Hey, Future Skitty...amazingly concentrated & useful content. Thank you so much. I’m starting to discern (after 1000 RU-vid videos on animation) that the smaller channels have the deepest stuff. Appreciate you throwing the numbers in...anyone who wants to produce is hungry for that info & the timeframe. You’re smart, experienced, talented & wryly hilarious. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩
I wish I had found your channel a few months ago when I did a tv show job and struggled hard because I did not know how to quickly animate. I will be going through more of your videos now. Keep it up!
Thanks for this. I have been hearing more and more professionals say they don't use step mode for block out. I guess the key to blocking in spline is to make sure you don't accidentally key at the wrong places.
It depends on what you're going for with your shot. If you want your animation to look like the reference, it can also be used for your timing and breakdowns. If you want a more cartoony feel to it, it's better to only take the key poses and then play around with the timing yourself.
When you explained the "twitching" of the eyeballs for the purpose of scanning your surroundings, i had the idea to make characters purposefully break eyecontact. So just softly looking into another direction or next to their head for about a second. I always do this to feel a little more comfortable or not to stare. I don't think those two are the same thing right? Curious about thoughts. Ill probably try this in addition to what you just taught me. Great tutorials :D
Once you get in the flow of it, it doesn't feel like as much work! I've worked on quite a few shows, but most notably Inspector Gadget (2017), Fisher Price's Little People, and Rev & Roll.
loved this! hey is there an specific order for animating the controls? for example I see there are two controls for the hips but I've never really understood when to use which. Thank you so much for your videos.
Thanks so much! As for the controls, if there's more than 1 control on a specific thing like the hips, try to stick to 1 or the other as much as possible. Usually they'll be laid out so one control is inside of another control, so you'd pick the 'main' one, which is the big one on the outside. If you do all of your motion on one control, it'll be a lot cleaner/easier to manage in the graph editor, plus it leaves a control fresh if you need to go in and add a secondary motion later. Hope that makes sense!
I do animations using iClone 7.9 but I've always wondered, uh, Please answer this very important question: Should I give the character a "VOICE" first? Or Should I "ANIMATE" first, and then add Voice? Which Order is recommended? Thanks, Terry P.S. for now I use the voice first approach so that I can move the character later cause iClone adds the lip movements automatically.
I want to ask you one more question; When i am animating with refrence the problem is that i could only pose from the perspective of the refrence and in result camera will be at the place where the refrence's camera is at,so i want to know tip about posing a character from all perspective,not just from the perspective of the refrence,and maintain line of action from all the different angle
That's a good question! Even when you're posing from reference, you need to keep a perspective viewport open to see how that pose works in 3D space. If you make sure the character is balanced properly and the line of action carries through on other angles while you're posing, changing up the camera after you're done with your reference won't be as big of an issue. At this point you would simply change it to the camera angle you want, and tweak the bodies line of action to favor the camera. If your set-up is clean it shouldn't be more than opening up the body, or moving an arm out of silhouette etc.
hello can you make a separate detailed tutorial on pose transition between two extreme poses. I am trying the same method for pose to pose animation but transition are jurky and not smooth.
Hi skiity! I absolutely loved this video! But I am kinda confused on how you did your pose to pose and then polished it in the graph editor, I read the comments and I saw you were saying that you used spline and not stepped, could you explain to me the difference? Please and thank you :)
Hey! Glad you enjoyed it :) Spline & stepped are types of tangents in the graph editor. When your keys are set to stepped, the visual playback keeps your pose static until it hits the next key. In spline, Maya will calculate its own in between and drift each key into the next. Some people like to work in stepped so they only see what they've made, but I prefer spline so I can add information on top of what Maya tries to make for me. Does that make sense? If not let me know :)
@@SkittyAnimates That was very helpful!! I appreciate your reply! I have one more question do you have any videos on floaty animation? I am trying to learn 3D but it is quite difficult for me, My animation always looks so floaty and I cannot figure why, I have been researching but still having issues.
I'm glad it made sense! I don't have a video at the moment about floaty animation.. but I will say it all comes down to timing. Add more in betweens so that they favour one side or the other. Floaty animation typically means you have 'even timing', meaning everything moves at the same rate, which looks both boring and unnatural. If you look up some timing charts, there's lots of good ones out there!
