How To Make An Easy Animation In Gmod
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- This tutorial will teach you how you can possibly make animation in an easy way using Stop Motion Helper and Blender as our video editing program. With that said though making animations isn't really easy, it's time consuming and quite challenging. But with this tutorial I try to make it easier for everyone to make animations. All you will need is an idea, time and importantly patience.
This project took me a whole day whilst also learning how to edit videos in Blender for the first time. My experience is that it is a pretty powerful editing program. However I am really used to my other editing program.
No time for talking there's quite a lot of questions you may have lets answer them here:
Q: Where can I get Stop Motion Helper?
A: Here through this link: steamcommunity...
Q: Where can I download Blender?
A: With this link here: store.steampow...
Q: What is the command to open SMH menu??
A: bind H "+smh_menu" (know that "H" can be any key you desire)
Q: The console says: "unknown command bind H +smh_menu" what do I do?
A: Make sure you have installed SMH before starting GMOD. Restart GMOD and you should be ok.
Q: What exactly do I do with the SMH menu?
A: You make pose 1, record, move the timeline white bar to frame 10 then finally create pose 2 and hit record. Don't forget to ease in or out
Q: How do I start a new Blender video editing project?
A: Startup Blender and press file, new then video editing
Q: Where do I locate my gmod screenshot?
A: Where your gmod is installed. Go into the files to find a folder named "screenshot"(if you used the camera to take pictures)
Q: What exactly am I meant to do with my screenshots in Blender?
A: You put them individually into Blender. Make them as short as you see fit until the pictures become an animation
Q: How do I move the screenshots in Blender?
A: If you click on them in them middle you can drag them sideways and up
Q: How do I shorten or lengthen my screenshots?
A: Click on the edge of the box in the timeline to change its length
Q: I can't save somehow
A: Try to save as and select any folder from your desktop where it should keep your Blender video project(make a new folder on desktop and call it Blender Projects)
Q: I can't render my video please help me!
A: If you are in Blender video editing, on the top right you see a few options namely resolution, start and end. Mainly you want to put START on 1 and END what the last frame of your video will be
Q: I don't know what my last frame is I need more help
A: Zoom into your last frame. If you carefully drag your last frame a bit around you will notice a number in the bottom right. That is the frame it is currently on. If you set START to 1 and END to that frame number, Blender will render from 1 to that frame only.
Q: Can I render in Full HD?
A: Yes just set the resolution to this: 1280x720 is HD for Full HD: 1920x1080
Q: Where can I learn more about Stop Motion Helper? And are there more features?
A: Yes! Check out this amazing tutorial which goes more in depth into SMH: • Know Your Schitt! Stop...
Q: I want to learn more in depth about Blender. Do you know any good understandable tutorials?
A: This video helped me out starting editing in Blender: • Getting Started with B...
Q: Where can I get the standing pose tool that makes ragdolls stand up?
A: You can get the standing pose tool here through this link: steamcommunity...
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If you have any questions. Ask them in the comments and I'll see if I can help(know that I only used Blender for the first time here).
Video idea: by my viewer Kotahi
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Attention everyone! This tutorial video has received an update with better information and guidance. Check it out here: th-cam.com/video/EcipYWjbcoQ/w-d-xo.html
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@@CooleGuy456 Ja ik ben een nederlander :)
@@PizzaPieAnimations nice ik zag het aan de geavanceerde opties
Well, this definitely explains why the clouds in the sky always moved whenever a character is animated.
You are the most friendliest GMod Animator I’ve ever seen, have a fantastic life.
this actually helped me make my first animation i thought gmod was harder than sfm but i made an animation with gmod way faster
This is a really cool tutorial video!
Glad people are still making these tutorials on how to make animations/machinimas in Gmod
Wow you just make an video with screenshots and some audio that you can steal, no needed to buy expensive softwares this is the best man, thanks for showing me how to make Garry's mod videos
you can use a walker dupe to make ragdolls walk,there is lots of tutorials on it if you want to mix screenshot animating and recording together.
You are a good tutorial maker, god will always be with you
Great tutorial i never thought animating can be that easy thanks
i also... were confused multiple times why i hear music in gmod and relaunched the game a few times oops
Good to know that you don’t need to download anything to extract sounds from l4d2
Its very easy to get sounds this way. Hope this tutorial helped :)
you can also bind a key to +smh_playback and use OBS to record movement
Hey man nice video I couldn't do it but keep it up
Hello, if you need any help feel free to call out. Creating animations isn't easy but I can help. Take care
if some of yall dont want to do all of this and just want to make some goofy stuff here is a little tutorial
1.make the hud and psyhgun invisible
2.make a scene
3.place a camera and record the scene in obs
4.repeat 3 until all your scenes are done
5.use an editing program to make a video out of your scenes
(only down side is that you can move only 1 thing at a time and the animation looks like shit)
What’s with the Skyrim back ground soundtrack am I really challenging a whole new world 😂
OMG Thank you so much im trying two hours to open the stop motion helper
i wanna be a gmod machinima creator so this is helpful thanks
Good luck and have fun :)
hey, how about stop motion helper in details! timelines and world keyframes or you add special effect in other program?
