Maya 2018 Rigging / Animation tutorial : Have your character hold objects

#3DModeling #3DAnimation
In this 3D animation tutorial in Autodesk Maya 2018 I will show you how you can let your character hold various objects such as rocks, swords etc using keyframe animation and locators with constraints.
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[@NijuTheClumsy]

Thank you for the video. For more advanced animation: If you plan on throwing the ball or rotating the hand, I would parent constrain a locator to the wrist control and then parent constrain the object's locator to that. Since the weight of constraints can be animated that would be easier than turning the parented object invisible and replacing it by an unparented object in the same position, which you would have to do with this approach. Also it does not mess with the rig itself, which can be an advantage. Also I would give the advice to only rotate the base knuckle of a finger in all three axis and rotate the other two knuckles in one coherent axis, since that is what humans are naturally limited to.

[@MHTutorials3D]

I agree

[@relaxingtopology256]

Hey, Mike, this is a great refresher for 3D artists who have been stuck modeling, texturing and rigging purgatory!

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you

[@mitchellbaylor8132]

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[@kaisercastiel9703]

@Mitchell Baylor Flixportal :P

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@Kaiser Castiel thanks, signed up and it seems like a nice service :D I appreciate it!!

[@kaisercastiel9703]

@Mitchell Baylor You are welcome =)

[@yarugatyger1603]

Works like a charm, added a sword to the hip of my char and it moves with the hip rotating back and forth while he is walking.

[@BungieStudios]

You know a real animator when they have to change a pose for being too static. Haha. Thank you for this tutorial.

[@Love2Banime]

Omg, thank you for this video! This is a much easier and simpler solution of attaching objects/weapons to my character models. I've looked all over KZbin and other sites for something like this, but everything was so complex and instructions were too long and outdated. You're the best!

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you so much Selena !

[@Love2Banime]

Mike Hermes you're welcome. Also, hope you get better soon.

[@0kei0th7]

Hi Mike thanks for another detailed and well executed Maya tutorial. No matter what I get stuck on, you always have a video that gets me back on track.

[@manderbandit3478]

Thanks so much! You saved my school project!

[@oddur638]

how do you make him drop the stick without letting it follow the hand?

[@elifderin8538]

you saved my life thankku sir

[@yashas007]

Best maya teacher for me, learned a lot from you sir. Thank you! 😊

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you

[@contrastej]

Thank you very much...I find your lessons very easy to understand...greetings again!

[@hitmangamesyndicate5970]

As always.. knew I could count on you... thanks

[@krzysztofmazurkiewicz5270]

Good one ;) I would maybe recommend to make a qquick one where a hand would take an object move it and let it rest, and move on or even be taken by second hand and then left somewhere on the sceeene. This would be a nice thing to show how one can play with parenting to multiple objects and that this can be keyed as well ;) I remember it gave me some trouble when i attempted it first time. Just a hint dough ;)

[@ShatterBrainz]

Thanks for the video, this was amazingly helpful

[@armyeatjin5619]

great Mike hermes. You are relly talened . thank for your uploading .

[@MHTutorials3D]

You are very welcome

[@idmidm-yd7pv]

thank you the great tutorial this one of the things that was confusing me for long time i hope you get well soon

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you !

[@jongofett2343]

great tutorial! might I just say that this video couldve been much shorter lol

[@tamoorkhan21]

Awesome video.. Cleared more concepts.. Thanks mike Stay blessed

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you so much

[@janolimitum7380]

The link to mery's download page doesen't work :( Is there another way to get it? Also, I have a version of this model that doesen't have its hair as a polygon. Since I don't really want to worry about rendering the scene, i really need the one with the polygon hair. Unless it's the same model and i simply haven't found the hair polygon...? Thank you very much!

[@karleclaire]

Thanks for another great vid. Will you also do a tutorial for when both hands are holding one object? Thanks!

[@gurukripa9153]

bro just need a little help here, how do we open facial control windows in mery maya 2018??

[@kraizer2484]

Hey mike, I've been wondering since there are a lot of professionals that use custom controllers/curves, i'd like to know how you guys create one.

[@MHTutorials3D]

That would be a neat topic for a video

[@rahulpabrekar8593]

thanks sir for this video... love to see more animation videos...

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you

[@seanakima50515e]

Hey mike could you possible do a video on hair? And which is better to use splines or polys etc.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Sure

[@seanakima50515e]

@@MHTutorials3D thank you so much!

[@namdeobaraptre3165]

hi

[@namdeobaraptre3165]

must

[@shubhamkagde3182]

Hello, sir, I have an issue while constraining a controller with hands actually I have a rig azri and I wanted both hands to hold the sword but it seems to be impossible for me I have to submit my showreel next week. please help me via live video or give a solution right here please sir it's my humble request. thanks & regards

[@nikcandido7825]

Great tut, as always

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks Nik

[@nestorrios9703]

thanks that always made it difficult for me to get better soon 🖖

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks Nestor !

[@lunner505]

Thank you sir, this video is awesome

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks Michael

[@martindiavolo1635]

Really good to know thx Mike

[@irfanabdurrahman3592]

The tutorial starts at 8:08

[@FrostbiteCinematics]

This is great! Can't seem to get it to work though :/ I have a rig of Anakin from Star Wars the clone wars. Modelled a lightsabre myself and imported them both into the same scene. I parent the lightsabre with the locator, and then I parent the locator + lightsabre with the grouped rig/mesh. Do I just do that, or do I have to go through the group and parent the lighsabre+locator directly to the mesh/rig? I've tried many different combinations of where to parent it to but can't seem to get the lightsabre to actually follow the hand. Any ideas? *EDIT:* All good! I figured it out :) Thanks for the tutorial. Makes it so much easier now :D One thing I'd love to see a tutorial on is linking an object to multiple places. For example, if Anakin's fighting style is normally with two hands gripping the sabre, how would I parent the sabre to both the left and right hand at the same time (when hi character is in the pose holding it)?

