Minecraft Animation Tutorial Episode 1: Getting Started (Blender 2.7)
Welcome to the first episode of Black Plasma Studios' Minecraft Animation Tutorial series using Blender, Cycles!
In this episode we will cover:
- Preparing for this tutorial
- Creating your set in Minecraft
- Converting your world using Mineways
- Downloading Blender and installing the MCPrep addon
- Importing your world into Blender
GPU Benchmarking
docs.google.com/document/d/1F...
Mineways
www.realtimerendering.com/eric...
Blender
www.blender.org/
MCPrep
github.com/TheDuckCow/MCprep/...
Setting up Materials without MCPrep
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Opening/Closing Song
"Windfall" by TheFatRat
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New tutorial coming in May 2024, I'll edit this comment with the link once it's live!
Waiting In May
finally, I've been waiting for SOOO long.
So I watch this or 1 may one?
@@chotagamersubs i will recommend the newest because the whole default start is change so it's hard
@@AB14k Bro Am thinking the same let see tomorrow by the way I am from India and you?
Please make an updated one for Blender 2.8! Everything is so different!
Oh I haven’t tried yet :( Guys this was a year ago... lol
How do you get user Preferences to open
@@endervlogs6654 Ive the same question do u have a solution ?
@@endervlogs6654Next to the File popup there is "Edit". Open it, open preferences and then u can see "Add-Ons" there.
But it works with his tutorial true? because im downloading blender 2.8 right now
Even though I'm not planning on animating, I still watched the whole thing just out of curiosity to see how it's done! Good tutorial Arbiter! :)
#fish13c (Derpling)
Are you the guy that was on ssundee's factions series and the bedwars video?
I was hoping on making an animation but I can't load in my world. It says it needs to be in classic Minecraft. I don't know what that means. I'm on windows 10 and it also say that mineways is not safe
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Even 5 years later this tutorial series has helped me greatly!
It says nothing is on your KZhead channel
Currently working on finding time for my project. Don’t worry, there’ll be stuff soon!
@@CraftedByRodMC soon???
@@CraftedByRodMC well im subbing in advance so that i can see your first animation as soon as it comes out
Nice!
black plasma: So the only two things that u will need is a good graphics ca- me: *closes youtube*
I did the same
Blender dont find a graphics card XD wait a sec... How can i open blender without graphics card?!
@@lohlundgames I also wanna know dat
I have a graphics card that is comparable to a GTX950 and he said GTX960 or above should be fine, so I'm just hoping what I got will work, also if you watched far enough he said one of the animators did it on cpu integrated graphics, so you might wanna look into that.
This is the best comment I have ever seen
Just finished my first animation short with your tutorials. Thank you very much for this long and in depth tutorial (also on your private channel). I can't wait to improve myself with more projects in the future, it's so much fun!
I watched your animations, pretty cool!
If you look at the folders in his file manager, you can see "Songs of War"!
Songs of War released in Nov 2019, this video releases in Jan 2017!!!
I like how BPS decides to even *teach* to make animations. Looking upon the success of BPS they could just make animations and never teach so that they don't lose the viewers. But they still teach us. Epic!
Its probably for future animators they will eventually need tbh.
but either way they are being pretty nice.
@@nikolaos6083 true
Other people when their world renders in blender: Trying to find their house etc. Me: WHeRE aRe ThE DiAmOndS
lmfao
Iron is also important🤣
@@muktajain8448 no Iron trash diamond good
Oh man, I can't wait to start making my first Minecraft animation. Thank you Black Plasma Studios for this video! Can't wait to watch more parts. :-D
Wow thank you so much for this series, I've been looking everywhere, trying to find out how to get started, and I was about to give up! Thanks again, I love your channel!
“You’ll need a good graphics card” my computer: no
Just download Mine imator :) Your welcome
@@EthansUploads hi, I am new at animation thing. I just made a animation with mine imator. I spend too much time for 5 minute animation. and physics was terrible. should I use blender . will gtx 1650 be enough ?
@HDSP Gaming Ur pc must suck than Mine is Core 2 Duo and it runs really smooth
@HDSP Gaming idk what's wrong then sorry
Lol😂
Ever since I watched Rainimator, I went CRAZY ans started browsing KZhead and watching, ZAMination, Enchanted Mob, you guys, etc. I was heavily discouraged when Fortnite got popular and I noticed Minecraft animators were getting flack because of it. Now that Minecraft's back in business I'm finally done putting off animation. Thx for the tutorials!
yes
@Crafty Gaming - Ryan Walker Gaming OFFICIAL the game is bad but dont ever forget the og times bro those were the days
Lol I feel your pain
@@exannitymc1359 Ikr, I played from season 3 until season 6. The toxicity got old. But I never abandoned Minecraft.
LET'S GO gaming same
me ( a simple person) when seeing the creative world - THE GRASS MOVES!!!!! i really want to animate in the future. Thank you soo much for making these vids!
i can help if you want to. we can make our own plasma studios
@DjL I hope you get one soon! You will be awesome!
