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About to power through your entire rigging tutorial today. Have modelled my most clean and prettiest character yet but I'm not 100% experienced with facial rigging. Wish me luck!
thank you so much !, feedback like this really helps me to keep going 😊... Would you like to join my community and get rewards like my project files? You can support me here and www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife - And Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Thanks so much for the feedback Lillian, it really helps moral to make more, as they take so long to make! if you would like to get all the assets I uses in my tutorials etc you can support the channel for as little as $2 a month - visit: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife - ALSO Come and show your work in the private facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
Your welcome, I only recently set it up, I'm looking for patrons I can treat like vips, form a private discord possibly, I'm open to suggestions from any paying patrons on how we build it. There are three level tiers, the first one wont include any files, but the 2 and 3 will. I'll even be building custom assets and character rigs only available to you guys. You can email me on info@animatorartistlife any questions and suggestions!
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful! I'd love to se what you have created, come and show us in the private Facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
Thanks for the feedback much appreciated 😊 I'd love to se what you have created, come and show us in the private Facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
Dude, you saved my ass! Are these tuts old, yes. But they are clear, concise and easy to understand. All info is easy to extrapolate forward. Thank you!
Thank you , it really helps me, much appreciated 😊... Would you like to join my community and get rewards like my project files? You can support me here and www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife - And Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Thanks so much for the feedback, it really helps boost moral and for me to keep going ! :) Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Yes it definitely helps thanks. If you rig your character come and show your work in the private facebook group 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
@@MohammadAli Thanks!, much appreciated, this is a brand new channel, I will be adding more free tutorials on a range of different skills and software for all artists and freelancers
@@AnimatorArtistLife i will be following every video Plus it will be a big help if you mention the shortcuts to be used and add some marvelous designer tutorials
@@MohammadAli Awesome thanks, you'll notice in this first video that's exactly what I did, I show the keys I'm pressing for important shortcuts, like ctrl + D for duplicate, Insert key for pivot snapping etc :)
Thanks so much! it really helps my moral and energy to continue to make more, as they take a lot of work, but I love hearing how they help 🙂, did you make it to the end? thats awesome. if you want to support the channel and get rewards like Maya files visit: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife and come and show your work in the private facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
@@AnimatorArtistLife currently on video 4. Facial rigging. You don't know how much you helped. Rigging has been my weakness, couldn't animate what I create. Just joined the Facebook group. I'll share all my progress there. Thanks again for an excellent tutorial. Better than those on advanced skeleton channel. Anyway....back to work!!
Hey, let me help you, video starts at 0:00 😉, or if you want to skip how to install it ... go to 2 mins in. I wanted to make this a thorough training series, so I cover everything from initial install. thanks for watching!
@@AnimatorArtistLife solid work, please make an update some day :) might help your reach and newbies like me your efforts for us are valuable in the extreme.
hi, yes there is a menu in advanced skeleton in the tools section, you can connect an AS rig over a range of other rigs, from unreal, Character creator, Daz, and others I now have a discord community channel just launched if you want to join: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Hi Bob, make sure you are not selecting the centre line of vertices when running the symmetry command. But before you do that, in a front camera select all the vertices down the center line and snap them to the grid at zero, make sure all center line vertices are x=0 and snapped to the grid,
@@AnimatorArtistLife @Animator Artist Life Thankyou, yes I have checked this to be exact. All vertices are aligned to the centre grid line at Zero world space, and I use front cam to select. Really stumped on why it doesn't copy to the other side, although saying that, it does work with primitive objects. Therefore it is model relative. I got a character from c3d and it is the most unprofessional trash I've ever worked with in my life... Anything C3D produces can easily be made better without it. C3d is supposed to speed up the creative pipeline, but in fact it does nothing but make problems which slow the user down lol I'll have to make my own character too. :)
Ran into a problem that took me a while to fix so I'll share the soloution for anyone with the same issues. I cut my model in half to fix the topology and after mirroring I found that half my vertices were off. Make sure to have your pivot point in the middle of your character and also have your middle vertices set on 0 on the x plane, then duplicated special and use the combine tool to be symmetrised
Hi Harrison, you always need to make sure your center line of verts are snapped exactly on the X plane to zero. You can go to a front view select them all and scale in a few times, then just hold the X key for grid snapping and snap them all together. And yes your pivot point should always be on exactly world zero. if you have moved your geo, you can use the INSERT key to snap your pivot point back to the grid center. Then just use the Mirror tool with a low weld setting
After the "ModelClean" action, one shoe is completely black. All parts, that is. The shoe, the laces and the shoe tongue. On the other shoe, only the shoe tongue is black. Whar can i do? Thank you for your help!
