Minecraft Animation Tutorial Episode 2: Scene Setup (Blender)
Welcome to the second episode of Black Plasma Studios' Minecraft Animation Tutorial series using Blender, Cycles!
In this episode we will cover:
- Basic navigation inside Blender
- Optimizing the scene using layers
- Setting up the sky with environment textures
- Importing a character rig
- Setting up your skin to work with the rig
- Appending items/blocks
- Adjusting the terrain
Environment Textures
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Black Plasma Studios Rig
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Rymdnisse Block/Item Pack
www.rymdnisse.net/download/ble...
Opening/Closing Song
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A few people have told me that when importing the BPS character rig, the scene crashes! Can anyone with this problem give me a bit more details. What operating system and Blender version are you using?
I am using the same version that you are 2.78 but when I click the button append from library the blender crashes if you get any solution tell me please
Yeah I'm also getting this issue... But it's not only with the character rig, it's doing it to me with the item and block rigs, basically everything that is a rig. For example, after extracting the "Cycle_Minecraft_Rig," I got a lot of things like "Minecraft_Blocks_Rig," "Minecraft_Character_Rig," "Minecraft_Item_Rig," and I tested them and they just crashed. However, when I load up one that doesn't end in "_Rig," like "New_3D," I was able to load it. Apparently, I think that the folders ending in "_Rig" might be the ones causing this issue. I'm also running blender 2.78... Let us know if you can figure out the issue!
It happened to me I figured out it was because I was on 32 bit when I should of been on 64 bit, I switched and now I'm not crashing.
Faces seen through faces seen through faces ect. it's called..... Face-Seption!
+Nzack Playz Ohhhhh okay, thanks so much! I will try and get 64-bit now.
Thanks everyone for sticking with the series, be sure to leave a LIKE! Also sorry this episode was very long, but I wanted to include a lot.
Black Plasma Studios I love you
Black Plasma Studios lol awesome
Dont be sorry! This is an awesome guide! Thank you.
Black Plasma Studios can u making hypixel in mcpe 1.0.2? plz i need
Black Plasma Studios i want play blocking dead
Why doesn't this series have millions of views??? This tutorial series is easy to understand and organized.
Because they have intrest in seeing animation not to animate
@@hoodie2518 Fair fair
@@ChosenOneVR but hey now its 786k view 214k more till a mil views
I actually used this series to help me with my own animations! I recently started, animations posted on my channel :D
@@engiunnay they should make an updated Minecraft tutorial series 🥲
what a legend you are. i spent all day yesterday learning some of these already but a lot of it i didnt know. like the blender settings and what not. but thanks for helping me get the items and rigs. that shaved a few weeks off me learning to make all this. the more i learn this and see how easy it is the less i get discouraged.
Guys, guys I figured it out! In 16:44 he shows the world background option, and to use it. However that option was removed in blender 2.8. So the option that replaced it was the scene world option. To get that option, you should click that arrow facing down that you see near the options to change the view from solid to material view etc. Then you will see 2 checkboxes, scene lights and scene world. You should check both the options and then you can see the background image or color you put.
Thank you so much
You just saved like 5 hours of my life. Thanks
Thank u so much @EnderBlue Minecraft
thx bro you save me ❤❤
Also a tip to all the viewers of this video and those who use Mcprep, if you press n and go to the Mcprep tab, then navigate to world tools you can find the "create mc sky" option that will create a Minecraft-like sky for you! I don't know if this option exists in older versions of Mcprep tho this tutorial is about 6 years old.
if your skin is black under the skin material go to view port display > settings > blend mode and set it to alpha clip
Does this still work for 2.8? Don't know how to do what you're saying.
@@BjornUltimatum It does. Here's how you find it: 1) Select the mini-figure on the rig's shoulder. 2) On the side panel, go to material properties 3) Under the viewport display menu, you will find the blend mode setting 4) Change it to alpha clip
@@Ethan-cz8xq under viewport display i only have three options: Color, metallic, and roughness. I cant find the Blend mode settings
Actually figured it out, the Blend mode is in the settings tab above the viewport display, not under it anymore
I did it but it still doesn’t work
Thanks for another great tutorial, I`m sure Blender will get a lot more users because of you! :D
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE HELP ME I AM CLICKING ON THE LITTLE STEVE GUY BUT, WHEN I DO IT DOES NOTHING IN THE MATERIALS, ITS LIKE I AM NOT EVEN SLECTING THE STEVE GUY, IN THE MATIRIALS IT ONLY SAYS "Grass" SO IT WONT LEMME CLICK THE LITTLE STEVE GUY, IT DOES NOTHING, ONLY THIS LITTLE CIRCLE GOES WHERE I CLICK, PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE
You have to right click
why so rude? its an easy mistake for new users
Remember, you right click
im one of them...
