Wow. Can't believe I've never sub to your channel. Well I just subscribed I love animbot and always looking to improve. I've started using this 2 months ago
Great video, Skitty! I'm going to watch a lot more of them now! Very informative and concise! My only two suggestions would be: 1) Lose the background music (it is distracting and just adding noise) 2) leave a bit of space after each description or major point. We (the untrained audience, to whom this is all brand new) need a moment to process what we just heard before you dive into the next point. It's easy to get overloaded because when you're thinking about what you just heard, you end up not hearing the beginning of the next point and you get left behind. Thankfully, since it's a video, we can just skip back a bit and relisten but if you wait for a beat before making your next point, there won't be any need for us to rewind. It's also good to get into that habit if you are ever going to teach a group live, like in a classroom or at a workshop.
Skitty seems like the type of person who in highschool i would assume is nice because she's smart and when i ask for help she throws hands and tells me to divide myself by zero! But thank you for your tutorials Skitty XD
I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL OFFSET! It's gonna really help me adjust the animation test I'm having now cause I'm running out of time! If I get the job, it's thanks to youtubers like you!
Jeesh... After all explanations you are goddess for me now I know animbot is a powerful tool, but every time I see a reminder-video about it - I do find smth "new" for myself Tyvm, lady :d
Hey Skitty! Great insightful video! Would you say having the eco version is enough or is it missing alot of features comparing to the current active release?
Hey Skitty, have you seen anything from animBot or elsewhere that automatically applies a Linear Inifity to Pre/Post curve interpolations? I have to change this all the time at work, so I'm looking for a script.
I’m having a hard time understanding the difference between ease in/out tool and tween machine. It looks like it gives me the same result every time I use it.
Hlw @skitty animates I love your vedio they helped me lot.I have a question?can u please answer. I am student currently learning animation And my teacher says that it's important to match refrence fps to maya fps is it important coz I don't see you or any other professional artists match refrence fps with maya fps? For ex-i have refrence of 30fps should I also change my maya from preferences fps settings to 30 fps?or should I just use 24 fps? I am kinds confused doesn't it mean I am Rotoscoping?
Hi Tushar, usually your Maya scene will be locked at a certain fps (24fps usually for tv production, 30 usually for game) so you'll want to change the fps of your reference, not your Maya scene. Just put your 30fps reference in a video editing software and re-export it as 24fps. If you leave them separate fps there's 2 things that can happen: 1) the frames try to become 24fps and become interlaced (shows multiple frames per frame), or Maya deletes random frames to keep the speed 2) Maya keeps every frame so the speed when you animate it is wrong
Thanks again to fRigging Awesome Studios for giving us code 'skitty' for $3 off the family pack of Mecha-Mechs! Don't forget to check them out! gum.co/mecha-mechs-family-bundle
So some studios chose to not use Animbot which is objectively cuts time for animating something by several times and helps animators not to destroy their minds over maya? huh... I mean simple mirroring poses for walk cycle in vanilla maya takes a minute or 2 but with animbot it's just several clicks
Yeah. I can't speak on what most studios think, but I was involved in the push at my own studio and can speak on that. Myself, 4 other animators and 2 supervisors did a trial run of animbot in studio, built a case for why we should have it, then the supervisors pitched it to the powers that be. They agreed it was beneficial, so they looked into pricing. Turns out buying commercial licenses is a huge price jump from the regular user license cost, so there was no convincing them at that point.
@@pocato2329 It can be a lot more complicated than that. Every studio has their own pipeline - tools and scripts that aren't designed to work within that pipeline can completely ruin the system. I've worked in studios before where animators tried to sneak in their own favourite tools and it caused major trouble! Once, the studio had to shut down for an entire day to fix the trouble a plug-in tool caused - you can imagine how much that cost in lost wages and stress... Skitty called it right at the beginning - get used to doing things the plain vanilla way before you become too reliant on any tool. More than likely you will not have access to it in a studio and you WILL have to use the tools they provide you with.
@@SkittyAnimates If you want to know why? The guy that wrote this is an arrogant prick. Overcharges. Over promised and under delivers. And he steals scripts from others who have given them away FREE AND THEN CHARGES MONEY. Super prick behaviour.
amazing. thanks for including timestamps for quick reference
No problem! This video would be pretty annoying without them haha
Wow. Can't believe I've never sub to your channel. Well I just subscribed I love animbot and always looking to improve.
I've started using this 2 months ago
Welcome to the channel! AnimBot really is revolutionary. We will probably still be finding new uses for it years from now!
Great video, Skitty! I'm going to watch a lot more of them now!
Very informative and concise!
My only two suggestions would be:
1) Lose the background music (it is distracting and just adding noise)
2) leave a bit of space after each description or major point. We (the untrained audience, to whom this is all brand new) need a moment to process what we just heard before you dive into the next point. It's easy to get overloaded because when you're thinking about what you just heard, you end up not hearing the beginning of the next point and you get left behind.
Thankfully, since it's a video, we can just skip back a bit and relisten but if you wait for a beat before making your next point, there won't be any need for us to rewind.
It's also good to get into that habit if you are ever going to teach a group live, like in a classroom or at a workshop.
Thanks for the tips! It's easy to keep trimming stuff down, forgetting that some breaths are important
Skitty seems like the type of person who in highschool i would assume is nice because she's smart and when i ask for help she throws hands and tells me to divide myself by zero! But thank you for your tutorials Skitty XD
hahaha... You think I'm smart
@@SkittyAnimates well yeah you taught me some useful stuff. And I didn't know you could customize the Maya shortcut controls. Thanks
Thank you so much. I was lost with some functions that have saved me a lot of time and you explain it very well and clearly. You are amazing.
