#rigging tutorials

[ueidesign]

Uploaded a new tutorial !

How I animated DanHeng's wallpaper

Check it out here

[marcanimation]

NEW TUTORIAL! Today we're talking about using roughs and rigs together, with the goal of improving 2D rig animation. This is how I personally like to do it

The goal: make rig animation better. You may have seen or heard about this technique, but it is still mysterious for several reasons. 1; each project and animator does it differently, 2; The work in progress material isn't often approved for portfolio use, or 'making of' material , 3; studios/publicity sometimes lie about it 4; it's locked within an expensive software. Anyway, this is how I like to do it, when I get the rare chance. There is still a lot to explore and improve with these techniques, so I want to encourage people to do their own versions

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[lucybellwood]

A while ago Falynn K. asked this question on Twitter:

"So on a tall sailing ship you have the mast, and you have the yards across it--is the yard/spar actually attached to the mast, by like i dunno, a pin or something, or is it strictly roped/lashed to it?"

This is a totally reasonable question! A lot of folks who haven't sailed square riggers might think that the yard stays put, but in fact it needs to move up and down the mast so the sails can be fully set. (Y'know how everyone's always talking about halyards? They literally haul the yard up. You're welcome.)

So to answer the question: yards are held loosely to the mast by a looped line strung with large wooden beads called a parrel. The beads roll up the mast as the yard is raised and lowered. Here's a drawover that hopefully clarifies a little:

Once you start explaining things about tall ship anatomy it's hard to stop, so there's a bit more context for how the sails work:

(These are pages from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here or grab as a print minicomic here.)

Hope this is helpful!

[ectoimp]

Low Polys your Mystery

[emberglowfox]

beast compilation. behold my funny dog

[mothscotch]

weird guy. peculiar creature even.

[normalbirb]

oh god it just hit me im gonna have to rig this manually rather than cheat it with rigify.....

[forecast0ctopus]

Idk if anyone's ever asked you this but how do you go about animating? i.e. what program do you use and what's your process?

I really wanna start animating but it seems like such a daunting task lol

okay lots of words so. under the read more lmao

toon boom harmony is industry standard 2d animation software so thats what i use for freelance work and more finished things like that antibodies animation (though i did the bg painting in procreate) – but totally not the ideal software for just starting out with animation lmao not to mention the fact that its a subscription :/// small sketches like that gif of bones i posted i'll sometimes tackle in procreate or procreate dreams, which are wayy more affordable and user friendly, even if theye a bit less robust.

if youre looking for a combination of robust software with the best price, blender is free and has 2d capabilities that ive messed around with a few times – its super cool, but the interface can be confusing if you've never worked in blender before and it has a bit of a steep learning curve BUT theres also always always always good ol paper and pencil, and nowadays most people own a camera and can access video editing software to stitch things together the best things to start out with are the basics, like a ball bounce animation, different weight objects falling, walk cycles – once you get an understanding of how timing works with animation, then tackling how characters move is the next step. just going into complex characters right off the bat is an easy way to get frustrated FAST lmao starting simple is always the way to go also a lot of cartoons and stuff move A Lot Less than you would think, a 10 second animation at 12 frames per second is almost never going to be 120 different individual drawings – sometimes you can just get away with a few blinks and a bit of lip sync to really sell an animation, so while animation does take a lot of time and effort try not to be too intimidated!!

[aenderlara]

Quick look on how I been rigging this cables with Blender3D

[noivern]

after. way too many hours and getting stuck A Lot. and deeply unhelpful cats. finally completed the blender donut tutorial

[ueidesign]

Add extra flavour to your animation ✨️

Example to how to use this effect

Added the fading part to chenya since it suits his Cheshire cat personality ~

Enjoy the video and let me know what you think !

Likes, comments, and reshares are suuuuper appreciated 🍏💛✨️

[funwalker]

Rigging....

[Another crosspost from cohost. The original was posted on Feb. 17, 2024. I forget to post about them here, but I do make vtubers as my main source of income. I figured more people might like to see this.]

Complex mouth rigging + Added in some animation smears.

Since @Isa-ah asked how I did it, I'll just do a quick breakdown here. The mouth is made of three layers: the line for the top lip, the line for the bottom lip, and the mask for inside the mouth (which the tongue is clipped to). If you use the deform path tool to draw a path while multiple meshes are selected, it groups those meshes together so that they all move together. It's pretty difficult to get everything to behave the first go round, and your mesh needs to be set up in a particular way, which is why the mask for the mouth has very limited geometry in a sort of zigzag pattern so that any vertices in the middle wouldn't get left behind. This geometry can be further subdivided later, but it works best fairly low poly to start with.

I basically just drag the corners of the mouth in so that the geometry collapses in on itself to be really small. I use both the deform path and also the temporary deform tool to collapse the faces pretty tightly. So the widest mouth has the full geometry, the mid-sized one has the outer two lines collapsed in to the corners of the mouth, and the smallest one has the next two lines collapsed in.

Usually this can create a "tearing" effect on the exported model (where the smaller faces are collapsed, the more white bleeds into low opacity or anti-aliased faces), so sometimes I cover the collapsed geometry with another mask, but it can probably also be minimized using vtube studio's "get rid of white outlines" feature.

There's also still a bit of cleanup required since the deform path usually forgets about some vertices, but it really does feel like magic when you learn to do it properly. (Also sorry if some of this explanation was confusing... I did my best without just making a whole tutorial video. Haha)

[faceeeeee]

Update: As soon as I started the rig I gave up

[emeraldblonde]

I tried to mod something and the good news is, it didn't crash the game. 🥳 The bad news is, not what I was looking for lmao.

Like, don't get me wrong. I've seen way worse (the stuff of nightmares) on a modding channel I've been teaching myself this stuff lately, so. It's not like I completely fucked this thing up or anything like that.

It's just... I still gotta ask though.

What went wrong here?

[arborix]

spent maybe 45 minutes drawing and over 6 HOURS rigging

[goldenchocobo]

oh no. I rediscovered Blender and my love for animating.