I wont get informasions from any channel about Blender like you,your animations had make me strong to learn how to use blender,Thanks for every thing.
Thanks for making this video, it really helped me out!
Quick tip on how to get an item nicely into your character's hand! First, you want to have your character in the scene. I'm supposing you're using the one in this tutorial. Select the rig, and go into Pose Mode. Click on his arm IK bone (the sphere on the tip of his hand), press Shift + S, and select "Cursor to selected". Then just append your item (For example, a sword), press Shift + S again, Click "Selection to Cursor", and the sword will be in his hand! You may have to rotate it a little though. A better way to do this is just grab it and adjust it to his hand. Arbiter has a video on this on his own channel.
And after you do that if you want it to stay, you just hit shift on the bone then the object, click ctrl+P and hit bone relative.
Oh, awesome! Thanks!
I'd like to say that personally, in most situations, instead of turning off restrict selection to visible, and boxing stuff, I like to go into edit mode, find the object I want to get rid of, and hover my mouse over a face, and press L. That selects all connected faces.
toppolthecat r
I think you need to remake this for 2.8
JaredTSL I agree with you. He should definitely remake this for Blender 2.8.
Let’s agree to agree
JaredTSL Yep.
But if he does make a new one I’ll just have to make it with 2.8 anyways lol.
.... huh what did u said idk
OMG! Arbiter! Thanks for this guide! I'm starting animator, and your guide is like 1000 kilograms of gold for me!👍👍👍👍
2:13 also if you scroll with the middle mouse scroll thing, you can adjust how fast or how slow to go.
Hey can you help me? When i want to select the leaves The whole chunk get selected I don't know this is bug or what 8:55
@@aaravsingh3696 You can separate the blocks. He said it here 11:57
Great tutorial's! you've helped me a tun!
Can't say enough good things about this video!
Me either XD. Its gold.
Absolutely amazing tutorial series, really well detailed and love how u cover everything multiple times. Absolutely enjoying it :)
To fix the "Active Layer" appending issue you'll have to use the Shift + F1 shortcut. Go into User Preferences > Input, and search for "append", expand the selection that comes up, scroll down and disable "Active Layer" (it looks greyed out, but you can click it). Save User Settings, if you wish. I may try to find a way to make this happen for the File menu method, but so far this is all I got!
Thanks, by the way you're a great youtuber.
Thanks! Glad this helped someone!
wooow thx you made my day alot easier
Hi anxious!
THANK YOU! FINALLY! A SOLID TUTORIAL FOR HOW TO WORK BLENDER!!!
same :)
Literally I would never had gotten into minecraft blender without this man
Thanks for making this tutorial! I learnt a lot!
I am 11 yes old... And after watching your series I make my own animation....pretty fun...
If your having the problem that when you press append and Blender crashes, instead of appending it in to Blender, just drag and drop from the folder onto the stage.
for me than it just creates a whole new scene with only the rig in it
RaftGaming he means drag the Rig to blender. like where ever you kept your character rig just drag it to blender studio
this is the real tutorial thanks man
Quick tip for Blender users 2.9+: you can mark a block as an asset and find it in the asset browser in your scene. Very useful when you want to reuse blocks and other items often.
Soon Blender 3.0 is coming and this tutorial is slowly becoming out of date. How about a new tutorial? Just by groundbreaking changes like Cycles X, which renders the scene 5 times faster? Would be really cool. Thank you!
i agree
Yes that is right. I‘m using Blender 3.0.1 and some things are not really working. I would really like an updated Tutorial.
I am really enjoying these episodes on how to animate. I Bought a very nice PC and am so excited to start making animations. I am so thankful for these episodes, most people wouldn't bother to explain in detail and help others learn because it's a pain. I really Appreciate these thank you so much!!
Hey can you help me? When i want to select the leaves The whole chunk get selected I don't know this is bug or what 8:55
@@aaravsingh3696 what Version of blender do you have?
@@Miner417 2.9
and also how can we turn on world background?