Hello, I could make an in depth tutorial about stop motion helper. I however did made a tutorial on how to get particles working in gmod, which you can also use as special effects for animations or artwork/screenshots.
Link to the video is here, or you can look it up on my channel: th-cam.com/video/DODtsfTgAQ0/w-d-xo.html
you dont need to screen shot use a keyblind for smh_playback and screen record it!
The standing people up thing won’t show up on mine
The Standing Pose Tool is an addon. You can get the Standing Pose Tool here: steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=104576786
@@PizzaPieAnimations thank you so much :))))))
Thanks I'm will animate my character Mickey mouse vs Mickey mouse exe!:D
1:05 bro heavy screamer
You should record it using obs studio,
Not using the camera tool, but still great tutorial
That's the way I currently animate my animations, but not everyone has obs studio.
Thankk youu
Thank you for the idea :)
Hi, what if i record this and not screenshoting it? I have a command for bind f2 and f3 to move the animation. I think it gonna less the lag.
Heyoo, yes you could record instead of screenshoting it. It probably makes the process in the editing quicker too and maybe it won't be as laggy as mine.
If you encounter any problems feel free to ask me for help :)
@@PizzaPieAnimations Okay, im starter in this. Im gonna try record it, and if you want send it to you. You can write the problems, what i need to learn ... . If you want reply to this :). Have a nice day.
@@benco8968 I wish you good luck. Do as you wish
Funny how I use F2 to start and F3 to stop recording on OBS lmfao
how can you exit out of the smh
since when can you edit in blender
Hey pizza, how did you change the .blend file to .mp4 ?
Hello, watch the part at 6:26 you want to make sure to choose File Format: FFmpeg Video and at 6:33 change Container to: MPEG-4. This should hopefully render your video in a .mp4 format.
In case you didn't know, I made a updated tutorial. You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/EcipYWjbcoQ/w-d-xo.html
hey man i haven't figured out one thing.and that is how to make someone shoot a gun,lets say i want a spy to shoot a gun so i pose him and all and then..idk how to hide the muzzle or shooting effect before the spy start shooting the gun.
Hello, what you could try to do is in this tutorial, when taking screenshots: put a muzzle flash on the gun when spy shoots.
For example: You have your 2 poses and at the part when spy shoots give the gun a muzzle flash. Once screenshot is done get rid of the muzzle flash and continue making screenshots.
If you have any more issues please let me know :)
@@PizzaPieAnimations Well im working with smh 'stop motion helper' without taking screenshots because i think its easier like that.and because i wont have so many pictures in my pc.
@@drsnakhenry653 I've just made a short tutorial on how you can adresss this issue: th-cam.com/video/TSEkg-eMbd4/w-d-xo.html
i use capcut to edit instead
Thanks for the tutorial! What mod did you use that had the hats?
These are from Team Fortress 2 themselves. You can follow this guide to search and find the hats you wish to use: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=395367659
If you want to equip them on a character you need to use the bone merger tool which is linked here: steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=104601200
If you have any issues please let me know I can help out :)
@@PizzaPieAnimations Thanks for the help!
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Hi, can u pls send the link of the faceposer addon that u use?
Face poser is a tool within gmod itself. Open the spawnmenu with Q look for posing to the right of the spawnmenu then click on face poser.
if your lazy here is bind H "+smh_menu"
Very good
Thanks
Hey do you have a discord server?!
Bc I really need a place to post my fan art
@@Burrito844 Not yet, I'm planning to create 1 in the future hopefully.
In the meantime I appreciate your support c:
Hey thanks but for some reason after I entered bind H “+smh_menu” nothing happened? Can you help please?
Heyo, be sure you install stop motion helper before you start gmod. Install SMH then launch gmod and it should work.
If you still have any problems let me know
@@PizzaPieAnimations where do I get stop Motion helper?
@@eggwhites1235 You can get Stop Motion Helper through this link here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111895870
Press the green button and it should install automatically. Once that's done launch gmod and type the command bind H "+smh_menu" in the console.
Feel free to ask for help if you need it
Thanks! You have helped a lot. Sorry for all the questions!
@@eggwhites1235 No worries. I'm here to help :)
im trying to bind smh but its unknow idk why?
Make sure to restart gmod after you installed Stop Motion Helper. Once you restarted gmod copy & paste the following command: bind H "+smh_menu"
If you still have any problems please let me know :-)
could clipchamo be useful for this instead of blender ?
You can use any editor you want. I choose Blender for this tutorial since it's free and easy to install through steam
are there any advantages to using blender or can i just use any video editing software
The biggest advantage for blender's video editing is that its free and very easy to install through steam. Other video editors like "Vegas Pro", "Adobe Premiere Pro", "Vegas Movie Studio" and "Movavi Video Editor Plus" costs money.
Blender's video editing works a bit different than Vegas Pro's video editing but Blender is still capable of doing a great job for editing video's.
