To the people rocking the 3.5 update. create pose asset is now located in the "timeline" panel. click the little arrow on the right hand side of the window. happy blendering yall.
Being able to put poses in categories is what I've been waiting for, the thumbnails are a great addition too. Now if these were transferable across rigs...
I actually cant tell you how grateful i am for this video. I was almost on the verge of throwing in the towel bc i couldnt find a single helpful answer on this and then i found this link on your comment on reddit. thank you so much
CG Essentials, you still CRUSHIN it a year later. This video saved me a LOT of time, you are DA MAN my brother! Thank you for being so awesome with these clear, concise, and incredibly helpful educational videos. Keep it up. Keep it up. Much love and respect from us at Digital Dynamics 3d.
Open side bar - "N key" (*select relevant bones and pose) and create pose asset... thanks for video!! sometimes seeing it done is better than a 100o words of documentation ;P
I actually made my own character and built a custom rig from scratch. I'm using Blender as my main software for animation in my Senior year animation class. I will definitely use this Pose Library for my animation workflow, great video! Only thing I am wondering and will be testing out is if the saved poses is transferable between different saved Blender files, if I can simply copy and paste the character into a Blender scene with backgrounds, for example. Just basically transferring data over.
@@nelkitoo Update: So, I can't seem to easily transfer data to other Blender files easily. The solution I found is to have two different blender files open, then I copy/paste the model in another file, and then I copy/paste the pose into another file. It's not the perfect solution since I would like to sync up the data to be updatable in different Blender files, but this is the best I can do currently. I have different Blender files for different shots of the film that's rendered and then I piece together the shots into one film in Premiere Pro.
@@paolaanimator I may be misunderstanding the point of the question here, but if somebody wants to access any kind of data from a different blender file, they can use Append of Link to do that. For example, if I want some action data from my rig file (or another animation file), e.g. a mouth shape pose, I click Link > select the file > select the Actions folder > select the mouth pose action line that I want and it is linked into my file ready for use. I also use the asset library files paths method to link over entire pose libraries from other files. You can do this by going to Edit > Preferences > Files Paths > then choose the folder that contains the blend file that contains your pose library (or your 'blender_assets.cats' file). That should import all the poses you have previously saved in the other file. I hope that helps anyone who is stuck.
@@paolaanimator I know you were asking about this a while ago, but I think Blender's intended solution is 1) mark the poses as assets 2) save the poses to a separate file, and include it in ->preferences ->file paths ->asset libraries directory, then 3) an asset browser opened in any workspace should include those poses
@@kiaparowits Thanks for the tips! Honestly at this point I already graduated from college and in an internship using Maya lol. But I'm still using Blender for personal projects so I'll keep this comment in mind, thanks!
Love your videos and how you get to the point. Great vid, keep em coming! I'm so confused about IK, bones, wiggling and all that crap. That, and the Sculpt tools, are the big features I'm lacking.
Thank you for yet another great tutorial! I have the following issue: My thumbnails appear as in "solid" viewport shading style (i.e. no materials/colors). I have noticed that your model's colors show even though you're in solid viewport display mode. I don't know how you did that. I do know that thumbnails are created using the Workbench engine, but changing the color settings in there didn't change the thumbnail either. If you can help me create thumbnails with colors in them, that would be very kind and helpful on your part. If you can't, no problem, I am already grateful for your amazing and useful content :)
I also have this issue, not the end of the world, but the colourful poses in his video look a lot nicer! Also a lot easier to see what the pose looks like in a small thumbnail when everything isnt grey
@@linden1763 True, it's not the end of the world. I'm just using the "Random" setting in Workbench for now, it makes things a bit more discernible. Justin is probably using some script to create the thumbnails in all their colorful glory :)
Bro i found the answer, go to material properties -> pick any active material -> scroll down until you see "viewport display" section -> change the color exactly like the active material. and thats it.
If anyone feel very novice about this, like me, start with stances and select every single bone before creating the asset. Obviously what CG Essentials does is better but the assets are not going to work if you don't have the right/modified bone selected before clicking create asset.