@@aaravsingh3696 are you in object mode when selecting the leaves? And I suggest watching judothesurvivor tutorial, because this tutorial is in a older version. I personally haven't animated in about 6 months so can't remember alot of it without Going back and trying to animate again.
Awesome Vid, I'm learning a lot very close to putting out my first animation :)
this is somehow nostalgic.. i started learning blender from these tutorials its been amazing
Can you help me? The leaves and grasses on my map in blender are always completely filled with a texture, so the leaves look like solid blocks and the grasses look like two pieces of paper on which grass has been drawn.
@@thunderclap1935 i am also guessing you're using the latest version of blender? I'm not too sure about 2.79b
@@dvanimationstudio I use 2.7... But either your previous answers have been deleted or I don't see them somehow...
when you said time for our first character i screamed YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
It may be time for a new tutorial series I think. It's been 3 years now and Blender has completely changed.
He still uses 2.79 so he can't exactly provide the same level of mastery.
6 years plz
I'm actually enjoying these tutorials. No immediate plans do do anything with them but it's really cool just to see how you've made your animations. Can't wait to see the next one!
@@aaravsingh3696 Wish I could help you but you're asking the wrong person. Try posting the question as a general post rather than as a reply to my post. Maybe you'll have a better chance of someone knowing the answer seeing it. Good luck!
hello I am uzbek you have prepared very well. Good luck with you work.Keep releasing more cartoons.
Will there be a tutorial on blender 2.8 main parameters ?
No but im using blender 2.8, and learning from this at the same time - it just requries a some basic blender 2.8 tutorials & some googling because you might need to know where the features are that he is showing in the video
Just install blender 2.78 I did that aswell
@@samuelveen7047 You should do 2.79b instead, it works better, less crashes, and all features are still the same
@@pinpoint24 i got 2.79
when I try to add a skin on to the rig it doesn't show where It says steve.png it just shows a bunch of stuff I'm in the materials tab idk pls help
same
Thank you so much! This really helps me
these tutorials are awesome. thanks.
mcprep can now do the sky texture and add minecraft clouds
Creamy Creamu Cool! I’ll check that out so I can make my future animations better thanks
pls how
Alžběta Hradecká watch the tutorials!
@@Mike_Rottchburns what And also i realised that i was in blender render the whole time so i had to redo everything in cycles bu i finally have the sky lol Also check out my animation pls i had to learn the Minecraft animation process in about 10 days to be able to send it to the community channel but i still managed to somehow do it :D
how to make 0:00 , herobrine with fire effect ,
You need to setup a particle system with a force field to create this effect.
Hoàng GamingTM you need to make a particle system with a force field for that
28:41 Oh God I'm so happy that this rig makes our skin's 2nd layer visible! When in other rigs, the 2nd layer isn't visible my skin looks trash but that is not the case in this rig! Thanks, BPS!
you might still have problems with this rig because its a little old you can download the new BPS rig in their discord
@@Cambast Thank you so much for telling this!
@@TheChallengedPositivity no problem dude
@@Cambast can you tell me where to find it? like you said the old one is a bit glitchy and i didnt even know there was a new one. im on the discord server I just don't know where to find it.
@@bellajewel3046 the server has a help and support channel you can ask there
Gosh! This tutorial series deserves an award!
Hey Arbiter! just a heads up im making a fan-made hypixel video called "My First Hunger Games"! it should be done a little bit after christmas. When it is done, i hope you enjoy! :)
If your wondering why the skin is black make sure material view is selected
Omg, I was panniking soo much, thank you I almost had a heart attack XD
Alex12345678jour1 no problems
where is material view"?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
holy crap that was a lot to take in, but thank you for taking your time to teach this stuff
Thx black plasma studio
For some reason when I am navigating through the scene it will not let me look around so much, I cant get too the original platform
that has to do with the scrolling. I assume you are talking about middle click not working well? Use scroll to get to the center of wherever it sees as the center, then use shift + f to go where you want and create a new center.
man why steve's eyes are strange? it looks like error thanks
Seems you figured it out...
It is herobrine
xd
verified
Thanks you! This video is so helpful!
I have been watching animation videos with Blender. I am quite interested. The possibilities are incredible! I would love to some day download Blender and use to do shorts or little joke things I could share with my friends. Thanks also for showing how to do this stuff.
