I find your tutorials a lot easier to follow than other's, I'd like to see more for some of the basic stuff (Attack animations, making attacks into combos based on timed button presses, weapon pickups/switching, etc)
These tutorials are really honest to god the best tutorials I've ever seen, about anything, ever. To the point, clear, ordered and most importantly enthusiastic. You deserve more subs, pronto.
I love the sheer complexity this sorta has. It's definitely something I wanna master and learn more about, instead of giving up on the first couple tries. That in itself gives me a sense of endless fun that I'll have in this art platform lol.
As a person who went to the Art Institute for game art and design, it blows me away how much all of the functions in Dreams translates to maya and many other 3d animation programs granted on a smaller level but this "game" is going to breed some fantastic animators and so much more...personally it makes me exited the more people with these kind of tools the better.
I've been animating for a while and have been doing walk and run cycles the long way all this time! I've been manually mirroring the second half. Your trick for mirroring the second set of keyframes helps so much!!
I didn't even realize I've been fighting the default procedural systems all this time. I built a whole logic bypass system to turn the default keyframes' influence to 0 while I had jump flips going. Thanks for making this video! Will be a whole lot easier making rigs from now on.
This was an amazing tutorial and I am so glad you made it. This was a huge help and I feel like I understand animation better as a whole for it. I hope you continue to make videos on other topics, you will always be my go-to if you've covered a topic.
I love your videos. You're the whole reason I started making custom puppets and animations. It seemed daunting until I watched your videos. You're clear and to the point. I'm still learning new things from you. Thank you for making these, and please never stop :)
I want to make a game inspired by my favorite book series, so watching these videos is what I need until I get my hands on the game and get home from my study trip..!
Just picked up dreams yesterday. I was a big LBP creative mode player but all of this is complicated. I know it's gonna take at least a month before I'm able to get anything tangible down.
There is so much information missing online about a lot of what you cover here! I would love to hear more about Inverse Kinematics and how they work in the puppet, de-animating, and more workflow tips for custom puppets. Fantastic work!
Not really clear on how you combined the two Key frames. 4:03 If I delete the second key frame, only one half of the puppet animates. How did you combine them?
To combine the animations, I placed the 2 keyframes one above the other and lined them up, I did this so that when editing one keyframe it will show me the other keyframe at the same time. From here I can edit one of the keyframes, and because they are lined up I can see both poses while editing just one keyframe, but only one side of the limbs has the effect showing that it has been animated. I carefully grab the limbs on the side that doesn't show the effect of being animated but is still in the pose of the alternate keyframe, and the reason I grab them carefully is because I want to keep them in the pose they are currently in. So essentially I use the second keyframe as a reference to where I need to place the unanimated limbs, then once I have a single keyframe with both sides of limbs animated I can delete the other keyframe :)
@@MrWooshieMan, I'm trash at this so far, lol. Just creating a run animation is tripping me up. Can't imagine getting everything else I want made. But as far as the run goes I believe I see now. I'll try it out when I get home. Thanks 👍
Awesome stuff as always man! I'd love to see some combat animation/combo building animations from this channel. Very few creators seemed to be getting that right in Early Access. Not easy I know.
Hey, when you're duplicating the one side, around 3:15, how are you using the mirror tool? It looks like you're just clicking the right hand side, and the left side is snapping in place. But I don't know what you're actually doing, I tried to imitate it, but it won't duplicate the pose.
Aaron Wells, to snap one side of the body to match the other side all you do is turn on puppet mirror tool and then grab (just tap) the side you want it to match, it will snap in place
I've had this game for 4 months now, and I still hardly understand how to make anything, despite constantly watching the tutorials and masterclass videos...
in my city, there haven`t Dreams in the shops because the mercancy are slow, but the tutorials I feel things for go at the capital of my country and buy this fantastic and perfect game.
