This Blender addon will save you hours of animation

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

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[@MysteryFinery]

youre a good teacher

[@user-fk5le9bi5i]

Hey, can you upload The Art of Effective Rigging 2 on gumroad?

[@BardAnimations]

第二个插件的什么?

[@SouthernShotty]

Thanks for the big shout out. Very kind of you. I have some posts and videos coming up in April mentioning your course 😄 I'm planning on watching it myself soon.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Mate, it’s my pleasure. You did a fantastic job so I’m more than happy to support you.

[@SouthernShotty]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN very kind of you. Your first rigging class was a good help, excited to dive into the second.

[@bongo6_462]

You are a god tbh in blender.

[@MrRagemanPL]

Another solution would be the Dynamic Parent addon. I've been using it for some time and it served me well every time I needed quick parent swaps.

[@kordaling]

I was painfully animating these type of constrains this very morning using the 3d cursor position and some "eyeballing", This addon is exactly what i needed, nice timing. Add to Quick Favorites.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I feel you

[@CGDive]

Awesome! In all honesty, I knew this addon has a lot of potential but I didn't understand it until now.

[@NedurFrog3D]

I actually avoid characters interacting with objects many times because the parenting problem sometimes drove me crazy, now I can bravely do them with ease!!!

[@MolediesOflife]

this man is amazing.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

That's true 😁😁

[@yoshiadme]

You saved me HOURS of work with this addon. Thank you so much, your tutorials are always fantastic and I learn a lot. Specially in rigging 💚💚💚

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thank you

[@Crabnuts]

I do not know how I've never seen this addon before, but this is gonna help so much with animation thank you so much for this tutorial!!

[@terrancealbrecht]

This is so handy and has already saved me so much hassle.

[@ukmonk]

This is exactly what I wanted! I literally ran into this problem yesterday with object switching and FK/IK etc. Thank you so much!

[@serwizzart]

Dude your english is so so much better now! I remember when I bought one of your courses for zbrush years ago, was a bit hard to understand. Great video!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thanks mate, I took classes for a year to improve :)

[@Sunboku]

Can you teach us how to rig and animate a fishing rod bend

[@TommyLikeTom]

I have dealt with this issue before. I seem to remember moving the object into position manually and passing off the slight movement s part of the animation

[@superkaboose1066]

So much pain has just been CURED!! thank you so much!

[@3dartninja]

I just bought your new animation course and its so far amazing, and just ran into this issue today so perfect timing! Thanks for all your knowledge!

[@H.KAnimationStudios]

It's really cool that you mention @SouthernShotty, after all he worked on his film for a long time and I think the film is really good, it took a long time and it's really nice that you mentioned him in this video. 😃👍

[@AnimatorBlender]

this is some good insider info!! Thanks for this!

[@DustinBiser]

This is fantastic! I saw options in Motion Builder to pin controls like this and was curious how the heck to do this in Blender. Problem solved! Thank you, Pierrick!

[@RyanLykos]

oh man, thank you so much! this parenting problem has been such a pain i ditched many animations that used it. Cant believe this fix was right under our noses XD

[@carlosedubarreto]

incredible 🙏🙏 And it wa cool when you mentioned Sybren 😊

[@jornsiberian8858]

And again thank you for indepth on such a details of workflow like switching parents while keeping transforms. Doing whole process of short animation is quite overwhelming for me as for an artist, especially and mostly witth all the technicalities like that stuff. Was contemplating on giving my character a phone as prop for fidgeting part, but now it seems a bit more bearable🙏

[@mun-b]

Every fibers of my body say THANK YOU SO MUCH 💖

[@NickNak]

Why this is isn't the standard behaviour of constraints I don't know but this is such a life saver, thanks for bringing attention to this

[@andersongoncalves5130]

You could put subtitles on the animation course, so people from other countries who don't know English would take the course, like here in Brazil, the animation courses I found only teach the basics, and this is a complete course for a very affordable price So think about the possibility of adding subtitles, please. (PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL) Note... "I used a translator to translate this text"

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

There are portuguese subtitles on my courses

[@DuskstarShine]

OMG you are a life saver!! Thanks so much! :D this is gonna be so incredibly useful ^-^ I only moved over to blender back in October, and already was suffering with the issue to positioning stuff in the exact same place when using an unparented object. Just tried it and man it works great! :D Thx again!

[@fergadelics]

That’s so cool. Pulling that SouthernShotty thing. This community is a unique scene.

[@ever6]

Just beautiful stuff man I think I'm going to learn rigging in Blender faster than Maya.

[@sambamproductions8883]

This is seriously powerful. Will add it to my workflow. Thanks, Pierrick!

[@romanNood1es]

Wow this add on is impressive. I never knew we had it. Thanks for sharing.

[@gonderage]

maaaaaaaan. I needed this like, 2 months ago when I had to bake keys of IK feet that had to be parented to the root, but look like they're not. this really would've saved me a whole evening and a half of baking.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yeah…. That’s often like that. But you never know you need it before you get through these painful moments

[@dmcblooddevil]

I wish I had this when I was making my animation reels. Would've saved me so much time. Thank you for this, still.

