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July 31, 2021
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Animations?

  • July 31, 2021
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Hello everyone.

I searched a lot on Google and YouTube, but this is not clear: is it possible to make animations with Substance?

Maybe not with Stager itself, but any other?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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    Correct answer JMathews

    None of the Substance applications today directly support animation.  Animation is something that we're interested in from our whole ecosystem of products - so you can expect updates in the future.  For now, you'd use Substance to texture your assets then animate them in another 3D app.

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    Animation Guy
    Inspiring
    February 23, 2023

    To the original poster.... Stager version 2.0 now supports animation. It's basic, you can only spin or orbit, but it's a great addition.

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      ikatz002
      Participant
      February 23, 2023
      That is great news! Thanks for sharing.

      Has anyone found any good tutorials / workflows for Stager? Overall
      training material seems to be quite thin.

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      Deborahsimm4
      Participant
      October 16, 2022

      Thanks for the advice 

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      ikatz002
      Participant
      July 5, 2022

      A simple camera animation would be great to do 360 shots of products, etc. This should be basic functionality in a package like Stager. 

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        oyat87969971
        Participant
        December 15, 2022

        I was searching exactly for this. I want to have a video of a product 360 shot. Did you find a solution?

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        defaultlge8ckmngcoj
        Participant
        December 15, 2022

        I gave up with stager, now using twinmotion, easy animation. Free, no character animations import but they have a set internally you can use. 

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          gavinw37063841
          Inspiring
          August 13, 2021

          When using Dimension, the only way I could animate it was the traditional stop-motion method, i.e. moving the object one frame at a time and rendering then compiling the rendered images in Photoshop using the timeline animation panel and exporting as an mp4. However, this is possibly the most time-consuming method you could do until they add any animation support.

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            JillianDale
            Participant
            March 11, 2022

            That's a great idea and good temporary fix. Thank you. 

            Bob_Hallam
            Bob_Hallam
            Legend
            August 5, 2021

            You can use Maximo for 3D character animations and at least your characters will be rigged.  Then use the Adobe Substance tools to add all of the great features possible.  

            ICC programmer and developer, Photographer, artist and color management expert, Print standards and process expert.
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            markmn
            Inspiring
            August 5, 2021

            Thanks Bob for your feedback. Yes, I do use Mixamo for character animations, and importing the animation into Photoshop.

            I am wondering what the interest level is in animation of Dimension/Stager product visulizations primarily. Thanks again.

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            markl78029787
            Known Participant
            August 5, 2021

            Greetings

            I understand that Stager has no animation capabilities, but I am curious what kind of animation would like to do? Do you have any links to examples?

            I wrote and published on Amazon a book,  "Adobe Dimension - Beyond the Fundamentals" in April 2021, and I considering wrtiing one on doing basic animation of Adobe Dimension and Adobe Substance 3D Stager scenes/model in free 3D programs that are available. Thanks, Mark

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            Fran marcen
            Participant
            September 1, 2022

            Basic animations related with the need to present a product as the ones you can perform in Marmoset.

             

            - Pans , turn tables, running cicles, zooms, change of lighting.

             

            I was planning to use stager to do small technicall training clips but I won't need this package because I cannot do this basic animations. (Mechanical parts translating and rotating).

             

            The idea was to save a lot of time in exporting/importing maps from painter and in general in rendering tweaks thanks to the render quality that stager offers out of the box.

             

            In any case, great product!

            JMathews
            Community Manager
            JMathewsCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
            Community Manager
            July 31, 2021

            None of the Substance applications today directly support animation.  Animation is something that we're interested in from our whole ecosystem of products - so you can expect updates in the future.  For now, you'd use Substance to texture your assets then animate them in another 3D app.

            Adobe Principal Product Manager, 3D &amp; Immersive
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              defaultlge8ckmngcoj
              Participant
              September 12, 2021

              Would love to animate in another 3d app, yet every filetype that can be saved from stager will not export the textures, materials and lights that look so cool in stager, even the glb has issues.

              Keyshot no chance

              Is it even possible to export the same scene setup into maybe another adobe product, keeping everything as it was in stager? 

              13 graphics programs and not one achieves this fully. Any examples you can give? 

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              markmn
              Inspiring
              September 13, 2021
              I believe that some other 3D programs will allow you to re-link the materials and textures so your objects the can worked with as they were created in Dimension and/or Stager.


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