Go to edit->Transformation Tools->Move keys. Make sure you have already already "weighted the curves". Go to Curves->Weighted Curves. After this use the move tool. Use shift + middle click to drag it in a straight line
I just have to say that your video was FANTASTIC. I was always so confused or scared of animating in 3D due to lack of knowledge of the graph editor and now it's all so clear. Thank you making the concept so easy to understand :) .
+Jenna Matsalla The Graph Editor was a scary thing for me while in school too. Once I got the hang of the graph editor everything was so much smoother in my animation. But I'm glad you understand it now :) You will use this a lot in professional studios, so as long as you got the basics now you'll get better at it!
I'm an animator switching from a different program (my college used Cinema 4D, and now I need to use maya so I can get a real job haha) and I have been struggling to find tutorials on the keyboard shortcuts! I find the interface to be very challenging to get used to after using C4D, which is very basic. Thanks SO much for including keyboard shortcuts and tips to make things faster and more efficient! Best of all...I didn't have to pay for this tutorial. :)
Great work with the tutorials. Your explanations of how and why you choose to use Maya the way you do is very helpful. Keep them and your demos coming. Could you maybe show how you handle facial animations? Your insights on the walking cycles made a lot of sense. Thanks
we need more animators like you willing to share the knowledge ! you are right, this videos are funny and monkeying around is something animators do all the time. keep the good work ! :)
LMAF lol This is probably the funniest tutorial i have ever seen. Chatting and teaching in the same time! hahaha .Fun and useful . Learned a lot. THX!!
+Benjie may-ag I kind of felt the same way. That's the whole reason as to why I set out to create these tutorials. Make them more simplistic and easy to understand. Not follow in my schools footsteps. I did learn a lot from school but could've been improved if teachers actually made it more enjoyable.
Thanks .. wow u made this so clear.You are the best teacher ever!!! et make ur video so interesting & funny.. It's great u make them funny coz maya can get technical and boring .
Hey Dave, if you give some "Spacing" there, the weight of the ball would be more pronounced (i.e. the spacing at the crest of those parabolic curves would be less compared to when hitting the ground). And if possible, hold down the 'squash' pose by a couple more frames than the stretched ones. You doing a wonderful job, keep it up. Thanks, Ari
This teach people the very basics about the graph editor but not much about animating a realistic ball. Because of these issues. First and foremost this ball looks like it's alive. Just because it doesn't lose any energy/height with each bounce and it doesn't have enough hang time and squash time as Arindam Mondal already pointed out. It's a really easy fix though to get the height to diminish with time. Just select the Y curve and then select all it's keys and then use the lattice transform in the editor to make all the values shrink down towards the end. And to make more hang time and longer squash time just add frames before and after the apex key or change to weighted tangents and pull those apart horizontally. I think that you should do a follow up on this tutorial. Where you go into more detail on how to use it to make more advance stuff like cycles and coping and pasting keys. And while your at it, make a really good one on the use of the dope sheet editor as well. I find that it's really hard to find a good tutorial on the use of the dope sheet. And be sure to tell the difference in the dope sheet editor between having the scene summary option on and off. If you have already done these I apologize for not checking before I wrote this.
Thanks for the message. The video was only made to cover the basics of the graph editor, as the title suggests, not so much on animating a bouncing ball. But I agree with you about adding the details and making a more advanced lesson. But first you must learn the basics. I don't have a lesson dedicated to the Dope Sheet as of yet. But thanks for the suggestions :) Check our website for all video lessons.
tmsx4ever but thats exactly the point ... this tutorial is NOT about animating a bouncing ball .... its about the fundamentals of the graph editor, and how to understand it. This tutorial does a great job to show how it works regardless of the software you use, the principles are the same? I cannot express the importance and pure power of animating in the graph editor ... in fact its the best way to have total control over animating anything, and by optimizing the graph you will be the best animators out there .... use of the graph editor is the only way to create international top class animations. Apologies .... i began 3D in the late eighties working in production in the West End of London using Softimage 3D and XSI .... alas XSI is no longer being developed, so am having to learn Maya ... lol .... i hate Maya.
On another note with regards to animation .... slightly on a tangent for all you up and coming 3D animators .... its all about reference and observation. If a client or supervisor asks you to animate a flag flying in the wind, the very first thing you do is go to youtube and search for flying flags to see how they move. Same with animals ... youtube them. If theres no good reference online then go to the local zoo and film them moving, and rotoscope over it if necessary? Actually this is the same with everything ... lighting .... dynamics .... whatever .... google search things, or go into the real world to observe and film stuff .... observation and attention to detail in with real world, thats your reference and will give you an edge over everyone else. I seldom see it in the real professional world of 3D ... which still to this day surprises me? Yeah blah blah ... im old school 3D ;)
Leigh Aston Holy crap we have so much reference at our fingertips these days to help us animate and light things ..... when i started in 3D the internet did not exist?!!?!?!?
