eye icon in the curve editor - you can pick which type of key you can add without having to go through the menu in the timeline's keying menu. The field of which you pick which keyframe type you wanna add should be at the top of the menu, labeled active keying set. - to select a single curve, select one keyframe on that curve and hit L. Not as fast, but possible - You can use the Y and X axis modifier keys while moving a keyframe just like you do in the 3D viewport, even without using the G S and R keys - you can KINDA get a similar effect to the lattice with a combination of the cursor and bounding box pivot points, but it's not nearly as good - to only VIEW (this doesn't affect functionality) only the selected curve, go to the preferences and in the animation tab, drag the F-curve visibility slider all the way down to 0. This slider only affects the curves that don't have anything selected. You can also enable "Only Selected Curve Keyframes" in the View menu of the curve editor to only show the keyframes of the selected curve. But, if you select everything using A, that will include the invisible keyframes, so be weary of that - you can create ghost curves but only to use them as reference. You can't switch between them as far as I know - blender has a pose library in the armature data properties (the little green running dude icon), but I've never used it so idk how it works - Shift + Left Arrow will set the keyframe marker to the first frame in the scene. Experiment with Ctrl and/or Shift + any arrow key to find the other functions

I started on Maya, then used c4D for years, now I use Blender. Maya was the hardest for me to learn, but admittedly it was a long time ago. All the tools you are talking about are so specific to you and your job. For example, I make all my own rigs, so importing new rigs is not an issue. I don't like autokey, I prefer manually making keyframes. Press shift and an axis button to limit movement to the axis plane. Great video, I hope the developers see this

11:18 You can switch transform modes and gizmos in Blender using Shift-Space to bring up a menu at the mouse pointer to select the new transform. As mentioned by others, one of these is a combined 'Transform' mode with all three gizmos in one space.

So good

Maya tip: (in Animation menu) Key: Set Key Options: Set key preserve curve shape, check this box. Now when you press 's' the curve stay still.

The thing about saving certain poses, you can use the pose library. And the really good riggers can make the hand control things but I personally don’t know how to do it.

This is more like an “I wish Blender had this and I don’t know if it has this but I want it anyways” video using the praise input praise method.

If you really want to Push Changes to Blender that you want to be Seen implemented you could maybe write a proposal on right-click-select Share the link to the proposal on one of your next Videos and get it upvoted. That May be the Most efficient way to See it getting implemented into Blender. Maybe Just in a few weeks/months xD

25:15 the need to move keyframes in time AND value at the SAME time is in my experience super rare! We once developed a little sequencer tool where it locked into one of these very quickly with OPTIONAL unlocking! I think that was pretty nice 🤓

I was a Maya user since 2011 and switched to blender when 2.8 came out (could never get on with it before). I have custom keymaps that make it work similar to Maya more so than industry standard one but kept somethings the same as blenders standard map so I get the best of both worlds. But here's the thing with Blender. While it has its flaws and things it can't do that Maya can etc it still is far superior to Maya because it's 100% free unless you buy addons. But it's still insanely powerful and can still make a full hour long animation with it if you wanted it to and it'll look like a pixar or dreamworks animation too. Not to mention the things other 3D programs can't do like video editing/VFX, 2D animation, 3D tracking, cloth sculpt brush (just such an awesome tool) and much more. Plus Blender is rapidly improving with 2.X. It's even now got face sets for sculpting similar to Zbrush, it'll never be quite as good as Zbrush (though could be) but again, Blender is free and still stupidly powerful considering it's free.

Here is a thing. If you worked with blender hotkeys more, all the curve stuff would be vanished.

maya is comfortable to me, but blender seems like its worth starting to migrating to.

This is more of a note to myself than for Wade, since it's something I just discovered while messing with the graph editor: The "Home" key is "Frame All" in many many viewports in Blender (e.g. the 3D viewport, the graph editor, the node editor, etc). You can use it to quickly zoom to see all of your curves in the graph editor. It definitely would be better if hitting Normalize automatically did that, but hey, at least there's a workaround. You can also use Numpad . to "Frame Selected," if you only want to zoom in on a particular portion (just like in the 3D viewport).

You found the curve modifiers! That's one of my favorite features. Instant camera shake.

Blender is awesome nothing comes close