Timing is everything - Blender Tutorial

- [Instructor] Timing defines you as an animator. It allows you to add your own spin, on the way everything plays out. If you play this previous animation, you'll note that things feel a little swimming. Let's go ahead and click this play button, and see what's happening. - [Man 1] Well I'd like to see you try it. You wouldn't last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve a society by rocking. I'm out there on the front lines liberating people, with my music rocking. Ain't no walk in the park lady. - [Narrator] Alright, now there's a few things that we need to unpack with this. Number one, there is a bug that sometimes blender shows the LinkedIn rig again. As you can see here, we have a Arthur in even the chair. You can fix that by going to your outliner, on the top right, and making sure that under filters you have the visibility, or this eyeball turned on, and then just open up the office, turn off the chair rig, and open up Arthur, and turn off his other blender rig. This is why earlier we actually pulled out the versions that we were animating into their own areas. Alright, now with that done. Let's go ahead and go to pose mode. You should have both of these characters selected, because now we're going to work on the second issue, which is simply the fact that everything just kind of slides all over each other. Also, I want to point out one more thing. Right up here if you click on this little button, you can actually turn off a bunch of extra options, like relationship lines. This will help you clean up your view. And if you really want to, you can turn everything off just by hitting this button. And now you can really appreciate the entire animation. I'm going to turn it back on though, because we are still working on the scene. Lastly, I want to hit A, not A twice, but A just once. So, then I select everything. You'll note that everything is selected because it looks a little bit brighter. Now we need to tighten up our timing. Let's just play this bit right here. - [Man 1] Well I'd like to see you try. You wouldn't last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve a society by. - [Narrator] Now that's really important. He says, dude, right about here. So I would imagine that Arthur is hunched, over his keyboard typing away. With that in mind, I'm going to click on this first key pose, right here. Just left click right on that first diamond, and hit Shift + D, to duplicate. And now just move my mouse to the right, and left click when I'm ready. Now, as I'm picking frame 53. I want to encourage you to pick your own frame. Maybe you do want 53. Maybe you want it to be on 60. The point of this lesson is to encourage you, to play with the timing, and figure out what feels right to you. For my purpose, 53 feels pretty good. So let's go ahead and play that. - [Man 1] Well, I'd like to see you try. You wouldn't last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I. - Now, when he says, dude, he actually turns pretty quick. So the second key posts here, I want to move back a little bit, because I want to hit that transition really hard. - [Man 1] Last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve a society by rocking, - [Narrator] I want to hold this key pose, for as long as I can. So let's Shift + D and bring it all the way out here. Let's rewind a little bit, by holding now left click to scrub back and play again. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve as society by rocking, I'm out there on the front lines liberating people, with my music rocking. - [Narrator] Now this is important here. - [Man 2] I'm out there on the front lines lib.. - [Narrator] Liberating. He really hits liberating really hard. - I'm out there on the front lines liberating peo.. - [Narrator] So we're going to bring this key pose up here and Shift + D bring this back a little bit. That way we really hold the key pose, liberating. - [Man 2] I'm out there on the front lines liberating people, with my mus.. - [Narrator] I feel like we're going a little too early. So, I'm going to click these two key frames, and bring them back a little bit. Now let's click play. - [Man 2] I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music rocking. Ain't no walk in the park la.. - [Narrator] Now this is the fun part. The lady line. I'm going to move it back a little bit, take this pose here, and shove it all the way back here. So, that way we have a real fast transition on lady. - [Man 2] Music rocking. Ain't no walk in the park lady. - [Man 1] Well I'd like to see you try. You wouldn't last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve a society by rocking. I'm out there on the front lines liberating people, with my music rocking. Ain't no walk in the park lady. - [Man 1] But I'd like to see you try. You wouldn't last one day. - [Man 2] Dude, I serve as society by rocking. I'm out there on the front lines liberating people, with my music rocking. Ain't no walk in the park lady, - [Man 1] But I'd like to see you try. - [Narrator] It's looking really good. Now our timing is a lot tighter. As I said earlier, I want to encourage you to pick your own transitions and timing. Put your key frame on 50 and 60. See how that feels. How does it make you feel? Does it feel right? Or do you want to make it a little tighter? Or loosen it up and spread it out more. Deciding where the timing should go defines you as an animator. So definitely get in there and make some creative, bold choices.