Roblox Animation in Blender: Full Beginner Guide [2026] — Transcript

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1. 0:00But if I told you making a Roblox
2. 0:01animations in Blender is easy. Crazy,
3. 0:03right? First, you'll need Blender and a
4. 0:05Roblox Studio, obviously. Open the
5. 0:07Google Drive link in the description and
6. 0:08as you can see there's two folders here.
7. 0:10So, click on Blender tutorial files over
8. 0:13here and select download. Once you
9. 0:14downloaded and extracted this, go to R6
10. 0:17IK rig, open up R6 IK. Now you're in
11. 0:19Blender, but before you do anything, go
12. 0:21into edit preferences. From here, go to
13. 0:24add-ons, select this drop-down arrow,
14. 0:26select install from disk. Now locate the
15. 0:28folder important Blender add-ons and
16. 0:31first get the lazy viewport install from
17. 0:33disk and then do the RBX animation
18. 0:35importer install from disk. The
19. 0:37animation importer is to import your
20. 0:38animations from Blender into Roblox
21. 0:40Studio and the lazy viewport is kind of
22. 0:42a quality of life thing. It just helps
23. 0:44you rotate and move stuff around much
24. 0:46easier. I'll make my interface a little
25. 0:48bit larger so you guys can see
26. 0:50everything. You should already be in
27. 0:51pose mode. If you're not and you're in
28. 0:53object mode, then you need to click on
29. 0:55the rig and go into pose mode over here.
30. 0:57Now this toolbar is very important.
31. 0:59You're mainly going to be using rotate,
32. 1:00which we press R for, move, which you
33. 1:03press G for, and select. You can see
34. 1:05this is select box, so I have to left
35. 1:07click and hold my mouse down and select
36. 1:09tweak. Now once we've selected tweak, we
37. 1:11can now move the this stuff around,
38. 1:13right? So, you can move the torso
39. 1:15around. As you can see, the whole rig
40. 1:16moves with the torso. Down here you have
41. 1:18what's called a dope sheet. Think of
42. 1:20this as basically a timeline where
43. 1:22you're going to be able to see all your
44. 1:23keyframes. So, if I were to move this
45. 1:25around, as you can see, it's going to
46. 1:26make a new keyframe for the right upper
47. 1:28arm. As you can see, the timeline ends
48. 1:30on 40 frames. If you want to extend the
49. 1:32animation, you want to make a longer
50. 1:34animation, then you go ahead and go over
51. 1:36here to end and you can select the 120,
52. 1:39for example, and that's going to be 2
53. 1:41seconds long, I'm pretty sure.
54. 1:42Basically, 120 frames long. Now let's
55. 1:45make a super quick animation so I can
56. 1:47show you the graph editor.
57. 1:49All right, this is a super simple
58. 1:51animation and it looks pretty bad,
59. 1:53right? It doesn't look that smooth. So,
60. 1:54there's two steps to making an animation
61. 1:56smoother. The first step is using the
62. 1:58graph editor. Now, the graph editor
63. 2:00might be a little complicated, but I'll
64. 2:01try to explain it to you in as simple
65. 2:04terms as I can, okay? So, on the left
66. 2:05side, you might have already noticed
67. 2:06there's something here, and that
68. 2:08something is called the graph editor. If
69. 2:10you want to know how to go into the
70. 2:12graph editor, then you basically click
71. 2:13on this or this icon, and you go into
72. 2:16graph editor, or or press shift F6. But,
73. 2:19your graph editor should be over here
74. 2:21already. Now, when I click on the right
75. 2:23arm, as you can see, a bunch of stuff
76. 2:25pops up, and this might seem pretty
77. 2:28crazy, you know? Like, you you might be
78. 2:29like, "What the hell is going on here?"
79. 2:31As you can see down here, are some flat
80. 2:33curves, and here are some pretty steep
81. 2:35curves. This is the movement of the arm.
82. 2:38As you can see, the arm is moving quite
83. 2:40a lot in the X direction, and that's why
84. 2:42the X rotation curve is pretty steep,
85. 2:45right? You see over here, the Y X Z. The
86. 2:48arm is not moving in the Y axis
87. 2:50whatsoever. So, the Y curve is
88. 2:52completely flat, right? There's no
89. 2:54movement. So, we don't care about that
90. 2:56curve. The ones we care about are the
91. 2:57ones with the movement. So, this blue
92. 2:59one, this blue one, and the red one.
93. 3:01Now, before we go ahead and mess with
94. 3:03this, I'm going to select all of these
95. 3:05keyframes in here. I'm going to select
96. 3:06V, and select automatic. Now, this
97. 3:08applies easing to the animation, which
98. 3:10is going to make it slightly smoother,
99. 3:12but it's not completely smooth, right?
100. 3:14I'm going to sidetrack a little from the
101. 3:16graph editor, but we'll come back to
102. 3:17this straight after, okay? The second
103. 3:19step to making an animation smoother is
104. 3:21adding in between movements, right? So,
105. 3:23let's say this is the full movement I'm
106. 3:25trying to do. So, I'm going to have some
107. 3:26sort of an in between here. Let's say
108. 3:28I'm going to rotate this arm a little
109. 3:30bit more to to the side here on the Y
110. 3:33axis. I'm going to go ahead and rotate
111. 3:35this one over here like this, maybe.
