How to Animate with the Graph Editor

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  • Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2018
  • Here are 3 Tips to help you fully understand how the Graph Editor works and how you can use it to animate faster and more efficiently!
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Комментарии • 243

  • @SirWade
    @SirWade  5 лет назад +69

    Do you use the graph editor? What do you struggle with most, and what would you like me to talk about in the upcoming Advanced Graph Editor Workflow video?? :)

    • @BluePixelAnimations
      @BluePixelAnimations 5 лет назад +13

      I struggle the most with keeping track of all keyframes. After a while it becomes such a big mess of lines😂

    • @leowalt393
      @leowalt393 5 лет назад +6

      I animate key pose according to my reference, but i still thinks the timing is to fast and it doesn't present "slow in slow out". Set a lot of keys but still not good at all. I really need to figure out the graph editor😂😂😂

    • @mojito248
      @mojito248 5 лет назад +6

      I get confused on what is happening and where I'm going wrong. Giving demonstrations and examples on common mistakes ppl make on the Graph Editer & how to solve them would be awesome! ☺️👌🏼

    • @ewawojtaszek5504
      @ewawojtaszek5504 5 лет назад +4

      How to proper clean up the shot with graph editor.

    • @asacadaani7814
      @asacadaani7814 5 лет назад +1

      i'm one of ur supporters😍
      from somaliland

  • @ercesubas16
    @ercesubas16 5 лет назад +104

    Well I just learned more stuff than a month spent in 3d class... Thanks!

    • @lewisjohnson4447
      @lewisjohnson4447 5 лет назад +4

      Yea i spent 3 months and learned more in this 1 video

    • @decimo5310
      @decimo5310 5 лет назад +1

      ​@@lewisjohnson4447 Same here.... I'm just glad he made this video . The graph editor makes so much more sense now.

    • @Jessicanimation
      @Jessicanimation 4 года назад +2

      Ever since I began my character motion class I'm learning more from RUclips than the class lectures. My instructor even encouraged it.

  • @Je11yRo11
    @Je11yRo11 4 года назад +84

    my college animation teacher told us the graph editor was more or less optional and my career has been on the ground ever since. I had to learn most of this myself and I'm glad you're here to save everyone else from my struggle

    • @SirWade
      @SirWade  4 года назад +34

      Omg, your professor is insane! The graph editor is so important!!! Well I'm stoked you found this video and that I was able to help a bit :)

    • @RealGoOhm
      @RealGoOhm 4 года назад +8

      My tutor atm didn't even know what the graph editor was, is the same age as me and has never worked in any industry even close to what he teaches now. His only game being a really basic "simulator" style game. Really annoys me when I try to ask him about animation and he has no idea and none of the other tutors even touch games development.

    • @kendarr
      @kendarr 4 года назад +3

      @@RealGoOhm gosh, this makes me feel a lot better knowing that I'm having a terrible time trying to get into the industry and I at least know what a graph editor is

    • @RealGoOhm
      @RealGoOhm 4 года назад

      @@kendarr XD yeah trust me if you study even some outside of class you'll be way ahead of everyone else in the class. I'm like 24 so I've had ample time to self teach but others don't have that chance then think they chose the wrong course when in reality they just have a shit set of tutors. One of mine only taught us risk assessments for this IT service delivery exam and nobody in the class got better than a near pass yet they don't investigate him or remove some of the responsibilities he has instead they just allow him to teach the other exam too. Education in the UK is a joke it's no wonder we are lacking behind in terms of IT

    • @thechillpixelone5691
      @thechillpixelone5691 4 года назад +1

      thats wrong my professor said its the most important thing once you understand it your work gets easy

  • @sonario6489
    @sonario6489 Год назад +8

    I just wanted to come back to this video to say thank you so much for all of your videos. You've given people like me the power of the Graph Editor, and animation in general. You're a 10/10 teacher and animator who should have his channel be required learning for any character animation class.

