The advice to "use reference" is actually a vague statement that leaves many wondering where to even start. So helpful to see the process broken down like this.

😤 😡 How can such an amazing account on YT exist like the motion actor thing and never found it until your random ass great video popped up in my recommended

Motion Actor Inc. is so overlooked, glad to see some other people promote them! Also I love how you present your process in the videos, really well done

You're a legend. Clear concise workflow is what anim YT needs and your pace is perfect. Keep up the great work.

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Happy to help :D

Man thank you so much. I’ve been teaching myself 2D animation and how to pull from reference this way isn’t anywhere and boy have I looked. This is amazing!!!! Thank you so much this just to my game to a whole nother level!!!!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope it helped :)

Excellent tutorial! I knew how to find keyframes and so on, but I've never seen such a smooth workflow for the big picture. Shame KZread penalises creators like you, we need more like you in the world.

Man, You really know how to make animation simple to understand for us! you really are a good animator and I really want more tutorials and more videos! Thanks for your time and the videos! please make more for us.

just found your channel, been loving these, thank you!

Splendid work! hats off to your work man! you are like Yoda for us! Jesus the speed you have while working on the shot that's as if you already knew what was gonna happen! so tight man! you are hell of an animator! we as inspiri ng young, student of animation or Juniors should get our ass off and work harder and harder to reach this level! I wish there could be a formula besides practice lol

Thanks Chester, super helpful! Will keep this in mind for my final major project.

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

No worries, good luck with the project :)

Thanks

very professional tutorials.

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

GREAT video Chester, keep up the super work

Love the video ! Thanks for putting the time to make them :)

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help 🙌🏻

Profe llegue. Gracias a este video me levante temprano, hice la cama, me cocine para llevar al laburo aunque pense en pedir comida alla y listo. Y me hice la madafakin lista y checklist. Sos el 1 Fran, gracias por todo. Ahora cuando llegue al laburo les cuento a todos como ser su mejor version con tu video❤

This is a well made video, thx!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :D

Super awesome stuff! Thank you!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed :D

Great video to share with my students, thankyou!

Thank you for sharing! This is great

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed :D

This is great! Thanks for posting and sharing with us!

So helpful! Thank you! 😃

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help :D

Great video thank you! I guess there is no right and wrong way how you go about doing animation but if I wanted an anime inspired fight sequence for eg, where its more choppy/snappy could I just stay in stepped for that 'look' I am going for? Or maybe a hybrid of some stepped mixed with spline please?

hey mr sampson, t i'm starting to like animating, and it is fun, and your video is cool, if i may ask question (anybody can answer) what is extreme pose ? , i knew "key pose" because i just learn and eventually able to make 2 SIMPLE walking animation sequnces a.ka walk cycle , but what is extreme pose ? is it not the same with key pose . Is extreme a things like inbetween, i don't like inbetween , onion skin makes me dizzy

HI...at first i would like to say it´s a good lesson.... Can you tell me what kinda of software are u using on frame 4:47 right side to previu the video reference ? please

Hey Chester! Awesome video, super helpful, I just had a few questions! 1) do you have a perspective view open on a different screen helping you see the poses in 3D or are you doing all this in the shot cam? 2) I noticed you using the IK spine, is there a reason for this? I know when and why you’d choose FK or IK limbs, but the spine kinda confuses me, what are the use cases for one over the other when animating the spine? Again, awesome content, definitely subscribed to learn more stuff in the future!

@ChesterSampson

Жыл бұрын

Hey! yep I advise regularly switching to perspective and making sure that your mechanics + weight is correct but I didn’t want to get too lost in those details for this video. Also 2) I like IK spine as it’s less controls to worry about, you sometimes have to translate to get exactly what you want but I’m fine with that 🙌🏻

@artisticallegory2927

Жыл бұрын

@@ChesterSampson thanks for responding so quickly and yeah makes sense! Last question - Would you say you use IK spine the majority of the time then?

Awesome, thank you for this video! Special thanks for showing the program for reference (which is used instead of image plane). Could I ask which features you use most of the time from Animbot?

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks, I use tonnns of tools in animbot. If I could only have two I would use Tween machine and Blend to neighbour (shift on the yellow slider) :)

Great video!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you! Are you working only in "camera scene" or combining with every angle?

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I create my initial key poses checking all angles to make sure the extremes of the weight are moving correctly in 3D space. After that I switch to the camera view and focus on every pose to get the most appeal possible. I do check semi regularly if things are working in perspective but the end result is a 2D video created from the camera view - So to me that is the most important to get right.

Love seeing your workflow man! Are you using fk or ik hands for better posing? Cheers :)

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Personally I like to pose with IK as i find that faster but I'll usually swap to Fk once I get to spline. (Unless there is a contact or the hands are leading the action in some sort of way) - Hope that helps :D

Helllo ! Great video. Could you explain to me how do you sync Key frame Pro with Maya ?

