How to Animate EVERYTHING with Absolute Shapes Keys

extra thick no this is Patrick what if I tell you that you can animate anything without needing a rig well with a few caveats you can you might be aware of relative shakies but they have a lesser known alternate absolute shaped keeps all you need to do to activate them is to select any object that you want to animate go to shape keys and disable relatives what difference does it make well a lot let's say you have to animate a character walk cycle there would be two ways to go about it one would be to animate straight ahead if you try to do that with relativeship keys you run into a problem [Music] you can only transition from basis to a key and back but you can directly transition between let's say key one and key2 making animating a progressive flow with more keys a lot more difficult if alternately you try to animate post to pose you run into another issue you can move from basis to K1 but you can directly add an in-between frame but the absolute shape is you can solve both of these problems for starters you can easily add keyframes in succession by selecting the previous key and selecting new shape key from mix allowing you to duplicate any previous keys and also giving you the ability to easily transition between multiple keys [Music] in addition to that you also have the ability to easily add and manipulate any frame in between allowing you to animate first to pause as well [Music] so using this method you can easily continue adding more keyframes and adjusting in betweens so allowing you to directly animate your mesh however you want sort of like clear nation and ultimately you can end up creating animation similar to these samples foreign [Music] if you do try this workflow for yourself here are a few things that you should keep in mind while making characters for this style of Animation keep the meshes as low Fidelity as possible and making use of modifiers such as subdivision and skin are great options because they leave you with only a few vertices which will end up as your animation controllers [Music] also characters on certain art styles would work a lot better such as low poly claymation or Box model and depending on the complexity of the characters it might be useful to divide some of the features as separate objects to keep the animation Cycles independent [Music] having said all of that of course if you're working as part of production Pipeline on a feature length film this is not the best way to go about it but if you want to make a solo animation and need to cut down time or maybe you want better control of your mesh for a more stylized stop-motion look then absolute shaped keys are definitely worth checking

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Published: Tue May 02 2023