112. 3:38Bring it up a little bit. Maybe I can
113. 3:41even bring it a little outward. I can
114. 3:43maybe move the leg a little bit. And
115. 3:45this is a little bit over exaggerated
116. 3:46with the leg, but as you can see, it
117. 3:48kind of looks already smoother. When
118. 3:50When take it when you take a look at the
119. 3:51arms, it definitely looks a little
120. 3:52smoother. We're going to select these,
121. 3:54press the V, automatic, and now this
122. 3:57looks a lot more smoother, right? But if
123. 3:59you want to take it a step forward, then
124. 4:01let's select the right arm for example
125. 4:02again. And now as you can see, the Y
126. 4:04curve is not flat anymore because
127. 4:06there's movement in the Y axis, right? I
128. 4:09really hope you can understand what I'm
129. 4:11saying here. So now select this keyframe
130. 4:13for example, and if I start moving this
131. 4:15around, as you can see, the arm is
132. 4:17moving around a little bit. And if I go
133. 4:19ahead and play this, it already looks so
134. 4:21much better even though I did like the
135. 4:23most random movement, right? You can
136. 4:25mess with this as much as you want, and
137. 4:27there really doesn't exist the right way
138. 4:29to do this, right? There's just so many
139. 4:31ways you can kind of make this movement
140. 4:33better. But one thing you're going to
141. 4:34see in a lot of animations is that they
142. 4:36have this sort of sway, right? Where the
143. 4:39arm won't fully stop, and it will kind
144. 4:41of extend and go back. As you can see
145. 4:43over here, it's very subtle. And if I
146. 4:45were to do it over here as well, as you
147. 4:47can see, I'm going to bring up the curve
148. 4:49so the curve can come down again, then
149. 4:51you're going to see that over here, too.
150. 4:52It's a little bit over exaggerated so
151. 4:54you can see it. I mean, I could just
152. 4:55like go crazy on this and just
153. 4:57completely over exaggerate it to the
154. 4:59point where you're really going to see
155. 5:01that it does move up and then it goes
156. 5:03down, right? There's that added sway.
157. 5:05And you can do this with every single
158. 5:06keyframe. Like I said, guys, there's no
159. 5:08right way to do this. It's just a lot of
160. 5:10experimenting, and the best part is that
161. 5:13you can just like move around here, and
162. 5:16you can see what movement what it does,
163. 5:18basically. You can see the changes are
164. 5:20in the real every Bro, you can basically
165. 5:22see the changes in the real time. I
166. 5:24pulled up the graph editor here so you
167. 5:26can see this a little better. So let's
168. 5:27select this curve for example, and you
169. 5:29can see the panel here. If you don't see
170. 5:31it, then press N and go into modifiers.
171. 5:33You can add a bunch of modifiers like
172. 5:35cycles that will basically loop the
173. 5:37movement that you're doing, as you can
174. 5:39see. Then you can also add noise so you
175. 5:41can kind of randomize the action here.
176. 5:44As you can see, it's kind of shaking.
177. 5:45Most of the time you won't really use
178. 5:47those, but it's cool to know that you
179. 5:49can do it, you know what I mean?
180. 5:51Important tip, when you want to save
181. 5:52your animation, don't click on file and
182. 5:55save. Instead, click on save as because
183. 5:58if you click save, then it's going to
184. 5:59overwrite the original file, and that is
185. 6:02something you may not want to do because
186. 6:04you want to come back to this and just
187. 6:05make another animation. It's not going
188. 6:07to have the previous animation already
189. 6:09in it. So, what I recommend doing is
190. 6:11just save as and name it as whatever you
191. 6:13want. And once you're done and you want
192. 6:14to export this, go into your Roblox
193. 6:16animations and select export animation.
194. 6:18Now, open up Roblox Studio, go into the
195. 6:20toolbox, select plugins, and type in
196. 6:23Blender Animation, and I might also link
197. 6:25this in the description if you want to
198. 6:27do that instead. But, over here, Blender
199. 6:29Animations Ultimate Edition, you want to
200. 6:31install this, go into plugins, open
201. 6:34this. Now, you also need a plugin to
202. 6:35load a character, for which you can use
203. 6:37a load character light, or you can use
204. 6:39the character inserter from Moon
205. 6:41Animator, which is something that I'll
206. 6:42use, so I'll just insert my character
207. 6:44here. Click on my character and for
208. 6:46animation from clipboard, and paste
209. 6:48whatever you copied, and the animation
210. 6:51is here. I recommend trimming it. As you
211. 6:53can see, mine is 101 frames long, but it
212. 6:56obviously doesn't need to be. It doesn't
213. 6:57matter as much, but it's just good to
214. 7:00trim it inside of Blender. Now, scroll
215. 7:02down, go into upload animation to
216. 7:04Roblox. Now, title the animation. You
217. 7:06can put a description in if you want.
218. 7:08Save it. And this step is only if you
219. 7:10have Moon Animator. This is kind of good
220. 7:11if you have Moon Animator because yeah,
221. 7:14it's just good. So, you close out from
222. 7:16Blender Animations, select your rig, new
223. 7:18rig animation, file, import Roblox, and
224. 7:21select the animation that you just made.
225. 7:23And as you can see, I have imported my
226. 7:25animation into Moon Animator. As you can
227. 7:27see, it's just like way too long because
228. 7:29I I didn't trim it, so go ahead and trim
229. 7:32it, you know, don't make it so long. I
230. 7:34probably didn't go over everything, so
231. 7:35if you have any questions, go ahead and
232. 7:37comment them below, or you can also join
233. 7:39my Discord server, and there should be
234. 7:40some people to help you out there, or
235. 7:42me. If this helped you out, subscribe
236. 7:44and thanks for watching.