This is actually a very good tutorial on defining function curve mechanics within the 3D work space. The importance of less keys in your function curves, and smooth function curves, is paramount. Plus the simplicity of directional movement makes animation so much easier .... ie only y and z movement, without any x movement, means you have less parameters to focus on getting right (this can help you so much) I would like to see how keyframes are added and deleted to just the y movement and not the x and z? Can you length vary the handles individually to left and right of the keyframe? I also want to know what all the other buttons do in the graph editor ... you didn't tell me what they all did so i'm left twitching?!?!?!?? Also of course, as was all too briefly stated at the very end of this tutorial, things really start to come together once you start to offset the keyframes, and animation becomes more organic. This should be part of this tutorial i think, This tutorial covers so very much about the graph editor .... and yet with less comedy in the narration (although i actually like that as it makes me laugh and is entertaining) there would be a heap load more time to cover the entire use of the graph editor :) I have been using Softimage 3D and XSI in the 3D animation industry in London for over 25 years, since it first began in the late eighties. I gotta switch to Maya as XSI is being phased out. Thanks to the Animation Methods guys i am picking Maya up pretty fast without even owning the software to play with. After all ... 3D is conceptual, and the method of 3D animation is the same across all 3D softwares .... its just where to find the right friggin button?!?!!?!? THANKYOU Animationmethods :)
@Daisy,....watch the video more than once.. it will become clear. In Maya there is 10 different ways to do anything in the program,..this guy is making you think. Use your imagination. :)
What time exactly on the video do I do this? Why does your school make you learn it on your own? I feel you should have a good IDEA as to what the graph editor is used for regardless of where you got confused.
This was helpful, except I was having trouble following along because I didn't understand what you were talking about when you spoke about turning on handles. I go under the Show window and everything in there in checked off, which is weird because you only have a few. But if Handles is check off, shouldn't I see them? .There are no Handles on any of the items I make or the free rig I downloaded. Maybe its because I'm using Maya 2014?
You probably don't need to worry about "handles". This ball rig was made to work only if you turn on "handles" in the viewport, only then will you see the ball controllers. Most rigs use "NURBS curves" as controllers. So you will have to turn on NURBS curves instead of "handles" to see your rigs controls.
should I use the graph editor to correct the animation values or its only good to make the animation on the viewport and just use the graph editor for tweaking purposes only to brush up the animation..please answer
Typically the viewport is for getting your main poses and large movements. If you need fine tweaking and small adjustments then the graph editor is better for that. But there are situations where animating on the graph editor is easier then feel free to use it. Which ever is faster for you.
What do you mean by the main controller? The controller that moves the character forward or the Global controller at the bottom of his feet? If your teacher means the global controller, then yes, I never animate that controller. But all controller on the character, I always do.
@@jjcosmio2225 You sure can! You get as much as you put in to learning the software. It's made for movies and games. If you know how to use it you can make your own movies or get a job with it.
I mentioned in the video that the move controllers for the graph editor are the same as in your viewport. But most of the time you can select a key in the graph editor, hold down SHIFT and middle mouse click and drag the key up and down or side to side. But I'll be making a more advanced graph editor video with more detail.
It is smooth and it does squash and stretch...so I'd say yeah! I didn't say it was realistic. This is a Graph Editor tutorial. Not animation. Check out my other videos for that. Thanks.
I like and dislike your video. This is because i'm a first time user of Maya & as homework from Uni I have been asked to learn what the Graph Editor is & when you start saying oh you need to go to this and that & then say oh no its simpler makes me confused & I just want a straight to the point answer rather than you confusing me & maybe some other people who are just starting out in maya
Bounces are pretty smooth. Not sure what you mean by "isn't smooth". There's nothing jittery about it. If you watch the whole thing I also explain how I don't want to make this over an hour lesson. This is to show how to use the Graph Editor. Not a timing, physics tutorial. You'll learn that later. After you understand the basics. You're welcome to add constructive criticism, not just point out negatives. Which I can do the same for most of your videos I saw on your channel.
AnimationMethods Fair but those are brand new videos and done by hand. I didn’t even know about the graph editor when I made them. I’m also not going into animation. I’m a vfx guy.
