GRAPH EDITOR Tips & Tricks

Today we are going to be talking about the graph editor. Something that at times is very complex to grasp specially for up and coming animators.
I think all of you will eventually love it, you just need to have a few tips and tricks at your disposal in order to help you out.
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[@harveynewman]

In this video I showcase some of the tips and tricks I learned throughout the years. Hope this proves useful for those struggling with the graph editor.

[@iCamSkiEz]

Would absolutely love a breakdown of the graph editor and basics!

[@ramadanhasani]

I am in fact very keen in seeing a tutorial on the graph editor for beginners. Also, just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos and that learn a lot from them.

[@harveynewman]

Hey Ramadan. Welcome to the channel. And glad you are enjoying the videos, I’ll try and do a Graph editor going through the basics soon.

[@2010Renu]

Thank you! As a student of animation, I am finding your channel incredibly helpful.

[@harveynewman]

Hey Renuka, welcome to the channel. I am glad you are finding value in the channel. Any questions or suggestions don’t hesitate to get in touch.

[@2010Renu]

@@harveynewman Thank you :)

[@silasrobledo]

This video came at the perfect time for me! I'm taking my shot into spline today, and anything regarding the Graph Editor is useful since it's kinda hard to come by good GE vids on youtube. Thanks for the video!

[@harveynewman]

Hey Silas. Whilst studying I remember perfectly the good felling after finding a piece of information that clicked at the right time. Glad you found the video useful. Best of luck and any questions ask away.

[@silasrobledo]

@@harveynewman Thank you! Keep the amazing work coming, and thanks for taking the time to reply haha

[@colinem903]

Thanks so much for sharing all those tips !! :) it's very helpful

[@titinilofle]

I want to rename my graph editor in Maya to "Spaghetti of confusion" now.

[@harveynewman]

LOL!!!! We should talk to Autodesk. ;) Thanks for watching Russ.

[@Brandon_GameDev]

A lot of people learning including myself struggle to lock in a good workflow or even find information about it, I definitely think you should try to do some longer videos around fundamentals explaining how you do your Extremes, in between action lines and such as I took me a while to grasp applying 2D animation to 3D from a book without a boring speaker or no visual aid as some people struggle from reading.

[@harveynewman]

Hey Navarra. Ah that's coming for sure, just trying to make sure, it gives the most value for people.

[@dennissabrievski4543]

You are the guru of Graph Editor, Spaghetti Box! very useful like always. I’m rather interested in the MG plugin and the last one that’d be very helpful while working with Mocap files indeed. Do you retarget the mocap file in Mobu or you go straight working with retargeted animation in Maya ? I really love your channel man keep up the good work. You are like a mentor for us!

[@harveynewman]

Hey Dennis....thanks for the kind words man. It's just stuff you pick up as you work, in order to streamline workflows.

[@easypeasylemonsqueezy4]

Excellent! 💛💛

[@dioidia]

oh bless you harvey! great content as usual! :D

[@harveynewman]

;) Thx for watching and the feedback K-Rol.

[@MrMannmalik]

Nice, very helpful!

[@farizFilmz]

Great tutorial brow..

[@harveynewman]

Thank you 🙌

[@Goodman_Grey]

Thanks for making such an informative video! I'll definitely be picking up those plugins. I was wondering what rig you're using in the video? Cheers!

[@harveynewman]

Hey John. The initial rig is by Long Winter studios the one at the end is the Biped rig by Red9. Thanks a lot.

[@Goodman_Grey]

@@harveynewman Thanks for the info, been looking for some solid facial rigs to practice with.

[@kalo9861]

bro i cant see my tranlations on the left hand side. i have accidently hid the translations but dont know how to bring back the objects xyz on the graph editor. any idea how i can unhide the object translations on graph editor.

[@flashguy23]

Thanks kuya

[@rafaelikenaga]

Hey Harvey, Thank you so much for your videos, appreciate the time you have put on this. If I may, wanted to ask you something, I'm just getting into animation using the standard Maya quick rig tool, and sometime I can't figure it out why my keys in the graph editor are not affecting the the model. I figured it's something with the IK, when I switch between, full body, body part and selection, I sometimes can find the right key in the editor, but it's messy and I don't know what I am doing most of the time, also it becomes a night mare when In trying to copy keys of just one of the controls in my rig to another control. Does any of your videos addresses that or would you know somewhere I could go get myself educated on these? Thank you so much, big fan of your content :)

[@damocles5047]

when i pose the character for the walk cycle how can i mirror the pose?

[@harveynewman]

Hey Damocles. You can use locators and mirror their location, but that's pretty old school. Nowadays use Animbot, it will help you a ton

[@damocles5047]

@@harveynewman thx man.

[@osamanwae]

how to move graph / key in shortcut, is there script ?

