Someone pointed out this issue in my first public rig. Thanks to this video I can quickly sort it out. Many thanks. I do appreciate all the effort you put in your content. I've learned a lot from your video and courses.
If at worst, one could use empties to make up for messed up bone orientations with a copy transform constraint. Just in case someone has messed up bone orientations and wanna know a quick and dirty way. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
I'm currently in chapter 2 of the P2Design rigging course. This new rigging feature you've discovered looks interesting. I'll first finish the course, doing things the way you did them originally, then I'll come here to understand exactly why this is the better option. For now, I'm floating.
Your English is so much more understandable in this video then the one I watched from two years ago. I was hesitant on buying your rigging course because of this, when did you create the course?
incredible video. Blender still has a long way to go to improve it's rigging system to be at the same level as maya but it's getting there little by little.
Yo Grant Abbitt recommended your rigging course and it’s AMAZING. And then I learn you have an extensive free TH-cam channel too? I subscribed and now I know what I’m gonna marathon after your course!
your advice for focussing on arcs instead of curves when dealing with Quaternion while animation prevented me from scratching my dining room and biting my tail lol. this is such BEAST method of animating. btw will you cover Cascadeur at some point ? OMG that would so much help.
Incredible. Thanks to you for sharing this. Never in a million years would I figure this out on my own. Alas, I'm not sure if I can take full advantage of this and get out of the unnatural T-pose, since I do a-lot of mocap retargetting and my source armatures are in T-Pose.
Nice find!! I was pulling my hair out trying to find if this option exist in Blender. Also, if you can toggle it on and off to edit your curves that would be amazing, aka working in (local or world) axis. I'll test that!
I'm learning 3D rigging at the moment and for the life of me I'm really struggling to get good shoulder deformations going for muscular male characters in particular, specifically ones with defined deltoid topology. I've tried a lot of different standard approaches, with upper arm twist joints and all that, but when the arms go over the head and the elbows forward, the armpit and clavicle area always crinkles. Do you think you could someday do a quick tutorial on your favorite solutions for solving this problem for a videogame friendly workflow? It seems to be a common pain point for new modelers getting into rigging.
In Blender you can use shape keys, so when the rig is in a certain position, the deformed geometry is changed so it stops pinching and crinkles and other undesired deformations, have a look into them.
If your shoulder topology is already as animation friendly as it can be, then might I suggest an attempt at cheating it with shape keys and drivers linked to the individual rotational axis of the deformation arm bones? I used a similar method to achieve near perfect butt deformations for mixing the shape keys for both bending over and lifting the legs simultaneously. Here's a video tutorial for you (it's in Japanese, but you'll catch on quick): th-cam.com/video/_0Ug5aq-CZQ/w-d-xo.html
For games you need to ask yourself what kind of poses is this character realistically going to be put in, and also think of where the camera is going to be and how far away, and rig accordingly. I've often suffered from this problem when attempting to make a rig that is highly versatile, but often that is wasted time. An alternative to shape keys/blend shapes is to have an additional bone that you can drive in the engine via a rig or via code, that corrects for any strange pinching. Or by simply offsetting the position of an existing bone in certain poses. It's arguably a hacky compromise, but if it is more practical and saves significant time then it's the right compromise to make
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN may you tell why do you avoid shape key ? i think game developer always use 3d software to animate then import the animation to game engine.. 🤔 if that's the workflow, shape key is not a problem since it will be baked while exported..
Hey man just subscribed..yay! and happy new year! Do u have any links or videos for game development? I am trying to animate an OC but don't know where to start
This is fascinating, thank you! I have a crane with a two gibs which I would like to rig and animate. How do you setup a rig so it does not deform mesh itself?
I tried this out and it worked but I went back to the file later to find that local location checkbox didn't seem to change anything anymore whether it was on her off at had the prior behavior of being aligned to the bones axies. I don't know why unchecking the box doesn't work when it did before so some help would be nice. Edit: so unchecking the box DOES work for every bone in my rig except the IK hand controler... IDK why Edit 2: I figured out what happened. it was because I parented the hand control bone to an intermediary bone aligned with the hand. Guess I just have to find a workaround for having the IK hand bone move with the torso
I bought the Alive! animation course but didnt get any better at animation. I realized after I made the purchase that I have to follow the course. How can I get better at animation without having to learn first?
Is that dude's shoulder axis halfway between his head and belly button and his neck is a third of a meter long, or is his collarbone rotated down about 35 degrees and you're bending his shoulder in a way that would break the collarbone at the end in a human for that T-Pose?
Hey Pierrick, Random question - Is there anything wrong with animation nodes? I didn't see you talk about them at all in your course. Are there limitations to them or is Dopesheet/Graph editor still the best tools to go?
