[Released] FAST Animation Studio Tools released!!! Official support thread [Commercial]
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Bring your Daz Studio content to life in Blender with the FAST Animation Studio Tools Blender add-on — a high-speed, production-ready system built for creators who want results fast.
With just one click, import Genesis 3, 8, 8.1, and 9 characters (plus props and environments) directly into Blender. Our Auto Daz Studio Import System handles everything — character pose, facial rig, even lip sync data — with automatic backups and reimport options.
But that’s just the beginning. This add-on includes hundreds of advanced tools for animation, editing, scripting, lighting, green screen keying, and much more — all built to support real animation production pipelines.
Watch the tutorials to see the Auto Daz Studio Import System in action and how we create fully animated scenes in minutes.
And don’t miss the “What’s Included and Features” section below — there's far more under the hood than just import.
Note: Install instructions are in the provided Read Me.
The add-on includes 31 panels and an editable, multi-level FAST Right-Click Menu loaded with 200+ tools, all topped off with a Verbose Tooltips toggle at the base that displays live, full descriptions for every button and setting.
Together, it brings nearly 1,000 buttons into Blender:
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Over 600 buttons come from our own FAST system,
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More than 300 buttons are contributed by the bundled Diffeomorphic importer,
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And the remainder comes from two enhanced add-ons:
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A redesigned Mixamo “Pro” add-on, upgraded for reliability and new features after Adobe’s deprecation of the original,
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And a streamlined, focused version of the Rokoko add-on enabling Mixamo animation retargeting to DAZ characters.
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What's Included and Features
- FAST Animation Studio Tools – A Daz Studio to Blender Production Pipeline Made for Making T.V. Shows in Blender!!
- Auto Daz Studio Import System
- Auto Daz Studio to Blender Import (Genesis 3, 8, 8.1, and 9 supported)
- Import Daz Studio Character with Pose Preset Animation
- Import Daz Studio Character with Azure Lip Sync Animation
- Import Daz Studio Character with Mixamo Animation
- Import Daz Studio Character with Mixed Animation Setup
- Auto Backup Imported Characters
- One-Click Reimport From Backup
- Backup Includes All Files Used to Import
- All Imported Characters Listed in Panel for Easy Access
- One-Click Open or Edit Imported Characters in Daz Studio Studio
- Editable Daz Studio-to-Azure Phoneme Mapping System
- Easy Open Mixamo.com Button
- Easy Open Diffeomorphic Documentation Button
- Mixamo to Daz Studio Retargeting Panel
- Azure Lip Sync from Audio File
- Azure Lip Sync for Daz Studio Morphs (auto-mapped)
- Azure Lip Sync for Shape Keys
- Azure Lip Sync for Grease Pencil
- Fast SK Creation
- Fast GP Creation
- DAZ Morph Phonemes Auto-Created
- Azure Animation Import and Mixing
- Azure Transcribe Audio to Text
- One-Click Add Azure Phoneme Keyframes
- Creates Lip Sync from Audio Only (like Mimic)
- Uses Microsoft Azure for High-Accuracy Phoneme Detection
- More Phonemes Than Rhubarb and Mimic (40 vs 9 vs 17)
- Azure Lip Sync Access Only $1 for 80 Minutes
- No Markup — You Pay What We Pay for the Service
- Fast Animation Tools
- Animation Layer System
- Action Library System
- Fast Face Mocap Editing (auto trims silence and isolates speech)
- Suite of Buttons for Manual Animation
- Buttons Duplicated on Five Editors
- On: Timeline, DS, GE, SE, Sequencer
- Quick Set Start and End Frame
- Jump Forward or Backward by 1–5 Frames
- Auto Toggle Timeline Overlays
- One-Click Editor Switching
- Add Audio and Video Button
