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Blender 4.5 - New Rigging and Animation Features

CGDive via YouTube

Overview

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Explore the latest rigging and animation enhancements in Blender 4.5 through this 11-minute tutorial video that covers both minor improvements and major new features. Learn about Vulkan rendering support and per-bone display options that provide better visual control over armatures. Discover driver snapping settings and playhead snapping functionality that streamline the animation workflow. Master the duplicate shapekey feature and understand how to update shapekeys from objects for more efficient character modeling. Examine pose library screenshots capability and learn to customize properties tabs for a personalized workspace. Get introduced to the revolutionary Slotted Actions system, a completely new approach to managing animations in Blender that represents the most significant update in this release. Review improvements to FBX import functionality and understand various workflow enhancements that make rigging and animation more intuitive and efficient in Blender's latest version.

Syllabus

The sections about constraint colors at 2:58 is a bug in the Beta. It will be fixed. The colors WILL NOT change :
0:00 Intro
0:10 Vulkan
1:36 Per-Bone Display
2:58 Constraint colors [Beta BUG - IGNORE]
3:43 Driver Snapping Setting
4:51 Playhead Snapping
6:08 Free Rigging Course
6:17 Duplicate Shapekey
7:15 Update Shapekey from Objects
8:31 Pose Library Screenshots
9:51 Customize Properties Tabs
10:12 New FBX Import

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