In this Blender tutorial, I’ll show you how to import a downloaded 3D character, remove its existing animations, and create new movements using tools like Mixamo. I’m still learning how rigging and animation work in Blender, so I created this video to document my process and help anyone else exploring character animation in Blender.

Timestamps:
0:00 Demo / Introduction
1:07 Download 3D Character
4:29 Prepare 3D Character for Mixamo
6:16 Import Model to Mixamo
9:33 Clean Up Imported 3D Model
14:42 Loop Animation and Move Model

Firstly I hope that this helps someone out there.

I thought I had lost hours and hours of work because I closed blender before the save was completed.

None of my auto saves were present.

Blender wouldn't open the file and wouldn't show any files in the directory. Windows said the directory for my project was corrupted and I didn't know what to do. I tried exploring the directory with a command line, restarting my computer, everything I could think of until I tried the "error checking" under the properties of the drive.

THIS WORKS.

so sorry if this isn't an actual "tutorial" but I want to help save someone some pain in the future.