Blender "Animation Layers" made Easy (no addons, just NLA)

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   • Blender Animation Concepts & NLA  

VIDEO DESCRIPTION
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.

CHAPTERS
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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