Sakurai has been such a massive figure in my life, and then he goes and starts making how to's.. this guy is such an incredible and kind person. Definitely one of my heroes.
Oh wow, this is actually something I've always been curious about. Smash itself actually made me take note of it whenever the game slows down like when you use that one clock item.
I notice he said "IK" (Inverse kinematics), but it seems to have been translated as "position themselves naturally on terrain." If my assumption is correct, translating it in that way is really interesting as it basically explains what IK does in the example without having to actually write it all out.
I caught it too. Definitely sums it up in the fewest words for anyone not already familiar with inverse kinematics. You could make a whole video on IK, but with this one being about blending, they glossed over it in a really smart way.
Yeah, Inverse Kinematics is a pair of words that don't really explain themselves well unless you already know what they're talking about, but that was a good way of explaining the concept to someone unfamiliar. I remember when IK was introduced it was a bit of a revolution. People were amazed that a character's feet would actually adopt slightly different elevations on things like stairs rather than just having one be correct and the other floating in space!
Respecting a particular piece of source text and trusting the target audience to do their own research on an uncharacteristically unexplained terminology, or respecting the overall style of this whole channel and attempting to be more immediately understandable to most of the target audience? A tough dilemma, but also a common one.
A related concept is (for lack of the proper term) "modular" animations. For example, during a conversation sequence, any lip-syncing, eye or hand hand gestures or actual walking are things that can more or less occur independently of each other; so their animations can likewise be defined independently, allowing a game's animation system to animate multiple parts simultaneously.
I do think some games could stand to use less blending though. Fast paced or more stylized games often look better when there is less or even no blending between animations. The 3D Guilty Gear games are a good example; they don't (or barely) use blending or even interpolation in that game. Almost every frame of every animation is hand positioned like a stop-motion, poses are held for a relatively long time, and characters skip straight from one pose to another with no in-between. In a game that relies on reaction speed so much, having the key poses of an animation come out on frame-1 makes a huge difference to the clarity and your ability to react to stuff. It also has the added bonus of making rollbacks less obvious since the first few frames of any animation (the one's that might get skipped over) all look mostly the same. A lot of people have noted that GG Strive has impressively good rollback, and while their netcode is definitely pretty good, a lot of the benefit comes from the animation style, which works in tandem with the netcode to minimize the downsides of a rollback event.
Man, it's always interesting to hear about the intricacies of even the smallest things when it comes to animation. And that doesn't just apply to video games, either!
Animation blending really helps fill in the gaps between animations. Depending on the complexity of a character’s “state machine” and the number of possible states they can alternate between at any given time, it often isn’t feasible to create bespoke transitions for each change in state. Snappy changes in pose work in more abstract or cartoony looking games, but smooth blending between states is important to maintain immersion in more realistic games.
i guess it s specific kind of animation blending done for a lot of Fromsoft's Souls-like games as they have a fair few animations where the upper body will do stuff, but the legs dont animate as one would expect.
Perfect video as always. It's funny how Sakurai-San mentions animation blending in regards to how the top and bottom half of the characters act separately in 3D games, fitting the characters' legs to inclined terrain, but funny enough, the same thing also happens in Smash Bros. On some stages, there are inclines that must be accounted for. Even in the air, many special moves need their own animation for the bottom half of the characters. Yet another detail that most fans don't think about while playing.
Shield shifting can prevent shield pokes. For example, if you're a tall and thin character, you want to shift (tilt) your shield upwards to protect your upper body/head, otherwise multihits can still hit (shield poke) you, especially after your shield has shrunk a little. But yeah, it IS easy to forget about in the heat of a battle! 😅
No way! I just learned about this in my university class yesterday. Turns out, Unreal Engine 5 is pretty good at this. It's kind of like building another animation as you decide how long the transition should take and which animation files should play along the way.
Recently tried my hand at unity animation and it's really weird seeing a video about a concept I found interesting when all I was doing was animating a timer
Clothes in Smash make use of physics bones to react to the environment. The only attack I remember that uses the same system is Simon and Richter's chain when you hold A and move the stick
Oh and don't get me started on the triggers and parameters to switch between all the animations, it can take a ton of time to figure out why one transition isn't doing what you want and you can have lots of those break on you the more you add to it
Am I right animation is the hardest part of creating videogames? By the way I love Samus from Metroid, defienitily that Zero Suit Samus is the most hottest and beautiest. Can't wait for Metroid Prime 4! 😊❤
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Sakurai has been such a massive figure in my life, and then he goes and starts making how to's.. this guy is such an incredible and kind person. Definitely one of my heroes.
That's good! Just don't meet him irl...
Why tho @@LeanneMustafa
I'm assuming it's under the premise of "never meet your heroes" or something?
Yup! Dice12K got it @@Dice12K 🤗
Nah from stories I've heard he's a great person to hang out with
"-and you can't rely on existing technology to fill in all the gaps, either"
Words to live by.
1:14 the animations in these videos are so good and informative
Oh wow, this is actually something I've always been curious about. Smash itself actually made me take note of it whenever the game slows down like when you use that one clock item.
I notice he said "IK" (Inverse kinematics), but it seems to have been translated as "position themselves naturally on terrain."
If my assumption is correct, translating it in that way is really interesting as it basically explains what IK does in the example without having to actually write it all out.
I caught it too. Definitely sums it up in the fewest words for anyone not already familiar with inverse kinematics.
You could make a whole video on IK, but with this one being about blending, they glossed over it in a really smart way.
Yeah, Inverse Kinematics is a pair of words that don't really explain themselves well unless you already know what they're talking about, but that was a good way of explaining the concept to someone unfamiliar.
I remember when IK was introduced it was a bit of a revolution. People were amazed that a character's feet would actually adopt slightly different elevations on things like stairs rather than just having one be correct and the other floating in space!