Hey, this just means your normals are reversed (basically its inside out).. probably came from mirroring and negative scaling. Its an easy fix though... just select the black geometry and under your modelling menu go to > Mesh display > Reverse to reverse the normals back again the right way.. Let me know this fixes it for you, thanks
@@AnimatorArtistLife Hello! I have the same issue but the reverse won't work because the black areas are more like spots, not faces. I've tried unlock normals, set to face-> soften edges, soften/harden edges-> change angle. Nothing is working, Do you have any tips, please?
Thanks for sharing this helpful video. I have a question please. How to add facial rig to character that is NOT rigged with Advanced skeleton.(ex:Mixamo body rigged) There is an option do this job in Advanced skeleton section "Face" called "Advanced" If you can explain it please💝💝💝
I'm having an issue where I subdivide my mesh or combine it to new geometry, my rig becomes very laggy when I begin to pose it. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi, You should never subdivide your mesh too much it will make it lag for sure, leave that for render time. You can select your geometry and press the "3" key to smooth, the render. Or set up a smooth ode with a slider connected to the subdivision levels, so you only animate on zero, then up to 1 or 2 for rendering. Also usually you should not combine your meshes either, it makes it more difficult to add materials and textures you lose the flexibility, I hope this helps I now have a discord community channel just launched if you want to join: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
I am using animation from a Rokoko suit. That suit creates IK Handle animation. The Advanced Skeleton rig seems to work with an FK animation. Question - how do I make a model rigged with AS to use the IK handles that AS creates, to match it up to the Rokoko animation and animate in Maya? VERY frustrated trying to paint weights that match FK to IK and I think I'm missing something. Please advise.
Hi, I've never used a Rokoko suit, so can't help with that specifically. But Advanced Skeleton rigs are fully FK and IK, you can switch and blend between the two easily. Select the cross-shaped control next to the arms and change the IK/FK value to 0 or 10 and you will see it blend, and swap out the controllers for you. as for weight painting, I'm not quite sure what your issue is, you paint the weights on the joints, not the controllers, so the weighting would be exactly the same whether you are in FK or IK mode, they do not have separate weights. I hope this helps, thanks
@@AnimatorArtistLife I’ve found the problem. It’s some kind of the same name like “belt_1 ,belt_2” I have tried rename it but it still the same so I separated it from model and add it later after clean geo. I have research how to fix that problem and I have found that lots of people have the same problem here and nobody know the answer.
Hey, that means that all the vertices on the center line are not at exactly zero on the X plane, they are not snapped to the grid. If you go to a front view and wire frame, zoom right in, maybe around the nose area you will probably see one vertice off center Its easy to fix 1) Go to a front view camera and hot the “4” key for wireframe mode (make sure grid is on) 2) Select ALL the vertices down the center line 3) Double click the move transform tool to bring up the options 4) Go down to Move snap settings and TURN OFF “Retain component spacing This allows vertices to be snapped separately from each other 5) move the selected vertices just in the X a little to active X only moving 6) Then hold down X key for grid snapping, middle mouse click the center grid line and they will all snap into place on the X only This will snap ALL the verts to the center line and now the symmetry tool will work You can do a single vertice at a time, but this is much quicker Hope that helps 🙂
Hi, if you are applying for rigging roles then of course they want to see your rigging skills, how you built a rig from scratch. If you are applying for character animator roles, then it doesn't matter, they are not interested in how the character was rigged, just the acting, body mechanics, weight of your animation. Thanks
Thanks for these great tutorials. My shaders changed & are now lighter & washed out. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Tried reloading the files but that didn't work. Thank you.
Hi, glad you liked them. re your shaders, are you using Arnold? if so the materials do look washed out in the viewport but render ok. in the mini icon box above each viewport view there is an option to change the exposure or gamma of the viewport try that... or to properly fix it, look into your colour management preferences. I mostly use Vray which doesn't have this issue. did you make it to the end of the series? thats excellent. Come and show your work in the private facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife ... and if you want to support the channel and get rewards like Maya files visit: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife
Did you make a tutorial about how you made your light group? Or is there a way we can download the character rig you made? I'd like to know how you made those eye sparkles that are lighting on the eyes!