[@Figster62]

Get better soon!

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks buddy

[@nigelsmith7717]

This is great plus liked the lil joke too

[@MHTutorials3D]

:-)

[@user-yi8ce5fr6h]

danke

[@mrhindilishgamer5913]

Sir which computer and cpu you use

[@redrockdesign966]

Could you do a lip sync tutorial with this Mery Rig using Using the MG Picker? There are really not that many great videos on Lip Syncing out there. Thanks Mike, Love your videos.

[@bikotheanimator6169]

Let me know if you would like me to do a lip syncing tutorial. Checkout my Aang Last Airbender August AnimChallenge video and you can see an example of an end result. I am working on a new animation right now using Elsa and Aang. I am struggling with getting the staff to attach to Aang's hand. I can't remember how I did it. I hate rigging.

[@mohdwashid1610]

ty so much

[@abhitoon1]

Plzz tell me rigging plugin name

[@raasif9361]

Thanks for this video.....

[@MHTutorials3D]

Very welcome

[@omegagameing9307]

How to throw anything ?but not unparent anything...plz help

[@AlejandroHernandez-bu4yi]

Great video mike. I am new to 3d modeling and your videos are very helpful. Now I have a pretty decent 3d model of a femele naked body and I want to add clothing. My question is: Do you recommend me to do clothes as separate objects or extrude them from the topology of the body to have one single mesh?

[@MHTutorials3D]

That depends if the clothing is tight fit and not moving ( extrude from body ) or dynamic and moving ( add as mesh )

[@AlukaGozen]

Is there a way to export animations made in maya as .bvh ?

[@seencapone]

Any reason why you parent the locator to the elbow instead of the wrist? Seems more intuitive that the held object would follow the rotation of the wrist/hand and not the movement of the elbow. If you rotate the wrist without moving the elbow, how does the locator follow?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Use the one most relevant to the movement. Could have been the wrist but I chose the elbow

[@JohnBachofer]

Well this for sure solves one issue I've had related to character posing. I was worried that the parenting would break the rig. Which brings into a point that has worried me ever since I started using MAYA. I have a library of character models that are fully rigged but the thing is almost all of them the names of the objects and bones are the same so when I import one character then try to import another the two characters get fused together. Is there a workaround or way to fix this?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Yes, select everything in the first character and Group it ( Ctrl+G ) Then name the group Character A or something. Then import the 2nd and repeat the process

[@aleph-tav]

How do you load Mary to get her eyes opened and get the picker working?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Using Mary's eye controls ( select a panel and go to views and you will find it )

[@gk4185]

Hi Mike. Do they (game riggers) use this type of rig when a character is supposed to hold a sword or something?

[@MHTutorials3D]

There are always many ways to do something. This is one of them

[@johnnycage9523]

What happens if you want, for example, to drop the ball at frame 20 and the hand to keep moving? Can you keyframe when you want to unparent it or equivalent?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Yes, you can unparent the elbow and locator at a certain keyframe and then add gravity to the ball at that frame

[@joostkonemann]

No, you cannot animate a hierarchical parent connection. You would need to use a constraint for this, which is the normal way of setting up things like this. Parenting props in the hierarchy of a character is a quick-n-dirty solution, but bad practice in my opinion.

[@mymissionispossibledeo5257]

Please modeling girl mary

[@akashbhatt7718]

Sir help me Which one is good? Blendshape or face rigging (I'm working on game cut scenes )

[@MHTutorials3D]

Both, depends on situation

[@akashbhatt7718]

@@MHTutorials3D what kind of situation?

[@namdeobaraptre3165]

hi

[@mymissionispossibledeo5257]

Please modeling sir mary girl

[@abhishekkumar-rp8wv]

which intel core do i need to install this i3,i5 or i7 ...amd tell me about ram also.

[@MHTutorials3D]

What is your budget ?

[@abhishekkumar-rp8wv]

@@MHTutorials3D 55 thousand rupees

[@MHTutorials3D]

You should be able to get an i7 with at least 8GB of Ram for that

[@abhishekkumar-rp8wv]

thanks brother

[@abhishekkumar-rp8wv]

@@MHTutorials3D and what about ram?

[@adilshingre5943]

sir I need a help I am very week in character modelling sir can u help me for becoming best in 3d character modeller

[@MHTutorials3D]

Yes, practice a lot :-)

[@IGarrettI]

Practice dude. Practice, practice. It takes years.

[@Love2Banime]

Practice.

[@dalyzee]

Buhdum tsss lmao.

[@MHTutorials3D]

;-)

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[@MHTutorials3D]

So you are asking me to translate 900+ videos into a language that I do not speak ?

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@@Rahk11118 Are you offering to do it ?

[@Rahk11118]

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Views improve

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[@terryrhuebottom]

@@MHTutorials3D Considering that every time I've ever asked a question you have replied. Heck yea.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks Terry !

[@terryrhuebottom]

Mike Hermes thank you. You have been a great help. I’ve been working on getting The Mery Rig working for me. It a little difficult to get started but the rig seems to be used a lot.

[@postalbear3695]

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