@DjL iam waiting the same thing one day take a good computer but i think in my whole life it will be a dream
This is the video that got me interested in Blender. It changed my life completely. Thanks!
i love the animations of black plasma studios and when i saw this tutorial i was very excited
Wow!!! Its easy, you arent going to fast, good quality, its just AWESOME! Thanks! you helped me out ALOT!!😀😀😀😀😀😀
golden ninja what are you doing here?
What the-
Dude thank you so much!This course is so great it helped alot. Like i said im gonna join you guys soon next year maybe. Can't wait!
If someone is wondering how to find the toolshelf (place where you find McPrep-Addon) in Blender 2.8: It's on the right side of the 3D Viewport-Window. Next to the place where you set all the render settings (18:08) there is a little arrow. You have to drag it out ;-)
thank you so much
omg thank you soo much i had to use his Manual Material video before
OHHH thats so invisible thank you!
Thanks Shane shajin for making this tutorial... Your animations are the best buddy...
yes, thanks arbiter617 I've been waiting for a new tutorial!
Nice video. My one pro tip: if you hit F3 in Mineways the view will center on wherever the player is in the world, making it easy to find the model you just built.
Thanks so much for making this video because I really want to make my own Minecraft animations but I have no animating experience. This video really helped, thanks
This works perfectly fine in Blender 2.8 and 2.9, y'all stop complaining for an updated version without even trying to follow this tutorial. If the minecraft textures look all blurry, just go to the texture tab and set the texture interpolation from linear to closest for all of the textures.
this helped so much! this is one of the best tutorials ive seen thanks!
Zainmations/ LoneWolf why do i see you everywhere XD
Yes! An Update! Thanks BPS! :D
I use to use Mine-Imator so I am trying to learn blender and this tutorial is REALLY helping me out!
Samee
U are a good guy thanks for telling these stuffs I never forget u and ur channel
How many people saw that he was fliming this at 11 pm? *why u up so late doing videos?*
Maybe his system clock was messed up. Btw its common I usually play minecraft servers at 12 am to 1 am
lol in my place its 11:00 pm now
@@darkplayed1135 Its currently 10 pm here. I live in Asia.
@@l0nedoesgaming107 lol im in south east Asia
He's on that Grind oh Jah🕊
omg, after watching your video,i also want to make my own animated videos.
I know right Im gonna to try XD
Did you guys do it yet? I watched this video 2 days ago and i’m stuck on the part where you have to open the minecraft.exe program it keeps saying error
Animovigam nevermind you dont have to respond i can make animations now :D
MCMP 21 awesome!! 😁
another tip:- when you are making the world for the scene always keep your render distance at 2 chunks so that it will load less chunks and it will we easy to find your scene
tutorials going great for me so far, thanks!
cool new tut BTW thanks arbiter617 because of YOU I know how to use blender!
I was honestly more excited when this came out then when I got a 111% on my science final.
Seeing the first windows 7 animator gave me so much hope
Man you are insane I love your videos thx for tutorial
"First of all think of the animation type you wanna do" Me: A FIGHT SCENE!
same
same lol
at 13:14 for blender 2.8 the preferences is now located in edit and has a chain icon at the bottom
Thank you
This may not be the updated version of blender but I can go back to other versions and go on to this version right here thanks for the help black plasma and good tutorial videos.
Been taught by the legend! Thanks a lot, really.
Please make an updated one for Blender
new tutorial... YAY... i love u arby
i wish i hadn't watched the old tutorial so i could learn from this one!
Thank you new sub I was just looking for something like this perfect video
Thanks for all this. Informative ngl
When I first pulled this up, I was like, “This will be fun to watch!”
and when things started going downhill for me i was like "i hate the whole program, the MCPrep devs, the Blender devs and this guy altogether."
Hi, Black Plasma Studios I really love your animated videos and I want to learn them too but since the blender has updated I am a little confused on how to make it, as some things are different in the updated version. So pls can you can make another video teaching us and talking about the updates.
Thank you for the toturial now i have the blender animation
4 years ago i watched this tutorial series with my shitty old pc and no editing knowledge. 4 years later I have an rtx 3090 and own premiere pro and have some good blender knowledge. I'm finally ready!
Please make an updated version of this... The minecelraft versions are changing and everything is so different. The nether update has brought aa lot of new things in the game and the Caves and Cliffs will bring some changes too!
"I am using Sony Vegas pro" *Opens folder full of after effects projects*
After Effects is technically not fully video editor, it's just program for adding effects, for render best use Sony Vegas or Premiere Pro
@@VolchonokReal After Effects is fully video editor.. It's purpose is to make animations or short videos.. Of course it's recommended to use Premiere Pro for something like KZhead videos or combining multiple animations and stuff. But however if you want you can make a normal video with After Effects. I had been using both programs for years now. I hope i am not wrong.
me : Wow i downloaded blender time to install! **When Install** *CANNOT ACCESS / FOLDER* me : sh*t
your creations are awesome
I watched this whole series before I had blender when I was younger. Good times.