Very useful tutorial! I do have one question though. You know how this is your "current fiile," and there's an option to switch to a shared asset library? I want the poses that I've made to be accessible in other projects, and I'm wondering how to move them over. Do I have to do that one by one? I've gone into the blender assets file and copy/pasted the lines into it, but those poses don't appear in blender. The catalog is there but it's empty.
So I got a couple questions, 1. can saving poses have added geometry? Like theres a empty hand pose and a pose with the same hand holding an apple? 2. Can I use this to go back to a t pose. basically reset my character. If I can is there any down side to doing it this way? 3.Say I create a can and I save a pose with art on it and save a pose with no art onit. Can I use the pose with no art as a template so I can then use a different piece of in place of the original? And if I can, does then the can with the alternative art have its own pose library or does it share the originals library?
This is very cool - I've been trying to get a good lip sync workflow and am wondering if there's a way to automate or trigger different poses based on an XML of lipsync data? What I've done so far is export the lip sync data from Adobe Animate, and it generates a list with data in this format ...it'd be easy enough to turn that into an edit list, so is there a way to use data in the format of {frame,pose#} to auto lip sync once all the mouth shape poses have been made?
Love this video: super informative! Quick question: I'm trying to apply my poses to my character, but nothing moves. Any reason why this might be happening? Edit: I also have controllers I'm using to pose my bones
How do I get my pose library to look like yours with thr thumbnails and everything? Mine looks really primitive and just shows big empty boxes with the name of the mesh itself.
In 3.6 I imported a Mixamo T pose model, none of the stuff shows up when I'm in pose mode such as the library and the save pose button to save a pose to a library. I'm sure I'm missing something can someone help?
Awesome tutorial! Question...could I export a Pose Library I made for a character and move it into another scene/file? For example, I have a character in one file and I also have them Linked in another separate file. Could I take the Pose Library from that main file and move it to the file where the rig is Linked? Hope that makes sense.
Quick question, I'm just getting into posing my character. In the Pose Library you can create a collection of hand mevements, a collection of leg movements, a collection of eye movements etc. I'm just wondering if this system allows you to mix poses together. Can you create a group of leg poses and then mix them with hand poses for example? Let's say you want to put the arms in a perfect T-pose, but can it then cycle through a bunch of different leg positions without Blender interpolating the arms at all.
I’m trying to learn blender, but can’t import the rain v2 rig. I don’t know how to, there are no videos, and I need somebody to help me figure out how to do that so I can go to the next step. Help?
Hi, thanks. For soem reason my models poses are not saving.I select the bones I want to pose, pose them then key it. and I select both keys and bones. It seems to save the "armarue, and camera shot. but it delete my entire animations, I already did. meaning, I already had the rigg posed in a few way down the timeline. It wipes that all out and .. well its not working on only the Hand for instance. I cant make a hand pose, and Save pose ( only those bones and key)
Not really sure why they thought they were ready to implement a new pos lib. They added thumbnails and blending. Thumbnails are good, minor but good, but blending should be a part of the graph editor. Meanwhile, they've locked themselves into a weird structure for poses. Poses are single-frame actions, and a pose library should be an *action* library, blended via existing NLA blends, but it's not, not the way they did it. Doesn't seem like a well-considered improvement to me, just a change for change's sake.
To have a pose accessible in the [ALL] category and not only the [CURRENT FILE] ( For some reason Blender asset browser won't let you) , you need to manually save the blend file into your blender asset folder for each pose you create. Yes, it sucks. Maybe, and i hope, i just don't understand this tool , because having to manage multiple blend files is just not useful at all and a total mess to work with. Every year i try to use the Pose Library thinking they must have fix it, but I always end up going back to using the GAOLIB addon, similar to Maya Studio Library, wich is by far more clean and easier to use.
im using an already rigged model but in the tool tab to the right pose library isnt available even tho ive enabled it in prefrences is there a short cut to hit to save my pose?
No poses show up in my Pose Library. No poses in the Asset Browser either. Pose Library is empty. I'm using version 3.5, I've got a Mixamo rig selected, and I've selected the armature. I don't get it!
Its blender 3.6 and the button to save the pose are missing .. repeat its missing ... idk why but the solution its go straight to assets library and enter // Asset // Creatte POSE ASSET use create shortcut
Hi Justin. Does anyone know? That the Pose Library is empty in 3.6 and if you want to add you have to select the Rig > Pose Mode > Object Data Properties > Pose Library (Legacy) > Convert to Pose Assets but that option is missing, similarly in version 3.5. The same problem I have with Mixamo Addon that I cannot create anything for the Pose Library. Does anyone know how to fix this? Both with the default Amature and that of Mixamo? Thanks a lot in advance! Happy Blendings.
I know I'm going to get this, eventually...but right now I just keep getting the same kind of dumb problem I always do. Following a tutorial, going through the actions...hitting apply at Appropriate Project Step aaaaaaand nothing. I'm animating what is essential just a cylinder. I created a simple 'lean left' and 'lean right' pose for it. My "rig" is just a simple three-bone, bendy bone rig. The poses only use the mid bone and the top bone. Clicking apply pose in the asset pose library does exactly nothing and clicking the screenshot link in the Pose Library, also does nothing. Interestingly, clicking away from anything and pressing either "bone select" in the asset library pose instance menu, or the Animation Tab pose library, I think...right click menu, WILL indeed select the appropriate bones...but hitting apply does nothing to move the parented mesh or the armature. Anyway...back to grinding. :: tips hat ::
wait, so theres no other way to quickly rename poses? That seems like a really tedious/annoying change that I have to open up another segment to rename poses awkwardly with 3 or more clicks from my mouse and keyboard from the 1 click of a mouse like it use to be :/
i cant get the pop up window to rename my pose from "armature" lol Edit, i figured it out its the little arrow in the corner. i had no idea thats what the n key usually did
Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about the new pose library in the comments below! :)
Heaven.
It saves me hours of having to remake the same pose.
Tab and K?
Thank you for this great tutorial! Is it possible to apply your saved poses to another avatar?
@Daniel Fischer Yes. I have tried it, but results can be very wacky.
To the people rocking the 3.5 update.
create pose asset is now located in the "timeline" panel.
click the little arrow on the right hand side of the window.
happy blendering yall.
Thank you!! I've been going crazy trying to find this dang button.
Thanks☺
Good lookin out, LizzyKoopa. Awesomeness.
damn, weird UI choices, thanks!
Thos is fine, but what about the right click functions in the Pose Library? Are those gone now or is the add on broken?
Being able to put poses in categories is what I've been waiting for, the thumbnails are a great addition too. Now if these were transferable across rigs...
I love you, man…A to Z in 7 minutes. Everything I needed to know. Sold! ✊☕️🎩🎩🎩 thanks
Glad it was helpful!
I actually cant tell you how grateful i am for this video. I was almost on the verge of throwing in the towel bc i couldnt find a single helpful answer on this and then i found this link on your comment on reddit. thank you so much
CG Essentials, you still CRUSHIN it a year later. This video saved me a LOT of time, you are DA MAN my brother! Thank you for being so awesome with these clear, concise, and incredibly helpful educational videos.
Keep it up. Keep it up. Much love and respect from us at Digital Dynamics 3d.
Every time I need to learn something about Blender, I end up on your channel. I have now subscribed. Thank you.
If pose library isn’t showing up when you go to pose mode, go to preferences, then add-ons and make sure the pose library add-on is enabled.
there is no pose library addon
what if pose mode doesn't show up either
@@mezzovii There’s a drop down menu in the 3D viewport, it’s in the top left corner
@@curtisnewton895 That’s strange, what version of Blender are you using?
Thank you! :D
TYSM, cannot imagine learning blender without this channel;)
:)
Open side bar - "N key" (*select relevant bones and pose) and create pose asset... thanks for video!!
sometimes seeing it done is better than a 100o words of documentation ;P
I actually made my own character and built a custom rig from scratch. I'm using Blender as my main software for animation in my Senior year animation class. I will definitely use this Pose Library for my animation workflow, great video! Only thing I am wondering and will be testing out is if the saved poses is transferable between different saved Blender files, if I can simply copy and paste the character into a Blender scene with backgrounds, for example. Just basically transferring data over.
i second this
@@nelkitoo Update: So, I can't seem to easily transfer data to other Blender files easily. The solution I found is to have two different blender files open, then I copy/paste the model in another file, and then I copy/paste the pose into another file. It's not the perfect solution since I would like to sync up the data to be updatable in different Blender files, but this is the best I can do currently. I have different Blender files for different shots of the film that's rendered and then I piece together the shots into one film in Premiere Pro.
@@paolaanimator I may be misunderstanding the point of the question here, but if somebody wants to access any kind of data from a different blender file, they can use Append of Link to do that. For example, if I want some action data from my rig file (or another animation file), e.g. a mouth shape pose, I click Link > select the file > select the Actions folder > select the mouth pose action line that I want and it is linked into my file ready for use.
I also use the asset library files paths method to link over entire pose libraries from other files. You can do this by going to Edit > Preferences > Files Paths > then choose the folder that contains the blend file that contains your pose library (or your 'blender_assets.cats' file). That should import all the poses you have previously saved in the other file.
I hope that helps anyone who is stuck.
@@paolaanimator I know you were asking about this a while ago, but I think Blender's intended solution is 1) mark the poses as assets 2) save the poses to a separate file, and include it in ->preferences ->file paths ->asset libraries directory, then 3) an asset browser opened in any workspace should include those poses
@@kiaparowits Thanks for the tips! Honestly at this point I already graduated from college and in an internship using Maya lol. But I'm still using Blender for personal projects so I'll keep this comment in mind, thanks!
Thank you so much! You're one of the greatest teachers!
Very helpful tutorial! I like the pose library much better now that you told me how to use it. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Love your videos and how you get to the point. Great vid, keep em coming! I'm so confused about IK, bones, wiggling and all that crap. That, and the Sculpt tools, are the big features I'm lacking.
spewing out so much useful information, keep making videos!
TYSM!! 😊 🙏 😊 🙏 😊!
you forgot to say "wooooooooooooowhats up guys" in the beggining hehehehe keep up with the good work
Thank you for yet another great tutorial! I have the following issue: My thumbnails appear as in "solid" viewport shading style (i.e. no materials/colors). I have noticed that your model's colors show even though you're in solid viewport display mode. I don't know how you did that. I do know that thumbnails are created using the Workbench engine, but changing the color settings in there didn't change the thumbnail either. If you can help me create thumbnails with colors in them, that would be very kind and helpful on your part. If you can't, no problem, I am already grateful for your amazing and useful content :)
I also have this issue, not the end of the world, but the colourful poses in his video look a lot nicer! Also a lot easier to see what the pose looks like in a small thumbnail when everything isnt grey
@@linden1763 True, it's not the end of the world. I'm just using the "Random" setting in Workbench for now, it makes things a bit more discernible. Justin is probably using some script to create the thumbnails in all their colorful glory :)
Bro i found the answer, go to material properties -> pick any active material -> scroll down until you see "viewport display" section -> change the color exactly like the active material. and thats it.
I love your tutorials!
THE Blender Bob! I love your work as well! :)
Dude, awesome tutorial and explanation!!!, the new pose system is amazing!. Thanks for sharing
Are poses transferable to another model if it uses the same rig, such as an Auto-rig pro standard rig?
i second this
have you tried it?
@@calamardotentaculos9879 not yet
Thank you for the tutorial, very well explained. This feature is awesome! :)
Great stuff, thx for the thorough explanation.
If anyone feel very novice about this, like me, start with stances and select every single bone before creating the asset. Obviously what CG Essentials does is better but the assets are not going to work if you don't have the right/modified bone selected before clicking create asset.
Do you know if this is somehow possible with animations and not just poses?
FUCK IVE BEEN SPENDING WEEKS DOING FACIAL ANIMATION BY HAND WTF
PS i love you im crying
Good one...clearly explained, thanks
Very useful tutorial! I do have one question though. You know how this is your "current fiile," and there's an option to switch to a shared asset library? I want the poses that I've made to be accessible in other projects, and I'm wondering how to move them over. Do I have to do that one by one? I've gone into the blender assets file and copy/pasted the lines into it, but those poses don't appear in blender. The catalog is there but it's empty.
Very helpful, thank you!
So I got a couple questions,
1. can saving poses have added geometry? Like theres a empty hand pose and a pose with the same hand holding an apple?
2. Can I use this to go back to a t pose. basically reset my character. If I can is there any down side to doing it this way?
3.Say I create a can and I save a pose with art on it and save a pose with no art onit. Can I use the pose with no art as a template so I can then use a different piece of in place of the original? And if I can, does then the can with the alternative art have its own pose library or does it share the originals library?
Thank you!!!
Thanks!
Awesome can you also make an animation library..
Thank you!
This is very cool - I've been trying to get a good lip sync workflow and am wondering if there's a way to automate or trigger different poses based on an XML of lipsync data? What I've done so far is export the lip sync data from Adobe Animate, and it generates a list with data in this format ...it'd be easy enough to turn that into an edit list, so is there a way to use data in the format of {frame,pose#} to auto lip sync once all the mouth shape poses have been made?
Love this video: super informative! Quick question: I'm trying to apply my poses to my character, but nothing moves. Any reason why this might be happening? Edit: I also have controllers I'm using to pose my bones
Did you ever figure out the problem of how to apply poses? The apply button is grayed out and can't find a fix. Tx, Pam
@@pamhampton2588 As of this comment, I am still officially *_stuck._*
Amazing thank you bro!!!!
Thx ❤
Excellent video, can you export poses from one blender file to another?
i don't have the create pose, pls help
hi, can we use these pose library to another character ?
Many thx for this!
:)
THANK U!!
Hi Just a quick question! There’s a way to use this amazing tool in a model that I create?
How do I get my pose library to look like yours with thr thumbnails and everything? Mine looks really primitive and just shows big empty boxes with the name of the mesh itself.
Great tutorial!
What if I want to update or edit a pose?
In 3.6 I imported a Mixamo T pose model, none of the stuff shows up when I'm in pose mode such as the library and the save pose button to save a pose to a library. I'm sure I'm missing something can someone help?
Awesome tutorial! Question...could I export a Pose Library I made for a character and move it into another scene/file? For example, I have a character in one file and I also have them Linked in another separate file. Could I take the Pose Library from that main file and move it to the file where the rig is Linked?
Hope that makes sense.
¡Brilliant! Very helpful tutorial.
thanks for that ! is there an easy way use poses on the animation timeline with respect to automatically adding only changed keyframes?
My pose thumbnails come up with no textures on the character. Is there any setting im missing?
and how to save the animation in Asset Browser (pose library) ?? , for example, "animation cycles", usually need to append action manually
thankyou
Quick question, I'm just getting into posing my character. In the Pose Library you can create a collection of hand mevements, a collection of leg movements, a collection of eye movements etc. I'm just wondering if this system allows you to mix poses together. Can you create a group of leg poses and then mix them with hand poses for example? Let's say you want to put the arms in a perfect T-pose, but can it then cycle through a bunch of different leg positions without Blender interpolating the arms at all.
yes ! okay
Oh i searched this thank you
Is it right, that this feature is removed in Version 3.1? BTW - I am a big fan of your channel :-)
How do you edit the pose? All I can do is apply the pose, do the edit, highlight bones, create pose asset, rename, delete old one. It's tedious :(
I’m trying to learn blender, but can’t import the rain v2 rig. I don’t know how to, there are no videos, and I need somebody to help me figure out how to do that so I can go to the next step. Help?
FINALLY!!
When i use this character in Blender 4 that hand pose is not working. Why is this happening Sir?
Hi, thanks. For soem reason my models poses are not saving.I select the bones I want to pose, pose them then key it. and I select both keys and bones. It seems to save the "armarue, and camera shot. but it delete my entire animations, I already did. meaning, I already had the rigg posed in a few way down the timeline. It wipes that all out and .. well its not working on only the Hand for instance. I cant make a hand pose, and Save pose ( only those bones and key)
Any advice?
Cool helpful video thanks :)
Can I save the poses to the Pose Library and then apply them to another model? I'm trying, but it doesn't work for me.
Danke
Not really sure why they thought they were ready to implement a new pos lib. They added thumbnails and blending. Thumbnails are good, minor but good, but blending should be a part of the graph editor. Meanwhile, they've locked themselves into a weird structure for poses. Poses are single-frame actions, and a pose library should be an *action* library, blended via existing NLA blends, but it's not, not the way they did it. Doesn't seem like a well-considered improvement to me, just a change for change's sake.
Is the Asset library in this video not available to us? It doesn't show up for me in the animation layer.
To have a pose accessible in the [ALL] category and not only the [CURRENT FILE] ( For some reason Blender asset browser won't let you) , you need to manually save the blend file into your blender asset folder for each pose you create. Yes, it sucks.
Maybe, and i hope, i just don't understand this tool , because having to manage multiple blend files is just not useful at all and a total mess to work with.
Every year i try to use the Pose Library thinking they must have fix it, but I always end up going back to using the GAOLIB addon, similar to Maya Studio Library, wich is by far more clean and easier to use.
解說詳盡，有給你按一個讚，謝謝提供 .....
How about Animation) Can we save Animations to the library?
im using an already rigged model but in the tool tab to the right pose library isnt available even tho ive enabled it in prefrences is there a short cut to hit to save my pose?
hello what Blender 4.0 have a pose library ? I try search not found this
menu thanks
I feel lucky you don't start with that voice. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
does that mean if i open a new blend file they will always be automatically there
im trying to apply poses from pose library like you but nothing happens when i try to apply pose to my rig in pose mode. also i use mixamo rig.
It is a good start for Blender and very useful!
No poses show up in my Pose Library. No poses in the Asset Browser either. Pose Library is empty. I'm using version 3.5, I've got a Mixamo rig selected, and I've selected the armature. I don't get it!
good
Please does 3.0 come with already saved posses?
3.0 doesn't come with any poses, or characters for that matter...
Its blender 3.6 and the button to save the pose are missing .. repeat its missing ... idk why but the solution its go straight to assets library and enter // Asset // Creatte POSE ASSET use create shortcut
How can we use it on actual scene?
Hi Justin.
Does anyone know?
That the Pose Library is empty in 3.6 and if you want to add you have to select the Rig > Pose Mode > Object Data Properties > Pose Library (Legacy) > Convert to Pose Assets but that option is missing, similarly in version 3.5.
The same problem I have with Mixamo Addon that I cannot create anything for the Pose Library.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Both with the default Amature and that of Mixamo?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Happy Blendings.
When I bring a character into a new scene as a link, the pose book doesn't come with it. How can I load this pose library?
You look like someone who'd be into rock climbing, not animating in Blender. Cool video, either way!
How you get the pose pics for poses?
how can i link the pose library into a scene just like when i link characters and rig actions into a new scene without using the original???????? :)))
I know I'm going to get this, eventually...but right now I just keep getting the same kind of dumb problem I always do. Following a tutorial, going through the actions...hitting apply at Appropriate Project Step aaaaaaand nothing. I'm animating what is essential just a cylinder. I created a simple 'lean left' and 'lean right' pose for it. My "rig" is just a simple three-bone, bendy bone rig. The poses only use the mid bone and the top bone. Clicking apply pose in the asset pose library does exactly nothing and clicking the screenshot link in the Pose Library, also does nothing. Interestingly, clicking away from anything and pressing either "bone select" in the asset library pose instance menu, or the Animation Tab pose library, I think...right click menu, WILL indeed select the appropriate bones...but hitting apply does nothing to move the parented mesh or the armature.
Anyway...back to grinding. :: tips hat ::
On Blender 3, the Asset Browser blocks the 3-D Viewer, please help.
If you don't see it after pressing the N key then press the T key.
hello how do i save a character face shape keys to the pose library ??
Is there a labrary in blender 4 ?
was looking for silver and found gold.
wait, so theres no other way to quickly rename poses? That seems like a really tedious/annoying change that I have to open up another segment to rename poses awkwardly with 3 or more clicks from my mouse and keyboard from the 1 click of a mouse like it use to be :/
oh Good, but only effect with the same character and cannot apply for new character with assets.
there is not "animation" tab
how to import the pose libraries to another character, it has the same rig
i cant get the pop up window to rename my pose from "armature" lol Edit, i figured it out its the little arrow in the corner. i had no idea thats what the n key usually did
But how do I make my own? I don’t get it 😢
My Blender have not Animation panel way 😢
‼‼‼‼I don't know how to make my preview have color like you HELP
I need something similar for 2D =D