Cool
Here's a different problem I'm having, when I download rymdinesse and your rig and append (Which always crashes when I select all and append all), I go to my character and he doesn't have the little guy on his shoulder and the little knobs aren't where they are when you did it. If Black Plasma Studios or anybody else have a suggestion or solution, please reply. (Also Black Plasma Studios, I love your vids!)
Same problem with me also.
Do u got the solution.
Will there be an other Tutorial for the Rendering?
Hit Ctrl + F12 if you're making a video, and simply hit F12 if you're making an image.
and also when you go into your camera, you hit numpad 0 again to move out of it, but the thing is you'll get out of it and fly back to the position you were in before you went to the camera
Thank You BLack plasma studios i can now make my own animations! thank you i will give credit
when I open the Block rig and item rig its fine but when i append it into my project it all white! yes i have materials selected!!! HELP!! the textures is gone!! and yes i have the textures in the same file as with the rigs
Same
download Cycles and not Internal
omfg i went through so much to find this on the video i downloaded it... thanks DEN KV ma dud
Same!
how to downloded?
whenever i click on something i select the whole object, i cant select just grass, or whatever.
Edit mode-->P---> material For real, I like having every block under one object EDIT: if you need help reach me via discord: Officialproshark#9136
@@proshark9966 My grass is like a cube when i edit ,however if i hit render it renders correctly.How can I fix this?
gautam dharani i don’t really get the problem... maybe let’s chat by discord Officialproshark#9136 Friend request me :)
@gautam dharani i don’t really get the problem... maybe let’s chat by discord Officialproshark#9136 Friend request me :)
@@proshark9966 Thank you so much for this fix. It help a lot :D
wow nice tutorial awesome
if you guys dont have a numbpad. to go in camera veiw first go to the "veiw" tab on the botto left of blender. find "cameras" left click. change it to c or another keyboard shortcut and there. ya done. i did this and it works
Hi, whenever I get a block it appears completely grey with no texture. I tried downloading the Rymdnisse Block/Item Pack again, but got the same result. Help?
Same thing happened for me Just fixed it. Press T to make the left tab appear >> Click MCPrep >> Click Mineways >> Click Prep Materials >> Ok >> Click the circle in the right side of Object mode and change it into Material
you just have to look at the bottom. you should see a gray circle. click on it. once you click on that click on either textures or material. try to see if either of those textures are right on one or the other.
@@LGWaffle wow i dont get it can you exsplain a little more that would be great!!
@@ChosenOneVR THANKS
When I do anything the bones, the character doesn't move at all. I can't even move the whole character to a different place because when I try to do that, the bones seperate from the character and move without it, just like anything else I try to do with the bones. Can someone please help?
object mode!
theres a chance the armature isnt parented, so try parenting it.
the rig worked perfectly for me
I'm very useful thanks for posting
When i append a Character rig is doesnt show the steve skin Just black! PLS HELP
under the skin material go to view port display > settings > blend mode and set it to alpha clip
@@7yu7 tnx but you a year to late now im making 2d animations kzhead.info/sun/ptNulJealqyKqZ8/bejne.html
My too
@@7yu7 thx, really helped me. I know im late /:
actually to delete stuff u can press x
Same here
I love it. End too. 💖
oh my god finally someone that uses the CTRL + F, it's frustrating to move the camera manually
Hello, I am experiencing a problem that i can't solve... The problem is that every time I "Shift+F" inside my camera, my minecraft world disappears! Ask me if you need extra information! thanks!
go to view at the bottem of the screen change your shortcut for camrera to ctrl + z it wont delete and i just found out, hope it helps!
When I try to select my leaves only, everything ends up being selected together. Please, what do I do?......(nvm i've figured it out.)
same question
@@_Kinda when you are in the file explorer in Blender, you will see a panel called "IMPORT OBJ". In it, you will see where 'split by:" is written, object or group. Untick 'object' and tick 'group' it will work.
@@kessiena5852 Thank you so much, I was confused when I was using 2.8
@@CreatorHira 😁
If you go to user preferences, and then go to input, you can emulate numberpad so that your regular keys can be numberpad keys
by the way while you're in that camera mode, hold ALT to go extra slow!!! that's helpful if you're using smaller scale units
The rig is putting my character's face in the front and the back! How do I fix this?
me too
@@jeanremi8384 the rig is outdated
@@piglyy8903 actually, i solved the problem easily
@@jeanremi8384 oh ok
@@jeanremi8384 can u tell how to fix pls
How to fix grass black texture error?
I used blender render cause it helped me to get normal grass.
