How I animate my characters

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/joeyc . The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. I've been doing character animation for my Blender tutorials for a year now, and I've gotten much better and faster. It's time to share my workflow. I talk about lip syncing, the NLA editor aka animation layers, modeling my character, and making assets. 🎹 Music by the incredible nobonoko: https://www.youtube.com/@sinewavy Patreon, Gumroad Shop, Discord, and other stuff: https://linktr.ee/Joeycarlino 📺 Watch these next: Character animation for impatient people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAIZkIfXXjQ Easy Mouth Rig in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nmT123wVe4 Easy Lip Syncing, Automated Puppet-style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKuRNMp67I Rigging and animation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzg4_2BrWAVwkQvVPJoNaXNN4dXY0Xjkl Character modeling playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzg4_2BrWAVyf8LKdr2XtEw2BCDvbEnuk 🙌 Mentions: Clay Doh Animals (Blender) - DoubleGum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVCrNdKaMk Blender Clay Stop Motion Shader Tutorial - SouthernShotty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTu3Xssw67Q&t LEGEND OF GREASE PENCIL - savannahXYZ EP 02 - savannahXYZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkFhoMR6P4 Rig a Face Blender Addon for FREE - Nvidia Omniverse Audio2Face - Markom3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thE6e1vwscI A New Animation System - Blender https://youtu.be/689qsElGb_U?si=UBCWRrLq6RHZdfZi https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/nla/introduction.html https://code.blender.org/2022/11/the-future-of-character-animation-rigging/ Wiggle Bones 2: https://github.com/shteeve3d/blender-wiggle-2 🔗Links 2nd YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoeyC-quel Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joeycarlino Discord Server: https://discord.gg/dvmAZdwf5e Gumroad Shop: https://gumroad.com/joeycarlino?a=844339507 Blender Market Shop: https://blendermarket.com/creators/joeycarlino Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoeyC-quel TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joey_carlino Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robospunk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/joey_carlino 💰Support me by checking out these affiliate links: https://linktr.ee/joeycarlinoaffiliate 🧠Things I Recommend (not affiliated) Blender Launcher: https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2 Blender Beginner Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6 🫂Places To Donate: https://www.nrdc.org/ https://wck.org/ https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ https://www.catf.us/ https://www.evergreenaction.com/ https://350.org/ https://www.conservationfund.org/ https://www.nature.org/en-us/ https://communitychangeaction.org/ https://www.aclu.org/ https://www.wri.org/ https://www.edf.org/ ⚙️What's On My Desk? GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Motherboard: Asus PRIME X570-PRO Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 Monitor: LG 25UM58-P 25.0" 2560x1080 60 Hz Drawing Tablet: XP-PEN Artist 15.6Pro Mouse: Logitec MX Master 3s Keyboard: Redragon K580 VATA Speakers: Mackie CR3-X Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 700 Pro X Microphone: Beyerdynamic M70 Pro X Audio Interface: Universal Audio Volt 2 00:00 - My workflow 01:39 - Making my character 04:31 - Props 05:38 - Pose library 06:03 - Brilliant 07:28 - Lip sync 09:21 - Body animation 11:33 - NLA editor 14:29 - Time saving tips This video was sponsored by Brilliant