People are making awesome things with Roblox’s new animation creator

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On August 5, the Roblox Developer forums announced the company was introducing its Live Animation Creator into beta in the massive sandbox game. Previously, Roblox animations required keyframe animations, which meant developers would have to painstakingly craft each image to get the animations precisely correct, pairing it with Inverse Kinematics to manage avatar joint rotations and FBX files, which handle 3D models.

However, the Live Animation Creator now allows players to upload videos of their movements, which the tool can then map to the avatar to create a custom animation.

Since the announcement, Robloxians have jumped on the chance to upload videos of their most ridiculous movements. At first, players started with basic motions, such as one in which Twitter user sleitnick experimented with a series of motions.

Robloxians have since tested the feature by uploading music video dances, such as one featuring the song “Attention” by NewJeans and another featuring Fatboy Slim’s remix of “Body Movin'” by the Beastie Boys.

And of course, because Robloxians are never gonna give us up, never gonna let us down, someone had to create an animated rendition featuring a certain Rick Astley classic.

Still, few will beat the avatar reenactment of the dance from the outro of 1989’s The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, starring Lou Albano as Mario. A Discord by a user named trodge originally posted the video, which was then shared as part of YouTuber KonekoKitten‘s video praising the update.

And, while Robloxians are mainly animating dances from popular songs, there is a breadth of possibilities in terms of developers’ abilities to construct unique roleplay animations and recreate popular memes within the platform.

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