[@ageofgar]

I love that functions like this sometimes ship with blender by default. Amazing, and thanks Pierrick for sharing this.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yeah, it’s a great feature !

[@thirdeyenz]

Thank you!!! I had no idea Blender had this.

[@dcvisualfx1868]

Thanks for all your works, tutorials and tips! I follow you since few years and i can say i'm litterally amused by your talent! I would to ask a question from an amateur animator to a provessionist like you: i've spent many months on Blender and it's very good for modelling, animations and many other interesting things like rigging and so on. I discovered Unity later on the way and i have to say it has a very good animation system and an easy control of the scene, so i started to create in Blender and animate and export with Unity. The point is: don't you think Blender is more complicated to handle (and more "heavy" on memory) then a different engine like Unity? Have you ever tried to import your creations on a game engine to see how cool they are?? The second one was personal :). Thanks for all and have a good time.

[@donta42]

Subsribed!!! thank you for all the great content!!

[@sky_tails]

Thanks man. Always make useful tutorials on animation

[@ferdraun]

Woooaahh This is super helpful! Much thanks!

[@darkman4253]

You Are a legend .. Thanks man

[@iltaen]

Very handy, thank you!

[@MAQUETTE3DSTUDIO-zk2tg]

thank you very much for this lesson

[@xpea16]

Wow this makes my job so much easier! Thanks Pierrick Picaut

[@HideyoshiR]

omg lifesaver! Thank you

[@9b8ll]

Oh yeah, just what I need, thank you so much.

[@lucianomunoz]

Nice one my friend, ive been wanting to do a video about this!, now I dont have to !

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

😘😘

[@dr.sybren]

Sorry dudes, I made an upgrade to the add-on (you know, the animation on 2s, camera on 1s thing). Gotta make more videos! ♥

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Will do :)

[@dr.sybren]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN \o/

[@mohamadbakr6474]

Hi, I would like to ask in the art of effective rigging2 course will we at the end recreate the teaser animation, or are we even going to do any animations, or we will only rig?

[@Overall4k]

Brotger how did you do the slow motion on that character please teach us Slow motion on live scene

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

@@Overall4k nothing special. It’s just keyframe animation. No effect.

[@Overall4k]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN i am looking for laptop then after that the next move is to buy all your courses ALL OF THEM I love your skill God gave you and thanks for teaching

[@dr.sybren]

Thanks for the thorough explanation Pierrick! 😻😻 There's one little hidden feature in there, that is useful when you're working with multiple characters. For the bone to mirror to, you can _only_ enter the bone name. It will then try to find that bone in the active Armature. So just type ROOT there, and it will use the ROOT bone of whatever character you're posing at the time. Makes switching between them a little easier.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thank YOU for making such a cool tool :)

[@terrancealbrecht]

Thanks for this feature! So much time and hassle saved on my project :)

[@n0_n4men0_llfe4]

Much thanks!

[@jameswang9132]

THANK YOU, this will help me a lot since I don't have to try to align it with onion skin

[@dallasz4741]

I love your work

[@3DArtisanal]

i love your work....

[@ArtificialLight]

6:30 WHAT!!? SINCE WHEN??🤯

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I don’t know but I just learned that yesterday and had the same reaction 😅

[@orlov-sky]

goooood! switching between IK-Fk parent always been my pain in the ass. thanks man for this guide)

[@kolupsy]

I think it would be nice to have some pinning options for controls in world space. The root bone thing is a particularly annoying case of that I feel like

[@AccidentalKulture]

Thanks!!

[@ridhosiregar138]

this is really cool ! makes me wonder will there be a 2nd edition of animation course from you like the rigging one?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

No I plan to add new lesson and update some of them. Animation is less software centric, so updating it is IMHO a better move

[@ridhosiregar138]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN aahh I see. Can’t wait for those updates then. 😁 Good luck on the way! 🙌🏽

[@billdone1415]

you are a awesome human

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I’m secretly a robot !

[@am3sdigital]

This is awesome! Could you also you this in conjunction with IK/FK rigs for snapping between the two?

[@sidekick3rida]

Mec, tu es si bon!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Avec toute l'humilité du monde... Je suis d'accord 😎😎🤣🤣

[@sidekick3rida]

😂😂😂

[@BooleanCorporation]

I used to animate constraints instead of parenting "accessories" to my rigs. Maybe this is less cumbersome?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I use constraints too.

[@creepichan483]

and just when I thought Pierrick couldn't make my life easier... he came back!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I took some vacation but I’m back with tones of tutorials ideas 😃

[@kidindia]

Pierre you are awesome man. I purchased both your courses. I need some time to go over them but I love how you go over everything so carefully

[@chagaze7199]

was it armature contrainted or child constraint to parent the bones togethers? i guess it was Armature constraint?

[@GameDevAraz]

wow your animation is really good

[@TutorialesKames]

Im you fan!!

[@NicolaMennillo-o5e]

Great info, thanks! I was wondering, will there be an "Alive 2" like "TAOR 2"? Because I’m currently running TAOR and then I want to learn to animate, but I don’t know whether to take Alive or just wait for an updated version

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I'm planning on updating some of Alive! lessons. Alive is less software centric and is more up to date thanthe first AOER was.

