Claymation in Blender using KeyMesh addon

In this short tutorial, DJ introduces a new awesome Blender addon - KeyMesh. KeyMesh allows for quick and easy stop motion animation in Blender by keyframing mesh states. To put it simply you can modify a mesh and 'save' its stare for each keyframe with a single click. This technique is extremely powerful and intuitive combined with Blender's sculpt mode (no wonder as KeyMesh is a work of Pablo Dobarro - responsible for most impressive recent sculpting improvements to Blender and Daniel Martinez Lara - a real animation artist and the teacher).

Timestamps:
00:00 - DJ Suzanne the monkey claymation
00:10 - What is the video about (introducing KeyMesh addon)
00:39 - Downloading and installing the KeyMesh addon
00:54 - KeyMesh basics overview
01:23 - Creating clay Suzanne the Monkey
02:18 - Clay shader node tree
03:05 - Exposure setting (with false color)
03:44 - Animating the clay with KeyMesh and sculpt mode
04:26 - Importance of framerate to animation smoothness (or jumpiness on purpose)
04:58 - Importance of using video reference for animation
05:28 - Rendering the animation on Xesktop.com
05:58 - Xesktop GPU specs
06:30 - After rendering... looking at the costs
06:46 - Share your KeyMesh animations - call to action!
06:55 - Bananas for the dislikers!
06:58 - DJ's identity crisis... monkey business

In the first part of the tutorial, DJ shows briefly how he created the clay Suzanne the monkey head using a Principled BSDF shader and displacement modifier.
The second part covers animating with KeyMesh and sculpting.
In the end, the whole animation is rendered on a remote server with 10 x 1080Ti GPUs rented on https://www.xesktop.com/

🔨👷 Here are some useful links used in the tut if you want to create your own claymation:
🧰 KeyMesh addon - https://github.com/pablodp606/keymesh-addon/
🧰 Clay textures - https://cc0textures.com/view?id=Clay004

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