Why Graph Editor is an Animator's HOLY GRAIL

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Graph editor workflow tips and tricks for character animators!
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Video Chapters:
0:00 - Is the Graph Editor Important?
0:44 - Autodesk Maya
1:44 - Set Key Fix
2:48 - 3 Curve Views
4:47 - Weighted Tangents
8:44 - Hotkey Editor
10:08 - Curve Syncing
12:52 - Curve Names
14:33 - Curve Colors
16:53 - Opinions
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@SirWade Год назад

Which of these was the most interesting to you? And what graph editor tips or questions do you have? :D

@Im_Ninooo Год назад

The channel selection syncing feature is nice, in Blender you have to search the channel name which works fine but the Maya way is a lot faster :)

@Capitainefutur Год назад

The weughted tangent and the curve synching are game changers. I'm gonna save so much time just with those! Thank you for all the info! Super useful as always

@fun_and_profit Год назад

I'm not too familiar with Maya, I messed around with it for a while a few years back, but didn't get too advanced. I've been using After Effects. Here's a question, is it possible to do 2.5D stuff with Maya? I mean, I'm sure it's possible. But I wonder if it would be worth it?

@rayantariq1832 Год назад

All of them!

@Ironpants57 Год назад

My favorites are stacked view and curve colors. My now biased opinion is that colorizing graph curves should be a standard for all animation tools.

@deanervik 8 месяцев назад

Graph editor tip. Select key frame like a frame number/s or values, then if you want to move the selected keys by say 5 frames just type “+=5” in the graph editor value or frame field, the selected keys should move forward 5 frames. -=5 will move them backwards 5 frames. It’s handy when you want to increase or scale a set of selected keys by a certain amount like scale some value keys by 10% you’d use +=1.1

@lockinvfx 4 месяца назад

10% should be +=0.1

@InscrutableObjects 2 месяца назад

I think that would just move it .01 frames. I think you want "*=0.1" if you want 10%. I'm not by Maya at the moment but can check tomorrow. This is a good tip. I use it all the time with mocap and other dense frame animations. You can also use it to change the values as well. So if you want to offset all your x rotates by 180 degrees, select the keys you want, select the value field and put in something like "-=180" if you want to subtract 180 or "+=180". Super great to help when things get gimbaled up. :)

@laudeharo Год назад

View>Curves name>Active Only. Spot on!! These videos are like taking a painkiller against Maya headaches, THANKS Sir Wade for sharing it

@ekapratama2894 19 дней назад

I'm new to Maya and animating so all of these are great news to me. Thank you so much, I'm glad I found your channel.

@MichaelSAMyatt Год назад

This is a game changer for me! I knew about weighted tangents, 3 curve view, and the hotkey editor but blew my mind that I dont have to i + middle click to set keys anymore. And I'm going to give a try with the curve syncing and curve colors. Great video! I dont think I'm brave enough to get rid of the sidebar just because I like to double check myself. Thanks for making this!

@MDanimations44 Год назад

Wow!! So many great options! Thankyou so much 🙏

@Jovalix Год назад

I’ve been animating in maya for 2 years now and every one of these helped me!

@brandonberrycg8758 Год назад

You got me on the first tip. I didn't know they added that. Glad to see you back at it Sir Wade!

@Martin3m Год назад

the sync chekbox... its GOLD !! thank you !

@nas101 Год назад

Curve syncing is just a life saver! Thank you for this!

@loganhogg6237 Год назад

When I watched this 3 weeks ago it totally changed my work flow. So much great advice!! Thank you.

@sonario6489 Год назад

Just in time! I'm starting over from the beginning with animation, starting with your graph editor tutorial.

@Thecreator301 Год назад

Few of them I already know but curve syncing and curve names are incrediblely helpful. Thank you for sharing these tips. : )

@Profe_FcoMendoza Год назад

Through your videos i started to love more and more the graph editor!. and this one is so easy way to get the work done!... thanks so much sharing material!.

@chrisdaleyanimated Год назад

Holy cow-I thought I knew the graph editor until I watched this. I'd heard of some of these tips, but now I'm putting them all into practice. Thanks Sir!

@CGISchoolz 4 месяца назад

This is a complete new outlook for me on Graph editor! I haven't explored this earlier. Thanks for sharing buddy.

@romanwest9114 Год назад

Working like charm !!!! thanks for sharing and keep up !!!

