Anonymous at Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:01:21 UTC No. 894571

>>894538
RAG LIKE A CLOTH LOL!!!

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Apr 2022 18:56:46 UTC No. 894619

I do have a beginner question on Maya and layered animations. Let's say you use it to make a body animation layered with facial animations or whatever. Can you export it as a single animation for a game engine like Unreal?

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:37:22 UTC No. 894626

>>894619
The use case isnt quite right.
You dont need layered animations if the set of controls you use for face is different than the ones you use for body - which most certainly will be the case.

But lets say you are animating a walk cycle and need a variation of said walk that has the character slouched or something. You can load the same walk cycle into Maya, use the layered animation system to add a slouch to the anim.
When you want to export the animation to Unreal Engine you simply bake the animation to the skeleton which will automatically bake down anim layers.

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:43:12 UTC No. 894628

>>894626
Oh I get it now, thanks.

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 12:51:06 UTC No. 894906

I didn't expect animation to not be staple thread in this board.
I'm just starting out, and it seems like lot of free models online don't have animations bundled in, but they are rigged already. I'm currently trying to learn how to add animations to imported 3d models with Blender. Aside from like, the first couple of search results from youtube, got any resources?

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 12:58:32 UTC No. 894910

Animation is so fucking hard in Maya. Is it even possible to make decent human animations without owning a mocap studio?

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 13:00:34 UTC No. 894911

good to see there are more actual 3d modelling related generals in this shit board

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 13:47:56 UTC No. 894916

I have 20 different animations in a single blend file. There are 20 different copies of the same armature. Every time I want to export an animation I have to rename that specific armature to root.

It feels like I'm doing things completely wrong, but I'm too deep into this mess to dare risk organizing it.

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 14:15:01 UTC No. 894920

>>894910
> git gud
>>894911
It's a test to see what generals deserve to live on or not but yeah I wondered for a while why it hasn't be done before while it's the most logical/efficient plan to make generals for this board. Especially for how slow it is.
>>894916
I'm not sure if it's him but watch this and the two videos that follows. If I remember correctly he speaks about exporting animations as a single timeline or separate ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWo6lSTwzg&list=PLZpDYt0cyiut1oZv6zyWgDnyBJu4U1jwJ&index=17
Also don't be scared to make a backup of your file and mess with your current one. You ain't breaking anything if you have a backup

Anonymous at Mon, 2 May 2022 21:56:22 UTC No. 894999

>>894910
Use animbox

Anonymous at Tue, 3 May 2022 12:01:33 UTC No. 895069

Dibstra has been releasing a ton of stuff from Animation Mentor
https://cgpersia.com/2022/05/animation-mentor-an06-feature-animation-acting-polish-183909.html
But I got a question. Are these kind of course (aimed to movies) beneficial for video games animation/pipeline?

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 05:44:40 UTC No. 895221

>>894538
People need to learn how to fucking limit influences to 4 bones in games. I'm fucking tired of seeing shit tier rigging in games with random ass vertices poking out making triangle shapes.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 09:21:42 UTC No. 895243

>>894910
Yes

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 09:22:53 UTC No. 895244

>>895221
Wat, we live in the year 2022, its time to move from 4 or 8 influences to 12+.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 09:28:01 UTC No. 895246

Anyone got any examples of foot rigs they like? Or don't like I can never quite settle on a foot setup I like and I want to try something new.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 20:57:26 UTC No. 895353

>>895244
t. auto cringe pro user checking every bone box

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 21:46:54 UTC No. 895355

I'm in your same boat OP. There's this french guy that has a paid Blender animation course going on, Pierrick Picaut's his name, but I'm a stingy fuck and don't wanna risk wasting 50 or so eurodollars on a course that might actually be shit, I mean the guy is clearly skilled but being able to transfer that knowledge successfully to other people is a whole other can on worms. He did upload some videos of his entire process though, like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UaNCy2j3A
Here's his webpage https://www.p2design-academy.com/

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 22:08:14 UTC No. 895358

>>895355
I've heard very good things about his videos on /3/.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 22:40:01 UTC No. 895365

>>895355
>blocking stage: full process
Not even going to watch this.
Utterly useless.