Sure, I understand. I also have plenty of animation videos where I do teach timing, poses, spacing, weight. This is for people such as yourself that are only interested in learning and understanding the graph editor. Hope it helps.
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i hope you don't delete these because these are gold
I don't know how the i always finish here when i am looking for a maya tutorial.
Thank you man
Must be the attraction to the dark side.
Go to edit->Transformation Tools->Move keys. Make sure you have already already "weighted the curves". Go to Curves->Weighted Curves. After this use the move tool. Use shift + middle click to drag it in a straight line
I just have to say that your video was FANTASTIC. I was always so confused or scared of animating in 3D due to lack of knowledge of the graph editor and now it's all so clear. Thank you making the concept so easy to understand :) .
+Jenna Matsalla The Graph Editor was a scary thing for me while in school too. Once I got the hang of the graph editor everything was so much smoother in my animation. But I'm glad you understand it now :) You will use this a lot in professional studios, so as long as you got the basics now you'll get better at it!
I'm an animator switching from a different program (my college used Cinema 4D, and now I need to use maya so I can get a real job haha) and I have been struggling to find tutorials on the keyboard shortcuts! I find the interface to be very challenging to get used to after using C4D, which is very basic. Thanks SO much for including keyboard shortcuts and tips to make things faster and more efficient! Best of all...I didn't have to pay for this tutorial. :)
This was very helpful. I now understand the graph editor much better. Thank you for making these tutorial videos.
You're welcome! Anytime.
Great work with the tutorials. Your explanations of how and why you choose to use Maya the way you do is very helpful. Keep them and your demos coming. Could you maybe show how you handle facial animations? Your insights on the walking cycles made a lot of sense.
Thanks
we need more animators like you willing to share the knowledge ! you are right, this videos are funny and monkeying around is something animators do all the time. keep the good work ! :)
LMAF lol This is probably the funniest tutorial i have ever seen. Chatting and teaching in the same time! hahaha .Fun and useful . Learned a lot. THX!!
it is educational and funny at the same time Idk why I have to pay my school thousands of dollars when I didnt even learn sht on my first day.
+Benjie may-ag I kind of felt the same way. That's the whole reason as to why I set out to create these tutorials. Make them more simplistic and easy to understand. Not follow in my schools footsteps. I did learn a lot from school but could've been improved if teachers actually made it more enjoyable.
Yes I don't understand why these schools exist, oh ya to rob us 😆
Ah same man my teacher just zips through the explanation of this tool animation
Thanks .. wow u made this so clear.You are the best teacher ever!!! et make ur video so interesting & funny.. It's great u make them funny coz maya can get technical and boring .
LOL, I literally dozed off after a few laughs. And you go on and on for 40 minutes just about the freaking graph editor.
Hey Dave, if you give some "Spacing" there, the weight of the ball would be more pronounced (i.e. the spacing at the crest of those parabolic curves would be less compared to when hitting the ground). And if possible, hold down the 'squash' pose by a couple more frames than the stretched ones.
You doing a wonderful job, keep it up.
Thanks,
Ari
This is the proper way to do a tutorial!
Thank you so much for making it so understandable and fun, I kept laughing! You are a natural at teaching :)
This teach people the very basics about the graph editor but not much about animating a realistic ball. Because of these issues. First and foremost this ball looks like it's alive. Just because it doesn't lose any energy/height with each bounce and it doesn't have enough hang time and squash time as Arindam Mondal already pointed out. It's a really easy fix though to get the height to diminish with time. Just select the Y curve and then select all it's keys and then use the lattice transform in the editor to make all the values shrink down towards the end. And to make more hang time and longer squash time just add frames before and after the apex key or change to weighted tangents and pull those apart horizontally. I think that you should do a follow up on this tutorial. Where you go into more detail on how to use it to make more advance stuff like cycles and coping and pasting keys. And while your at it, make a really good one on the use of the dope sheet editor as well. I find that it's really hard to find a good tutorial on the use of the dope sheet. And be sure to tell the difference in the dope sheet editor between having the scene summary option on and off. If you have already done these I apologize for not checking before I wrote this.
Thanks for the message. The video was only made to cover the basics of the graph editor, as the title suggests, not so much on animating a bouncing ball. But I agree with you about adding the details and making a more advanced lesson. But first you must learn the basics. I don't have a lesson dedicated to the Dope Sheet as of yet. But thanks for the suggestions :) Check our website for all video lessons.
tmsx4ever but thats exactly the point ... this tutorial is NOT about animating a bouncing ball .... its about the fundamentals of the graph editor, and how to understand it. This tutorial does a great job to show how it works regardless of the software you use, the principles are the same?