@@SkittyAnimates I alawes start with pose to pose animation. But after sometime I start doing straight ahead.. do you have any idea to overcome this problem?
It sounds like you might be getting impatient as you work. Everytime you catch yourself animating straight ahead, leave your computer for 10-15 minutes to give your mind a break, and then you can start fresh with the pose-to-pose mentality again!
Hi there, rotating all axis at once is the same as rotating one axis at a time, you just make sure you're clicking the rotate manipulator without touching any specific axis. You have to be careful rotating this way though, it's easier to get gimbal lock!
hey sorry for using your comment section to message you but I'm having a little trouble finding an animation community, because i just started trying to animate, i would say, and i need somewhere to share my stuff and get feedback. Please if you know any can you reply (some platform without me needing to pay to get feedback). Thanks
Hi there! If you go to the video description, there's a link to this channels discord server. There's a section in the discord for submitting your work, and very talented artists in there more than willing to give feedback! :)
I just want to warn you that your character lypsync is too intens. You should use less letter when she spoke. I think so. But this video so nice. Thank you
Hello Skitty, really good video you have there, I have a video request for you, I am having problems timing my animation, I put in the keys and breakdowns in stepped but when I spline it the whole thing looks so floaty, I'm sure other beginners are facing the same issue, please consider making a video on this topic. Thanks :)
Great video and really helpful! I also have a question that doesnt have to do with with the video's topic but i would like to ask. Would you recommend going to Animation Mentor to study animation ? Or going to a traditional uni ?
I honestly can't recommend either of them because I don't have any experience with Animation Mentor OR with traditional universities. All I can say, is that I went to a private college that charged way too much money, for information I probably could have learned over the internet! The only useful thing I got from them was a Diploma (the paper helps land jobs). The only recommendation I can make is to look up testimonials for the schools you're interested in, and read both the good and the bad. Also look at where those students ended up. If half of them aren't even working in the industry, it might not be the best education. Sorry I can't help more than that but it's a big decision that only you can make!
@@SkittyAnimates Thank you sooo much for answering! Your answer was really helpful for me , trust me! Thanks for taking the time to help me ^_^ P.S. I love your channel and your videos are so informative for aspiring animators like me! I'm only 18 and i can't wait to work at a studio one day! Thank you for showing us how a studio works in this video , it was really cool for me to learn that :D
hey skitty, i just wanted to tell you that i've been in a huge little hole the last 3 weeks trying to figure out and learn animation for my game project's cutscenes on unreal engine, after giving up with unreal's animation tools, i converted to Maya from blender and took awhile learning that, and animation has been a huge frustrating cycle, but your videos which i discovered thanks to youtube's algorythm, has been a grace and has enlightened, motivated, helped and encouraged me a LOT!!! THANK YOU!!!! seriously you could be a huge youtuber if you really wanted to, the way you animate and edit your videos and how you describe things in detail has helped me out ALOT!!!! PLEASE DONT STOP!!!! i was kinda sad to see your last upload was a year ago, please don't give up on the channel! for new subscribers like me that absolutely LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!!!@
Thanks for your kind words! It means a lot to hear my videos are actually helping people. I haven't given up on the channel! I had a lot of things come up in my personal life over the past year, and then I became a Mom in August which has been amazing but takes all of my time right now. I will post the occasional video when I get the chance! 🙂
omgosh!!! CONGRATS SKITTY!!!! Thats amazing, no seriously take as long as you need getting settled into mom life, i'm just glad you haven't quit haha, it's really demotivating seeing how much content there is for blender but compared to maya, it's sad lol but being a maya channel you've brought lots of joy into the community, i actually came across your channel from seeing others on reddit recommending it on the 3d modeling and maya subs, so if you've got reddit's support that means you're a legend haha seriously!!! just happy to hear you're still around!! that's all, keep it up!! =)@@SkittyAnimates
Depends on the shot, really. Sometimes I have a clear vision or reference of what I want the shot to look like, and sometimes I treat it like a canvas, experimenting as I go to find what's appealing. There will be tweaking regardless though, to compensate for a rigs limitations.