No problem, glad it helped!
Wow.. you just did it again, I guess I'm not surprised anymore
this is brilliant !! make more animbot tuts please.
Omg I needed this. Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
Amazing tool! Subscribed to learn more! thank you
Welcome! Hope you find more useful content here ☺️
I was just about to look for a video showing animbot, thank you also skitty is the best youtuber name ever
Woo great timing! Thanks!
Very well explained. About to dive into AnimBot.
Have fun!
Thank you so much for putting this together!!!
Not a problem, Random American!
Well done! That was a very well explained video. Picked up loads of new stuff about Animbot. Thanks!
Thanks so much! Glad it helped!
Super helpful video, Skitty! Thanks for making it!!
No problem, glad I could help!
Thank you so much ! so clear and concise and helpful !💖🙏
YES!!! Thank you for the explainer vid!
Great video, thank you. :)
Glad I could help 😊
I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL OFFSET!
It's gonna really help me adjust the animation test I'm having now cause I'm running out of time! If I get the job, it's thanks to youtubers like you!
Did you cover the constraint tool? I don't remember seeing it and I don't see it on the time stamp!
That would be Copy/Paste XForm Relationship!
Love ur videos keep uploading them🌟
This is VERY helpful, learned a lot of useful stuff, thanks🥰
Awesome
Thanks, helpful and to the point
Happy animating (:
Thanks Useful👍
Jeesh...
After all explanations you are goddess for me now
I know animbot is a powerful tool, but every time I see a reminder-video about it - I do find smth "new" for myself
Tyvm, lady :d
The BEST Animbot introduction video I've seen on TH-cam. Great work! Do you offer private tutoring?
Thanks so much! Unfortunately work keeps me too busy to offering tutoring. I do offer animation reviews over on Patreon though!
i have been wondering if there is a section in animbot that creates animation layers
Amazing ! Merci !
You're very welcome!
Hey Skitty! Great insightful video!
Would you say having the eco version is enough or is it missing alot of features comparing to the current active release?
I'm running the eco version! Go for it :)
@@SkittyAnimates Awesome, ill go for it too. Thank you!
Hey Skitty, have you seen anything from animBot or elsewhere that automatically applies a Linear Inifity to Pre/Post curve interpolations? I have to change this all the time at work, so I'm looking for a script.
I’m having a hard time understanding the difference between ease in/out tool and tween machine. It looks like it gives me the same result every time I use it.
Just take it with you where ever you go dongle license
Is it possible to save a series of poses as in the Studio Library?
AnimBot's is more for transferring poses rather than saving them for later, so it only works with 1 stored pose/animation at a time.
How to do Sword trails in maya?????
Hlw @skitty animates I love your vedio they helped me lot.I have a question?can u please answer.
I am student currently learning animation
And my teacher says that it's important to match refrence fps to maya fps is it important coz I don't see you or any other professional artists match refrence fps with maya fps?
For ex-i have refrence of 30fps should I also change my maya from preferences fps settings to 30 fps?or should I just use 24 fps?
I am kinds confused doesn't it mean I am Rotoscoping?
Hi Tushar, usually your Maya scene will be locked at a certain fps (24fps usually for tv production, 30 usually for game) so you'll want to change the fps of your reference, not your Maya scene. Just put your 30fps reference in a video editing software and re-export it as 24fps. If you leave them separate fps there's 2 things that can happen:
1) the frames try to become 24fps and become interlaced (shows multiple frames per frame), or Maya deletes random frames to keep the speed
2) Maya keeps every frame so the speed when you animate it is wrong
Legit!
I think I'm gonna like you 🥰
I need help getting this installed .-. Please
want watching you play guitar in your video background
Thanks again to fRigging Awesome Studios for giving us code 'skitty' for $3 off the family pack of Mecha-Mechs! Don't forget to check them out! gum.co/mecha-mechs-family-bundle
my head want to explose why the music
Great video, thanks for that! Maybe it`s just me, but the background music is kind of annoying.
So some studios chose to not use Animbot which is objectively cuts time for animating something by several times and helps animators not to destroy their minds over maya?
huh...
I mean simple mirroring poses for walk cycle in vanilla maya takes a minute or 2 but with animbot it's just several clicks
Yeah. I can't speak on what most studios think, but I was involved in the push at my own studio and can speak on that. Myself, 4 other animators and 2 supervisors did a trial run of animbot in studio, built a case for why we should have it, then the supervisors pitched it to the powers that be. They agreed it was beneficial, so they looked into pricing. Turns out buying commercial licenses is a huge price jump from the regular user license cost, so there was no convincing them at that point.
@@SkittyAnimates ah, I see. Money question. That's understandable
@@pocato2329 It can be a lot more complicated than that. Every studio has their own pipeline - tools and scripts that aren't designed to work within that pipeline can completely ruin the system. I've worked in studios before where animators tried to sneak in their own favourite tools and it caused major trouble! Once, the studio had to shut down for an entire day to fix the trouble a plug-in tool caused - you can imagine how much that cost in lost wages and stress...
Skitty called it right at the beginning - get used to doing things the plain vanilla way before you become too reliant on any tool. More than likely you will not have access to it in a studio and you WILL have to use the tools they provide you with.
@@SkittyAnimates If you want to know why? The guy that wrote this is an arrogant prick. Overcharges. Over promised and under delivers. And he steals scripts from others who have given them away FREE AND THEN CHARGES MONEY. Super prick behaviour.
My Waifu❤️