@geoff1917 Год назад

Great content my friend, don't do much animation in my work flow daily but when I do, I can already foresee some of these tips making my life easier.

@okori05 Год назад

Thank you Wade! I didn't know so much things that you showed I'll try all of this

@davidnfernandez Год назад

Didn't know any of this. So glad you made this video, thank you so much. I'm using all of these tips immediately!

@ARTMUUV 9 месяцев назад

This is exactly what I needed, thanks so much for these awesome videos!

@MrJJAbrans Год назад

Amazing video, Sir!!! Thx for the tips!!

@user-cl6vy3xd1h 10 месяцев назад

Man as someone who has dabbled more in motion graphics in After Effects than with 3D stuff, the weighted tangents are going to be a gamechanger. I have always wished to have something like that in Maya but because I wasn't taught it I didn't even think to look up if it was a setting. I've always been a fan of the graph editor but man this video really shows you its potential!

@madsahren2208 Год назад

I can't imagine my life without the graph editor, I've never NOT used it, thanks for these tips!! Learned so much!

@roshnifernandes6811 Год назад

This is great content .weighted tangents and the color change was a nice surprise.Thanku so much for this

@ADreamCalledeternity Год назад

I used to be SO confused how to use the Graph Editor in Maya in college to the point of where I didn't bother using it at all. Now it's like my child, I love it so much. Now I can love working in it even more. Thanks a bunch! This'll 100% help for class and hmwk!

@ChrisOfTheDead Год назад

These are all amazing! :D

@adamszczesny2646 Год назад

Your tuts are priceless! Funny how much preferences digging you have to do to make Maya work almost as intuitive as Blender😂

@lycanoregaming8443 Год назад

I was using blender, I was literally stressing about some options which I can't find until I saw "wait it's Maya?"

@adamszczesny2646 Год назад

@@lycanoregaming8443 :D

@Nickfooker Год назад

Navigation in Blender is so much easier with the G keys, which is great for everything including animations. But its graph editor is a big mess though.

@claudiaconde7458 Год назад

I open my computer to start splining on my project, and here you are saving my life again!!!! Thank you!!!

@AWA1L Год назад

Jeeesus, every tip other than the Weighted Tangents I has absolutely no idea about. Huge gains right here. Thanks Wade!

@MonsterBandage 7 месяцев назад

Mind blown. I've been using maya for years but never knew some of these tricks. Set key fix is definitely gona save me some time! Thanks!

@maddysdaddystevem563 Год назад

Your videos are always good (thanks for not having the music so loud that we can't hear you), and this one is very helpful. Thanks.

@meghapanchal9339 Год назад

BEEESSSSTTTTT!!!! Something I was looking for yeaaaarrrssss!

@MrTip8 Год назад

What an awesome video. Thanks for this usefull tips!!!

@praneshshakya8281 Год назад

Awesome bro... your videos are always nice and informative...helped me a lot. Thank you 😊

@BrunoCasas.M 4 месяца назад

This is gold thank you brother

@Axiassart 11 месяцев назад

3 out of these blew my mind!

@i20010 7 месяцев назад

Very useful information! 15:35 There is now in M24 a View->Theme-> TRS distinct where it gives you those colors automatically!

@CVerse Год назад

Haha I remember you really emphasizing the graph editor during the Maya workshop 2 months ago. Happy to see everyone here is gonna get these useful tips too

@valeriagonzalezpantoja7070 Год назад

Super cool, really like your videos and know the graph editor is a better spaghetti and useful. Thank you a lot for the tip and the help saving my life.

@RichardDeDappere Год назад

Especially that annoying sidebar gone is a awesome tip. I work with the graph editor all the time so this video a massive help!

@dariamerkulova6175 Год назад

Curve Syncing is a game changer! :D Thanks for the tips, very useful.

@rayantariq1832 Год назад

This is soo helpful!

@Masarofia Год назад

Awesome video ! I'll definitely minimize the side bar ! The color stuff is super nice as well ! Although, a note on weighted tangents. I used them as I started animating but then I got Animbot, and from my experience, these two DO NOT like each other. So all the Ease in/outs, all the different sliders available in Animbot (which absolutely rocks), would not work at all. Maybe it was a bug, but... yeah, that happened to me and I switched to non weighted. Also, with 2022 and above, we can now have auto ease instead of just automatic, which is better, and I like being able to switch between step and automatic without losing anything (as you would lose your weights otherwise)

@JeromyDBall Год назад

Video looks great!!