Check if you have material on cause it switches to texture.
Thanks SOOO MUCH!!!! Thanks to you arbiter 617 i have made my first full animation!!!!!!
please help whenever i append the rig the scene just crashes. I looked at the replies at the pinned comment but nothing was a solution
I’m having the same problem as well.
where numpad button in keybord i dont know numpad on keyboard
do you have to sets of the the Number 1?
Don't worry many Numpad is NUMBERpad so 1, 2 ,3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 those are all ur numpad :D
do you have num-lock? thats what i use
So does it mean num lock is num pad?
or else click on view and on Camera
How to make a physical sun
youtube/google is your buddy, use it
Nathan Miguel watch the next episode
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE HELP ME I AM CLICKING ON THE LITTLE STEVE GUY BUT, WHEN I DO IT DOES NOTHING IN THE MATERIALS, ITS LIKE I AM NOT EVEN SLECTING THE STEVE GUY, IN THE MATIRIALS IT ONLY SAYS "Grass" SO IT WONT LEMME CLICK THE LITTLE STEVE GUY, IT DOES NOTHING, ONLY THIS LITTLE CIRCLE GOES WHERE I CLICK, PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE
You have to right click.
sumzplays, u have to be in cycles render, not blender render.
what if i want to add a custom texture to the world ?
Minecraft and Blender combination, perfect.
Perfection
If I load the rig, the character is just black... help please!
me too
I am having this problem too, but only in blender 2.8. Is that the version u are using?
Well, I am
@@vipuljain4470 I found that if you go to the materials panel of your character, go down to "Settings", find "Blend Mode", and change that to "Alpha Clip" that solves the problem.
@@ethanfoster367 Thanks buddy I'll try it asap 🙂
I have a problem: TOOO MANY ADDSSS
OMG THAAANK SOOO MUCH I GONNA CREATE ANIMATION LIKE YOU ? WOW THAT IMPOSSIBLE , NOO WAY , THAT DREEAM
For those having problems with fly mode in 2.8, the command has been changed. Go to edit > Preferences search View Navigation and change it to Shift F. Another thing, the rig he uses is not working in 2.8, I would suggest using NeoKats rig as it is amazing, search up well, "Neokat rig" and it is the first thing.
Thank you so much, I have had this problem for a while now, and it has made life much easier for me now.
SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE
OHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SPOILER OWL
give me like
I liked because of your profile picture
only because of the picture nothing else
I disliked because i do not like derp
Wow I thought you were a good person :(
i love derp
thganks buddy ur the best
love the tutorial
UR THE BEST INTERESTING AND THEN FLEXING!
Thanks to you i can animate using trackpad or touchpad (thanks you so much)
love it!!
nice bro thank you bro
I love the tutorial! I'm hoping to start real soon, but, what if I want my eyes different colored? Like, the left eye is blue and the right one is green
Great Video. Have a question though. Every time I append a new item or block. The graphics for that block doesn't automatically load. I have to click T underMCprep and click "prep materials" every time I bring something in. It there a way to automatically do this?
I use a Mac laptop and don't have a numpad but if you go to user preferences then go to input you can click emulate numpad then you can just click the numbers and it will work just as fine.
thanks for sharing your rig (my pfp uses it)
23:52 SONGS OF WAR! I loved that!
When you realize they worked on that for more than 2 and a half years
thanks man
I've been trying to do an animation of my own, using the same rigs used in this video. Every time I append, either the blocks, or the character, it comes out white, without any texture. I've also tried on a different computer, and the whole program cashed. If you need more details, please let me know. Please let me know if you have any solutions. Thank you.
You can click Emulate Numpad in the Preferences if you want to use the shortcuts without the numpad.
I love your tutorial and talking and plz upload episode 6 songs of war
What GPU(s)/computer are you using? I have watched all of your animation tutorials, and i appreciate that you took the time to make these videos. the computer i'm currently using, renders some of the frames in over a minute and a half, but most take about a minute, or a little over So for 2 min animations, i'm waiting DAYS, for the frames to finish rendering. i am thinking about building an animation/gaming computer and i was looking at some of Geforce's products. i was wondering if you had any recommendations on what GPUs to get. I'm not looking for some kind of crazy animation computer that Pixar might, use. Just something that renders frames a lot faster (similar to the speed of yours) Thanks.
Ho my gosh that is so cool
Squared Media, can you please make a tutorials for new version of Blender. Thank you.