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This is my favorite lazy way to make animations- Auto Key Framing synced with an MP3 in the video editor! Also- instead of AV Sync in the pulldown, maybe use Frame Dropping? Didn't really matter to me since it was such a simple scene, but if your stuff is complex that might help keep stuff in sync, not sure. And here's the blend file if you want to make your own version??? 

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Tutorialish: Quick Christmas Fake-O Stop-O-Rama

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Evan Barron

Literally sitting around my house thinking "I want to watch some Ian Hubert, hope he'll upload sometime" and see this blessing

kyle hurst

Worthikids on Youtube has been on a stop-motion kick lately and (I just double-checked) also uses Blender to accomplish it. Really impressive stuff and has a very Rankin-Bass feel to it. Worth checking out.

Aman Bhargava

My introduction to Burl Ives was through Better Call Saul and the 'Big Rock Candy Mountain' song. I love it! What a wonderful voice. Great video Ian!

bittergourd

Yep. That made this holiday season a lot merrier! AMAZING!

Evan Barron

"Sometimes the best stuff happens on the edge of cringe" is now my favorite quote and I will be using it frequently, thank you Ian

Harriman (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 Thank you for this!!!!!!<3<3<3<3
2020-12-24 06:38 Thank you for this!!!!!!<3<3<3<3

Thank you for this!!!!!!<3<3<3<3

Daspetey

i love how you modeled and animated a full digital short in under an hour. that's pure insanity. and i really do love the real-time digital puppeteering approach. i worked for the Jim Henson company years ago, right when they were pioneering the digital puppeteering system. super cool stuff.

Stewart Bird

would love to see more random one offs like this, learned a lot

SAYUJ R T

Ian has blessed my Christmas

David Morales

this was very inspiring, thank you and Murrrrrrrray Christmas!

Nathan Vegdahl

Ian has super powers. I believe it. Created a cg animated music video in under an hour.

Joel Godin

I learned a bunch man, thanks.

Knut Einar Skjær (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 This was truly amazing! But no surprise that it was, coming from you! :) Learned a lot, and got very inspired, as always! God Jul! (&lt;--- Norwegian for you know what) ;-)
2020-12-24 09:09 This was truly amazing! But no surprise that it was, coming from you! :) Learned a lot, and got very inspired, as always! God Jul! (<--- Norwegian for you know what) ;-)

This was truly amazing! But no surprise that it was, coming from you! :) Learned a lot, and got very inspired, as always! God Jul! (<--- Norwegian for you know what) ;-)

Sergio

Amazing, thank you and Merry Christmas Ian!

DoubleUK

Thanks Ian for this wonderful Christmas present/tutorial. (edit: I can't get this song out of my head ;-) )

Doug Brown

Wonderful! Reminds me of 'Trumpton' a kids animation from 70's TV in the UK (showing my age now).

Евгений Пиминов (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 I made my version of the snowman according to the lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtj2ZM_Qr8&amp;feature=youtu.be I've never done animation before. Thank you for the lesson. It's very fun! This scarf doesn't look realistic, the wind doesn't work properly with it. What have I done wrong?
2020-12-24 17:13 I made my version of the snowman according to the lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtj2ZM_Qr8&feature=youtu.be I've never done animation before. Thank you for the lesson. It's very fun! This scarf doesn't look realistic, the wind doesn't work properly with it. What have I done wrong?

I made my version of the snowman according to the lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtj2ZM_Qr8&feature=youtu.be I've never done animation before. Thank you for the lesson. It's very fun! This scarf doesn't look realistic, the wind doesn't work properly with it. What have I done wrong?

RascoJr

I think it looks great! looks like the start of a journey for a snowman to find a special thing

RascoJr (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 Thanks Ian! This was JUST the thing I needed. Have yourself a merry one. &lt;3
2020-12-24 18:28 Thanks Ian! This was JUST the thing I needed. Have yourself a merry one. <3

Thanks Ian! This was JUST the thing I needed. Have yourself a merry one. <3

Landon

This song has been surgically placed into my brain last night, I woke up this morning and I can still hear Ian kickin around in there

Jourdan Biziou

Love this ! :) thanks for all the great inspiration :)

Chris Ak

Super Dope! Also never noticed the green sky in the original.

Jonathan Gagnon

For some reason I can't get dynamic paint to render and it's killing me

Mike Hay

Cheers for this and all the cool assets and tutorials throughout the year. Very inspiring stuff! A good Christmas and New Year to you and all the Patreon gang too. 🤘🤖🤘

aptass

Merry Christmas Ian And thank you for a great heap of quality Patreon content

IanHubert

Ahahaha Paul!!! That's awesome!! I love it

IanHubert

Ahhhh that's totally my bad I'm sorry- it's the one thing I forgot to show in the video and I was hoping it wouldn't be an issue- you have to bake it, under the dynamic paints cache settings :)

Knut Steffenrem

The frame dropping audio sync setting is very useful when animating with audio. I have to use it for most of my stuff that's mildly complicated due to my crappy pc. However you have to be careful trying to mess with unbaked simulations in that mode, since it will try to simulate per frame and skip a big load of them to try keep up the timing. Or at least that's what i have found. Also, merry Christmas!

Leo

Quickly made a version and added some falling snow with a particle system! Took some work rendering (blender crashed every time, even though I've got an RTX 3080 etc, no idea why) but I got it eventually. Thanks for the tutorial! https://youtu.be/h8aEaCmABec

Tyler Adams

This was rad. Happy Holidays! I became a patron in 2020 so it wasn't all bad!

Radical Empire

Watching the joy in Ian's face was all I needed.

Lewis Turner

I wonder if you can use an audio visualiser as a driver to animate parts, captain pogwash style. In theory if you had all the separate tracks to a song you could automate instruments too.

IanHubert

I think you TOTALLY can! I've never played with it, but at the very least I know there's ways to turn MIDI into animations (kinda Animusic style :D)

Phil South

The Rankin Bass animations were/are big in the UK too! Love this.

Phil South

I like the idea of puppeteering 3D animations, as someone pointed out Captain Pugwash style is my goal. Still haven't figure out how to do that but this gives me some food for thought.

Shawn Darling

skies were only green when they went to see the abominable snowman.

Walt

lovely, next year please add some snowflakes, thumbs up

IndyStry

Missed opportunity to say "Sometimes the best stuff happens on the fringe of 'Cringe' ! :D

Calum Cooke

It's like a kilt! But a jacket. Awesome

Mikey Smith

This is so rad, thx a mil IH. Glad I've discovered your content. <3