Animation nodes are used to generate procedural animations, they’re mostly used for motion graphic. As far as I know, you can’t really use them for character animation
Hi Michael, it can be turned off through the armature and/or object properties. Search for viewport display, and uncheck “in front” Are you trying this character rig?
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Yep. I spent yesterday creating a bunch of poses for my product. I wish I watched this video when I saw it! Luckily it's a fun and easy process. Once you have a nice rig animating is a pleasure.
🔥🔥Start the new year learning Rigging and animation in Blender! : www.p2design-academy.com
Someone pointed out this issue in my first public rig. Thanks to this video I can quickly sort it out. Many thanks. I do appreciate all the effort you put in your content. I've learned a lot from your video and courses.
I love learning about things my brain usually passes over but is really relevant :)
Vous êtes le meilleur animateur de blender sur TH-cam
Merci Pierrick!❤
Such a simple fix to solve a baffling and confusing problem. Thankyou
Nice one, Thanks Pierrick 👍
If at worst, one could use empties to make up for messed up bone orientations with a copy transform constraint. Just in case someone has messed up bone orientations and wanna know a quick and dirty way. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
How the unchecking of a box can change your life...A big thank you to you 🤩🥰
That changes things. It makes it much simpler to animate in graph curve. Thanks!
Amazing 🤩🤩 happy new year😁😁
That's a great discovery!
absolutely using this in future rigs! thanks Pierrick!
I'm currently in chapter 2 of the P2Design rigging course. This new rigging feature you've discovered looks interesting. I'll first finish the course, doing things the way you did them originally, then I'll come here to understand exactly why this is the better option. For now, I'm floating.
I cant wait to do this course too! I'm getting it at my next paycheck!
I totally recommend it, @@maxchiassonart8869. It's worth every penny.
Can you tell me how many days take you to complete this course ? And u take note while watching the course right?
@@gameplayontamil2879 You can finish it within a week. I would recommend to notes for whenever you forgot something while rigging your own characters.
Super useful feature, Thanks!
Beautiful tutorial
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for another useful rigging tip Pierrick. I'm looking forward to trying this on my next rig setup.
Wow! Blender never stops surprising us with what it's already, quietly able to do!
Your English is so much more understandable in this video then the one I watched from two years ago. I was hesitant on buying your rigging course because of this, when did you create the course?
😅 thanks, I’m taking lessons to improve.
The course was recorded in 2019 so my accent is way stronger. But it’s all English subtitled.
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN sounds good. You're an incredible mind.
This is awesome bro…your videos really help me out as an artist…thanks
incredible video. Blender still has a long way to go to improve it's rigging system to be at the same level as maya but it's getting there little by little.
Yo Grant Abbitt recommended your rigging course and it’s AMAZING.
And then I learn you have an extensive free TH-cam channel too? I subscribed and now I know what I’m gonna marathon after your course!
your advice for focussing on arcs instead of curves when dealing with Quaternion while animation prevented me from scratching my dining room and biting my tail lol. this is such BEAST method of animating. btw will you cover Cascadeur at some point ? OMG that would so much help.
Thanks.
I've no plans about cascadeur
Isn't that a little disrespectful to ask an animator about cascadeur...😅
Incredible. Thanks to you for sharing this. Never in a million years would I figure this out on my own. Alas, I'm not sure if I can take full advantage of this and get out of the unnatural T-pose, since I do a-lot of mocap retargetting and my source armatures are in T-Pose.
Can you please update the rigging course
BTW I appreciate all the work you dou.
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing this Pierrick, and Happy New Year!
Thank you, happy new year :)
Amazing like always Pierrick :) Thank you so much for your knowledge :)
good knowledge from our online guru 🙏 thanks a lot pierrick...
Happy new year Pierrick😤🎉
Thank you, happy new year :)
Nice find!!
I was pulling my hair out trying to find if this option exist in Blender. Also, if you can toggle it on and off to edit your curves that would be amazing, aka working in (local or world) axis. I'll test that!
No you can't unfortunately, it doesn't update the curve.
So it will basicaly change your animation behaviour
Wow this a huge I found that problem highly annoying...this is such a great solution.
I'm learning 3D rigging at the moment and for the life of me I'm really struggling to get good shoulder deformations going for muscular male characters in particular, specifically ones with defined deltoid topology. I've tried a lot of different standard approaches, with upper arm twist joints and all that, but when the arms go over the head and the elbows forward, the armpit and clavicle area always crinkles. Do you think you could someday do a quick tutorial on your favorite solutions for solving this problem for a videogame friendly workflow? It seems to be a common pain point for new modelers getting into rigging.
