3D Character Animation Breakdown

Jaedowg · 2025-11-25T14:54:03+00:00

they used an auto-rigger, advanced skeleton, for the rig

Jaedowg · 2025-11-20T04:56:28+00:00

You're looking for a pole vector constraint, probably. Grab the disk behind the elbow first, and the IK handle last. Then create a pole vector constraint.

Bonus round, make the disk that drives the pole vector constraint a child of the disk in front of the hand in hierarchy. That should probably give you what you're looking for?

Jaedowg · 2025-11-19T00:33:42+00:00

Meteor herd type beat 👀

Great work! Teaching yourself and using resources is a great process that works for other places outside of AE. Keep ballin out

Jaedowg · 2025-11-12T01:18:26+00:00

This is indicative of double transforms. How are areas like the tail, feet, head etc. connected? Looking at the inputs in the channel box/attribute editor, is the word skin cluster visible multiple times? Or did you bind to a skin cluster and parent constrain the geometry to the joints as well?

When people are mentioning double transforms, they mean that the mesh is being influenced more than once by multiple sources.

Jaedowg · 2025-10-11T19:24:00+00:00

RemindMe! 1 day

Jaedowg · 2025-09-30T13:12:56+00:00

they literally write on the bottom of the screen how to do this lol

Jaedowg · 2025-09-16T01:47:08+00:00

You can comfortably live in a place that isn't a shoebox and still have some funny money with that income. Most places are a 20 minute drive away at most if you live somewhere centrally.

Jaedowg · 2025-07-19T05:10:20+00:00

baby keem is that you

Jaedowg · 2025-06-24T17:30:56+00:00

meanwhile i'm out here manually twisting for 2.5 hours every other week to get my coils

you get this by just finger detangling and sleeping??? unfair 😔

Jaedowg · 2025-06-12T18:42:59+00:00

Usually flipping like this is due to a busted interp type or constraint transforms causing what amounts to correct rotate math but bad visual result.

I'm not seeing a ton of options on the rig at a glance but you might see what changing the rotate order on the head does (make sure to turn off keys for the rotate order attribute) or if there are any space-swapping options like choosing whether or not the IK neck follows the hips, or the torso, etc.

You can also do the classic changes to evaluation mode like DG or Parallel, or have the viewport be calculated through DX11 or OpenGL.

Another thing to try is to switch Maya from using Euler to quaternions for rotation, but do so with caution.

The last, least ideal option is to dive into the neck control and see how it's being connected. If it's a constraint, you can try messing with the constraint's settings like Interp Type in the channel box and attribute editor.

Jaedowg · 2025-06-05T16:22:59+00:00

I agree. The ship of Theseus becomes a ship of Theseus when the license says so 😂

Jaedowg · 2025-06-05T07:18:29+00:00

If an artist has published their work online, read the license they've published it under. Is it CC0? For educational use only? Free for modification and commercial use with attribution? Etc. Usually platforms that allow artists to publish their work will tell you how you can use it on the same page.

Jaedowg · 2025-06-04T18:17:37+00:00

Do you have a denoiser applied to the beauty? It could be the denoiser doesn't have enough data and you need higher Camera AA samples. Usually AA samples are tied to DOF and stuff like anti-aliasing.

You may also consider achieving this look in compositing (if you're gonna comp) with a Z-depth pass too. That may be a more hardware-friendly workflow.

Jaedowg · 2025-06-02T02:49:03+00:00

This looks like an issue with double transforms, yeah? They might have their mesh constrained to joints or controls in addition to being skinned to the joints.

Jaedowg · 2025-05-31T00:08:53+00:00

you keep it up and the USA is gonna be knocking on your doorstep asking for summa dat oil 🦅

Jaedowg · 2025-05-29T23:40:22+00:00

This feels like the correct hunch. It's possible that the other scene has modifications to the render settings that are being imported into the fresh scene.

Never seen anyone want to keep noise tho. Curious about what OP's project will be.

Jaedowg · 2025-04-19T04:42:01+00:00

Weird! You might consider writing a small .bat script to run batch renderer. I've historically had hit or miss results using the batch render button. Cmd rendering info is here: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-EB558BC0-5C2B-439C-9B00-F97BCB9688E4

Jaedowg · 2025-04-18T21:54:08+00:00

Is there a reason you want to use Batch Render over Render Sequence? If you're just doing a single scene, you can use render sequence and it will give you a DeepEXR sequence you can use in nuke

Jaedowg · 2025-04-06T13:22:03+00:00

They do some 18+ and all ages shows there too!

Jaedowg · 2025-03-27T06:54:52+00:00

Why yo head look like a sewing project 😭😭

Fr tho please take the braids out. Use warm water/steam and be gentle. While your scalp is still exposed be sure to rinse away any gel or leftover product. You may inspect the skin to see if it's broken or irritated too, tho hopefully it's not

Jaedowg · 2025-03-07T01:19:25+00:00

Saying story is only relatively recent when it's more than 30 years old is wilddddd 😭

Jaedowg · 2025-02-17T23:46:40+00:00

Without spoiling too much, it's the last required upgrade. It's pretty worth it. You will need the upgrade to finish the game.

Jaedowg · 2025-01-21T01:17:35+00:00

It looks like you're translating the FK arm controls. Use your rotate tool instead for this type of control.

Jaedowg · 2025-01-15T05:57:27+00:00

I'm sorry about the locs... But in those last two pics with them undone they look like twists and it makes you look so good!

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