Comments on: Animator Friendly Rigging

By: jason

jason — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:46:35 +0000

It does include fk/ik switching where you learn how to match the fk and the ik joints.

enjoy!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:42:06 +0000

Hi Jason,

I just wanted to know that whether your tutorial includes high end rigging of character? Like
FK IK automated switching. I have brought many tutorials in the past but none inlude that. Can you guide me with the same.

Thanks
Ashley

By: Animator Friendly Rigging – Maya Rigging

Animator Friendly Rigging – Maya Rigging — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:37:26 +0000

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By: Kourtney

Kourtney — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:11:58 +0000

A provocative ihnsigt! Just what we need!

By: jason

jason — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:26:52 +0000

Hiya natalie!

Thanks very much! I’m glad you’re enjoying the book.. Tina wrote a really great one!

I don’t have twos.mel on me, but I did find it here:
http://www.cgmaxx.de/download/mel/twos.mel

it was written a looooong time ago, so I don’t know if it works in the latest builds of Maya. But hey.. may as well check it out!

cheers!
-jason

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:34:25 +0000

Hi Jason,

I read about you in Tina O’Hailey’s book, Hybrid Animation. I also browsed your website and wanted to sincerely congratulate you on all your achievements – I’d like to be as good as you someday. I just wanted to ask you if the twos.mel script is available anywhere for download, as I’m working on a 2D/3D reel and it would help me very much in going through these tutorials found in the book.

Thanks very much,
Nat

By: jason

jason — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:32:04 +0000

heya! ah! that’s just available as a youtube video.. I never saved the file. just sort of recorded myself doing it & put it up online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zrObqm4Fm0

By: Ciccio

Ciccio — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:32:50 +0000

Hey Jason,
in the preview clip I saw a video where you make a walk cycle with the character you rig, but i can’t find it anymore. I was sure it was inside the AFR bunble but there isn’t.
Can you help me ?

Thanks

By: joey

joey — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:09:25 +0000

hey jason, i just bought your entire bundle,
the only problem is I cant download part 1 and 2a the links both say file unavailable please help!!!!

joey

By: Camilo

Camilo — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:16:45 +0000

Hi Jason, thanks for your answer, I am still interested in your tutorials especially in those fast rigging, I know that the faster option is the TSM but I would like to built my own rig as fast as is possible.

Cheers!

By: Jason schleifer

Jason schleifer — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:14:04 +0000

Hiya!

My DVDs don’t cover any skinning material.. They are focussed on creating animation controls that are intuitive and fun to use. If you are interested in learning about muscle tools definitely check out some of the other rigging tools out there.

By: Camilo

Camilo — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:08:17 +0000

Hi Jason I am an animator and always I have to built my own rigs,for commercial I use the TSM but now I am interested in built one with your rigging products, for hipper realistic rig with muscle system winch one do you recommend to me? the Animator friendly rigging ones or the creature and fast rigging?

Cheers

By: jason

jason — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:29:40 +0000

Good morning Ciccio! The tutorials I have don’t talk about facial animation rigging, they’re focused on body rigging for animation control. They all build off each other, so if you’re interested in rigging the body for animation, I’d start with the first!

If you’re more interested in rigging for faces, check out the Stop Staring book by Jason Osipa.. it’s quite good!

By: Ciccio

Ciccio — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:59:46 +0000

Hello Jeson,
I see that you have many products about rigging, Wich one should i buy in order to learn how to rig my own models ? I don’t need to rig feature-ready character, just simple biped with and w/out mouth.

Can I achive this with your latest Animator Friendly Rigging ?

Thanks in advance for your reply

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:26:28 +0000

Hey Jason great stuff! I am a student at ianimate.net and I saw in the AFR forum that you give a discount for ianimate students but I don’t know what code that would be or how much of a discount it is. I would love to know and I will tell my brother (the web guy for ianimate so we can get it posted some place). I have recently started to actually understand some rigging and have heard such amazing things about the AFR tutorials! Thanks for you time.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:37:24 +0000

heya!

nope, it’s not over.. to enter the code, click on the “order now” button once you get onto fastspring’s site. Enter all your information, hit “next” and then there will be a place to enter the code on the next page. Enter it where it says “Update Coupon” Once you enter the code and hit enter, you’ll see the price update.

