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I did remove that stuff, yeah. I think I just did it manually one by one, which took a while. But your question makes me think there must be a way to do it all at once. What I did though was select the head with a quick double-click in face mode, and then shift-drag to invert the selection. So it didnt take as long as you think.

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for watching!

Ah like a VTuber. There are programs for that but I don’t know how to do it in maya. Sorry!

Thanks! I realized I didn’t say this in the video, but it’s probably best to UV map the first ring so that all the duplicates are mapped. Then after you create the chainmail, you can automatically pack all the UVs. In my own project however, I didn’t end up texturing the chainmail at all. I used it to bake the details of the chainmail onto a flat, low poly surface. And then I textures that. Hope that made sense! If not, maybe I’ll make a tutorial about it.

@@MikeSmith3D Oooh I see, I would not be opposed to a tutorial - your stuff is a goldmine haha!!! Thanks for taking the time to reply :)

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks!

Nice, thanks for the feedback!

Ah nice that’s good to hear XD I’m self taught but barely even that

This is a tutorial about my process for animating faces which could work in any 3D program. I’m using maya in the video but there’s nothing maya or blender specific. Which tool are you trying to load?

@@MikeSmith3D hey thank you for taking the time answering me, I am trying to add facekit as an addon to Blender but, even if the program says "installed correctly in the folder bla bla" it doesn't appear at all as a tool in the side window.

Ah sorry I’ve never tried facekit myself, so I can’t help 😕

@@MikeSmith3D oh no! But I mean in the previous video you used the github FaceKit tool, so that was my quesiton

@@PecoraSpecoh I see! No I just downloaded the raw OBJ files from GitHub and set it up manually in Maya. I didn’t use blender for that. Sorry for the confusion! I’m currently learning the process in blender so I might be able to make a video in the future for that.

Thanks! I’m glad it was useful for you!

Thank you! That’s high praise

Sure thing! thanks for watching

I agree 100%! I'm a modeler trying to get better at animation myself. So this is great advice

@@MikeSmith3D i also recommend trying motion capture for the face. None of my characters really have expressive faces (darth vader, spiderman, the lizard) faces so i don't have much experience but I did a test of it a couple years ago and i was amazed at how quickly i got really good results. ruclips.net/video/uNK8S19OSmA/видео.htmlsi=rajULl2HqyxDdjhA this was the tutorial i followed but you can probably do something similar in whatever software you use. Or learn it in Blender either

@@conorsvfx I dont know why youtube blocked your comment, but I just saw it now. I'm switching over the reallusion suite for my next character to see how that workflow works for me. Because I'd really like to use mocap for faces if the results are good enough. Unfortunately this guy was too far along the pipeline to be switched over to reallusion. But my next character definitely will have mocap. Thanks again for the comment!

Thanks! that means a lot

Ah nice, thank you!

Thanks! Your anime video is really cool

@@MikeSmith3D Thank you!

Hey thanks!

It's very satisfying!

If you find a way let me know!

@@MikeSmith3D currently I'm doing chainmail in the most basic way - link after link. Unfortunately all other methods suck for 3d printing :(

How do you mean? Do you know a quicker way to do this? I'd very excited to learn it!

@@MikeSmith3D i mean, have you used it other than just the wrap deformer? i just want to know if you've compared the tools before

@@gentamustaine Ah no I've only tried the wrap deformer for this. I'll have to try out shrink wrap

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

An easy way to create your own? Before I found these shapekeys, I would just sculpt them by hand in ZBrush

It's an official plugin from autodesk. So if you google "maya bonus tools" it should be the first result.

Thank you I was able to successfully install the plug in. I had one other question. I completed this work flow once successfully before I realized I had an error with my UV she’ll size for some reason which made the links the wrong size. I fixed the issue but now every time I get to the final steps my wrap does not seem to work. The flat mesh will conform to the 3D Meshes shape but the links do not follow. This seems to happen regardless of which I select first or second when doing the wrap. Any tips?

I have figured it out. For any future viewers in the deform>wrap settings if you do not have Exclusive Bind checked the links do not seem to follow. Great video I plan on using this work flow on my demo reel project for my class. Thanks!

@@EthanRipp02 Oh excellent tip! another commenter had the same issue so now I'll be able to answer them. Thanks

Very weird. I've never seen that happen. I'll have to do some research.

hey, the above comment by @ethanripp8917 answered this question. In the wrap settings you need to make sure that Exclusive Bind is checked.

@@MikeSmith3D It works!! Thank you a lot for such a greate tutorial !

Good to hear!

It will probably evaluate slowly, but yes! If you don't delete history after performing the Wrap deformer, it will continue to follow the original mesh even if it's animated or simulated. To keep things from getting to slow, I'd probably bake the cloth simulation down to a geometry cache or an alembic cache. That way it's not a live simulation.

@@MikeSmith3D Thank you so much for your answer !

Yep that's what I said in the video if you watch to the end. Art doesn't require a lot of effort. It requires a point of view and intention. Something stable diffusion doesn't provide.

Yes AI artist are artists too. Now go and do your amazing art, you are special xD

I have a folder full of AI inspiration too. Personally I’m not going to use it to photobash any environment concepts like I normally would because of the ethical issues. It’s just for inspiration. But if they could fix the ethics issues I could see myself cutting up elements and using them like I would any other photo. It’s a great tool for that.

@@MikeSmith3D But even so, if we are talking purely on ethical usage, why not photosbash the ai image and alter it in photoshop. We artists take inspiration from things all the time. We steal and alter it just like ai. No artwork is original. Ai art is alarming at first glance, but if we overlook its ethical usage, we can alter the image and have a limitless library of resources.

@@stockpile2137 I'm not willing to overlook the ethical issues. If things like midjourney were open source that would be one thing. But midjourney is a private for-profit company making milliions upon millions of dollars by using art without permission. Some of that money belongs to the people who did the work of creating the art. Midjourney would not be able to produce anything without the labor of those artists.

Hm did you combine all the links and delete history? And make sure to select in the correct order? What does the error say?

Glad to hear it!