Hey, no I haven't made a lighting lesson yet, it was a fairly simple 3 point light set up.. if you google three-point lighting you'll get lots of info. This has approx 4 lights I think. I generally use HDRi dome with hdri lighting image, plus some extra light. One position fairly close to the face for the eyes, You can use the light relationship manager to tell this light to only affect the eyes or any geo you want . If you need more help you can join the private facebook group 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/ also sorry this is a private rig I built not for giving away, thanks
What happens if I select clean model, it creates a separate group called uvAssign with a selection of objects. Does that mean my model isnt clean of problems with the uv?
Hi, the clean model feature in Advanced skeleton, effectively exports your model as an obj then reimports it, so all pivot points, history are cleared and all geo set to world zero. It remebers all your UV layout and materials but it doesn't touch or fix any UV issues you have. You need to manually fix them. If you need more help you can join the private facebook group 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
Hi sorry for the late reply, you should delete all history before doing your UVs, thanks. Ive started a new discord community of you'd like to join? discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Hi, sorry unfortunately not, as I built this character for personal projects and I sell still poses in an online shop: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/797836809/png-girl-clipart-cute-girl-clip-art-for There are a huge range of characters available online if you don't have any only places like turbosquid , CGtrader etc, thanks for watching my tutorials.
You can rig asymmetrical characters. For the body and limbs if they are not symmetrical, like a weird creature, you can select the limbs and add a label in the advanced skeleton labels menu of "NO MIRROR" then you place each limb separately for each side, making sure no mirror label is applied to each. For an asymmetrical face, please see the advanced skeleton youtube channel, the creator has a video on this, I will try and do one at some point also, thanks
really thank you for your video, I would like to ask a question. On this video 6:35, it found a couple of vertices which weren't symmetrical, and I tried the same steps as you did on this video to try to symmetrize those but after doing all this, and check again, it still shows the same vertices non symmetrical. It seems the symmetrize functions didn't work, do I miss any things?
Hi, that is strange, try making sure all the vertices on your center line are snapped exactly to zero in X to the grid. Also try deleting history on the geo first. Lets us know if you get it sorted, thanks
Hi, yes you can, Xgen is completely separate to Advanced Skeleton, you can use any hair system you like, then import your hair descriptions, or even scalp geometry etc, I would keep the Xgen separately in another file perhaps, and only use for render times. Have a search on youtube for referencing or importing xgen to your rigs. 🙂
2번째글 이전에는 바디 선택하고 피봇 x스냅으로 grid에 붙임 어드밴스 스켈레톤 이 자식 네이밍에 매우 민감함. 같은 거 두개가 있다? ㅇㅇ 나죽을게 시전함. 나도 suit 2개 있어가지고 안 됬었던 거였음!! 아아악 ㄴ마야 script editor에 들어가면 오류 뭐뜨는지 체크가능하니까 함 봐봐! 6:50 모델 체크-시메트리하는데 continue anyway 나와도 ok 누르면 잘못된게 보인다! 이제 대칭하고 싶은, 잘못된 부분 선택해주고 modeling-edit mesh-syemmtrize창에 들어가서 해결해주면 된다. ㄴ flip이나 symmtrize는 둘다 방법이 같다. 버텍스로 메인으로 옮길거 선택하고, 엣지로 거울 중심축 선택해준 다음에 쨔란! 완성! -------------------- 9:50 내가 궁금했던 눈! 이거는 파일을 다 남기셨다. 동공 파일이 별개로 존재해야 수축과 이완을 할 수 있다나 뭐라나 ------------------- 대박사건대박사건 model clean이 obj의 히스토리 값 전부 지워주는거랑 피봇을 전부 0,0,0 grid으로 맞춰주는기능이래
Hey, you can rig asymmetrical characters with AS, the creator has a video on it here: ua-cam.com/video/8EtJZPWzyMA/v-deo.html Also, if you just have some small objects like socks and hair that are not symmetrical, you can skin these after, you can select each sock and either >skin cage > copy weights, or select just the deformation joints, or joints close to the sock and bind skin. just like I do with the hair in these lessons. You can even just parent the hair to the head control if its short and doesn't need to deform 🙂
Hi Xinyi, sorry this model is not available to the public. I made this for my own projects. But I have a completely free course on how to model your own: VIST: ua-cam.com/play/PLIV47uRi3f2Ub9INK89HnmkLgmNYjvcL6.html
Hey, it's lifetime free but for non commercial use. You can get a freelancers indie license which is also lifetime one off cost, then you can use in any client projects.