@antstar1005 Год назад

Great video on the "Graph Editor" in Maya. Even a veteran Animator such as myself, I learned a thing or two watching this video. Thank you so much, Sir Wade, and keep up the great work.

@sunshiner2 Год назад

Thanks for sharing with us your knowledge, really helpful! I'm new to Maya, actually, start animating on Maya like three months ago, and I was so curious about the weight tangents, and what's the point of them :D. Everything in this video was really new and helpful to me. Thanks a lot, again

@olya_gorbunova 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! ❤‍🔥

@modus8363 Год назад

so helpful man the curve views were tormenting me and i'm only starting

@saulosatoshi Год назад

Yeap! You said it all, Graph Editor is the Holy Grail. lol Great video! I learned a lot from it. Awesome tips that I'm already using myself. Thanks, Sir Wade! One thing that I would recommend is testing the Graph Editor TRS theme. If you go to the Graph Editor>View>Theme>TRS Distinct.... it will change the color of the rotation curves and the scale curves, making them different from the translation curves. This way you won't mess up the colors of the curves in the Color Editor. And you can go back to the standard colors with one click.

@justinpasion9194 Год назад

OMG man you're a life saver I can now save so much time from this especially now I know about the Curve Synching and Colors!! 😄😄😄

@abiyyupanggalih854 Год назад

thanks, for sharing, I use Maya lately as a Blender use I really excited using Maya👍

@_eggs_bene 11 месяцев назад

im learning maya after using blender and this helps so much. i was trying to mess with the graph editor and was getting frustrated cause it seemed impossible to change the curves in any convenient way

@path541 Год назад

wow you completely changed the graphics for me thank you very much I really want to have an environment like yours I want to have a lot of animators in my environment

@jonathanzepeda713 Год назад

This was great! I'm definitely using weighted tangents from now on 👍

@SirWade Год назад

One of us one of us

@SandroSanakoti Год назад

Curve colors is a thing! Thank you, Sir Wade!

@WW_Studios Год назад

Can you do a version of this video just for blender? 😅

@i20010 Год назад

5 years in maya and i learned a lot, thanks!

@johncecilaguilar2553 Год назад

It's been a minute since I've watched one of your videos - you're rocking that facial hair!

@miguelg2944 Год назад

Thank you. ! So help ful.

@sangeetagupta8212 Год назад

Thank you so much 🖤

@asabovv Год назад

Thank You so much ☺️

@AWA1L Год назад

Wow 30 secs in and already learned some invaluable knowledge lol. Had noooo idea Maya indie existed, was dreeeading having to get the commercial license before, now I dont have to. Thanks dood!

@nicksantangelo6168 Год назад

Graph Editor Vids >>>>>>>>>>>

@InscrutableObjects 2 месяца назад

Oh, man. If I can get Curve Syncing working, you will have changed my life. ...20 years too late, but better late than never. Thank you!

@amyaw98 Год назад

Great to see you, Sir. Hope you're recovering well 😄

@roswarmth Год назад

the set key, 3 curve and curve names were new and interesting for me

@ObzTicle Год назад

Dude I've been animating for about 2 years, and some of these points my mouth was legit open the whole time in shock I never knew this.

@claired5006 7 месяцев назад

This multiple color tip is great, but how do you isolate only one curve easily without the side bar ? I know you can right click and isolate but it's 2 actions instead of one. I did not find how to put a hotkey into that isolate in the graph, if someone knows

@toddlawrimore3577 Год назад

Would love to see how you use your Stream Deck with Maya. Especially would like to see which hot keys you setup and is it on the left or right side of desk. Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

@magneticbehavior 11 месяцев назад

Good god, Ive been searching for years to figure out how to get weighted/non weighted tangents in Maya. It was the default in XSI Softimage. It really screwed animators who had to work with fixed handles. thanks! Autodesk should change the default IMO.

@wocky661 Год назад

Ooh, curves colors is nice! It would be nice to have those colors in the channel box, that would help a lot!

@toddlawrimore3577 Год назад

Set Key Fix: So funny. Always thought I was doing just inserting keys the wrong way. And, had no idea about the stacked curves. Use the absolute and normalize all the time. Thank you.

@gabrielfernandes-or3lo Год назад

Colooourssss colourss everywheeere

@sonario6489 Год назад

The most useful thing in the video for me is honestly the Weighted and Unweighted Tangents since SFM doesn't have any of the other stuff.

