Fix Bad Animation (in Maya)

[@3dcoach937]

This is THE animation technique to DESTROY JITTER. Seriously, it will massively help in smoothing out your animation. I teach this to nearly every student I have, it's how you should start your 'polish pass'. I know we're doing it on a marching juice box here, but it can apply to the most complicated rigs and characters you can think of. It's the technique that matters. It'll serve you well!

[@blissas7261]

Thank you buddy for taking your time to help with the smoothing! you really are the kindest. Thank you once again 🫶

[@3dcoach937]

Dude thank YOU for taking the time to comment something so kind, it means a lot. I'm happy to help :)

[@tomhikon]

Will definitely be trying this as I'm just wrapping up my second animation class and they maybe spent 5 mins on smoothing or correcting things. Thank you.

[@MosquitoHater]

I know this is simple animation tips. But you are very easy to follow, so kudos to you. Got a sub :D

[@rajghoshroy7280]

This helped me alot with my animation and very easy to understand. Thank you !

[@3dcoach937]

I'm glad it could help :)

[@ninjrar]

Awesome, this tutorial was clean and easy to understand. The graph editor is easily the most intimidating part of 3d animation and helped me to understand it's propose. Side note: The thumbnail and title did not indicate that this was a continuation of the previous tutorial ( which I liked a lot). And also playlisting the videos creates association between the two. Just my opinion because I thought this was something completely different until I checked your channel and even then I had to click the video to see the familiar juice box. Again, just my opinion and Hopefully it helps :)

[@3dcoach937]

Thank you so much Wreckdos, that means a lot! I'm really glad this could help de-mystify the graph editor. It's SUCH a big deal for 3D animation but so intimidating at first glance. I see what you mean, sorry I made it tough to find. I'll link to this video from the first video and create a new playlist, I think that's a brilliant idea. I'm still wrapping my head around KZbin thumbnails and titles and stuff and I really appreciate the constructive critique. It's a big help, thank you! :)

[@emmashulist1318]

This is really helpful, I'm really learning a lot from you about animation. This is a great channel! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@3dcoach937]

Thank you so much. Soon you'll be able to take on my work shots and we will be the quickest animation team on the planet!!

[@ArtisticOm.]

Amazing Tutorial ❤

[@3dcoach937]

Thank you so much!

[@ukmonk]

Great video thank you!!

[@tennisphotography]

Many Thanks, this was GREAT help.... :):) off to maya now :)

[@3dcoach937]

Thank you so much, best of luck!

[@rajshreesharma451]

Thankyou so much ,it helped me alot❤

[@3dcoach937]

Hey, I'm happy it could help! This technique is what got me a job in film :)

[@ineverlie9436]

Expecting more videos

[@3dcoach937]

Every week! What kind of content would you like to see/learn?

[@TheLloydinator]

Do you think yoy could post a 1.2 of this video with both animation playing next to each other?

[@3dcoach937]

I absolutely should've done a before/after. Can't re-upload it now, but I'll see if I can find some authentic jittery student work and smooth it out in the future. It's honestly night and day, I learned this stuff from the animation supervisor at DreamWorks so it's no joke.

[@xPenov]

Thank you very much!!

[@3dcoach937]

You're very welcome! :)

[@5ashll303]

I don't really understand the moving of the key's to try and smooth them

[@moldysann7083]

Thanks for the helpful info! Regarding the flatline or no change in value you mentioned. Couldn't that apply to translation though? It makes sense that holding a few frames to give room for other values and controls to take it's place would be a good thing? A mix of curved and flattened splines will help give time to add squash and stretch as an example. Especially when something is stopping the motion and acceleration of a animated object :)

[@3dcoach937]

Hey, no problem, thanks for asking questions! Like everything in animation: It depends. Here, I'm smoothing out the flatlines during the 'down' position of this little march-in-place animation. There's a lot of motion happening there and I'm exaggerating the curve of the spine which ends up looking like more squash during the down (because it's bending down toward camera). However, I would keep those soft 'flatlines' (because they're not completely flat, they're soft and subtle) for something called 'keep-alive'. If a character gets into a pose and stays in that pose for awhile, the curves should look like a soft flatline there. That's because they're stopped, but living creatures are never completely still, so that very subtle motion (that you can't see) makes you FEEL like they're still alive. I don't think you need to completely flatline one attribute to make room for another attribute. Camera is king. If it looks good, it is good. This is a great technique to help make things look good but, at the end of the day, your eyes make the final judgement call.

[@ayurvedicanbscaart7137]

Thank you

[@3dcoach937]

You're welcome! I hope I could help :)

[@princeraghav5849]

Thanks a lot

[@souravmondal68004]

thanks sir

[@karolledzinski710]

I was hoping to see how to automaticly equaly distribute all keys along curve... That would be more helpful

[@3dcoach937]

Hey there, could you clarify what you mean? I'm sure there's a solution we can come up with.

[@NanoGameLab]

Why is there a big gap near your tabs? thats really odd?.

[@3dcoach937]

I didn't want to show off my email in the video

[@NanoGameLab]

ahh that makes sense lol.

[@abhijeet4799]

Eww