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

hey sure thing here's a guide - zurbrigg.com/keyframe-pro-documentation/item/maya-to-keyframe-pro

I love it

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

Thank you sir

Hi, When I animate I animate to the camera so in perspective The poses look very bad and very far or near in each frame...so its hard to polish..do you have any solution ?

informative, thanks....

Hey Chester Will you please make video on time editor in maya? That will be very helpful all of us.

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I never actually use the time editor as I think that’s mostly for blending cycles and such. I personally only ever use the viewport and the graph editor whilst animating :)

@sarfarajsaiyyad4057

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChesterSampson okay Thanks for the update

Hi Chester! you deleted videos of you animating an acting scene. Do you still have these videos? i wish i could watch it again

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hi I wasn’t too happy with those older streams as my workflow was all over the place at that time so I set them to unlisted. You can watch them here though Prt1 - kzread.info/dash/bejne/lpOfqcmvo9GtmLQ.html Prt2 - kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGxlx6ugYLDOh84.html Prt3 - kzread.info/dash/bejne/dax4k9V-ptPQgMY.html

@SupakAnimations

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChesterSampson thank you so much! why don't you like this workflow?

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

@@SupakAnimations hmm good question - I think it’s a fine workflow, whatever gets the job done is good. I think for the purposes of education however that it is abit messy and unstructured. There’s definitely still value in seeing different workflows though. so maybe making those unlisted is more to do with me being unhappy with the final result I got to than anything else haha

Can you use movie clips as a refrence? If I use a scene from a movie for too long is it copying?

@ChesterSampson

Жыл бұрын

It depends how much you change that to be your own by pushing poses, timing, spacing etc.

I alaways find your video helpful..but i followed the link on the key frame pro,trying to sync it with maya, downloading a updating the pyton downloaded folder into their different part but still it never works..i have seen the videos, read the docs still nothing the software blur out maya tool, must i get liecence b4 i can aceess it or i might be doing something wrong

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I believe you need a license for keyframe pro or keyframe MP to use the maya functionality. If you have one and it still isn't working id getting the email to the creator from the website and emailing him with your issue. I've emailed before and he's very responsive. Thanks :)

@brightimosemi9498

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChesterSampson ok I would do just that..I appreciate this, you are the best!

I know nothing about animation, but why can't you add the reference video as a background, at least as a rough start? Is that not a thing in 3d animation software?

@ChesterSampson

7 ай бұрын

You can do this it just slows down the software so I find it easier to use a tool like the one I’m using here - keyframe pro - so that the software and reference is synced up without any lag

Where do you get your reference videos?

@ChesterSampson

Жыл бұрын

you can film your own or find reference online, much like I did here using the youtube channel - Motion actor inc

Why do you bias it to the 60%instead of 90%?

@ChesterSampson

Жыл бұрын

The higher the percentage of bias the snappier / more cartoony the motion, so here I wanted to keep it somewhat close to the ref and went for a slightly softer ease at 60%

Wow Thanks for Sharing But Rig link is not Working!!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Oh sorry I’ll fix that!

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

The new link should work :)

Hi what microphone are you using, is it a USB mic?

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, yep it’s called - Presonus Revelator Dynamic Dynamic USB Microphone

@Drummer8nimation

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ChesterSampson Thanks! Also thanks for the clear demo on this topic, I do have a follow up question. If we move further along in the blocking process to blocking plus, do you work towards a blocking plus that is in 2s or 3s in stepped before splining? (The kind where the blocking plus looks very close to your spline) E.g Your shot with the musical, you showed your breakdown of reference to final animation, I am just curious what your blocking plus looks like for that shot I do see some 2 hrs live stream of your workflow for acting shots, perhaps I will take a look at that soon 😅

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drummer8nimation yeah I often animate down onto 2s, 3s, or 4s (depending on the speed of the move and information that needs to be conveyed during that move). The idea is to leave as little as possible for spline so when you turn your curves to auto you lose as little as possible. Then it’s just about cleaning things up and brining back some of the snappiness that gets lost when you move into spline.

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

My workflow changes constantly but you should get an idea if you watch those livestream recordings :D

@Drummer8nimation

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChesterSampson Yup sure I will watch them like school lectures😅

By the way, she is so pretty tho... And thanks for the tips

Bad bad bad, got worse at animation from watching this, unsubscribed 💔

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

😂 haters gonna hate

@bangdoel7691

2 жыл бұрын

hmm... interesting, you both worked at Blue Zoo Animation in 2018-2019...

@ChesterSampson

2 жыл бұрын

@@bangdoel7691 I’ve never met this man before in my life. We are mortal enemies