- Select and Delete Markers Buttons
- Fast Transform Tools
- Transform Panel with Mouse Wheel Nudge
- Pose Mode Bone Nudging
- Camera Position Nudging
- Edit Mode Vertex, Face, and Edge Nudging
- Auto Toggle Overlays
- 20 Custom and Classic Edit Mode Operators
- Front, Back, Left, Right, Top, Bottom View Buttons
- #1 Click See-Through (Wireframe + X-Ray in one toggle)
- Fast Lighting Tools
- Edit Lights with Mouse Wheel Nudge
- Edit All Lights in a Collection
- Edit Individual Lights
- One-Click Multi-Light Setup
- Add Three-Point Lighting Setup
- Parent Three-Point Lights to Object in One Click
- Add Ambient HDRI in One Click
- Fast AI + Script Tools
- AI Script Generator with Auto Error Fixing
- Use AI to Instantly Create Custom Python Scripts
- Detects and Fixes Errors Automatically Until Code is Valid
- Outputs a Perfect Script Every Time
- Save Scripts as a Permanent Buttons
- 25,000-Line Adv. OpenAI System
- Optimized Script Editor Buttons
- Auto Fix Broken Blender Scripts
- Speech Bubbles + Text Tools
- Morphable Speech Bubble System
- Add Beautiful, Cartoony Speech Bubbles to Images and Animations
- Speech Bubbles Are Animatable and Fully Morphable
- Auto-Center Text Perfectly in Bubbles
- Speak to Create 3D Text with Google Voice
- Powered by Geometry Nodes for Full Customization
- FAST Menu
- For Lazy People. Rarely need Keyboard.
- Save and Auto Restart Feature
- Right Click Menu with 150+ Items
- Save and Backup Startup File
- Delete and Backup Startup File
- Save Startup File and Restart
- Delete Backup File and Restart
- Full Screen Toggle Button
- Show Console Button
- Google Voice Search for Operators
- Open F3 Menu
- Quick Favorites Button
- Switch Between Blender and FAST Menus
- Edit and Reload FAST Menu
- Restart Blender Buttons
- View Selected Button
- Verbose Tooltips Toggle
- FAST Menu Submenus
- Animation Menu (Handy Animation Ops)
- Cursor Menu (Cursor Snapping Tools)
- Edit Menu (Premade Asset Repair)
- Extras Menu (New Unique Tools)
- File Menu (New File Tools)
- Mode Menu (Instant Mode Switching)
- Object Menu (New + Default Tools)
- Outliner Menu (Lots of New + Default Tools)
- Parent Menu (Parenting and Unparenting)
- Pose Menu (Rigging and Keyframe Tools)
- Sequencer Menu (Video Editing Workflow)
- Text Menu (Script Editing Tools)
- Transform Menu (Mouse Wheel Nudge Tools)
- View Menu (View Switching)
- Startup File Extras Menu
- Packed with Default + New Tools
- Fast Button
- Performs Four Key Actions in One Click
- Show All Color Textures in Solid View
- Automatically Cleans Scene for Optimal Speed
- Optimize Normals for Armature and Shape Key Animation
- Switches to Fresh Workspace to Prevent Lag
- Fast Header Buttons
- Save File, Preferences, and Scripts
- Wireframe Plus Toggle
- Open Preferences Panel
- Add Camera from Viewport
- Toggle Lock Camera to View
- Cycle Cameras Forward and Backward
- View Selected Object
- Toggle Between Outliner and Viewport Focus
- Save and Enter Material Preview
- Toggle N Panel
- Advanced Local Mode Toggle
- 1-Click Green Screen Keying
- Key Out Green Screen Footage in 1-Click
- Video Appears on a Mesh Plane
- Video Syncs to Sequencer Clip
- Edit Plane+Clip as a Single Unit
- Includes Fast Editing Editing Tools
- Extras Tools
- Append Sounds and Markers into Blender (default doesn’t)
- Fastest Blender Theme Editor
- Reload and Save Theme Buttons
- Best Auto Save System (Never lose a file)
- Advanced Local Mode (Disables Instead of Hides for Fast Scene Editing)
- 4 New Buttons Under Material Properties Panel
- – Separate
- – Clean Unused Materials
- – Delete Vertices/Edges/Faces
- – Separate and Disable
- 7 New Buttons for Outliner Panel
- – Add and Remove Keyframes for Collections
- – Move to Collection Button
- – Advanced Select and Delete Buttons
- – Rename Button
- – Expand and Collapse Collections
- Bundled Mixamo Pro Add-on
- – Pro Version Updated for Blender 4.4
- – Includes One-Click Mixamo Animation Downloader
- Specs
- Supported OS: Windows 10, 11. Mac support by mid-7-2025. Linux soon after.