@bilosofie Год назад

man .. . im 40 years old now n i can say im alright in animation now .. not ugly .. i have been through many videos and channels for the last maybe 5 years ... and no one could break it down like u Sir .. ur the GOAT brother.. and when i decided to start using the graph editor i thought id give it a try coz ur right ,, this is the missing thing i lack in animation .. and after this .. now i know who can i always give cridet to if i made it in this industry as the person to go to if they have issues with the graph editor .. thank you sir for the super cool advices u have been giving me for 5 years ,, its much love n respect right here ... and excuse my english as its not my native language ,,, i think u should be working with autodesk now,,,

@sonario6489 Год назад

I got into animation with Source the in 2014, but I never got anywhere UNTIL I saw SirWade's channel, and his introduction video on the Graph Editor. I learned more from him in a day than I did in 8 years, and finally feel like I'm getting somewhere I'd say SirWade's would be better at working with the Blender Foundation. He can help Blender's animation 2023 project SOAR to incredible heights

@vienlopohoa1778 Год назад

Thanks for your video

@rajivkar9062 2 месяца назад

This has been one of the most helpful videos for me!! Thank you @sirwade

@kuichib Год назад

Maya's graph editor is still king for me. I've been using Blender for years now, and it still just doesn't feel right. Everything in Maya is super clear even though the UI is tiny compared to Blender. Recently started using Unreal Engine and while it does have a stacked view, if you can avoid animating in that program, please do. Run, just run!

@sonario6489 Год назад

Trust me, Source Filmmaker makes anything modern look like a godsend in comparison. But at the end of the day, it's not the software that matters, it's the animator.

@handsomesquidward151 Год назад

@@sonario6489 SFM has been abandoned for a long time now, must suck to be broke and not be able to afford a computer that can run blender or maya, kek

@sonario6489 Год назад

@@handsomesquidward151 I know SFM has been abandoned for years. I started with SFM in 2014 and migrated to Blender 2.8 as soon as it came out. SFM1 is still a good entry point to 3D animation though and has like, 4 or 5 QoL Improvements Blender definitely needs to look at

@jtricker1614 Год назад

big thanks

@Birii23 Год назад

Oh man the stacked view and curve names??? I had no idea those options were there!

@adamkovarik Год назад

Awesome video! I'm stoked to try and apply these tips in my workflow The new maya logo tho Bruh

@Aharon_I Год назад

Great video thank you!! Good luck with your collaboration with Harris Heller

@unet7292 Год назад

I'm going to start using the Graph Editor to stop people running away from me!

@PikaPetey Год назад

The opening sentance had me laughing. I love the GE

@nabanitabiswas11 Год назад

After so long❤✌

@ytubeprashant Год назад

Sir Wade, tut for weighted mode in preferences > setting> animation menu how to set before going to animate

@ChromaStudio_ Год назад

i was thinking to swap to maya from blender, im a freelancer and i want to learn maya if one day i need to go on a job because my society fall. But i never heard about indie version and the price of commercial was too expensive, but now, u give me the solution. Take your commision for my purchase. Thank you !

@Blacbeast987 Год назад

Thanks for Sharing Great skilled Info about Graph Editor. CHEERS

@Fr3akyBro Год назад

I've done just about every pre-change workflow you've described 😂 My future time thanks you

@loganhogg6237 Год назад

I'm going to go on an extended relationship with weighted tangents

@ChrisAthanasopoulos 7 месяцев назад

Who dislikes a great video about the GE? haha Great tips Wade!

@Ed_Crumbs Год назад

Thank you

@KisutoJP Год назад

How does this not have more views!?

@macksnotcool Год назад

dreamworks' renderer (Moonray) is open source now!

@yuldashevmuhammadmuso2003 Год назад

thank you

@NickEnchev Год назад

Let's get an animation tutorial series, themed "Man running from the gear of death"

@ewerybody Год назад

11:28 Dang! I was having my own script tool written in MEL to do this like .. 12 years ago!? 🙈 Never saw that one can have it from the channelbox. Interesting!

@igromad Год назад

missed ya

@KingPicolo Год назад

One of my favorite things was the man running from the gear of death 😂 Edit: Curve names in the graph editor... The amount of times I've scrolled through a huge list of channels to find a tiny square is embarrassing