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2: Drag And Follow Through

Single Swing

31st August 2019

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Pablo Fournier

In this video Pablo will talk about some of the animation principles seeing in the Bouncing Basics and adding Drag and Follow through, in this case he will apply them to a pendulum rig.

Please download the blender file here

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carbet99

17th August 2020 - 21:41

This is not the best tutorial, but its fine.

Justice magagane

7th November 2020 - 23:02

this was a great explainer video but can you make one where you do a step by step tutorial

Pablo Fournier

25th November 2020 - 17:34

@Justice magagane at the moment we are busy with the production of the sprites project, maybe in the future

myanimationadventure

17th August 2020 - 16:03

SOLVED: Changed Transform Pivot Point to Individual Origins instead of Bounding Box Centre. (Located at the top of the screen)

Hi guys, i'm having a problem with the rig in that i can't use it to rotate all three points of the pendulum as per the video at 04:34.

If I select all of the FK parts of the pendulum and rotate, they all rotate together and remain straight, instead of individually as per 04:34.

Any ideas?

Screenshot 2020-08-17 at 15.02.53.png

Pablo Fournier

17th August 2020 - 16:20

*@myanimationadventure* Hi!!! that is because you have to set up your transform pivot point to individual origins and at the moment you have it at 3d cursor

Pablo Fournier

17th August 2020 - 16:21

*@pablofurni* I'm late!!! sorry i didnt read you solved it already

myanimationadventure

17th August 2020 - 21:21

*@pablofurni* No worries, thanks for the response anyway! :D

Stephen Brown

29th December 2021 - 15:27

When you created the first swing animation, where every link is using the exact same keyframe setup - did you create the keyframes for the first link, then copy/paste for the others, to duplicate - or somehow make them all reference the same keyframes?

Pablo Fournier

1st February 2022 - 14:56

@Stephen Brown hi! I create the pose by selecting all the links and rotate it them from individual origins, otherwise you just can rotate them individually

cbsemaths029

26th March 2020 - 15:32

PROBLEM rig pivot while rotating

Pablo Fournier

26th March 2020 - 18:54

*@cbsemaths029* Hi!! could you define a bit more the problem, like this we can try to solve it? thanks

Aleksey Novykov

13th May 2020 - 15:32

Hello. New to blender. I thought that animations like these are done using physics simulations. Am I wrong? If no, why you choose to do it manually? thanks.

Pablo Fournier

13th May 2020 - 15:38

*@Aleksey Novykov* hi!! welcome!!! depends on the production and what you are animating, if it is a prop or hair you can do it with simulation, but if it is part of the character maybe you need to animated by hand.... Anyway this is a learning exercise to learn how drag and follow works, and that principle you can apply to other things like a leg or an arm (that is kinda like a swing) Hope this was helpful

Renier Boshoff

12th December 2020 - 13:00

Nice tutorial showing the thought process. If one practices with the rig and do your own version, then you learn much faster!

Ezra Solorio

26th May 2021 - 19:27

He grew a beard in 1 day! Loving the series thank you guys!

Luis

11th November 2021 - 19:07

La practica falto pero esta bien mucha teoria.

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