[@KintaroTakanori]

thank you for the video. i skiped maya 2017 and now in 2018.5 im confused because, wasn't there an option to stretch the tangent? im sure it was possible in 2016. im going crazy becauss i cant seem to create a simple easy in motion.

[@harveynewman]

Hey Kintaro. Thanks for watching. I am not sure what you mean...can you link me to an example? Do you use regular or weighted tangents?

[@KintaroTakanori]

@@harveynewman hey. sure ill make a video this week. i show you what i can do in c4d and what i thought i also could to in maya.

[@MrReactric]

you introduced some scripts and it all can purchase. may be you demostrate us main graphic editor that how it use.

[@arcreations7938]

hi sir can i cht with u personal to clear my doubts abt graph Editor

[@alexrybin3798]

Dude, 6 doble commercials in 20 min, is just too much!

[@abdulfahim3086]

Hi!! hope you are doing well Can you make a video about freelancing in Animation??? Like your experience, how to start freelancing, how to get gigs and how much should be charged and all insights and experience....

[@harveynewman]

I am glad you asked Abdul. Already planned and it will happen at some point. ;)

[@abdulfahim3086]

@@harveynewman thanks

[@borovikmotion]

thanks for the great stuff! If you don't mind I'd like to ask, how to deal with lagging in the graph editor, for example, I have really powerful workstation, but when I need to shift keyframes for the whole character - maya stucks for a couple of seconds, the more keyframes selected - the bigger delay occurs, its really frustrating, I don't know, perhaps MGTools should help, how do you think?

[@harveynewman]

Umm interesting. Sounds like the problem might be with your rig/Maya setup. try to optimize your scene. If that doesn't work maybe try to reach out to Autodesk, they might be able to diagnose the problem a little better.

[@MrGoodw1n]

Yeah like Harvey mentioned making sure you have your scene optimized by unloading unnecessary assets and putting things on display layers helps. If the rig allows you can even put parts of the characters geo on display layers like torso, legs, and arms. Animbot also has a feature that allows you to pause camera playback when you are adjusting the curves. Once the adjustment is made you see the change snap into place. Might come in handy if your rig is super heavy.

[@borovikmotion]

@@harveynewman ​ @cory goodwin, Thank you! I use free azri rig from game anim book and just simply keying all basic controls, now I realized that this selection set contains about 200 items ( all body controls + fingers + hair+ face + cloth + etc) I don't know, perhaps it might be worth creating another selection set with only the body controls and fix cloth and fingers issues after the blocking. Also, from what I've seen other rigs (like advanced skeleton) could be more laggy. Sometimes changing evaluating mode helps

[@breezstudio9630]

Thanks it helps a lot! How do u delete keyframe in graph editor which plugin?

[@Crane-mj5el]

his using the the ackDeleteKey script from www.aaronkoressel.com/index.php?nav=tools

[@win_in7003]

MOM i am in KZbin!! xDD thanks for video. MG Tools somthing new for me. very usefull. Thanks!

[@harveynewman]

;) Anytime win...thanks for the continuous support.

[@newgamers8028]

Hey is it possible to get a good quality of rigged character for free

[@harveynewman]

Hey Sanjay. Yerp there's plenty of rigs for free out there. Check out Agora Community for some excellent ones. agora.community/assets

[@miteshshetty5781]

Smooth tangents ?

[@gudikatibhanuprakash9600]

make a very basic video on Graph editor bro please 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@harveynewman]

Yeah it’s planned Gudikati. Thanks for watching.

[@gudikatibhanuprakash9600]

Thank you bro and that slow in slow.out curves also i didn't understand for people like me make a video bro 😔 please

[@Rich1705]

Great video!!! I Always learn new things from your videos I can't find where to download red9pack in their site :(. I am starting to use Animbot, is awesome saves a lot of time. (English is not my first language :))

[@harveynewman]

Hey Rich. Your English is great. And to download red9 refer back to my video about scrips I show you how to get it: 5 MAYA SCRIPTS for Animators kzbin.info/www/bejne/l32kZKetjpJondk

[@holygrailrose]

This looks soooooooo hard to learn lol 😂

[@harveynewman]

😂😂 Great to see you around here. And I'd love to tell you...nope, dead easy. But in all honesty...it's hard, took me years to get my head around it!!

[@DavidEstebanFlores]

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[@kleindavid9416]

the music is quite distracting... apart from that, good

[@harveynewman]

Thanks Klein. Still working on those levels in order to get it right.

[@QuyenNguyen-cb6fo]

I just see your video today, thank you so much ❤❤❤ it's so excellent!

[@harveynewman]

Hey Quyen. Glad that you found the channel and video. Thanks for the great comment and keep in touch going forward. :)