Maya 3D Animation - Animating a character to pick up objects(Parent/Constraint)

A simple way of animating a character to pick up objects and key frame in that connection.

[@cleverevans]

You know what's great about this video? It gets right down to business. There's no flashy titles, there's not too much chit-chat about what the tutorial is about. This tutorial spends just enough time at the beginning to show what it's about, and then gets on with the lesson. Thanks, it was just what I was looking for.

[@JoseCruz-nd8fi]

Thank you for the video. I'm a student and I needed a quick tutorial to help animate some homework. I appreciate the shortness and focus on the subject matter. No need for a fancy intro, no explanation of the history of animation; just good and honest information about what people are looking for in a tutorial.

[@asishshow1688]

First you have to go the exact frame in timeline where the ball first touches the hand then you have to constraint it (not before not after). And after once you constraint the ball now when you want to detach the ball and want to animate the ball independently then you have to toggle blend parent with 1 or 0, and set the keys in timeline (1= hand is working as a parent. 0= hand is not working as a parent). am writing this because just now i learned this and i had a confusion of when i need to constraint the ball. thats why i am sharing this. thank you

[@wadalapichu4873]

thanks for making it quick, maya tutorials are always sooooo long

[@qiuvincent3267]

been looking for good tut for hours, yours is just easy and clear to learn this.thanks a lot.

[@danpym3D]

As soon as I change Blend Parent to zero it returns to the original position before the character grabs the object.

[@myriixi1746]

this has helped me tremendously in my assignment and doing my personal project

[@samgamerx8284]

best video on this topic....

[@stefanogrecohalmy8429]

Nice and simple! thnak you so much :)

[@mncs7]

Thanks man. Mine was following the whole time. Thanks for that blend parent thingy right there.

[@benedictusbriaan]

Hello, I want to ask. My blend parent doesn't appear, even though I have set the key on the ball object. what should i do? I'm using Maya 2018

[@KodieRussell]

0:49 This part is very important. Just pressing P to parent will not work

[@asishshow1688]

@@KodieRussell Yes you are right. First you have to go the exact frame in timeline where the ball first touches the hand then you have to constraint it (not before not after). And after once you constraint the ball now when you want to detach the ball and want to animate the ball independently then you have to toggle blend parent with 1 or 0, and set the keys in timeline (1= hand is working as a parent. 0= hand is not working as a parent).

[@JUYAN16]

Thanks for the video. It really helps, But i just want to know, does the object you parent/contrain have to be to a control point? Or can you do the same thing to one of the joints or bones of the skeletal mesh?

[@RTFL_]

thank you so much for this very quick right to the point tutorial, all the best for the future

[@nhsubhash]

THANKS BRO, YOU DID IT IN VERY SIMPLE MANNER

[@johannaklein3695]

If I unparent my object it flips back to it's initial position. Why does this happen? Your object stays at the position where you unparented it.

[@euthanizedoasis859]

In the Attribute Editor > Constraint Attributes > Untick the "Enable Rest Position. I would however say that, depending on the complexity of your animation, this is a bit of an unstable method. It works on the surface but there may be other complications down the line.

[@RavageStudio]

just key the the translate and rotation before keying the blend pose back to 0

[@ChuckPalomo]

@@euthanizedoasis859 That's a great workaround, although it'll still glitch out from time to time and you have to play around with the timeline till it works again.

[@jgplissken5400]

thank you for your speed

[@miltonlawrence2411]

Great video! It was short and concise and really helped me out!

[@leslyfox1657]

Thank you so much! Short and clear, helped me a lot!

[@totokatti]

you save my life

[@fjshark6173]

How come when I return key it to 0 it goes back to the first location it was keyed at?

[@Aindriu-dz9bn]

Thanks dude, helped me with my assignment

[@freelance3dartist979]

Super useful technique, thanks!

[@mr.gaurav6475]

superbb

[@ronaldlee5324]

can you show the option box when you parent between the control and the ball??

[@yasheditss4567]

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[@whitecoffee05]

omg thank you so much. i've been looking for every single video, and you saved me qwq)

[@jenillustration203]

Thank you so much!! I was struggling a lot with this

[@leaf13maple62]

Good Video, striaght to point! Thanks Mate!

[@tayfun11100]

Thanks... This is what i need for last one hour.

[@lexxrelaxx2016]

Hello friend its a good tutorial. Can we make them solid objects or its the only way?

[@amraphelfelipemoyacatano2608]

THANK YOU BRO!

[@shailendraprasad9553]

Excellent explanation.

[@mela12399]

Super helpfull, thank u so much!!

[@MegaBcoyle]

Cheers, I'm still amazed this video still helps people.