I cannot express the importance and pure power of animating in the graph editor ... in fact its the best way to have total control over animating anything, and by optimizing the graph you will be the best animators out there .... use of the graph editor is the only way to create international top class animations.
Apologies .... i began 3D in the late eighties working in production in the West End of London using Softimage 3D and XSI .... alas XSI is no longer being developed, so am having to learn Maya ... lol .... i hate Maya.
use the same tools as in the viewport. Move Tool and rescale tool works in the Graph editor.
Thank you very much for posting such useful videos.
On another note with regards to animation .... slightly on a tangent for all you up and coming 3D animators .... its all about reference and observation. If a client or supervisor asks you to animate a flag flying in the wind, the very first thing you do is go to youtube and search for flying flags to see how they move. Same with animals ... youtube them. If theres no good reference online then go to the local zoo and film them moving, and rotoscope over it if necessary?
Actually this is the same with everything ... lighting .... dynamics .... whatever .... google search things, or go into the real world to observe and film stuff .... observation and attention to detail in with real world, thats your reference and will give you an edge over everyone else. I seldom see it in the real professional world of 3D ... which still to this day surprises me?
Yeah blah blah ... im old school 3D ;)
Leigh Aston Holy crap we have so much reference at our fingertips these days to help us animate and light things ..... when i started in 3D the internet did not exist?!!?!?!?
Press 's' to set a keyframe or select the curve in the graph editor and right-click and select "Insert Key".
You made that so much fun...
This is actually a very good tutorial on defining function curve mechanics within the 3D work space. The importance of less keys in your function curves, and smooth function curves, is paramount. Plus the simplicity of directional movement makes animation so much easier .... ie only y and z movement, without any x movement, means you have less parameters to focus on getting right (this can help you so much)
I would like to see how keyframes are added and deleted to just the y movement and not the x and z?
Can you length vary the handles individually to left and right of the keyframe?
I also want to know what all the other buttons do in the graph editor ... you didn't tell me what they all did so i'm left twitching?!?!?!??
Also of course, as was all too briefly stated at the very end of this tutorial, things really start to come together once you start to offset the keyframes, and animation becomes more organic. This should be part of this tutorial i think,
This tutorial covers so very much about the graph editor .... and yet with less comedy in the narration (although i actually like that as it makes me laugh and is entertaining) there would be a heap load more time to cover the entire use of the graph editor :)
I have been using Softimage 3D and XSI in the 3D animation industry in London for over 25 years, since it first began in the late eighties. I gotta switch to Maya as XSI is being phased out.
Thanks to the Animation Methods guys i am picking Maya up pretty fast without even owning the software to play with. After all ... 3D is conceptual, and the method of 3D animation is the same across all 3D softwares .... its just where to find the right friggin button?!?!!?!?
THANKYOU Animationmethods :)
This guy makes it so fun
Awww. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
@Daisy,....watch the video more than once.. it will become clear. In Maya there is 10 different ways to do anything in the program,..this guy is making you think. Use your imagination. :)
@Andrewty07 No problem. More coming your way soon!
What time exactly on the video do I do this? Why does your school make you learn it on your own? I feel you should have a good IDEA as to what the graph editor is used for regardless of where you got confused.
This is very useful! thanks for sharing:)
do you know how i can copy and paste a keyframe for my walk cycle.
Right click on the keyframe and do a copy. Then right click again and do a PASTE>PASTE on the timeline.
This was super helpful, thank you so much!
This was helpful, except I was having trouble following along because I didn't understand what you were talking about when you spoke about turning on handles. I go under the Show window and everything in there in checked off, which is weird because you only have a few. But if Handles is check off, shouldn't I see them? .There are no Handles on any of the items I make or the free rig I downloaded. Maybe its because I'm using Maya 2014?
You probably don't need to worry about "handles". This ball rig was made to work only if you turn on "handles" in the viewport, only then will you see the ball controllers. Most rigs use "NURBS curves" as controllers. So you will have to turn on NURBS curves instead of "handles" to see your rigs controls.
Ahh, I gotcha. Thanks for responding :)
Any way to lock the other lines when you add a key? Lets say I want to add a key on Translate x and not add one to Rotate x, how would I do that?
thank you so much , it helped me a lot, God bless you, #radhaviraniandkrutika, #krutikakidsworld
i can select the handles but i dont know how to move them!
How do I select more than one curve...... Please
On the left side of the graph editor you'll have to hold ctrl to select multiple channels.
