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00:00 intro
00:50 Southernshotty’s short is amazing!
01:12 The problem
02:18 The solution!
03:54 More possibilities
05:56 Cleaning Motion capture
06:28 Magic trick
06:43 Multiple bones at once?
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[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

🔥🔥Discover my new course!!! 👉www.p2design-academy.com 🔥🔥 ‼Disclaimer ‼ at 06:43 I'm using another addon but it looks like I mistakenly cut the addon presentation during the edit 😅

[@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.

[@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

[@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!!!

[@CGDive]

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

[@joenesstudio5119]

this man is amazing.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

That's true 😁😁

[@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!

[@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!!

[@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

[@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 :)

[@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🙏

[@sambamproductions8883]

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

[@donta42]

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

[@AnimatorBlender]

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

[@sky_tails]

Thanks man. Always make useful tutorials on animation

[@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!

[@ferdraun]

Woooaahh This is super helpful! Much thanks!

[@carlosedubarreto]

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

[@romanNood1es]

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

[@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

[@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. 😃👍

[@thirdeyenz]

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

[@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.

[@iltaen]

Very handy, thank you!

[@HideyoshiR]

omg lifesaver! Thank you

[@ever6]

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

[@9b8ll]

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

[@darkman4253]

You Are a legend .. Thanks man

[@xpea16]

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

[@jameswang9132]

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

[@fergadelics]

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

[@n0_n4men0_llfe4]

Much thanks!

[@dallasz4741]

I love your work

[@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 !

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@GameDevAraz]

wow your animation is really good

[@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?

[@orlovski.]

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

[@amesmedia4447]

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

[@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

[@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! 🙌🏽

[@chico0122]

great job

[@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

[@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

[@lucianomunoz]

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

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

😘😘

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 :)

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN \o/

[@Beryesa.]

AWESOME

[@sidekick3rida]

Mec, tu es si bon!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

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

[@sidekick3rida]

😂😂😂

[@billdone1415]

you are a awesome human

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I’m secretly a robot !

[@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 🙏

[@user-vm3kp5uy7z]

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.

[@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 😃

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 :)

[@GameDragon2k]

Omg Pierrick, why are you so cool?

[@BooleanCorporation]

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

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

I use constraints too.

[@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

[@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?

[@TutorialesKames]

Im you fan!!

[@SorinAlexandruStuparu]

The best as always

[@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

[@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

[@joshpearl1761]

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

[@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"

[@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.

[@DesignerNetanel]

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

[@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...

[@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

[@ArtificialLight]

6:30 WHAT!!? SINCE WHEN??🤯

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

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

[@LifeRhymeVevo]

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

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Nope. Next one will be black friday

[@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

[@Gkidkdu]

what an animation tutorial for this animation

[@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.

[@makskocemba2608]

Does it work for child of constraints?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Sure

[@makskocemba2608]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGNty!!!

[@sushilsuthar1024]

How much time does it take to make a short film in blender

[@Alexanomano]

Like 1 or 2 sometimes 3 or even more

[@medmel2160]

Mesdames et messieurs, le GOAT!

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Merci, merci!

[@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.

[@RakeshBhardwaj]

Love the animation, shocking🤯

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Thank you !

[@Alex-tn7pv]

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

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Fair enough ^_^'

[@TechieChuks]

U did this in Blender??

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yes

[@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 🤯

[@llYuki0okami]

or just use Dynamic Parent addon that we have for years

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Won’t solve the same problems

[@vergil620]

CM punk

[@TwizzPlayz]

First!!!!

[@RivenbladeS]

In what universe, a free addon costs 4$ scam?

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

This is another addon. One is free, and part of blender trunk, the other is a paid addon. Watch the video before dropping such comments.

[@RivenbladeS]

@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN I won't watche the video of a scammer thas has the link of a "free"4$ addon and no link for the 0$addon

[@NikolaNevenov86]

Lol, for me Sybren has been pretty useless as head of the python chat. Whenever I have an issue with the python API, his response was always "Why are you doing this?", "I don't know the API that well, ask the python maintainer". It's nice to see him do something useful for a change.

[@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN]

Yeah, whatever... What a shitty comment. It's not because people are not useful for YOU, that they're not...

[@NikolaNevenov86]

​@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN well...yeah, if you are placed in charge of the python API chat where people come and ask how to do things with the blender python API...I would assume you don't talk down to them and try to help them as much you can. So TO ME, a person who is in charge of something but performing poor at it, and talking down at people who are there basically asking for help is what I would call shitty. Just personal experience, that's all.

Please realise that in order to help someone, I need to know why they do what they do. Asking "why are you doing this?" is not "talking down", it is asking for the underlying reason. In order to help effectively, I need to know that stuff.

[@NikolaNevenov86]

Sybren, if you think my opinion was based on a single "why are you doing this?" line, you are wrong. I not only provided code, but explained what I wanted to do, and not once. To which I got "you can't do this", "that's not a good practice", "you shouldn't be doing this", "you can't do this in blender", "learn more about programming", "that's bad code" etc. etc. And these were just one liners...not providing an alternative or explanation why. Maybe they were all true, but still if I hadn't had the interaction with Clément Foucault, I would say that your replies were fine. I was spending months on trying to figure out how to do the thing I wanted to do in blender, asking in the chat and getting the above statements over and over. I ended up going to Clément Foucault and PM-ing him explaining what I wanted to do and why. And his words were(almost 1:1) " I don't know python. I don't know blender's python API. But if I was trying to do this in C++ I would do it like this". To which he gave me a quick pseudo code. And that's all a "green","wide eyed","yeah let's make blender great!" noob artist/programmer wants and needs. Fast forward 1-2 weeks and I implemented all the things you said I can't do, I can't do in blender, it's bad code etc. etc.. And Pierrick can say "oh it's all about you, that's your problem", all he wants but I saw the same happening to almost all people going to the chat for advice on the API or python. To the point that I started seeing blender's python api chat as the most useless place to get advice for Blender Python API(much like the graveyard of great ideas that is right-click-select). And I hope this is not the case any more, but back 3-4 years a go, Sybren, you didn't knew the python API well enough to answer questions about it. And looking back I'll go as far as say that ,I don't think you knew python that well as well. So from this point of view I was making the initial comment that apparently I was wrong and you can actually be useful for a change .I know, probably I'm over exaggerating but that's how I see it.

​@@NikolaNevenov86 "you didn't knew the python API well enough to answer questions about it" -- well, there's your attitude problem. No credit for trying, eh? Only allowed to try and help when I know the final answer? Give me a break. "I don't think you knew python that well as well" -- I've been using Python for almost 2 decades now, and taught it to both artists and computer science students. So I'm sorry that you had this experience, but I think your view on the situation is a bit different than mine.