[@suncris9589]

straight to point. thank you

[@jayashreenayek7637]

Thnk u for this ...its really help me..

[@BlueSpinachPackage]

Awesome just what I was looking for!

[@balachandar3823]

hey, thanks

[@krishnavamsi9428]

Thanks for the information....bro

[@artisticminds4337]

Awesome! thanks for this help! this helped me big time

[@montasserfaidi1966]

thx

[@showantv6022]

You're a life saver!

[@raulochoahernandez4474]

I urgently ask for help, I followed the steps in the video to parent an object to my rigged character, but now the problem is that the animations I made in the scene with that character were lost and I can no longer move their joints, is there any way to solve that ? I'm very worried because I can't find the solution

[@sizlax]

Surprised nothing was said about how the ball repetitiously penetrates the hand.

[@arup251]

great tutorial man keep it up😍............

[@Sliles12yt]

Thanks, very helpful. How in the world did you figure out how to do this?

[@alphatwisted]

thank you!!

[@deniseleon1675]

awesome video thanks !

[@VincentWuAnimation]

The ball always get into my character's hand when I try to animate the ball... why?

[@mehmetpolat6738]

you are great thanks

[@erttttt21]

doenst work. when i switch blend parent to 0 it doesnt let go object. No difference between 0 and 1

[@ph4minhat]

thanks you so much!!

[@Fengtos]

So I was hoping you would explain how to create the blend parent attribute. That's the hard part. The animation itself is a completely logical next step.

[@MegaBcoyle]

+TheChaosilator When you add the parent constraint and keyframe in the ball it will show the blend parent attribute in your channel box editor.

[@melgonzalez9873]

+TheChaosilator Looked like he just set a keyframe on the ball after setting up the parent constraint.

[@gauravdamle8068]

U can use Constraint weight as well u dont have to create any attribute for that

[@phaserra]

I'm having an issue where the object won't move even after setting blend parent to 0

[@MegaBcoyle]

Make sure there are no keyframea on the object.

[@alkeaschocogrey3162]

thax~i jz start learning animate it

[@RanjithMusicReview]

can you one help me.. how can i walk cycle merrge to locater.?

[@M0nkeyBoy1321]

VERY helpful thanks! :D

[@Saccassketches]

legend

[@MiRaje8086]

is this the way animators actually do it?

[@mkprocter882]

yep

[@Taldisuiskai]

ZV parent is better way I think

[@eshan309]

Direct parent constraint creates problems later on while animating.

[@mehvishdurrani786]

I successfully unparented the object but the object isnt able to be animated ... I set the keys but it turn back to its origin 0,0,0. ...what should I do???

[@emmadahl2417]

I had to key the whole ball (with Blend Parent set to 1) first on the frame where the ball is not supposed to be parented. Then change the Blend Parent to 0 and key only the Blend Parent on the same frame.

[@zoltankemeny8102]

Grat tutorial! what key did you hit, when 'Blend parent' appeared at the channel list?

[@nopnaster_e5661]

thank you very much guy :)

[@user-ph2kc8yp7l]

Thanks

[@0096895632320]

thank you bro

[@BlooUEK]

i change to 0 but my object still follows my controller everytime. whats wrong ?

[@gamerwhogames2081]

Which attribute do you change to zero? Make sure you select the parent constraint and turn the correct object's constraint to zero. If you have more than one object constrained, it's likely that you're turning off the wrong constraint. If you don't want any object to parent the object being picked up, select the constraint and turn all object constraints to zero so it's parented to the world. I hope that wasn't confusing.

[@vishwanathsarla566]

Helpful one

[@alzajel1]

hi I have a question please, I parented a locator (small object) into a control curve(big object), now I can't animate the locator (small object) independently, for example, I attached spaceship legs (locator) into a main spaceship through controller now i can't animate the legs, any suggestions, thanks

[@TheCrimson147]

Did you parent or parent constraint them? The two act different depending on your order or selection.

[@mehvishdurrani786]

what to do in both situations plzz???

[@chiragmodi6079]

Thanks bro

[@erttttt21]

IT doesnt let go when blend parent is 0!!!

[@angelicakosasih]

Hi, I tried doing this but the Blend Parent attribute doesnt show up. Any idea why? Thank you!

[@kehlercreations]

Did you press S to add a Keyframe while having selected the object you want to pick up?

[@inkastoyanova7826]

Did you found the answer why the blend parent did not show up ?

[@RanjithMusicReview]

hello sir.. very thank you..

[@wick6203]

youre the man

[@altorruco8975]

you also da man

[@filippo18boy]

thet is cool

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

:o

[@user-ph2kc8yp7l]

3q 3q 谢谢你