In Blender you can use shape keys, so when the rig is in a certain position, the deformed geometry is changed so it stops pinching and crinkles and other undesired deformations, have a look into them.
If your shoulder topology is already as animation friendly as it can be, then might I suggest an attempt at cheating it with shape keys and drivers linked to the individual rotational axis of the deformation arm bones?
I used a similar method to achieve near perfect butt deformations for mixing the shape keys for both bending over and lifting the legs simultaneously.
Here's a video tutorial for you (it's in Japanese, but you'll catch on quick): th-cam.com/video/_0Ug5aq-CZQ/w-d-xo.html
For games you need to ask yourself what kind of poses is this character realistically going to be put in, and also think of where the camera is going to be and how far away, and rig accordingly. I've often suffered from this problem when attempting to make a rig that is highly versatile, but often that is wasted time. An alternative to shape keys/blend shapes is to have an additional bone that you can drive in the engine via a rig or via code, that corrects for any strange pinching. Or by simply offsetting the position of an existing bone in certain poses. It's arguably a hacky compromise, but if it is more practical and saves significant time then it's the right compromise to make
For game ready rig I would avoid shapekeys, and use helper bones.
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN may you tell why do you avoid shape key ? i think game developer always use 3d software to animate then import the animation to game engine.. 🤔 if that's the workflow, shape key is not a problem since it will be baked while exported..
happy new year sir.
Thank you, happy new year :)
Very nice. Thank you.
Have you ever considered putting your Courses on Udemy as well?
No, UDEMY sucks for creators. I won’t
Thanks! you saved me a lot of time ;)
very nice pierrick :)
Hey man just subscribed..yay! and happy new year! Do u have any links or videos for game development? I am trying to animate an OC but don't know where to start
Nothing specific to game animation. Browse my channel, I have so videos about game animation
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Thanks will do
Funny. I just discovered that option like a month ago.
Nice
This is fascinating, thank you! I have a crane with a two gibs which I would like to rig and animate. How do you setup a rig so it does not deform mesh itself?
Bonne année 🍾 🍸 🎊 l'ami
Merci toi aussi
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN 👍🙏🙏🍾
Amazing
Thank you so much for your knowledge. can you please make tutorial python scripting regarding Rigging
I don't now how to script
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN ok man thanks, keep making awesome tutorials excited for next video
I tried this out and it worked but I went back to the file later to find that local location checkbox didn't seem to change anything anymore whether it was on her off at had the prior behavior of being aligned to the bones axies.
I don't know why unchecking the box doesn't work when it did before so some help would be nice.
Edit: so unchecking the box DOES work for every bone in my rig except the IK hand controler...
IDK why
Edit 2: I figured out what happened. it was because I parented the hand control bone to an intermediary bone aligned with the hand. Guess I just have to find a workaround for having the IK hand bone move with the torso
Wow, just one check box! thank you! I'm literally just at the level where I'm able to understand this. Check out some of my animations!
I bought the Alive! animation course but didnt get any better at animation. I realized after I made the purchase that I have to follow the course. How can I get better at animation without having to learn first?
Is that dude's shoulder axis halfway between his head and belly button and his neck is a third of a meter long, or is his collarbone rotated down about 35 degrees and you're bending his shoulder in a way that would break the collarbone at the end in a human for that T-Pose?
Hey Pierrick, Random question - Is there anything wrong with animation nodes? I didn't see you talk about them at all in your course. Are there limitations to them or is Dopesheet/Graph editor still the best tools to go?
Animation nodes are used to generate procedural animations, they’re mostly used for motion graphic. As far as I know, you can’t really use them for character animation
Really nice. Quick question, are rig controls always XRay? is there a way to make the control curves to occlude behind geometry?
Hi Michael, it can be turned off through the armature and/or object properties.
Search for viewport display, and uncheck “in front”
Are you trying this character rig?
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN not yet. I was trying another rig and was running into this issue
Hello there !! do already there are subtitles in Portuguese,for your course?
Nope
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN T-T
Cherish your hair Pierrick, no need to cut them - one day you will be bald like me and there's no going back from that :D
Just give them a fresh cut, nothing crazy.... They are still there, hpefully for a long time :D
happy new year :)
on screen its i swear anme i accidentally pasue the video w Pierrck onscreen its a thumbnail
The only issue with this is that is breaks all of your existing poses and animations
Yeah, this should be adressed at the rigging stage, not at animation stage as, as you said, it will change bone behaviour
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Yep. I spent yesterday creating a bunch of poses for my product. I wish I watched this video when I saw it! Luckily it's a fun and easy process. Once you have a nice rig animating is a pleasure.
😘
:* copaing
So that's what it means lol