Blender 4.4: New Rigging and Animation Features

Explore the newest rigging and animation features in Blender 4.3 and 4.4 in this 23-minute video from CGDive. Discover various improvements with special focus on Slotted Actions, a revolutionary new way to manage animations. The tutorial covers practical tools like Bone Eyedropper, enhanced Keyframe Insertion, improved Motion Paths, Object constraints, and the Noise Modifier for animation curves. Learn about advanced rigging features including Vertex Weights Normalize and get a comprehensive demonstration of how Slotted Actions work compared to previous versions. The video includes practical examples using a Spinosaurus model (credited to Xpea) with animation by thebean.fx, and concludes with insights about the future of Blender animation.

Syllabus

0:00 Intro
0:42 Bone Eyedropper
1:20 Keyframe Insertion
2:10 Motion Paths
3:18 Free Rigging Course Announcement
3:43 Object constraints
4:10 animation Curves: Noise Modifier
5:14 New Rigging Features
6:53 Vertex Weights Normalize
7:35 Slotted Actions starts here
8:28 How Actions used to work
11:11 Action Selectors in 4-3
13:13 Slotted Actions Demonstration
17:20 New Tools for Slot Management
18:54 Slotted Actions in Practice
21:09 The future of Blender animation
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