[@SorinAlexandruStuparu]

The best as always

[@davidffortesmeireles5328]

In the course you talked about how to create this system of following the bone without the addon?

[@Sibilyan]

coz you said please. i will watch, leave a like, subscribe and leave a comment. thank you for always making tutorials for us plebs new user of blender 🙏

[@GameDragon2k]

Omg Pierrick, why are you so cool?

[@cadrebadre]

Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't you use a bone proxy if you need an object to stay in a hand? An extra non skeleton bone would be created and used to move with whatever skeleton bone you needed and your object would copy that extra bone. It's how I've been animating 2 characters together and saved time by not having to track movements.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

How would you do thgat with FK/IK switch, or props that are actually rig, or with reversed dependencies?

[@youn3d]

Salut Pierrick. J'ai l'impression que tu as oublié de préciser qu'à la fin, c'est un addon différent que tu utilises. Je l'ai déduis en voyant le liens dans la description. En tout cas merci, c'est un truc qui me manquait vraiment sur Blender par rapport à Max ou Maya.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Merde! je l'ai fait sauté à l'editing sans faire gaffe!

[@youn3d]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Je m'en doutais...

[@RakeshBhardwaj]

Love the animation, shocking🤯

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thank you !

[@WesleyOverdijk]

I got (and am following) aoere2 and I am curious... Will there also be an updated version of the Alive! course? It seems like a natural progression for the rigs made.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

No, but wi plan on updating its lessons along the way

[@WesleyOverdijk]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Fair enough :) Thanks

[@medmel2160]

Mesdames et messieurs, le GOAT!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Merci, merci!

[@DesignerNetanel]

I think the BG music is a bit too loud, but other than that - ur amazing

[@Mr_Ramen_Noodle]

By chance do you have any discounts on your new course for college students?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Nope. Next one will be black friday

[@smrutiranjan9136]

In a combat animation should I animate both characters simultaneously or should I complete one character before moving on to the second one?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I would animate both at the same time

[@joshpearl1761]

Hello @pierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN i know this is a rigging course but would we learn how you made the intro video?

[@risingkhan935]

just a question about the rigging course, could it be applied to Maya or is it just blender only?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

It's Blender centric.

[@himanshudangwal9838]

sir do we ned to buy the previous art of rigging program or one can learn everything from this one from scratch?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

The previoius course is no longer available. This new course covers everything.

[@nickdev]

my face seeing this it´s like Kevin from The office eating chocolate on that silence episode... "OOOOH YEAAAH"

[@antoonsorg]

Thanks for showing the copy add on, awesome rigged character.💪🏼

[@Beryesa.]

AWESOME

[@chosenonemedia8337]

Very very good

[@son12509]

Which course should I do first? This one, or "alive"?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

It depends what you wanna learn. One is rigging only the other animation

[@lovelearn341]

What name is the soundtrack of your video In the beginning?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

It’s called « amazing world » from premium beats.

[@lovelearn341]

thx u🤍@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN

[@makskocemba2608]

Does it work for child of constraints?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Sure

[@makskocemba2608]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGNty!!!

[@Felatelion1]

Why dont just set inverse? Really want to know.

[@Felatelion1]

Is "Set Inverse" working only with 1 parent?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yes, and only with one child of constraint. So you can’t have it to work with multiple switches.

[@TechieChuks]

U did this in Blender??

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yes

[@Gkidkdu]

what an animation tutorial for this animation

[@kakaxifx4913]

how about his compared to Dynamic parent？？

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

It's a different approach as Dynamic parent create constraint on the fly while here you're fixing your pose using your default rig. So, this could be better if your animating for games for example and you store multiple animations in your file.

[@Alex-tn7pv]

1:04 LOL, ok, I'm watching the tutorial.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Fair enough ^_^'

[@sky_tails]

​@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN ​I have question. Do you know how to used setting for rig layer if work with multiple rig on same time on blender 4.0 Because i usually used 2 rig for animate my character. I try blender 4.0 but the bone layer not change to second rig if i select the second rig not like on blender 3.6 Do you have solution for my problem Thanks

[@ashdalat.]

i dont see that copy world and paste worl anywhere

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

It’s copy global transform. The copy world addon is another addon (paid) I screwed the editing of the video and cut a bit 😅. See pinned comment.

[@TynkaTopi]

You can also pin with the old style: Shift+Left Click

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yeah, I learned that a few days after 🤯

[@krish-ut9de]

wow

[@llYuki0okami]

or just use Dynamic Parent addon that we have for years

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Won’t solve the same problems

[@Overall4k]

Hello here i watched one of the videos of you and you said EVERY ONE HAS THEIR LUCK IN ART CAREER So for me i have passion with art i have been leaning myself animation by borrowing people laptop so please guys anyone here help me with atleat 1000$ so i van buy a laptop as well... if you dont trust me send me a good laptop and i will be thankfully forever ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME I AM INTO 3D ARTIST BUT NO LAPTOP NO FAMILY.. PLEASE GUYS PLEASEE ❤❤❤❤❤