Hi, sounds like you don't have the geometry selected. Are you selecting only one piece of geometry in the viewport before running the check? Make sure only select one piece and its in object mode, not face or vertices selection,... right click the geometry and select object mode or F8 till the model wireframe goes green
Hi, thank so much, i from Italy in quaranten, closed in the home, very terribol. Sorry when i can find the same model litol girl you ARE USING IN THIS VIDEO? tHANCK SO MUCH
Hey sorry to here that, we are all in a second lockdown also, but at least we can carry on animating 😉 ... regarding the girl character unfortunately I cannot give it away, its my own character I built for projects. You can find free characters online, or even better if you want to learn to 3d model and build your own character, I have just started a new series of FREE tutorials on it here: ua-cam.com/video/JaeTHW85miI/v-deo.html
Hey, can you tell me more exactly what is not working? is the mesh appearing, does the rig controls appear? I use these rigs on multiple computers and even send to my freelance animators and they work fine. If you have referenced in the model, you need to make sure you copy everything to that other computer. Its best to save a "published" version of your rig. you can use the publish feature in AS or import all references, delete skin cage etc and save as a new file
Sorry it's not available. I was thinking of selling it if there was enough interest? If your interested, I also have a blog with free articles I'm building at animatorartistlife.com
@@AnimatorArtistLife oh nice to know, thanks ^^ BTW, have you tried animating in Unreal Engine 5.4? They are adding tons of cool things, would love to know the opinion of a pro animator (I'm still beginning my journey as 3D artist/animator)
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🔥🔥🔥Would you like access to the assets and project files I use in my tutorials, from Maya and After effects files, Plus my new Body mechanics animation rigs? Behind-the-scenes demos of real client projects? AND have access to me to ask questions and get FREE advice? Support my channel at: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife and join me in building a VIP group. Thank you, I REALLY appreciate any support, from David 😊
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Comment below which languages would be most helpful, I can only do a few as it is expensive to translate, thank you
About to power through your entire rigging tutorial today. Have modelled my most clean and prettiest character yet but I'm not 100% experienced with facial rigging. Wish me luck!
Good luck, you wont need it though, its fairly straightforward, and thank you so much for watching my tutorials, I hope you enjoy them. :)
Great tutorial, really appreciate the intention to include things that go wrong
Literally the best tutorial on the internet. Love the problem solving and how well it's everything explained!!!!! Amazing!!!!!
thank you so much !, feedback like this really helps me to keep going 😊... Would you like to join my community and get rewards like my project files? You can support me here and www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife - And Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
I can't believe your tutorials are free on UA-cam. There are courses on paid sites that aren't as good. Thanks for your generosity.
Thanks so much for the feedback Lillian, it really helps moral to make more, as they take so long to make! if you would like to get all the assets I uses in my tutorials etc you can support the channel for as little as $2 a month - visit: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife -
ALSO Come and show your work in the private facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
@@AnimatorArtistLife Good to know. That's a reasonable price and I'll check it out.
Your welcome, I only recently set it up, I'm looking for patrons I can treat like vips, form a private discord possibly, I'm open to suggestions from any paying patrons on how we build it. There are three level tiers, the first one wont include any files, but the 2 and 3 will. I'll even be building custom assets and character rigs only available to you guys. You can email me on info@animatorartistlife any questions and suggestions!
In depth, well put together and very helpful! Cheers
Much appreciated, another 4 videos in this series will be added soon.
i appreciate that you work through the problems with us
You're welcome, thanks for watching
Fantastic job on the video. Clear and straightforward. Very much appreciated.
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful! I'd love to se what you have created, come and show us in the private Facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
One of the best and useful Video I ever seen. Most Recommended video for Beginners. Thankyou so much for your Detailed Explanation❤ ❤
thank you so much !! I also have a blog with free articles I'm building at animatorartistlife.com
Thank you for sharing this awesome video! Very inspiring!
You're welcome :)
Thank you for the easy to follow tutorials.
Thanks for the feedback much appreciated 😊 I'd love to se what you have created, come and show us in the private Facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
Dude, you saved my ass! Are these tuts old, yes. But they are clear, concise and easy to understand. All info is easy to extrapolate forward. Thank you!
Thank you , it really helps me, much appreciated 😊... Would you like to join my community and get rewards like my project files? You can support me here and www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife - And Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Thank you so much, you explain this really well, thanks for the bonus tip in video 1. Time for video 2 now! Your awesome!
Thanks so much for the feedback, it really helps boost moral and for me to keep going ! :) Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit:
discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
Really useful. Thanks for posting!!