Thanks for the tutorial. Even though there is another latest version of Blender, I will download version 2.78a, same as yours :)
“Windows, or... these two” Mac and linix: hey?!? What the frick
You just hit 1.5 million views! Congrats!
Thank you very much these videos helped me so much
"You'll need a good graphi-" *gives up on animation dreams*
same
you dont actually need it, i dont have it, it just improves performance, makes rendering/(downloading) the animation faster, and higher quality/resolution etc
@@SHAVIM yes you are right i also not have good graphics
THANK YOU AGAIN
at this moment im looking at this video and it is so helpfull thank you soooo much for posting this 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
Thank you! I am watching this right now to make a 30 second clip of a Minecraft Animation.
If you want, an easy position is recruiters. You just find people who want to join the team, then message me the details. When we make the Animations all profits will be split to all members btw. You don't have to but I'm just saying it's easy and you don't have to find people often, just occasionally.
first thing I wanna animate: my dog's minecraft character slapping my friend
Lmao
Lol
lol my dog uses to do that often.
cursed comment lol
mine is a mech slapping a iron golem
do you need shaders?
ok finally got Blender! This is my official go to..
Nice tutorial. I hope to do animations soon
Show him some love
Good animations satisfy me, probably because most Minecraft Animations today are monster school crap.
i know right
But I love monster school crap
Laldinthara Khiangte oof
ha lol
Seems legit
What a good system, processor and graphics
Thank you for this tutorial
Me: stares at my dusty laptop Laptop: *sighs* here we go again
Nice
Hey!! You are the best KZheadr and animator
Very useful video I have learnt everything and now I guess I can make a Minecraft animation
10:41 So it's true.. this video was 3 years ago, and he already was working on it from that time! Look at that Songs of War folder!
omfg
If you want, an easy position is recruiters. You just find people who want to join the team, then message me the details. When we make the Animations all profits will be split to all members btw. You don't have to but I'm just saying it's easy and you don't have to find people often, just occasionally.
Ummmmm .... I really like how your animation turned out and I want to try it but I'm not a patient person and I dont know how does downloading in the computer works, cause I am more expert in androids 😅 . I even havent downloaded the full version of minecraft so its kinda hard making animations for it ,especially that it needs some apps to be downloaded that sometimes gives virus to the computer. Even though I cant try it , I still watched it because Im kinda curious how u make your animations but I didnt understand 1/8 of it 😅. I still appreciate that you spared your time to do a tutorial of minecraft animation😁
What do you mean “gives you viruses”? Thats not true. Just be patient if you want to learn. Nothing comes easy in life
@Sean lee I already knew
I am a blender pro and this is awesome
I think I might take a shot at an animated Minecraft series. Hopefully I can manage something decent and bring my concept to life.
for mac users. you press "x" to delete.
Star Catz I’m on windows and x is also a delete for me! Thx!
oh.. your welcome then :D
thanks, captain obvious. it's the SAME AS IN WINDOWS. HE SHOWS YOU HOW.
he pressed "delete". i tryed pressing delete but it would not work. so i figured how another way with "X".
x then enter
It would be very nice if you can do an updated version of it! :D
Now you can ask ai about the things you did not know or about something you did not find on the latest version of blender
@@iMadTouilta no kidding
Great edit good edit i love editing stories
this is amazing
cool video bruh
Jz
For some reason mc prep is here but it doesn't work the same maner as you :( and the other tutorial you did on your channel don't work beceause thre is no textures to choose This is really weird Thx for answering me Edit:the problem was mineways he was malfunctioning and wasn't loading all the way
U r the best mc animation maker i know
This tutorial is too good!
5:00 or you can just download a specific map off the web
ive had this whole series planned out for years. if only i knew how to animate :/
My friend has a whole series planned out too, I helped them plan it but neither of us can use computers to save our lives. 😓
I am really excited to do this I am trying to use this tutorial but it is hard because I am using blender version 2.93.4 so could you please make one for that version. Thank you
You are most awesome teacher ever Thanks for awesome tips thanks a lot * 1000000000000000000000
when i try to open the obj format map in blender the name of the file is shown in red [because there is the .mtl file with the same name] and i cant open any obj files because of this pls help even when i change the mtl files name the obj file creates a new one
Can u post Part 2 ASAP? I have a project and I want to try to animate :/
Thanks! It helped a lot!
its helping so much thanks
Legend says he replies if we're early
ya ya...
fu*k your legends
im a kid and im trying to make animations
Me too😊
Me Too
Have you gotten any further
@@kunae0 no, I don’t have a laptop right now. I haven’t done Minecraft animations yet either.
@@dubii_is_your_therapistdam
I love this animation
Thanks it helped out a lot
Problem on McPrep 3.2.0 Glowstone doesn't glow.......
You need to make it glow. He shows how to do that in a later episode
@@arandomguy231 I had to replace the shaders on my own because they overthought everything instead of simplifying it There is a way to keed their default shader and modify it but it the end it's all "Oh oh spaghettio"
when i spawned my jungle i accedentaly moved all the leaves and now theres just sticks lol
its so hared you best that make all animation thats like i dont have words
black plasma studios are the best