Maya Q&A - Smooth your Sword Animation

[@godsibi2699]

Great content Yone! I'm happy to see you sharing tips and tutorials online! Great work!

[@yonesantana]

Thanos!!! Great to hear from you! Thanks for dropping by the channel :D

[@adamduma3565]

I need more of your videos. Thanks amazing tutorial.

[@yonesantana]

thanks for your kind words.

[@DeathDiary]

Thank you so much for sharing this! This really help my project a lot. I really appreciate you!

[@yousefnasralla5565]

انت رائع ارجوك لا تتوقف U r fantastic please don't stop ❤️❤️

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for your kind words, I'll keep going.

[@LOVER_LINK]

if i were to use animbot tool set, what would i use?

[@otterryy]

would be nice to see a blender version of this

[@RohitDevgadkar]

Error= target list was empty or constrained no valid targets maya

[@erttttt21]

doesnt work. i did everythig on the video and when i select tip, it moves just by itself like its not linked at all

[@yonesantana]

Hey Lester this setup is tricky and one wrong click can break the whole thing. Start a new scene and watch the video 1/2 speed if necessary. If you want to learn more about this workflow I'd recommend checking out Richard Lico's full video here: vimeo.com/297804505 He also has a full course on these type of techniques at Animation Sherpa: www.animationsherpa.com/ I hope you get it to work!

[@aydinbadrian16]

Hi, Thank so much for great tutorial! It is really clear and understandable. I got a question (it's out of topic I know). How could you solve IK / FK matching problem? are you using any kind of Script or plugins for that or there is any other way to do that? I am still struggling with this problem and it continuous!

[@yonesantana]

Hi Aydin, Thanks for the question. I haven't got a good answer right now, switching between FK and IK is always tricky and should be something preferably solved at a Rig level. (However I know that many rigs don't have this feature) As IK works in world space and FK is a local set of rotations. Going between the 2. It's easier to turn FK into IK with something like a locator or an align script. But I haven't got a smart way of going from IK to FK. It's more practical to have a rig with an extra set of bones that blends between the FK and IK bones using a blend node.

[@justinpedersen9174]

Awesome vid as always! Theres a really cool script for Maya called ZV Parent Master, might be useful for this technique :D

[@yonesantana]

Hi Justin, thanks for sharing I'll have a look into the script.

[@michaelalfonso8370]

Hi do you have 3dsmax smooth sword animation?

[@yonesantana]

Sorry, I've only used this technique in Maya. It should be possible to replicate in Max.

[@javierpalacio9525]

thanks bro!!!!

[@GreenTea-Pose]

🙌

[@yashpatel1862]

can u give this rig character download link?

[@yonesantana]

You can buy this rig from Josh Sobel at www.joshsobelrigs.com/ronan

[@abdelrahmanelwy1697]

Great tip I needed ty

[@nguyenlingforwork]

I was hoping for the tutorial about how you animated that character while using the sword. Not just animate that sword:((