One and Two-Handed Prop Setup tutorial

[@wadalapichu4873]

just realized never left a comment on this video, ive been rigging multiple characters with weapons in the past few months and i always come back to this tutorial, thanks a lot for it!

[@Cadence24]

I wrote here thank you a day maybe after you published this tutorial, but I think you deserve more than 'thank you' THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! its amazing!! I keep getting back to this tutorial, and now Im doing two handed weapon combo, and this setup is so AMAZING! really flexible and easy to setup. I always had hard time with constraint and how to setup that kind of stuff but you really made my animation experience much more fun and comfortable. really really thank you so much!!

[@Jeffefferyful]

This would be a great tutorial even if you didn't have an actual sword to demonstrate with, but the sword really adds a lot

[@AntonNikonenok]

omg this is just golden Thank you so much for sharing this

[@ulalalasorvanec]

nothing extra, only essentials! thank you so much, such an easy and quick explanation 😍

[@GameDevNerd]

I mainly use Maya for modeling and mesh editing, and animate with Cascadeur, but this was still helpful. I'm really an engineer/programmer and got into technical art/animation because there's just as much of a skills deficit with these things as there is with finding competent programmers. This was a concept that caused me quite a bit of head-scratching confusion. I knew better than to parent a hand and a weapon together, and that hands need a "slot" bone for items/weapons. But two-handed constraints left me with a lot of questions. I'm still not sure what the analogous setup in Cascadeur would be, but at least I know what it should look like and how experienced animators approach this in Maya. It's double difficult for me because I have to prepare the models, rig them and _then_ animate them ... and then the real work begins, getting them into a game or engine and programming all the controllers 😂

[@junythepooh]

saved my life ty

[@rayanxfit]

this was really helpful! thank you.

[@santiagoruiz7490]

This is extremely useful. Came across the video sort of by accident, but I'm pretty sure I'll use it eventually. Thank you!! Hope to se more of this "rigging for animator" type tutorials for specific situations like this one!

[@AdamMadejAnim]

I struggle with hand-prop constraints constantly, especially since I started working on attack animation. After watching that - I am going to ditch the parenting of the prop all together (like built-in Hand-Spaces) and just use that. It's brilliantly explained & easy to use. I hope you'll do more advanced tutorials like this. Also - consider me subbed now.

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

Glad it helped!

[@xpler]

Thank you for the share! The secondary hand setup looks very handy

[@Saeklovesdrawing]

Thank you ❤

[@mazew88]

Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

My pleasure!

[@JoshPurple]

Luv it, Thank You 🙂🏆!

[@forzamaya4087]

Thanks, nice sword,

[@idle_animator]

Really helpful thanks

[@Alinaderi-yv9hs]

nice

[@ericdrob]

A++

[@afidaht299]

"Never constraint the prop to the hand control" Lmao that's exactly what I did, he sees through me xD

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

That makes this video worth it!

[@nade1231]

how you create locators from the same position of the objects - not at 0-0-0 ?

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

I wrote a "Create locator on object" script. The link for it is in the video info.

[@nitinrawat3546]

​@@ClockwerkAnimator hi, its working good for translations but i am not able to get exact rotation order is there any solution.

[@fsalad]

😀 i like your hat

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

Thank you!

[@mr.coversingh532]

Hi can you make a video on character weight not object weight. How can we show weight in our character in jumps runs walks and etc I can be very helpful for many people like me thank you in advance.

[@ClockwerkAnimator]

I'll have to think about it. It's something I can help with but it will take more effort for me to explain it effectively.

[@sweetagony666]

meow~ (='.'=)

[@Cadence24]

thank you!