  • @prajakta3921
    @prajakta3921 4 года назад

    I was always so unsure about the graph editor and sometimes I just used it according to my intuition. It's so much better to know the technical side of it and thanks for teaching it so well! I hope your channel keeps flourishing! it's the best one with such a cute tutor too :p

  • @ProfKisuto
    @ProfKisuto 4 года назад +2

    This is a killer explanation. Even as someone who has been professionally animating for years, I still sometimes get lost when I'm doing complicated rotations and feel myself eyeballing the arcs / overlaps in them. At this point I tend to stick to step and make lots of keys to rely less on the graph editor - only using it for clean up.
    I would LOVE to see a super advanced graph editor tutorial!

  • @kowalewicz2554
    @kowalewicz2554 2 года назад

    This is gold! I have been watching you for a while now and have finally gotten the chance to study some 3D animation in Maya trough my Master’s degree and MAN are these helpful! I used to watch your videos before I even had a PC, so I just watched them, I couldn’t repeat what you were doing. I’m so happy I can finally follow along T.T

  • @alvinl0622
    @alvinl0622 5 лет назад +4

    Hey Sir Wade, seriously thanks so much for your good work, you have no idea how much you have help me with my school work. You deserve wayyy more subs and likes on your videos man. Now off I go to watch your parent constraint video for the fourth time.

  • @NoeliaEncarnacion
    @NoeliaEncarnacion 5 лет назад

    Awesome Video Wade I can't wait for your next Graph Editor this really helped and now I have a bit more better understanding on how I can fix my shot. So Thanks a Ton for this

  • @cozyraptor7095
    @cozyraptor7095 4 года назад +5

    I know this video is quite old, but I've just started to really pursue animation and this Graph has always intimidated me so much. I've always known of its existence, and the broad scheme in which it works, but this video REALLY helped me put a lot of it in perspective. Thanks so much

    • @SirWade
      @SirWade  4 года назад +4

      We call that... Timeless Wisdom ;) Haha glad you got a lot out of it!!

  • @NanoGameLab
    @NanoGameLab 2 года назад +1

    I have one of the best educators on animation around, but sometimes its hard to grasp something the first time around, or if you need a refresher on a subject or subject section. i came across this video looking for the break tangents option, and stayed because your lesson was interesting from the start. great content. thanks for the refresher i actually forgot about a few things in this video that i probably needed a refresher on (ball mechanics) i believe really good bouncing ball skills translate into all animation. love the way you explain things. cheers!

  • @castermadness
    @castermadness 3 года назад +4

    I'm extremely grateful this video exist because how easy it is to understand your explaination. The worst part about being a college student for animating in maya is that my teachers don't even brought up this kind of idea for explaining how the graph editor works in more of a simple term. We as beginners, WANT to learn what tool does and what use it could be for us to animate. Keep in mind that i PAY for the college courses and this makes me sad this video explains more than our teachers FOR FREE.

  • @SpaceMonkiiBob
    @SpaceMonkiiBob 5 лет назад +2

    I'm in the midst of trying to learn maya, the concept of the graph editor was really challenging for me to grasp, like I understood but I didnt at the same time, this video helped a lot. Thank you! :D

  • @iAdrian1997
    @iAdrian1997 5 лет назад

    Thank you for this video! I more or less understood the graph editor at a simple level, but just was not sure how to really use it.
    The copy-pasting of keys to keep that same tangent was mind breaking for me, I always drag them to match it.

  • @MADHATTER22
    @MADHATTER22 5 лет назад +15

    wow your videos are real helpful thanks you for this videos i can't believe that you only have 36k subscribers make your way to the million my friend

  • @NovaNocturneArt
    @NovaNocturneArt 4 года назад

    I wish I had seen this video when I first heard about the graph editor. I self taught a good portion of this with a ridiculous amount of trial and error, but I still learned a lot more from the video. