Once ..in the stoneage , i used to manually build each frame, changing every joint between shift of each and every frame. A good animation took at _least_ a whole day. Blarmy amazing these free tools, and what they can do!👍
Vroid studio is indeed very laggy on MacOS , it is much more responsive under windows. Small tip when using these characters with deep motion… use a base version (no clothes) instead of a clothed version to apply the animation on and add the clothes in later.
There is a very useful Blender addon called "Animation Layers" which would save so much time in cleanup for this workflow. Great video I really wish my main character was not a quadruped now 😅
Wow these free trails are pretty smart, let you play with the software as much as you want but acutal long term saving projects require money. You can become an expert in these without paying money first 👍.
My guess is you could also skip the DeepMotion step if you already had premade animations in Unreal or Unity. For Unreal, it already has some default animations when you create a 3rd person project.
Thanks for the video, I actually thought of using these in a game together before. Though I used animation re-targeting for basic animations in the end
I have like eight characters at this point, and one other made in Gravity Sketch. That one was able to be included thanks to the vrm export with blender. I wish I could find a game where they can be playable characters. They look like playable characters from an rpg, lol. Also, there are some crazy talented submissions made by gifted people on the hub website. Makes me want to get better at the textures. I don't any other games these characters can be used in other than VRchat.
Making interesting characters would take some time imho but it's still a really easy to use tool. Kinda like the RPGMaker of character modeling, in a way.
If you learn how to create animation assets, not only can you sell the same assets over and over as passive income, but you can release new animations to use all the time! Some people have the money to buy assets to help, and some people just don't want to waste the time and get to the point of their animation or game. Don't worry!
I've tried VRoid a couple of times and I've always been disappointed. There's potential there but it's also very limited, especially with bodies and even more so with males. At least it was when I tried it middle of last year. It is free though, so that's a bonus if you really need anime style characters and are okay with what they offer. It's not for me though.
@Elwaves Vroid improved a lot since middle of last year ; they released the official version. Although face parameters are now almost sufficient for anything you might want, there are still a lack of parameters concerning the body shape, but they created a framework such that adding parameters is easier, and they plan on building up the number of parameters on a regular basis. So I say, just keep an eye on it, and in a few years' time, it will be THE way to go to create anime style 3D characters.
@@pierre-samuelgreau-hamard6379 The official version was the last time I tried and I have been keeping an eye on it, which is why I've already tried it a couple of times. It does appeal to me, it's just nowhere near the level I require right now. Cheers for the reply though. 🙂
Vroid is actually very much a "You own this" in terms of the characters you make in the software. In fact, part of the VRM format that they use allows you to customize what others can and cannot do with your model.
I wonder if using the single-pose option, you might be able to send the key frames of your recorded motions, and then have your 3D app interpolate between them to match your desired framerate, possibly obtaining a lot more than just 30 seconds of actual animation.
Silly question, but can you upload a pre-existing video of a person in motion (without a motion capture setup), and drop that into this software and then utilize it?
Question, last time I downloaded vroid and tried to use my character it didn't come through to Blender like yours did. And then when I seen your export screen you were clicking on options I didn't have on my Blender (the latest version). Will this be one of those situations?
@@gamefromscratch I haven't played around with it too much myself (yet) but from the looks of things life is made immensely easier if you use a video shot against a green/blue screen (as it often is when analyzing video).
I really wish I could use VRoid in a project but the only problem is if your character models are that high quality it sets a bar for the whole environment and enemies to be that high quality as well XD
I can get BVH? Oh god yes. BVH is what I need for Second Life- I just need to clean up the BVH so it only has the joints needed for my SL avatar. And I'm pretty sure there's a base model that has just the Second Life Mesh joints I need. Aw yeah.
Wouldn't Mixamo be easier to use rather than deepmotion? In the sense that you don't need to even bother filming or anything, and the animations in the lib will loop correctly out of the box, as well as providing some movements that would be difficult to produce yourself or with which the DL algorithm of deepmotion would struggle to convert. And AFAIK it's still free (which seems kinda weird btw, has Adobe forgot about it?)
i think the "issue" with mixamo is that it cant use .vrm files, which is what vroid uses, but you can always import it to blender and export it as a more common file type
@@schwipsy Yeah that's what I was thinking, import .vrm to blender, then export to .fbx (without rig to rig it with the integrated rigging tool of mixamo) which you import in mixamo, and reexport with the animations and rig, might be a bit convoluted but technically it should work pretty smoothly ^^
@@bexplosion Well yeah, but I'd first try mixamo and only if I don't find what I want I'd go the deepmotion route. I don't see why I'd go for a very approximative technique first, it makes no sense
Not sure, actually. The model comes with it's own bones, so you'd have to decide if you want to keep the original bones, or replace them with Mixamo bones.
Guess it’s fun to play with for free but the resulting animations are stiff as fuck, it’s not just the end frame glitch, these ai tools need to be able to reference multiple videos from different angles, like photogrammetry for video
I remember back about 10 years ago in my level design class this one chick could create, render, and animate a 3D figure in like 20 mins her first week in. I quit the course like 3 months in; but, I believe she landed a job with Blizzard or some cool ass company like that. To say she was talented would be an understatement.
Oh god this thing again? I dunno if it's the same (I think it is), but this software was everywhere 6 years ago. I had to quit every CGI group I was a part of on DeviantART because people kept spamming the feed with low effort copy-pasty anime characters that all looked slightly the same. Yuck.
You may have been spammed by copy-pasty anime characters on DA, I can't speak to that and there is a hell of a lot of them out there, so I can't really disagree. That's on DA's flawed feeds. As someone who uses Daz quite a bit, it is far superior to any of that type of thing, certainly to VRoid in my opinion. It's not perfect but excellent, non-copy-pasty characters can be created, sometimes really realistic ones when in the right hands.
Do it as a living. Most customers know the limits of vroid, but it's great for people who don't want the highest quality model. Even using vroid you still need to get your hands alittle dirty.
Look at Royal Skies channel. There is no way in hell you can create models nearly as detailed and unique as his with Vroid. It's good for making simple-esque human characters, and that's it.
As soon as I saw the title I click to see what this is all about since I have created and animated character myself. I needed to see what this BS was all about and my conclusion is. Is not BS it works but the animations do suck a bit
Bro Vroid is good for female characters bad u cant make masculine models and also u cant make naked top for em( for character customization not for horny reasons )
Quite frankly I hate anything that is online. There are the speed issues that you experienced. The fact that if the internet decides to die you have no access to your work. Also security. If your work is on someone's server, will they copy or use your IP. Can you trust them. Probably not.
Once ..in the stoneage , i used to manually build each frame, changing every joint between shift of each and every frame. A good animation took at least a whole day. Blarmy amazing these free tools, and what they can do!👍
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Once ..in the stoneage , i used to manually build each frame, changing every joint between shift of each and every frame. A good animation took at _least_ a whole day. Blarmy amazing these free tools, and what they can do!👍
Gamefromscratch: "You need to have 0 skill to follow along."
Me with 1 skill: "Well shit."
Think this video alone will change a lot of developers lives for the better, thank you so much.
Vroid studio is indeed very laggy on MacOS , it is much more responsive under windows.
Small tip when using these characters with deep motion… use a base version (no clothes) instead of a clothed version to apply the animation on and add the clothes in later.
i have a mac and mine isn't laggy
@@Glorp2oo It has been optimized greatly in 2 years since i commented this 🤓
Vroid is tight but I've never heard of deepmotion thanks for the heads up
There is a very useful Blender addon called "Animation Layers" which would save so much time in cleanup for this workflow. Great video I really wish my main character was not a quadruped now 😅
Your channel is invaluable. And this will be quite helpful, thanks.
Wow these free trails are pretty smart, let you play with the software as much as you want but acutal long term saving projects require money. You can become an expert in these without paying money first 👍.
This is the kind of video we want everyday. Thanks a lot
My guess is you could also skip the DeepMotion step if you already had premade animations in Unreal or Unity. For Unreal, it already has some default animations when you create a 3rd person project.
Oh sweet I could even easily make an Anime tv show based on my role-playing gàme using this
Thanks for the video, I actually thought of using these in a game together before.
Though I used animation re-targeting for basic animations in the end
I have like eight characters at this point, and one other made in Gravity Sketch. That one was able to be included thanks to the vrm export with blender. I wish I could find a game where they can be playable characters. They look like playable characters from an rpg, lol. Also, there are some crazy talented submissions made by gifted people on the hub website. Makes me want to get better at the textures. I don't any other games these characters can be used in other than VRchat.
Zero skill. You have my attention
LOL 😂
Making interesting characters would take some time imho but it's still a really easy to use tool. Kinda like the RPGMaker of character modeling, in a way.
it's like there goes 4 years of my animation school down the drain.
If you learn how to create animation assets, not only can you sell the same assets over and over as passive income, but you can release new animations to use all the time! Some people have the money to buy assets to help, and some people just don't want to waste the time and get to the point of their animation or game. Don't worry!
Wait til ai makes entire games on its own.
I've tried VRoid a couple of times and I've always been disappointed. There's potential there but it's also very limited, especially with bodies and even more so with males. At least it was when I tried it middle of last year. It is free though, so that's a bonus if you really need anime style characters and are okay with what they offer. It's not for me though.
Makehuman is pretty good if you want more realistic meshes
@Elwaves Vroid improved a lot since middle of last year ; they released the official version. Although face parameters are now almost sufficient for anything you might want, there are still a lack of parameters concerning the body shape, but they created a framework such that adding parameters is easier, and they plan on building up the number of parameters on a regular basis. So I say, just keep an eye on it, and in a few years' time, it will be THE way to go to create anime style 3D characters.
@@pierre-samuelgreau-hamard6379 The official version was the last time I tried and I have been keeping an eye on it, which is why I've already tried it a couple of times. It does appeal to me, it's just nowhere near the level I require right now. Cheers for the reply though. 🙂
How do I change blender's framerate after I import a skeleton animation?
you can also tell how we can use mixamo skeletons that can be mapped onto models
I do this in unity
10:45 "picture perfect"
no outlines
**gets cranky for the whole day**
Super cool! Hadn't heard of any of this!
Commercial Use for the Characters?
Its working with Proton on Linux.
Just FYI ;) ...thanks for the content.
Ooh, ooh ooh! I have zero skill! This is the tutorial I've been looking for!
Same lol
I can confirm that then steam version of Vroid runs great on linux through proton
Thanks for confirming that, might test it out on my Garuda Desktop too
Is it legal to use these in paid games? As most of the time these model makers prohibit the use of their models in paid programs
Yes
Vroid is actually very much a "You own this" in terms of the characters you make in the software. In fact, part of the VRM format that they use allows you to customize what others can and cannot do with your model.
I wonder if using the single-pose option, you might be able to send the key frames of your recorded motions, and then have your 3D app interpolate between them to match your desired framerate, possibly obtaining a lot more than just 30 seconds of actual animation.
Wow very interesting ..thanks a bunch ..by the way is the .mov format the only video format Deepmotion accepts
Silly question, but can you upload a pre-existing video of a person in motion (without a motion capture setup), and drop that into this software and then utilize it?
Can this support non anime style characters? Like a cyborg for instance?
yes but then that defeats the purpose of needing 0 skill to do all this.
@@GhettoWxzrd I ended up painstakingly modelling, texturing and rigging from scratch in the end.
Just better result overall
Question, last time I downloaded vroid and tried to use my character it didn't come through to Blender like yours did. And then when I seen your export screen you were clicking on options I didn't have on my Blender (the latest version).
Will this be one of those situations?
this is awesome thank you
soi could take a clip from a movie or tv show and use it to create a animation?
Yes, but it would have to be appropriate. On very obvious target, a relatively static background and the actors limbs fully in frame
@@gamefromscratch I haven't played around with it too much myself (yet) but from the looks of things life is made immensely easier if you use a video shot against a green/blue screen (as it often is when analyzing video).
do you have a how-to animate vroid model inside of unity? using the fbx method
the Animation tab. it'll also take coding knowledge unless you use a plugin like game creator or bolt.
What tools can automatically fix that?
im just using vrchat to record my movement with fullbody tracking and special shader and i recive anim files in unity ready to go in humanoid form
then why r u even here bro
@@GhettoWxzrd just saying there is a more easy way
It does work on linux but with the latest wine, it's buggy with proton
I really wish I could use VRoid in a project but the only problem is if your character models are that high quality it sets a bar for the whole environment and enemies to be that high quality as well XD
Is there some filter to make it.. well worse? :D
VRoid on linux through steam: check, it works
vroid does run on linux with proton.
the only down fall is you can only create japanese anime style characters, I like variety!
very helpful for my game :D
Thanks for sharing!
oh cool I didn't know about VRoid studio
Are there other similar products that do the same as Vroid just not anime?
I can get BVH? Oh god yes. BVH is what I need for Second Life- I just need to clean up the BVH so it only has the joints needed for my SL avatar. And I'm pretty sure there's a base model that has just the Second Life Mesh joints I need. Aw yeah.
nice workflow, tnx
Wouldn't Mixamo be easier to use rather than deepmotion? In the sense that you don't need to even bother filming or anything, and the animations in the lib will loop correctly out of the box, as well as providing some movements that would be difficult to produce yourself or with which the DL algorithm of deepmotion would struggle to convert.
And AFAIK it's still free (which seems kinda weird btw, has Adobe forgot about it?)
i think the "issue" with mixamo is that it cant use .vrm files, which is what vroid uses, but you can always import it to blender and export it as a more common file type
@@schwipsy Yeah that's what I was thinking, import .vrm to blender, then export to .fbx (without rig to rig it with the integrated rigging tool of mixamo) which you import in mixamo, and reexport with the animations and rig, might be a bit convoluted but technically it should work pretty smoothly ^^
So what if Mixamo don't have the animation you need? Then you need to manually animate or use this tool or PixCap.
@@bexplosion Well yeah, but I'd first try mixamo and only if I don't find what I want I'd go the deepmotion route. I don't see why I'd go for a very approximative technique first, it makes no sense
Hay Games From Scratch are you Canadian? The way you say "about" sounds like how Canadians say it.
You had me at "....need zero skill...."!
Wouldn't this work with mixamo?
Not sure, actually. The model comes with it's own bones, so you'd have to decide if you want to keep the original bones, or replace them with Mixamo bones.
Yeah it works with Mixamo
reminds me of pixcap
Pixcap - Easy Animation Software - Basic Intro - RUclips
vroid works on linux though proton :)
I want to make Countryhumans with that - is it possible HAHA
Guess it’s fun to play with for free but the resulting animations are stiff as fuck, it’s not just the end frame glitch, these ai tools need to be able to reference multiple videos from different angles, like photogrammetry for video
Just upload the model to Mixamo. Easy as pie.
to think making anime characters is this easy now
lets just hope none of these end up as nfts or smthn lmao
I remember back about 10 years ago in my level design class this one chick could create, render, and animate a 3D figure in like 20 mins her first week in. I quit the course like 3 months in; but, I believe she landed a job with Blizzard or some cool ass company like that. To say she was talented would be an understatement.
To think people can just be naturally talented like that, pfft.
Everyone: v-roid studio
Mike: Freud studio
I miss the good old days -- a few months ago -- when we were all still mad enough at Apple to not want to buy their hardware. (jk😅)
Oh god this thing again? I dunno if it's the same (I think it is), but this software was everywhere 6 years ago. I had to quit every CGI group I was a part of on DeviantART because people kept spamming the feed with low effort copy-pasty anime characters that all looked slightly the same. Yuck.
That sounds more like Daz3d to me. Vroid is younger than that I believe, and has come a long way in a short time recently.
@@gamefromscratch there it isssssss DAZ. I still have vietnam flasbacks about it brrrrr
You may have been spammed by copy-pasty anime characters on DA, I can't speak to that and there is a hell of a lot of them out there, so I can't really disagree. That's on DA's flawed feeds. As someone who uses Daz quite a bit, it is far superior to any of that type of thing, certainly to VRoid in my opinion. It's not perfect but excellent, non-copy-pasty characters can be created, sometimes really realistic ones when in the right hands.
I just find it ironic your name is "Gamefromscratch" but you used all AI-related programs to create characters and animations in this vid lol.
Can software tutorial youtubers please stop saying "like so". Making me angry. lol. Besides that, keep up the good work.
Zero skil : I am in
Wow
Yea
Artists making "anime style" characters from a custom mesh (the right way) will definitely be accused of using this instead. 😔
Do it as a living. Most customers know the limits of vroid, but it's great for people who don't want the highest quality model. Even using vroid you still need to get your hands alittle dirty.
Look at Royal Skies channel. There is no way in hell you can create models nearly as detailed and unique as his with Vroid. It's good for making simple-esque human characters, and that's it.
Maybe put "anime" in title?
I did. ANIMatEd
@@gamefromscratch lol, you got me there
My PC is gonna have a folder of pretty much all animation sofware to cheat on everything by mixing them all together my PC please don't catch flame
This is what I am doing too. Good luck and may the god of hardware smile upon us.
link me all the ones u find, im bout to sin.
skill issue no more!
\*lipsmack\* content . . . . . ......... library
💪🤡 aye brutha
As soon as I saw the title I click to see what this is all about since I have created and animated character myself. I needed to see what this BS was all about and my conclusion is.
Is not BS it works but the animations do suck a bit
for prototyping works as a charm.
anyway you usually rotoscope a video to do animation this shortens the job.
Bro Vroid is good for female characters bad u cant make masculine models and also u cant make naked top for em( for character customization not for horny reasons )
Quite frankly I hate anything that is online. There are the speed issues that you experienced. The fact that if the internet decides to die you have no access to your work. Also security. If your work is on someone's server, will they copy or use your IP. Can you trust them. Probably not.
Fiiiirst
2nd
Once ..in the stoneage , i used to manually build each frame, changing every joint between shift of each and every frame. A good animation took at least a whole day. Blarmy amazing these free tools, and what they can do!👍