- Supported Daz Studio Versions: 4.20+
- Supported Blender Versions: 4.4+ (latest required)
- Supported Render Engines: Eevee & Cycles
- Supported Daz Content: Genesis 1, 2, 3, 8, 8.1, 9
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Comments
Does this support Geografts and Shells fully?
Sorry it took a little bit to get to you, We've been so busy and this is new but now we know to check this page consistently...
Please realize if we're ever late replying here you could always send a message here and that goes right to our email account which gives us an audible warning when we get an email so then we could consistently know and check that.
https://fast-blender-add-ons.com/support/
About your question...
For shells, please see Diffeomorphic’s official Shell Editor page:
https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Features/Shell%20Editor
FAST bundles and uses Diffeomorphic API, Our add-on keeps it installed for you so the Diffeomorphic panels are always available. that means all of the features of the add-on are always available and shell behavior follows what’s described there... Using their API we upgraded their import system heavily, You could automatically add lip-sync animation on import and mixamo animations on import for instance... and we also made the import DAZ materials button they offer quite a bit better as now it works on multiple objects... We also provide extra functionality for creating Blender morphs in Daz easily and tons more stuff... Anything you would like to know just ask we provide over 600 operators that improve literally everything in Blender... In a nutshell the DAZ import system is awesome that we offer but we improve literally everything that you do after that and allow you could create and render up to two minutes of scenes per day using DAZ characters which no other add-on does.AFAIK
If the shells functionality feels confusing, I’m happy to help research it with you. Just tell me which DAZ characters you’re using and the effects you want (e.g., overlays, stacks, special materials), and I’ll read up and make sure this will work for your case.
For a quick overview of what FAST does, please check the images on our DAZ Store page—they give a broad summary.
And if you want me to look into a specific setup or result, say the word and I’ll dig in next.
Also any other questions at all you have about the add-on feel free to ask and I'll help you with those as well.
Okay but I don't see an answer to the question about Geografts anywhere. Can you tell me if it exports those too like Diffeomorphic?
Hey there—first off, I’m really sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I’m building out documentation (lots of folks have asked for it), working on a Mac version, fixing a few add-on errors, and recording another tutorial for the DAZ store page. Would you mind shooting me a quick email at [email protected] to double the efforts here? I’m going to do my best—every time I get a forum message I’ll put it where I’ll always see that I’m currently communicating with someone. I also want to say I’m a bit new to this kind of thing, so thank you for your patience.
OK, about this part—can you tell me if it exports those too like Diffeomorphic? We bundle the Diffeomorphic add-on so you have full capabilities of that add-on.
And we’re not opposed to writing code to give you a better effect. For instance, with the L4N4 model that you get from DAZ—that robot that you get—it wasn’t looking right in Blender because our import system wasn’t importing it with the shells, so we wrote some code and now it does. So we could likely do that if you come up with some sort of way we could improve our geograft experience.
And I do want to clarify that I assumed that you were asking if our add-on exports geografts like Diffeomorphic. But essentially, our add-on is like four add-ons in one: you have our main FAST add-on that has 600 buttons that improve literally everything in Blender; then you have the full Diffeomorphic add-on, which has 300 buttons and all the capabilities of that; then you have a pro version of the Mixamo add-on, which we upgraded to Blender 3.6 when Adobe didn’t, and which is more reliable and adds more features like a bulk Mixamo downloader—so you have all the capabilities of a pro version of Mixamo; and also we bundle R OK OK add-on, but we turned it into a Mixamo to DAZ retargeting panel. So you see, you get all these features. And just to note, we bundled the Diffeomorphic add-on because they offer an API, which means a way to call their functions easily in programming code, so we bundle the Diffeomorphic add-on so we could do that easily.