It is up to you which video editor you choose. I choose blender for this video because its the easiest to get currently.
@@PizzaPieAnimations ah ok
quick question, is there a faster way to shrink the images, i may be getting impatient, but just curious
Yes, recently I have updated this tutorial which has improved a lot in video editing. Check out the video here: th-cam.com/video/EcipYWjbcoQ/w-d-xo.html
@@PizzaPieAnimations thank you
How
how did you make it mp4?
At 6:25 change the file format to "FFmpeg Video" then at 6:37 change the container to "MPEG 4". This should render your video into a MP4 video.
peter nooooooo
every time I try the command, it always says unknown command bind H "+smh_menu"
Install Stop Motion Helper before starting Garry's Mod.
Copy and paste the following command in the console to open the SMH menu: bind H "+smh_menu"
You can change the H key to any other key on your keyboard if you wish to. Let me know if you still have any problems c:
@@PizzaPieAnimations thanks
how do i get the pose thing??
You can get it here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104576786
@@PizzaPieAnimations ty
IMO, wayyyy easier in Vegas v Pro. Good video nonetheless.
Yes it is easier in Vegas Pro... But not everyone has it...
@@PizzaPieAnimations It's not really hard to get tho (:
@@officialSLF2 Tbh,imma go to The Pirate Bay and get it there.
I have a few problems
Feel free to write them down if you would like my help.
@@PizzaPieAnimations when I tried to enable the developer council I pressed h and it didn’t work also I don’t know where to find the bone merger
@@rofutureman You can get bone merger tool here: steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=104601200
For the console problem: Restart gmod after installing the stop motion helper addon. Type the following command in the console to open the smh menu: bind H "+smh_menu"
If you have any more problems feel free to ask for help :)
How do I get the Team Fortress 2 Models?
You need to have Team Fortress 2 installed in order to gain access to the models, weapons, levels or hats.
Once installed, you will be able to find the models in the spawnmenu. If you have any problems please let me know :)
@@PizzaPieAnimations Where i can install IT?,
@@ProsteRajce You can get Team Fortress 2 on Steam by searching it or by using this link: store.steampowered.com/app/440/Team_Fortress_2/
Once Team Fortress 2 is installed, start up Gmod. Once you get to the main menu in gmod, on the bottom right corner there is a white controller. Click on it and make sure Team Fortress 2 is checked! Once you checked it you have access to all the models/weapons/levels and hats from the game.
Feel free to ask for help if you still have any issues
RIGHT CILCK DOES NOT WORK HOW AM I GOING TO DO THIS 1:37
Try restarting Gmod and see if that helps. If not, open the SMH menu and go to "Settings" and make sure "Don't animate phys bones" is unchecked. If this is unchecked you should still be able to record poses except the green outline doesn't show up. Try creating 2 poses as shown in the video and see if it works.
If you still have any issues please let me know
It's just says unknown command for me :/
Make sure you have installed Stop Motion Helper before starting Garry's Mod.
Copy and paste the following command in the console to open the SMH menu: bind H "+smh_menu"
You can change H to any key on your keyboard you pefer. If you still have any problems, please let me know. Have fun
@@PizzaPieAnimations oh thanks
hello i save but i how watch
Hi, follow the steps at 6:05 you can tell Blender where it should save your video's. If you forgot to do this Blender should save your video's in your Windows C:\tmp location file
To render your video be sure to choose MPEG 4 at: 6:35 once that's done follow the step at 11:10 to render your video
If you need more help please let me know
@@PizzaPieAnimations thank you so much king
Is don't working
That's not good. If you could provide me more information I may be able to help out with your problem.
nederlands!!!
Engels!!!!
It doesn’t work in 2022
What's not working? Is SMH broken? Gmod? Or perhaps blender? Please provide me with more info so I can help you out.
@@PizzaPieAnimations I placed in the exact command and then I pressed h but it didn’t work
@@HetzerHowitzer Be sure to have smh installed before you start gmod. Install smh then launch gmod. Once gmod is loaded, open the console and copy and paste the following command into the console: bind H "+smh_menu"
If you still have any issues feel free to ask for help :)
How do Instal smh?
@@HetzerHowitzer You can get smh from this link here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111895870
Or you can look it up on the gmod steam workshop with the search being: Stop Motion Helper. Just press the green button and it should install. I hope this helps.
2023 Version when?
A month ago I updated this animation tutorial. You can check the new updated version here: th-cam.com/video/EcipYWjbcoQ/w-d-xo.html
@@PizzaPieAnimations thanks
Why do you need to make it like a stop motion? The whole point of SMH is so you don’t have to do it like this.
There’s a bind to play the animation.
In order to record the animation you will need a recording program like OBS, FRAPS or ShadowPlay. I would have to teach them how to setup OBS for gmod.
I would still highly recommend recording it instead of doing screenshots.
help for command bind H"+smh_menu
You need to install SMH. After the installation restart gmod and open the console and type: bind H "+smh_menu". holding down H will open the SMH timeline in the game