Thanks, much appreciated!
Its great Tutorial , its so easy and clear now for rigging thank you sooo,, much .
You're welcome, thanks for the feedback, it really helps me. I have a new series on character modelling coming soon! 🙂
Thank you for keeping in the errors. I agree.
Yes it definitely helps thanks. If you rig your character come and show your work in the private facebook group 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
Great video, incredibly comprehensive, thumbs up and subscribed !
Thanks @Maya Guy, the rest of this series will be added very soon.
Already subbed
@@MohammadAli Thanks!, much appreciated, this is a brand new channel, I will be adding more free tutorials on a range of different skills and software for all artists and freelancers
@@AnimatorArtistLife i will be following every video
Plus it will be a big help if you mention the shortcuts to be used and add some marvelous designer tutorials
@@MohammadAli Awesome thanks, you'll notice in this first video that's exactly what I did, I show the keys I'm pressing for important shortcuts, like ctrl + D for duplicate, Insert key for pivot snapping etc :)
thank for share your tutorial
You're welcome! .. more coming soon
VERY NICE
Thanks, glad you liked it.
this is great!! i would love to learn how to do this.. thanks for the free tutorials.. see ya around buddy
Thanks... Watch all the videos and you can easily do it! 🙂
Thank you so much. Glad I found this channel. You have a new sub. Let me watch the rest of the tutroals. Have a great week
Thanks so much! it really helps my moral and energy to continue to make more, as they take a lot of work, but I love hearing how they help 🙂,
did you make it to the end? thats awesome.
if you want to support the channel and get rewards like Maya files visit: 👉 www.patreon.com/animatorartistlife
and come and show your work in the private facebook group: 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife
@@AnimatorArtistLife currently on video 4. Facial rigging. You don't know how much you helped. Rigging has been my weakness, couldn't animate what I create. Just joined the Facebook group. I'll share all my progress there. Thanks again for an excellent tutorial. Better than those on advanced skeleton channel. Anyway....back to work!!
Thanks again, really great to hear these are helping , see you in the group! 😊
nice tutorial
Thanks! :)
i was waiting when you gonna start)
Hey, let me help you, video starts at 0:00 😉, or if you want to skip how to install it ... go to 2 mins in. I wanted to make this a thorough training series, so I cover everything from initial install. thanks for watching!
@@AnimatorArtistLife i was wrong) you did an amazing job! Thsnk you so much!
maybe audio can be fixed, wash it with a noise gate/limiter clean it up, great tutorial , it will reach even more with good audio
Thanks!.. These were my first ever tutorials, I since have a better mic, and nvdia broadcast with much better quality
@@AnimatorArtistLife solid work, please make an update some day :) might help your reach and newbies like me your efforts for us are valuable in the extreme.
Really helpful
Thanks for watching! 😀
This is an amazing tool. It's possible to add the control rig to an existing skeleton with skin weights?
hi, yes there is a menu in advanced skeleton in the tools section, you can connect an AS rig over a range of other rigs, from unreal, Character creator, Daz, and others
I now have a discord community channel just launched if you want to join: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
No matter what I do, despite all vertices in the centre line being zero, there's a mouth area which never becomes symmetrical for some reason
Hi Bob, make sure you are not selecting the centre line of vertices when running the symmetry command.
But before you do that, in a front camera select all the vertices down the center line and snap them to the grid at zero, make sure all center line vertices are x=0 and snapped to the grid,
@@AnimatorArtistLife @Animator Artist Life Thankyou, yes I have checked this to be exact. All vertices are aligned to the centre grid line at Zero world space, and I use front cam to select. Really stumped on why it doesn't copy to the other side, although saying that, it does work with primitive objects. Therefore it is model relative. I got a character from c3d and it is the most unprofessional trash I've ever worked with in my life... Anything C3D produces can easily be made better without it. C3d is supposed to speed up the creative pipeline, but in fact it does nothing but make problems which slow the user down lol
I'll have to make my own character too. :)
Ran into a problem that took me a while to fix so I'll share the soloution for anyone with the same issues. I cut my model in half to fix the topology and after mirroring I found that half my vertices were off. Make sure to have your pivot point in the middle of your character and also have your middle vertices set on 0 on the x plane, then duplicated special and use the combine tool to be symmetrised
Hi Harrison, you always need to make sure your center line of verts are snapped exactly on the X plane to zero. You can go to a front view select them all and scale in a few times, then just hold the X key for grid snapping and snap them all together. And yes your pivot point should always be on exactly world zero. if you have moved your geo, you can use the INSERT key to snap your pivot point back to the grid center. Then just use the Mirror tool with a low weld setting
After the "ModelClean" action, one shoe is completely black. All parts, that is. The shoe, the laces and the shoe tongue. On the other shoe, only the shoe tongue is black. Whar can i do? Thank you for your help!