By: joey

joey — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:25:22 +0000

hi Jason is the discount for AM students / alum over now? I cant find where to put the code

By: jason

jason — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:42:47 +0000

What command are you using for selection? If you are using something like “select l_fk_up_arm_anim” then it will just select, it won’t add to the selection.

You may need to create a procedure that will check and see if the “shift” button is being held down, if it is then you can add to the selection. If not, then it’ll replace the selection.

or, you can use select -toggle and that will toggle the selection for the specified object.

By: satya avinash

satya avinash — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:56:30 +0000

hello jason, I created a GUI as per the instructions in ur documentation.
I want to know, how do I multiselect from gui window. I tried shift selecting, but its not working.
Can u plz help me??

thanx in advance
satya

By: jason

jason — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:14:34 +0000

Oops! here ya go!
http://jasonschleifer.com/afr-community/#/discussion/2/js_setdrivenkeylength

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By: Eoghan

Eoghan — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:02:05 +0000

Hi, I’ve downloaded all dvd’s but the sdk_length script is missing form all versions. Is there anywhere I can download this from?
Thanks

By: czar

czar — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:45:12 +0000

Hi Jason,

I rigged a character according the dvd. it works like a charm. M really thankful to you,learnt tons of stuff from it. i have a small problem, i need a stretchy on off button for arms. i have tried using nodes, but its not working.. Can u tell me how the hierarchy wud be. . thanks.

By: Chantie

Chantie — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:22:45 +0000

Hi Jason,

I was wondering if js_getStretchAxis.mel update and js_createIkStretch.mel Update mentioned in Javier’s PDF were still available to download? The versions I have don’t work on the joints on the right side of my character.

Thank you,

Jackie

By: Karnifex

Karnifex — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:18:09 +0000

Ave Mr. Schleifer ! I was wondering if your scripts work with Maya 2011 ? Because no matter what I do nothing happens. And yes they are all in correct folders (I think). Even when I just copy and paste any of your scripts in the Script Editor and execute it… nothing, not even a error message. Other scripts, like Michael Comet’s scripts work fine, but yours are not. I’m learning rigging for myself (I really have nothing better to do), but still, just wondering. Thank you.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:47:44 +0000

Hi Jason,

I was studying your AFR rigging and its great !!
Right now I am building a less complex rig without any stretchy spline and twist.

But having a small Prob I don’t know if this is the right area to ask for help.

I got into a problem when I had to attach the hand joint with the arm. When I parent the hand group with all the Bend, Sides geo and other finger joints with the actual wrist joint, every thing works. Except the bend and side for hand. As its in your DVD.

I also tried other steps from your DVD which is something different from your rig. IK works but then when I pull the Hand control far it takes the hand away from Arm.

Is there a way to put the hand intact when I pull the control out from its limitation and make bend and side work as well. I have only tested it with IK arm.

Thanks
Sunny

By: jason

jason — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:33:19 +0000

@matteo
Heya matteo!

I don’t have anything on facial rigging in these dvds.. I recommend jason osipa’s “stop staring” series, it’s really great!

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:47:14 +0000

Hello Jason
at first your tutorials are really great.:)
I have a question about the faccial expression and phonems.
Are there in “animatior Friendly Rigging” a section for facial rig, expression and phonems? or maybe did you have some tutorial about it?
thanks
all the best
matteo

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:40:08 +0000

Well, I figured it out, and then I needed another mirror shape tool so I went looking on the net and found everything at creative crash!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:20:21 +0000

Hey, I just finished the left side of my rig and i’m wondering what other people were wondering about the stretchy ik script fixes. Could you find them? Thanks a bunch for the invaluable learning tools. If you don’t find a fix, I suppose I can just whip one up on my own.

By: Balaji

Balaji — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:12:48 +0000

Helooo Jason Sir

Im Big Fan of you , im really happy to say i met in abai fest 2008 ,, it was happy movements i didn’t took picture but i still i remember few words wat u said …and Oops sorry let introduce myself

Im Balaji,Rigging Artist from Bangalore,India nothing question i want critics abt my Work but i have Small (WIP) Video abt my rigging stuff …i have to add few stuff like Quadruped n Hanuman(INDIAN HULK) soon i’ll upload n send to you

i don’t know whether u have time to reply may be im wasting ur 4 mins time of me im sorry for that ..