Can somone please help me, im doing the tutorial right and when im dond with the animation and it looks decent when i scroll with L1 and dpad. But whenni check it like he does in the video it is diferent. Not the animation itself but when i chet the keyframes the positions are different than what i set them to be, and when i try to adjust them back to the position i wanted them i cant. Because i move womething slightly and when i let go it moves so i try to adjust it again and it repeats on and on and i cant do anything, pleaase help anyone
Thanks for the tutorial! I got a bit stuck while playing back my animation in play mode- it wasn’t as intended, and the legs seemed glued to the floor and glitchy. After hours I figured out that the idle pose was interfering somehow, for anyone having that issue. Still not sure what to do about it. I deleted it but then I don’t have an idle pose. I’m a bit of a noob.
Thanks bro. I love your tutorials. Pls keep up the good work. Hope to see more in the future since the game is officially released now 😁👍 we dreamers need good tutorials 👍
Nice tutorial ! It would be amazing to low the music from the video when your work with the sound effects or audio so we can hear how it renders. Thx for your work :)
Man, I don't know how you move things exactly where you want it. Whenever I try to move a limb or something, it moves to some crazy position, and takes too many positionings to get it to the right spot.
@@lukewilliamson5865 Found out you have to tweak in your puppet and deactivate all of the default puppet animations inside the behaviour options (procedural animations, walking and jumping). And there you go, it should move normally.
@@lukewilliamson5865 Note: It's important aswell to tweak in on the limbs and make all of them non-collidable so they won't move like crazy when you play the animation.
I love you tutorials mate I always learn something new from them. I really have to practice that copy kf mirroring technique as that saves so much time. Keep up the good work.
Insert Chef--"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY GOT DAMN SENSE!!!!" That is a very nice run animation. I think just like learning guitar, I am done trying to make video game shit. 😂😂😂 I was following pretty well until the end. How the Hell would anyone have simply figured out how to do all this?????!!!!!!!
Beautiful video. I've been using After Effects for a year or so and learned to do beautiful animations with the puppet tool. It's less or more the same concept shown here, with the difference that in AE when you use the puppet tool it will blend and stretch the illustration also, whil this doesn't happen in Dreams (unless you don't select the stretch tool). Anyway, hard part in Dreams seems sculpting a decent character!
Is there a way to blend custom run and walk (etc) animations the way the procedural animations do to avoid the slightly jarring "switch" that happens between cycles?
So how would I go about splitting the left stick into forward, back, left and right to play custom animations respectively? Maybe I missed an important bit of info just really struggling to figure this one out
I'm hoping to get this for my birthday and thought I would get an idea on it before I do. Your videos seem very good, I was just wondering what control scheme you find easiest to use?
Fantastic work, have really been enjoying your vids. Have to say though...you sound a lot like LucidStew. It's uncanny. Just a meaningless observation, thanks for the hard work.
How is it possible that the puppet will travel without moving in itself like at 7:05?. When I connect the Left stick to Walk on the Puppet Interface and the Timeline Animation the puppet still does the usual walking animation and kinda "overwrites" my timeline. Like the arms and torso will move like the timeline, but the legs and movement animation is still dictated by the walking animation the puppet already has. Edit: Nevermind I found out how, on the Tweak of the puppet itself there is a menu for procedural jump/walk and so on.
I have followed this steps and its really helpful but i have made my animation but when i go into test it sort of does the animation but with minimal effort. Feet hardly lift off the floor and a stiff upper body with barely moving arms. I have procedural animation off and still no change. Would really appreciate if you or anyone can help with this, its driving me crazy lol
When i put the mirror the limbs for the last 4 keyframes, one of the legs doesnt actually deanimate and the animation doesnt mirror, how can i fix this?
I'm assuming you've already got an answer, but just in case: 1. Copy the first key frame. 2. Edit the copied key frame (L1 + X on the key frame). 3. Turn on puppet mirror 4. De-animate one side of the puppet (all the parts with the hashmarks) 5. Click R2 on each opposite part of the puppet to mirror their positions. 6. De-animate the side you just R2'd. Now do that same process for the other side and match up the 2 new key frames on the timeline.