Hey, this just means your normals are reversed (basically its inside out).. probably came from mirroring and negative scaling. Its an easy fix though... just select the black geometry and under your modelling menu go to > Mesh display > Reverse to reverse the normals back again the right way.. Let me know this fixes it for you, thanks
@@AnimatorArtistLife Hello! I have the same issue but the reverse won't work because the black areas are more like spots, not faces. I've tried unlock normals, set to face-> soften edges, soften/harden edges-> change angle. Nothing is working, Do you have any tips, please?
Thanks for sharing this helpful video.
I have a question please.
How to add facial rig to character that is NOT rigged with Advanced skeleton.(ex:Mixamo body rigged)
There is an option do this job in Advanced skeleton section "Face" called "Advanced"
If you can explain it please💝💝💝
Thanks very much, you are welcome.
I've left you a reply on this question on the other video. Thanks
thank you
You're welcome, thanks for commenting. Have you joined my new Discord community of animators and artists? visit: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
I'm having an issue where I subdivide my mesh or combine it to new geometry, my rig becomes very laggy when I begin to pose it. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi, You should never subdivide your mesh too much it will make it lag for sure, leave that for render time. You can select your geometry and press the "3" key to smooth, the render. Or set up a smooth ode with a slider connected to the subdivision levels, so you only animate on zero, then up to 1 or 2 for rendering.
Also usually you should not combine your meshes either, it makes it more difficult to add materials and textures you lose the flexibility, I hope this helps
I now have a discord community channel just launched if you want to join: discord.gg/g6REvhbWGP 🙂
I am using animation from a Rokoko suit. That suit creates IK Handle animation. The Advanced Skeleton rig seems to work with an FK animation. Question - how do I make a model rigged with AS to use the IK handles that AS creates, to match it up to the Rokoko animation and animate in Maya? VERY frustrated trying to paint weights that match FK to IK and I think I'm missing something. Please advise.
Hi, I've never used a Rokoko suit, so can't help with that specifically. But Advanced Skeleton rigs are fully FK and IK, you can switch and blend between the two easily. Select the cross-shaped control next to the arms and change the IK/FK value to 0 or 10 and you will see it blend, and swap out the controllers for you.
as for weight painting, I'm not quite sure what your issue is, you paint the weights on the joints, not the controllers, so the weighting would be exactly the same whether you are in FK or IK mode, they do not have separate weights. I hope this helps, thanks
When I clean the geo i got a error. It's said "Invalid expression type for IF test condition." Do you know how to fix it?
Hey sorry for the late reply. Can you check ALL your geometry has unique names, even polysphere01 etc, everything needs its own unique name
@@AnimatorArtistLife I’ve found the problem. It’s some kind of the same name like “belt_1 ,belt_2” I have tried rename it but it still the same so I separated it from model and add it later after clean geo. I have research how to fix that problem and I have found that lots of people have the same problem here and nobody know the answer.
sir, i've tried to used the symmetry part but it didnt work, "Warning: Mesh is not symmetrical around the selected edge", is there any way?
Hey, that means that all the vertices on the center line are not at exactly zero on the X plane, they are not snapped to the grid.
If you go to a front view and wire frame, zoom right in, maybe around the nose area you will probably see one vertice off center
Its easy to fix
1) Go to a front view camera and hot the “4” key for wireframe mode (make sure grid is on)
2) Select ALL the vertices down the center line
3) Double click the move transform tool to bring up the options
4) Go down to Move snap settings and TURN OFF “Retain component spacing This allows vertices to be snapped separately from each other
5) move the selected vertices just in the X a little to active X only moving
6) Then hold down X key for grid snapping, middle mouse click the center grid line and they will all snap into place on the X only
This will snap ALL the verts to the center line and now the symmetry tool will work
You can do a single vertice at a time, but this is much quicker
Hope that helps
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@@AnimatorArtistLife thank you so much! i just mirror back and it fix!
@@pehnutbota Awesome, glad that fixed it for you, I hope you enjoy the rest of the training
Sir, for job is that company allow us to make rigg demoreel using advance skeleton or they prefer manual rigg
Hi, if you are applying for rigging roles then of course they want to see your rigging skills, how you built a rig from scratch.