IK it's one of these things that are too abstract unless you mess around with them yourself or show someone you moving it around
Not really the role subtitles should play though. If the original version uses a specific specialist term, any translation should keep it.
Respecting a particular piece of source text and trusting the target audience to do their own research on an uncharacteristically unexplained terminology, or respecting the overall style of this whole channel and attempting to be more immediately understandable to most of the target audience? A tough dilemma, but also a common one.
A related concept is (for lack of the proper term) "modular" animations. For example, during a conversation sequence, any lip-syncing, eye or hand hand gestures or actual walking are things that can more or less occur independently of each other; so their animations can likewise be defined independently, allowing a game's animation system to animate multiple parts simultaneously.
Sakurai delivering amazing content for us for free just shows how blessed his heart is.
from rotoscoping to blending...how far we've come.
I do think some games could stand to use less blending though. Fast paced or more stylized games often look better when there is less or even no blending between animations. The 3D Guilty Gear games are a good example; they don't (or barely) use blending or even interpolation in that game. Almost every frame of every animation is hand positioned like a stop-motion, poses are held for a relatively long time, and characters skip straight from one pose to another with no in-between. In a game that relies on reaction speed so much, having the key poses of an animation come out on frame-1 makes a huge difference to the clarity and your ability to react to stuff.
It also has the added bonus of making rollbacks less obvious since the first few frames of any animation (the one's that might get skipped over) all look mostly the same. A lot of people have noted that GG Strive has impressively good rollback, and while their netcode is definitely pretty good, a lot of the benefit comes from the animation style, which works in tandem with the netcode to minimize the downsides of a rollback event.
The blending animations thing makes smash Bros look so much better, and now I know how it works! Neat
3D animation has always seemed like magic to me. I just take it for granted.
Man, it's always interesting to hear about the intricacies of even the smallest things when it comes to animation. And that doesn't just apply to video games, either!
Animation blending really helps fill in the gaps between animations. Depending on the complexity of a character’s “state machine” and the number of possible states they can alternate between at any given time, it often isn’t feasible to create bespoke transitions for each change in state.
Snappy changes in pose work in more abstract or cartoony looking games, but smooth blending between states is important to maintain immersion in more realistic games.
Very wholesome video as always.
i guess it s specific kind of animation blending done for a lot of Fromsoft's Souls-like games as they have a fair few animations where the upper body will do stuff, but the legs dont animate as one would expect.
Certainly a big difference from when games had to have individual sprites for every little movement.
Perfect video as always. It's funny how Sakurai-San mentions animation blending in regards to how the top and bottom half of the characters act separately in 3D games, fitting the characters' legs to inclined terrain, but funny enough, the same thing also happens in Smash Bros. On some stages, there are inclines that must be accounted for. Even in the air, many special moves need their own animation for the bottom half of the characters. Yet another detail that most fans don't think about while playing.
I'll be honest. In the heat of battle, I always forget you can move while shielding against the opponent. Haha😂
Shield shifting can prevent shield pokes. For example, if you're a tall and thin character, you want to shift (tilt) your shield upwards to protect your upper body/head, otherwise multihits can still hit (shield poke) you, especially after your shield has shrunk a little. But yeah, it IS easy to forget about in the heat of a battle! 😅
英語版も好き
The infinite number of ways you can fall down in Death Stranding 😂
I love this Mr. Kirby’s dad’s channel!
No way! I just learned about this in my university class yesterday. Turns out, Unreal Engine 5 is pretty good at this. It's kind of like building another animation as you decide how long the transition should take and which animation files should play along the way.
As usual we see how amazing Smash's animations are.
I believe Unreal Engine has an animation blending feature built in. It's very impressive.
Every 3d engine does, it's basically a necessity when working with 3d nowadays!
Blending is great!
Thank you for the tip Mr Sakurai!
Sakurai knew what he was doing deciding which character gets featured for moving the shield around
very amazing! thanks sakurai!
thank you Sakurai
Thanks you Sakurai for the video
Of course the Death Stranding clip is him falling over
Look Sakurai, you are amazing and that’s all I gotta say alright.
As always, Smash Ultimate is a great example of different kinds of Animations like Blending😄
That music!
Sakurai rayman could enter the new Smash bros and if so i have ideas like globox, skin o betilla in one of his jokes
Best Musical Choice 😂
Recently tried my hand at unity animation and it's really weird seeing a video about a concept I found interesting when all I was doing was animating a timer
Blend Trees are utterly amazing.
I wonder how much of this is possible due to modern technology?
Super 😊
I feel like a lot of games miss this. Might be why their animation don't look as good or as polished as Smash
I assume there are some dynamic animations right? Or is it all blending?
Clothes in Smash make use of physics bones to react to the environment.
The only attack I remember that uses the same system is Simon and Richter's chain when you hold A and move the stick
Perfect😊
Masahiro Sakurai and Eiichiro Oda will always be my idols
Sakurai taking shots at A.I? I love it.👍
I always wondered how they work whenever I play video games. Are they animated by hand or is it all computer automated like keyframing?
He has a video on this it's the one on interpolation
Animation blending sounds so cool until you actually have to set up the animation graph that looks like a giant spider web...
Oh and don't get me started on the triggers and parameters to switch between all the animations, it can take a ton of time to figure out why one transition isn't doing what you want and you can have lots of those break on you the more you add to it
Someone please show this to Sonic Team 😂
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Am I right animation is the hardest part of creating videogames? By the way I love Samus from Metroid, defienitily that Zero Suit Samus is the most hottest and beautiest. Can't wait for Metroid Prime 4! 😊❤
Frame-by-frame sprite animation in a large resolution even looks cool like watching an anime.
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Without this, every animation would look really off.
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