WOW! Not only did u explain everything properly, u did it to where ppl like myself (smooth brain) can understand it. Can’t wait to utilize the tutorial, THANX!!!
I might be stupid, but can you tell me how to just start with sculpting a puppet? Every time I press Start fresh it brings me into an area with only a block. I want to start with something different but I don't know how to.
Super dumb question. Why is it whenever I scope in I get a black and white mode with the record button? I've heard some say just go to preferences and set it to minimal or whatever but I don't see/have this option. HELP
Question. I wanna make a horror game in dreams where a man chases you and your pov is frist person and i have no idea how to do this. It be amazing if you helped!
For first person, MM has a FPS Puppet to use as a base. For a character to chase you, the simplest way would be to tweak that Puppet and set it to follow the player, or to place a follower gadget within the Puppet's microchip :)
What is the best way to deal with asymmetrical movements in the central body parts when doing the keyframes for the second half of a run? I cannot use the puppet mirror tool trick for copying these so I assume it must be done manually? Perhaps the limbs should still be copied first and then the central parts moved manually? Or the other way round?
I like how got to the tutorial immediately, like no “Hey guys!” Or anything. Awesome
Tim Smyth
Intros do sometimes help ADD people get mentally prepared for quick talking, though.
I was right about to comment that
He says "Hi".
@@Terbie36 I understood "Alright".
Damn, no matter how good a tutorial is for animating run cycles, it's still incredibly complicated.
I spent 3 hours on one
This guy has the perfect voice to make tutorials/teach people
right
?
Literally, jus bought Dreams, hyped to use it. Found a bunch of your tutorials so excited to try this stuff out.
This is all possible but take time and a lot of learning to do so
Its so easy to use. Ive had no experience with programming or coding before. I watched sone tutorials and now i can do almost everything myself!
I find your tutorials a lot easier to follow than other's, I'd like to see more for some of the basic stuff (Attack animations, making attacks into combos based on timed button presses, weapon pickups/switching, etc)
The length is especially important, "Hey, wanna quickly know how to animate your shit so you can move on? Alright, just 47 minutes bud!"
These tutorials are really honest to god the best tutorials I've ever seen, about anything, ever. To the point, clear, ordered and most importantly enthusiastic. You deserve more subs, pronto.
I love the sheer complexity this sorta has. It's definitely something I wanna master and learn more about, instead of giving up on the first couple tries. That in itself gives me a sense of endless fun that I'll have in this art platform lol.
Sometimes the struggle can be fun :)
I like how he just went straight into it and no explanation because we all can read and that's why we clicked on the vid
As a person who went to the Art Institute for game art and design, it blows me away how much all of the functions in Dreams translates to maya and many other 3d animation programs granted on a smaller level but this "game" is going to breed some fantastic animators and so much more...personally it makes me exited the more people with these kind of tools the better.
You're a genius, I can't believe how complex that was.
I've been animating for a while and have been doing walk and run cycles the long way all this time! I've been manually mirroring the second half. Your trick for mirroring the second set of keyframes helps so much!!
I didn't even realize I've been fighting the default procedural systems all this time. I built a whole logic bypass system to turn the default keyframes' influence to 0 while I had jump flips going. Thanks for making this video! Will be a whole lot easier making rigs from now on.
Keyframes are a truly beautiful thing :)
This was an amazing tutorial and I am so glad you made it. This was a huge help and I feel like I understand animation better as a whole for it. I hope you continue to make videos on other topics, you will always be my go-to if you've covered a topic.
I love your videos. You're the whole reason I started making custom puppets and animations. It seemed daunting until I watched your videos. You're clear and to the point. I'm still learning new things from you. Thank you for making these, and please never stop :)
I want to make a game inspired by my favorite book series, so watching these videos is what I need until I get my hands on the game and get home from my study trip..!
Honestly, you are the best UA-camr to go to for Dreams. You deserve more subscribers!