If you are applying for character animator roles, then it doesn't matter, they are not interested in how the character was rigged, just the acting, body mechanics, weight of your animation.
Thanks
@@AnimatorArtistLife thank you
Thanks for these great tutorials. My shaders changed & are now lighter & washed out. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Tried reloading the files but that didn't work. Thank you.
Hi, glad you liked them. re your shaders, are you using Arnold? if so the materials do look washed out in the viewport but render ok. in the mini icon box above each viewport view there is an option to change the exposure or gamma of the viewport try that... or to properly fix it, look into your colour management preferences. I mostly use Vray which doesn't have this issue.
did you make it to the end of the series? thats excellent.
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Did you make a tutorial about how you made your light group? Or is there a way we can download the character rig you made? I'd like to know how you made those eye sparkles that are lighting on the eyes!
Hey, no I haven't made a lighting lesson yet, it was a fairly simple 3 point light set up.. if you google three-point lighting you'll get lots of info. This has approx 4 lights I think.
I generally use HDRi dome with hdri lighting image, plus some extra light. One position fairly close to the face for the eyes, You can use the light relationship manager to tell this light to only affect the eyes or any geo you want . If you need more help you can join the private facebook group 👉 facebook.com/groups/animatorartistlife/
also sorry this is a private rig I built not for giving away, thanks
What happens if I select clean model, it creates a separate group called uvAssign with a selection of objects. Does that mean my model isnt clean of problems with the uv?
Hi, the clean model feature in Advanced skeleton, effectively exports your model as an obj then reimports it, so all pivot points, history are cleared and all geo set to world zero. It remebers all your UV layout and materials but it doesn't touch or fix any UV issues you have. You need to manually fix them.
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after cleaning some of my model uv is gone
nvm i used to separate multiple objects for the body then i tried to combine them after re-cleaning, it fixed
Hi sorry for the late reply, you should delete all history before doing your UVs, thanks.
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Could you share the model to practice easier?
Hi, sorry unfortunately not, as I built this character for personal projects and I sell still poses in an online shop: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/797836809/png-girl-clipart-cute-girl-clip-art-for
There are a huge range of characters available online if you don't have any only places like turbosquid , CGtrader etc, thanks for watching my tutorials.
can i learn this ik and fk in this series
Hi, this rig will give you IK and FK controls, with a slider value to animate between them
What if the character isnt symmetrical ? Should it be modelled again?
You can rig asymmetrical characters. For the body and limbs if they are not symmetrical, like a weird creature, you can select the limbs and add a label in the advanced skeleton labels menu of "NO MIRROR" then you place each limb separately for each side, making sure no mirror label is applied to each.
For an asymmetrical face, please see the advanced skeleton youtube channel, the creator has a video on this,
I will try and do one at some point also, thanks
@@AnimatorArtistLife Thanks a lot to replying back to this❤️
@@anandupavithran8124 You're welcome, spread the word ! :) more tutorials coming each month
My IK arms don't seem to work. The IK/FK switch is there, it just doesn't do anything? Does anyone else have the same issue?
Hi, when you change teh IK value from 0 to 10, you should at 10 see the icon change to an IK controller, do you see this?
really thank you for your video, I would like to ask a question. On this video 6:35, it found a couple of vertices which weren't symmetrical, and I tried the same steps as you did on this video to try to symmetrize those but after doing all this, and check again, it still shows the same vertices non symmetrical. It seems the symmetrize functions didn't work, do I miss any things?
Hi, that is strange, try making sure all the vertices on your center line are snapped exactly to zero in X to the grid. Also try deleting history on the geo first. Lets us know if you get it sorted, thanks
Can i apply this guide with character have x-gen hair?
Hi, yes you can, Xgen is completely separate to Advanced Skeleton, you can use any hair system you like, then import your hair descriptions, or even scalp geometry etc, I would keep the Xgen separately in another file perhaps, and only use for render times. Have a search on youtube for referencing or importing xgen to your rigs. 🙂
@@AnimatorArtistLife very appreciated 🙏i will try and review the results to you
2번째글 이전에는 바디 선택하고 피봇 x스냅으로 grid에 붙임
어드밴스 스켈레톤 이 자식 네이밍에 매우 민감함. 같은 거 두개가 있다? ㅇㅇ 나죽을게 시전함. 나도 suit 2개 있어가지고 안 됬었던 거였음!! 아아악
ㄴ마야 script editor에 들어가면 오류 뭐뜨는지 체크가능하니까 함 봐봐!