But i just waiting for ur reply sir

Thank you & regards
Balaji

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:25:16 +0000

Hi Jason

Yesterday only I found this page, I was searching for it.

I was thinking that the shelf is same in all the folders, but now I removed the previous shelf and I use the shelf in AFR_04B and it is having the scripts ready , thanks again.

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By: jason

jason — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:14:17 +0000

@Sapphire
Heya sapphire! if you have the scripts and put them in your script folder, they won’t necessarily appear on the shelf. But you should have recieved a shelf when you purchased AFR 03A that has those scripts on it.. did you check your prefs directory? the shelf.mel should be in there.. please let me know if you do or don’t find it!

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:52:38 +0000

Hi Jason,

Today from AFR 03A, I saw that I do not have sdk copy,sdk auto,sdk length,mel blend,add A,mel match in my Animation Friendly Rigging shelf. If I put them in the script folder, well they appear in the shelf with the remaining or I should do something else. Thank you sir.

Sapphire ( same person from cgtalk ).

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By: hardy

hardy — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:28:23 +0000

Never mind, fixed it =D

By: hardy

hardy — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:33:38 +0000

Hi, I’m having some trouble with the right arm of my rig. I assume this is because the mel script I have is not the most recent one, but I can’t find the link to the update that is talked about in the pdf above js_getStretchAxis.mel Can anyone point me in the right direction.

By: steadystefano

steadystefano — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:48:24 +0000

Hello Sir, I’m done with the whole rig was able to apply it to a sample character I made, how do I bind it to the high-res mesh, its a broken rig, do I select all joints and smooth bind it? many thanks, by the way great work with dvd tutorials

By: yuvi

yuvi — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:44:04 +0000

Hi Sir, I’ve set up the elbow-pin method that u have explained in AFR , and it works fine on the left arm. but when i put it on the right arm, it flips out the geometry of the upper arm. Any solutions?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:58:43 +0000

Works like a charm. Thanks very much Ben.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:27:58 +0000

[solved]
Hi. Seems windows dynamically resizes stuff to fit the content but Linux requires that you dictate it so just add the flag for height to the frameLayout command in the js_matchObjUi to something useful we found -h 120 for the $fl1 and -h 200 worked well for all the others. You won’t be able to collapse the tabs but the script now works fine.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:25:59 +0000

Thanks Ben! Let me know if you find anything.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:53:37 +0000

Hi. Same problem here to the letter. I thought about hacking things and building a tabless interface but the prospects upon opening the two scripts seems a little daunting. For what it’s worth I’m running 9.04 ubuntu. I’m thinking it’s a motif problem. I’ve had issues with custom UI’s in general. But I’m a bit of a linux noob. If I manage something useable I’ll drop a line.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Hey Jason,

The Shelf button launches it with no errors:

source js_matchObjUI;js_matchObjUI;

I can load an object into the first field but then I get no other options (nothing under Match Object Options, Match Iteration Options…etc).

By: jason

jason — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:46:54 +0000

Heya Mike!
I haven’t heard of this issue before… are you getting any errors in the script editor?

thanks man!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:59:00 +0000

Hi Jason,

I might have a problem with my js_matchObjUI. It launches fine and I have the option to load an object but all the options/settings below that are missing their options (Match Object Options, Match Iteration Options…). I am running on a Linux. Have you heard of this issue before or have any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.
The rigging tutorials are great.

-Mike

By: Aurelien

Aurelien — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:00:09 +0000

Don’t worry, I took care of it thanks to the fixes.pdf.
Thanks a lot again, you really learned to me how to rig.

