ShapeWave: Advanced Shape Key Animation in Blender

ShapeWave is a Blender add-on that simplifies and enhances shape key animations. It provides evaluation-time control and offers advanced interpolation methods to make your animations smoother and more dynamic. With features like auto-play, looping, and timing adjustments, you can create complex animations more efficiently.

Key Features:

• Advanced Interpolation Methods: Choose from over 20 types like Spring, Bounce Back, Heartbeat, and Glitch to add unique motion effects.

• Evaluation-Time Control: Precisely adjust the timing of your animations using evaluation-time sliders, which can also be keyed and driven with a driver object

• Auto-Play and Looping: Automatically advance animations during playback and set them to loop easily.

• Timing Settings: Customize segment sizes and overlaps to fine-tune shape key transitions.
• User-Friendly Interface: Integrated directly into Blender's Shape Keys panel for a seamless workflow.
• Accurately Bake Deformers to Shapekey

• Bake effect to Keyframes: once you are done and want to export to a game engine, other DCC apps, or simplify things. you can bake it out to the shape keys keyframes 

Benefits:

• Save Time: Automate complex animations that would be time-consuming to keyframe manually.
• Enhance Creativity: Experiment with various motion effects without complex rigging or scripting.
• Simplify Workflow: Manage all your animation controls in one place.

About the Developer:

Developed by Emmanuel Okafor (Luwizart), a Blender artist and Animal Logic Character artist who understands the challenges of 3D animation, ShapeWave is designed to meet the needs of hobbyists and professionals.

Get Started with ShapeWave

Improve your Blender animations today with ShapeWave and make shape key animation more accessible and efficient.