6:50 모델 체크-시메트리하는데 continue anyway 나와도 ok 누르면 잘못된게 보인다! 이제 대칭하고 싶은, 잘못된 부분 선택해주고 modeling-edit mesh-syemmtrize창에 들어가서 해결해주면 된다.
ㄴ flip이나 symmtrize는 둘다 방법이 같다. 버텍스로 메인으로 옮길거 선택하고, 엣지로 거울 중심축 선택해준 다음에 쨔란! 완성!
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9:50 내가 궁금했던 눈! 이거는 파일을 다 남기셨다. 동공 파일이 별개로 존재해야 수축과 이완을 할 수 있다나 뭐라나
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대박사건대박사건
model clean이 obj의 히스토리 값 전부 지워주는거랑 피봇을 전부 0,0,0 grid으로 맞춰주는기능이래
I'm sorry I do not understand any of this
@@AnimatorArtistLife Oh that was kind of my study note LOL
Thanks for good video! I could finish my Ani workshop in success :)
what if the character was not symmetrical will this plugin works i did give a try & i am getting errors. please help @Animator Artist Life
Hey, you can rig asymmetrical characters with AS, the creator has a video on it here: ua-cam.com/video/8EtJZPWzyMA/v-deo.html
Also, if you just have some small objects like socks and hair that are not symmetrical, you can skin these after, you can select each sock and either >skin cage > copy weights, or select just the deformation joints, or joints close to the sock and bind skin. just like I do with the hair in these lessons. You can even just parent the hair to the head control if its short and doesn't need to deform 🙂
@@AnimatorArtistLife wow i truly appreciate you time for responding to me your videous were really helping me a lot . you are the best Sir.
Hi there! How can I get this Model to practice ？ Thanks!
Hi Xinyi, sorry this model is not available to the public. I made this for my own projects. But I have a completely free course on how to model your own: VIST:
ua-cam.com/play/PLIV47uRi3f2Ub9INK89HnmkLgmNYjvcL6.html
Is it lifetime free for use or I can get free use for a few days?
Hey, it's lifetime free but for non commercial use. You can get a freelancers indie license which is also lifetime one off cost, then you can use in any client projects.
I get error that selected object isnt mesh as I click model chk button
Hi, sounds like you don't have the geometry selected. Are you selecting only one piece of geometry in the viewport before running the check?
Make sure only select one piece and its in object mode, not face or vertices selection,... right click the geometry and select object mode or F8 till the model wireframe goes green
Hi, thank so much, i from Italy in quaranten, closed in the home, very terribol. Sorry when i can find the same model litol girl you ARE USING IN THIS VIDEO? tHANCK SO MUCH
Hey sorry to here that, we are all in a second lockdown also, but at least we can carry on animating 😉
... regarding the girl character unfortunately I cannot give it away, its my own character I built for projects.
You can find free characters online, or even better if you want to learn to 3d model and build your own character, I have just started a new series of FREE tutorials on it here: ua-cam.com/video/JaeTHW85miI/v-deo.html
i have tried to use the rigged character in another computer its not working please help. @Animator Artist LIfe
Hey, can you tell me more exactly what is not working? is the mesh appearing, does the rig controls appear?
I use these rigs on multiple computers and even send to my freelance animators and they work fine. If you have referenced in the model, you need to make sure you copy everything to that other computer. Its best to save a "published" version of your rig. you can use the publish feature in AS or import all references, delete skin cage etc and save as a new file
@@AnimatorArtistLife @Animator Artist Life the issues was that after i importing it to fbx the nurbs curves were getting deleated please help me
Hey, why are you importing an FBX? The rigs need to stay in Maya format not fbx
From where we can download this model?
Hi Sorry this model is not available to the public, I made it for myself sometime ago. I may release it for sale at some point in the future, thanks
where i dowload this model?
Sorry it's not available. I was thinking of selling it if there was enough interest? If your interested, I also have a blog with free articles I'm building at animatorartistlife.com
dizzy.....
now do it faster
🏎... Ill try! I have to keep at a pace that complete beginners can follow along, thanks
750 bucks for an addon, yikes...
Its free for non-commercial use, then they have a freelancer license, well worth it!
@@AnimatorArtistLife oh nice to know, thanks ^^ BTW, have you tried animating in Unreal Engine 5.4? They are adding tons of cool things, would love to know the opinion of a pro animator (I'm still beginning my journey as 3D artist/animator)