Just picked up dreams yesterday. I was a big LBP creative mode player but all of this is complicated. I know it's gonna take at least a month before I'm able to get anything tangible down.
I’ve literally been stuck on this all day and you just made it so simple 😂 Thanks.
There is so much information missing online about a lot of what you cover here! I would love to hear more about Inverse Kinematics and how they work in the puppet, de-animating, and more workflow tips for custom puppets. Fantastic work!
I like how you actually talk about what you're doing. Keep it up
Please make more videos. You are by far the best tutorial person I have found for Dreams.
Not really clear on how you combined the two Key frames. 4:03
If I delete the second key frame, only one half of the puppet animates. How did you combine them?
To combine the animations, I placed the 2 keyframes one above the other and lined them up, I did this so that when editing one keyframe it will show me the other keyframe at the same time. From here I can edit one of the keyframes, and because they are lined up I can see both poses while editing just one keyframe, but only one side of the limbs has the effect showing that it has been animated. I carefully grab the limbs on the side that doesn't show the effect of being animated but is still in the pose of the alternate keyframe, and the reason I grab them carefully is because I want to keep them in the pose they are currently in. So essentially I use the second keyframe as a reference to where I need to place the unanimated limbs, then once I have a single keyframe with both sides of limbs animated I can delete the other keyframe :)
@@MrWooshieMan, I'm trash at this so far, lol. Just creating a run animation is tripping me up. Can't imagine getting everything else I want made. But as far as the run goes I believe I see now. I'll try it out when I get home. Thanks 👍
MrWooshie anywhere I can message you to help me with a build I’ve been working on for a year? I’m desperate haha
still the best tutorial maker in dreams, Love your work man, keep it up
Once again a nice clear , well thought out and nicely demonstrated tute. Thank you!
i..uh..wow my animation skills have increased thanks to you..thank you very much Wooshie!
I'm so slow that I put the videos playback speed at 0.5 But this is an awesome demonstration ❤
Awesome stuff as always man! I'd love to see some combat animation/combo building animations from this channel.
Very few creators seemed to be getting that right in Early Access. Not easy I know.
As u play the game It explains everything step by step
But good tutorial
Thank you so much! I never thought of using the mirror toggle in that way
Hey, when you're duplicating the one side, around 3:15, how are you using the mirror tool? It looks like you're just clicking the right hand side, and the left side is snapping in place. But I don't know what you're actually doing, I tried to imitate it, but it won't duplicate the pose.
Aaron Wells, to snap one side of the body to match the other side all you do is turn on puppet mirror tool and then grab (just tap) the side you want it to match, it will snap in place
tutorials with this music is always the best
I've had this game for 4 months now, and I still hardly understand how to make anything, despite constantly watching the tutorials and masterclass videos...
in my city, there haven`t Dreams in the shops because the mercancy are slow, but the tutorials I feel things for go at the capital of my country and buy this fantastic and perfect game.
your videos are great, I couldn't stop watching and i don't even own dreams
take my like sir
Keep it up. And thank you for all that you do and the passion that you have for creating.
2:42 I did not know you could do that, thanks for the great Tutorial
This is really helpful. Thanks Woosh
Perfect tutorial! Just what I needed 🔔
Thx so much! You are the Morpheus of the dreamiverse!
Thanks for just getting straight to the tutorial
Can somone please help me, im doing the tutorial right and when im dond with the animation and it looks decent when i scroll with L1 and dpad. But whenni check it like he does in the video it is diferent. Not the animation itself but when i chet the keyframes the positions are different than what i set them to be, and when i try to adjust them back to the position i wanted them i cant. Because i move womething slightly and when i let go it moves so i try to adjust it again and it repeats on and on and i cant do anything, pleaase help anyone
Thanks for the tutorial! I got a bit stuck while playing back my animation in play mode- it wasn’t as intended, and the legs seemed glued to the floor and glitchy. After hours I figured out that the idle pose was interfering somehow, for anyone having that issue. Still not sure what to do about it. I deleted it but then I don’t have an idle pose. I’m a bit of a noob.