AnimationMethods I have tryed that but it seems my graph editor can't drag select..... Thanks anyway
You should be able to drag select over your keys in the graph editor. You might have to reset your Maya preferences/settings if it doesn't allow you.
AnimationMethods yes... But what exactly should I change in the preference
@Epoxielol I'm actually working on a video series for Facial Animation tutorials. They will be coming soon on my channel!
Hmm how do you add points on the graph unless you have to do it on the key frame section ???
nice tut ;)
hope u make the "how to use the graph editor on characters" tutorial like u said in the tut ;)
btw what did u do to train the editor?
should I use the graph editor to correct the animation values or its only good to make the animation on the viewport and just use the graph editor for tweaking purposes only to brush up the animation..please answer
Typically the viewport is for getting your main poses and large movements. If you need fine tweaking and small adjustments then the graph editor is better for that. But there are situations where animating on the graph editor is easier then feel free to use it. Which ever is faster for you.
I can't really understand why 7 thumbed down, it is a perfect lesson. keep on Master!
maybe cause they had spent days to undestand what we did in 40 min, by this perfect tut.
ur an amazing tutor ... thanks a lot for taking the time to explain these basics
What do you mean by the main controller? The controller that moves the character forward or the Global controller at the bottom of his feet? If your teacher means the global controller, then yes, I never animate that controller. But all controller on the character, I always do.
use the maya help...work through the graph editor section and test everything out ;)
thx dude ;)
Thanks!
@naginder10 Thank you for that!
NICE!
my name is david.
Thanks allot, Also for the quick reply :D
These videos are allmost an hour and in hd. must take several days just to upload it xD
Just from the voice.. Are you mexican? Just a guess
Thanks VATO!
+Ron Gutierrez Orale!
awesome , grand salute :like:
@sebcastilho Visit CreativeCrash website. They have a lot of free rigs.
bro lip sync another method plz
Hallo David , how about a character Animation ;)
+Stoyan Atanasov I got you covered there too. www.animationmethods.com/animation
Ok I will check it tnx :) .
Bro your tutorial was very helpful but try to make it shot and don't deviate from the topic and dont drag it too much
the answer is no....right? hahaha that made me laugh
i cant able to select keys plz help me
Shift + middle mouse hold and drag on your timeline or do it on your dope sheet window.
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Are you alive??
still here
@@AnimationMethods I have one question
Can I learn maya and then create his own cartoon film on TH-cam like job???
@@jjcosmio2225 You sure can! You get as much as you put in to learning the software. It's made for movies and games. If you know how to use it you can make your own movies or get a job with it.
@@AnimationMethods hello from Russia
@@AnimationMethods or can I take job like 3d animator as a migrant... I have a dream to live in USA... USA always wins!!!
you needed to show more how to move the translate lines in the graph editor rather than showing what u already did
I mentioned in the video that the move controllers for the graph editor are the same as in your viewport. But most of the time you can select a key in the graph editor, hold down SHIFT and middle mouse click and drag the key up and down or side to side. But I'll be making a more advanced graph editor video with more detail.
you're funny dude!
You think this ball is a smooth squash and stretch animation? LOL okay
It is smooth and it does squash and stretch...so I'd say yeah! I didn't say it was realistic. This is a Graph Editor tutorial. Not animation. Check out my other videos for that. Thanks.
I like and dislike your video. This is because i'm a first time user of Maya & as homework from Uni I have been asked to learn what the Graph Editor is & when you start saying oh you need to go to this and that & then say oh no its simpler makes me confused & I just want a straight to the point answer rather than you confusing me & maybe some other people who are just starting out in maya
minimaya inside maya lol
lol
That isn't smooth. It's the same overtime. You didn't add any physics to it. You did a poor job.
Bounces are pretty smooth. Not sure what you mean by "isn't smooth". There's nothing jittery about it. If you watch the whole thing I also explain how I don't want to make this over an hour lesson. This is to show how to use the Graph Editor. Not a timing, physics tutorial. You'll learn that later. After you understand the basics. You're welcome to add constructive criticism, not just point out negatives. Which I can do the same for most of your videos I saw on your channel.
AnimationMethods Fair but those are brand new videos and done by hand. I didn’t even know about the graph editor when I made them. I’m also not going into animation. I’m a vfx guy.
Sure, I understand. I also have plenty of animation videos where I do teach timing, poses, spacing, weight. This is for people such as yourself that are only interested in learning and understanding the graph editor. Hope it helps.
clown
how do you adjust how large of numbers the y axes shows in the graph editor?
In really, how do you do the thing you do at 06:17 or something. When you change the thing on left side
nvm got my question answered >_