By: Aurelien

Aurelien — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:50:15 +0000

Hey Jason, thank you for your amazing dvd’s.
I have a problem though, I’m looking for the fix for the stretchy IK creation when axis is negative, on my mirrored joints.
Could it be found somewhere to download?
Thanks in advance.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:26:45 +0000

heya dave!

thanks for the kind words!

are you getting any errors in the script editor when you try and load the shelf? are you on windows or mac or linux?

cheers!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:09:25 +0000

Hi Jason, great dvds!!!
Question regarding the afr shelf… my file does not have the ’2′ at the end, as mentioned above, but still it doesn’t load correctly. I copied the images from the ‘support files’ folder into my icons folder and the shelf is empty. Any ideas of what the issue could be??…thx

By: virtual_gravity

virtual_gravity — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:46:59 +0000

@jason thanks. It's a fix for the stretchy IK creation when the axis is a negative.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:10:01 +0000

hmm.. get stretchaxis.. I’ll look for it.

By: virtual_gravity

virtual_gravity — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:57:06 +0000

where can i find the fix for the getstretchaxis script?
i’ve been looking on the site but can’t find it.
it is listed in the fixes updates.pdf.
thanks.

love the dvds!!!

By: Lens

Lens — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:40:23 +0000

Hey there i was just wondering if i can get some feedback on the rig i created… bad feedback is welcome!
I’m working on a 20 second animation with it now, and i have found some more bugs with it. But ‘d still like to find out what people think…
thanks!

By: jason

jason — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:58:41 +0000

thanks Rakesh! that means a lot to me!

By: Rakesh yadav

Rakesh yadav — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:22:48 +0000

i don’t know what to say;;
during every minute of your dvds
i learned something
its just a huge pakage of knowledge

By: ajit singh

ajit singh — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:55:50 +0000

this is nice option :-
http://www.mediafire.com/about.php

By: Lens

Lens — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:59:34 +0000

Hi all
I’ve found a pretty good site i can load files up on.
Sorry about the ads! -i can’t help that! but here’s the file.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/47l7vw

Ps. the UI is exactly the same UI script Jason gave with AFR.
The UI does not work if you reference the character unfortunately. (one of those bugs i couldn’t get right)

enjoy!

By: jason

jason — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:26:35 +0000

hmm.. I think there are a few sites you can use to host your own content. Anyone know of any?

By: Lens

Lens — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:18:14 +0000

hmmm where can i upload it? I dont have a site unfortunately. can i email it?

By: jason

jason — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:58:19 +0000

heya Lens!

cooooool! Congrats man! I’m glad that this stuff was useful for ya! it makes me very happy.

By: Lens

Lens — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:24:22 +0000

Awesome!!
I Finished!
I Finished Animator Friendly Rigging! AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLRRRRIIIGGGHHHHT!!!

-i only got one (or two) minor tweaks, and then its completely done!

I’ll post Carmen (the character i did my rigging on) for you as soon as i’m done with those minor tweaks. (or i’ll beg for help with these last few blerrie bugs)
Either way, expect her up soon!

Thanks, Jason.
I learned more from you in these past few months than i did in the past 5 years of using maya.
Rock on.

By: Abdallah Albasha

Abdallah Albasha — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:37:46 +0000

Thanks a lot Jason.
I love your way of teaching , clear, direct, deep info and interesting …
really you’r the lord of ring

every time I see the DVD I learn new things ,,, thanks

By: jason

jason — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:08:21 +0000

Thanks Ali! I am glad that they are useful for you! Our skills continue to refine as long as we live, so keep going!

By: Ali Asad Jafri

Ali Asad Jafri — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:39:25 +0000

Thank you!

Your dvds have opened a whole new world for me. Still refining my rigging skills.

By: Samba

Samba — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:04:12 +0000

Great timing !
Thanks a lot, Jason !
Your dvds really opened a new world to me, just go on …

By: jason

jason — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:13:18 +0000

hah! okay, I have created a downloads page now that should have the files there.. if you find anything missing, let me know!

By: Lens

Lens — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:57:49 +0000

Hi there… I have the same question as Samba…

I’m Almost Done with AFR!! Woohooo! just that last snag. could we please get a link on this site to js_getAttachedObjects…
-I see the downloads link does not have it…

oops… I just saw that Samba posted today aswell – you might need more time to reply
-but i’ll post anyway:)

By: Samba

Samba — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:22:03 +0000

Hi ,

AFR Fixes says you have to go one section up the download section to find “js_getAttachedObjects”. But I can’t find it on this website. Am I look at the right place ?

Many thanks,

Samba