Thanks bro. I love your tutorials. Pls keep up the good work. Hope to see more in the future since the game is officially released now 😁👍 we dreamers need good tutorials 👍
Fantastic stuff, mr wooshie! Thank you so much for putting these vids together for us, it really makes the game whole!
How do you duplicate poses? I don't understand.
Are you using the dualshock 4 or a keyboard and mouse ?
Nice tutorial ! It would be amazing to low the music from the video when your work with the sound effects or audio so we can hear how it renders. Thx for your work :)
I love your tutorials, I am curious did you teach all this yourself or do you have past experience with game development?
Thanks so much for this! Your animation tutorials are okay. ....ahh, kidding. They are the best! So easy to follow for a newb like me. Gold.
Man, I don't know how you move things exactly where you want it. Whenever I try to move a limb or something, it moves to some crazy position, and takes too many positionings to get it to the right spot.
This same thing happens to me, I don't really know what i'm doing wrong.
Me too it’s annoying as hell
@@lukewilliamson5865 Found out you have to tweak in your puppet and deactivate all of the default puppet animations inside the behaviour options (procedural animations, walking and jumping). And there you go, it should move normally.
@@lukewilliamson5865
Note: It's important aswell to tweak in on the limbs and make all of them non-collidable so they won't move like crazy when you play the animation.
I love you tutorials mate I always learn something new from them.
I really have to practice that copy kf mirroring technique as that saves so much time.
Keep up the good work.
It’s not letting me combine the key frames anymore, I’m pretty sure they patched that out of the game
Insert Chef--"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY GOT DAMN SENSE!!!!"
That is a very nice run animation. I think just like learning guitar, I am done trying to make video game shit. 😂😂😂
I was following pretty well until the end. How the Hell would anyone have simply figured out how to do all this?????!!!!!!!
My was really bad and would not adjust why?
Very well explained but it would be cool if you could slow down when you're choosing tools and stuff like that.
This helped me so much thank you very much 🙂
Beautiful video. I've been using After Effects for a year or so and learned to do beautiful animations with the puppet tool. It's less or more the same concept shown here, with the difference that in AE when you use the puppet tool it will blend and stretch the illustration also, whil this doesn't happen in Dreams (unless you don't select the stretch tool). Anyway, hard part in Dreams seems sculpting a decent character!
I really love your tutorials, they're so helpful! Do you think you could make something on hair, or floppy ears?
Is there a way to blend custom run and walk (etc) animations the way the procedural animations do to avoid the slightly jarring "switch" that happens between cycles?
The closest thing to this is setting the running/walking strength to the speed of the time line and the power
So how would I go about splitting the left stick into forward, back, left and right to play custom animations respectively? Maybe I missed an important bit of info just really struggling to figure this one out
I'm hoping to get this for my birthday and thought I would get an idea on it before I do. Your videos seem very good, I was just wondering what control scheme you find easiest to use?
Can you make him do a punch? I tried to do it but when I pressed the punch button to test it teleported my guy back to center of map
3:20 - How did you copy /mirror paste a pose from one side to the other? What's the shortcut?
Lo Hung Wang I definitely want to know that as well
I don't know why but that character running reminds me of Lupin.
i animate my run but when i watch it my arms start glitching. Any idea how to fix that?
Fantastic work, have really been enjoying your vids. Have to say though...you sound a lot like LucidStew. It's uncanny. Just a meaningless observation, thanks for the hard work.
Hello, you would know how i could change the jump animator while running?
How is it possible that the puppet will travel without moving in itself like at 7:05?. When I connect the Left stick to Walk on the Puppet Interface and the Timeline Animation the puppet still does the usual walking animation and kinda "overwrites" my timeline. Like the arms and torso will move like the timeline, but the legs and movement animation is still dictated by the walking animation the puppet already has.