[email protected] and again this email address we check it all the time i'm getting better at checking this forum page so trust you'll get a better experience in the future I'll make sure to answer your questions right away.. I have a special file where I have notes and then every time I get a message here from now on I'll leave a little note in that file because I check it all the time that I'm still discussing something with somebody on the forum.
I am going to assume you didn't get a chance to answer about Geograft support so bumping this up. I know it has only been 3 days but just wanted to keep it fresh for others to see too!
I'm not sure if you saw the actual post but I did mention about the geograph support in the last one basically if a Diffeomorphic supports it then we do... And again sorry about the long wait if you want to send your email address to [email protected] then I'll send you my personal phone number and I can help you right now... Doing a forum post like this especially when trying to juggle all these responsibilities isn't really efficient and then you can call me and I can help you with your questions... Sorry I didn't think about that before... I used to do customer service work with AT&T and am currently fine tuning my approach to owning a business and realize that would be quite a bit easier just to approach it like that.....thank you for being patient with me on this... And please realize if anybody else has any questions here then they could just go ahead do the same thing.
I'm not sure if you saw my last message so I'm quoting your last comment in order that you might see it... If you get a chance to check it out I figured out a more optimal system where we could take care of your issue right now and thanks again for being patient while I learned how to operate this efficiently
you answered my question! The thread history looks weird here because when I commented on my question and the bump response on PC I did not see anything about geographs in it (it is there now) unless you edited it to include the geograph information after both of my responses.
Anyway, doesn't matter you have fully answered my question now thank you for that and I am probably going to purchase this ad on. Thanks for telling me it was a bundle of some tools. I'm familiar with already! Long-term, do you plan on keeping these lock step with Diffeomorphic? In other words, if there's any edits to Diffeomorphic (for example) will those get updated in this bundle?
Thanks, I’m glad I was able to answer your question. If you decide to purchase, I think you’ll be very happy with the add-on.
Regarding Diffeomorphic: we typically bundle a tested version that may be a couple of weeks to a month old. This gives us time to verify everything works smoothly, since Diffeomorphic updates often and we don’t want to risk breaking workflows. That said, in the DAZ Studio tab of FAST Preferences you’ll find a one-click option to install the latest Diffeomorphic development build at any time. If you run into any issues after upgrading, just let us know and we’ll get it sorted quickly.
And to give you some perspective—FAST isn’t a static tool. We’ve been improving it every single day for the past 2½ years. Because it’s built as a production pipeline, we’re constantly coding inside Blender: adding operators, tweaking functions, fine-tuning behaviors, and catching little things (even just print-statement quirks in the console). That’s just how we work—Blender for us is essentially a live coding environment, so updates and improvements are always ongoing.
And again if you ever send a message here and we don't respond feel free to nudge us at this email address...
We'd be much happier getting a few emails reminding us to respond then finding out later we left you waiting :) [email protected]
Above it says FAST Animation Studio Tools Mac support by mid-7-2025. Does anyone know if the Mac version was released and is available?
Mac support is the absolute next thing we're going to finish up.
If you leave your email address I'll send you an email message once it's done.
I'm sorry we didn't get back to you right away
We've been so busy adding some new features to the add on. (AI Video Generator System)
We put a note at the top of the thread before I'm sorry you didn't see it. It was this:
This is a support forum so we're being safe...If we don't reply to you within a few hours, please send an email here: [email protected] to nudge us.
I upgraded that line a bit just to make it easier to see next time for the next people...
We check that email every day so that's the best place to get in touch with us in case we forget.
Mac support is the absolute next thing we're going to finish up.
If you leave your email address I'll send you an email message once it's done.
I'm sorry we didn't get back to you right away
We've been so busy adding some new features to the add on. (AI Video Generator System)
We put a note at the top of the thread before I'm sorry you didn't see it. It was this:
This is a support forum so we're being safe...If we don't reply to you within a few hours, please send an email here: [email protected] to nudge us.
I upgraded that line a bit just to make it easier to see next time for the next people...
We check that email every day so that's the best place to get in touch with us in case we forget.