Learn the 12 principles of animation, plenty of free videos and docs online.
Blocking out an animation in any 3d software is as easy as turning off the auto interpolation so that you focus on nailing the key poses first and the timing, without getting distracted by shitty interpolation, which is exactly what that overlayed curve editor in the thumbnail shows, i.e. "stepped" curves -> character "snaps" into each keyed pose.
The "how" is literally just about opening the software manual at the right page.
Watching some retard key a puppet is completely useless, about as useful as watching someone else walk helps you burn calories.
I don't need to give him an extra view to know what the video is about: no less than 10 minutes of some french faggot with an annoying accent posing a puppet and mashing the "set key" button, blabbering about himself more than anything.
God I fucking hate these kikes. If I was a tenth as brazen and jewish as them I'd be making bank off of bullshitting wannabe artists on the internet.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 22:57:59 UTC No. 895370

>>895355
I bought it, the course is good it covers literally everything. Like I mean that, everything. It's probably the most comprehensive animation course for anything not even just blender. Anon below is right in that you don't necessarily need it but I doubt you'd regret it.

>>895365
Nah PP is one of the few real ones on YT, I think he'd actually be a lot more popular if he dumbed down his content. It's all just actual info not bullshit.

https://youtu.be/Ut8KCfYKuzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1z85AsUjcI

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 23:12:27 UTC No. 895372

>>895355
It's on rutracker I think but yeah I watched it too and like the other anon said, it covers literaly everything. If you're a total animation noob, it's worth watching it twice. One time juste watching and another one doing the exercices along the instructor.
But it's also true that you don't have to watch the whole thing either but if you watch it twice, you're basically set for doing whatever you want animation wise.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 May 2022 23:28:28 UTC No. 895374

>>895370
>animation tip: space switching
wooooooooooow, ground breaking knowledge.

>if he dumbed down his content. It's all just actual info not bullshit.
I had stumbled upon his video about normals, pretty much exactly as I expected: a superficial, incomplete technical explanation presented as something "advanced" to trick an audience of retards who think they're hot shit into watching it. It's plenty dumbed down as it is.

Anonymous at Thu, 5 May 2022 08:33:48 UTC No. 895426

>>895353
jeez what a cope

Anonymous at Thu, 5 May 2022 18:16:55 UTC No. 895519

>>894538
Ok /3/bros, a question for you all: Appeal or animation quality?

Anonymous at Thu, 5 May 2022 19:20:22 UTC No. 895538

>>895426
>no u
enlighten me

Anonymous at Thu, 5 May 2022 22:06:51 UTC No. 895574

>>894538
I see cris is back to his old habit of making entire generals for his education begging while he fucks off for hours at a time in between samefagging

Anonymous at Fri, 6 May 2022 09:06:50 UTC No. 895649

>>895538
You dont deserve being enlightened by me. These 20 seconds of my time writing this reply is the most youll get. Goodbye.

3DGuy !!XhQDOznbDw3 at Fri, 6 May 2022 09:14:06 UTC No. 895652

>>895519
neither.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 May 2022 09:15:46 UTC No. 895653

>>895574
>>895649
>>895652
Guys look at my dinosaur does it look cool? Made in mudbox

Anonymous at Fri, 6 May 2022 12:32:00 UTC No. 895673

>>895519
animation quality

Anonymous at Sat, 7 May 2022 03:49:31 UTC No. 895825

>>895652
based

Anonymous at Sat, 7 May 2022 04:02:59 UTC No. 895826

>>895653
cool dinosaur man

Anonymous at Sat, 14 May 2022 11:55:21 UTC No. 897118

not seeing a lot of animation in this thread

Anonymous at Sat, 14 May 2022 15:03:23 UTC No. 897131

>>895370
I get secondhand nasal congestion whenever i try watching this guys stuff.

Anonymous at Sat, 14 May 2022 15:12:56 UTC No. 897133

I once had a go at animating on 2s using a model I found online. Probably could be better. Maybe it's because I'm not too versed in animation in general, or maybe it's because the process I used is rather tedious. Seriously, there have been several actual TV shows lately that made heavy use of animating on 2s or 3s, and I suspect they have a much more efficient workflow than something that involves manually deleting things keyframe by keyframe