Edit: Nevermind I found out how, on the Tweak of the puppet itself there is a menu for procedural jump/walk and so on.
I have followed this steps and its really helpful but i have made my animation but when i go into test it sort of does the animation but with minimal effort. Feet hardly lift off the floor and a stiff upper body with barely moving arms. I have procedural animation off and still no change. Would really appreciate if you or anyone can help with this, its driving me crazy lol
Can you please do a tutorial on how to do ropes, gags, cocoons, and slime for a rescue level?
I was with you all the way up until logic...I gotta start learning that.
Can you make a video showcasing how to make a custom jump animation?
HOLY cow 🤩
When i put the mirror the limbs for the last 4 keyframes, one of the legs doesnt actually deanimate and the animation doesnt mirror, how can i fix this?
I have the same issue
Can someone explain 3:07 to me like I’m an idiot? I cannot for the life of me figure out what this means or how to do it, I’m new to Dreams
Hi, how do you duplicate one side for the second set of key frames? This is when it gets a bit confusing. Aha. Thank you.
same here, how do u do this?
I'm assuming you've already got an answer, but just in case:
1. Copy the first key frame.
2. Edit the copied key frame (L1 + X on the key frame).
3. Turn on puppet mirror
4. De-animate one side of the puppet (all the parts with the hashmarks)
5. Click R2 on each opposite part of the puppet to mirror their positions.
6. De-animate the side you just R2'd.
Now do that same process for the other side and match up the 2 new key frames on the timeline.
@@PPno9 Thank you! I was actually able to figure it out.
Love your vids man you teach me so much
This was so helpful dude thank you so much
Tha k you man. I'm finally getting into the swing of dreams. Wish me luck on my star wars creations
Liked your video everything was clear!
Is it possible to walk on the building, for example, the flash
Yes
I’ve done everything you did in this video but every time the custom running animation begins it’s like he’s backpedaling due to the procedural walk
How would I change an AI's run? The animation is complete I just need to know how to make it start
WOW! Not only did u explain everything properly, u did it to where ppl like myself (smooth brain) can understand it. Can’t wait to utilize the tutorial, THANX!!!
It's 2023 and I'm just now trying to start use dreams, I only hope it doesn't die completely...
Subscribed =) can't wait to try this out!
I might be stupid, but can you tell me how to just start with sculpting a puppet? Every time I press Start fresh it brings me into an area with only a block. I want to start with something different but I don't know how to.
Wow thanks but it's so complicated. I mean animating this, fighting, ai fighting health bars levels. Is it possible ?
Of course!
Basically anything is possible.
Super dumb question. Why is it whenever I scope in I get a black and white mode with the record button? I've heard some say just go to preferences and set it to minimal or whatever but I don't see/have this option. HELP
Man, is the music from samurai shamploo? Somehow I thought about that series immediately.
I have a question? Everyone time I make my character short, and go into play mode my character be floating, how do I make that stop?
Question. I wanna make a horror game in dreams where a man chases you and your pov is frist person and i have no idea how to do this. It be amazing if you helped!
For first person, MM has a FPS Puppet to use as a base. For a character to chase you, the simplest way would be to tweak that Puppet and set it to follow the player, or to place a follower gadget within the Puppet's microchip :)
MrWooshie thank you so much!
So what does it mean when I followed everything and my character is rubber banding?
Fabulous tutorial! Thank you!
What is the best way to deal with asymmetrical movements in the central body parts when doing the keyframes for the second half of a run? I cannot use the puppet mirror tool trick for copying these so I assume it must be done manually? Perhaps the limbs should still be copied first and then the central parts moved manually? Or the other way round?
All hail MrWhooshie
Right On My B-DAY!
How do you move the limbs perfectly? When I move the legs they rotate and don’t move like yours, (not using rotate btw)
i can’t get it to delete the bottom on when you go to make the loop they won’t stack
The racing picture;
Blue - sprinting
Silver - ninja run
Green - making me want to see a tripping tutorial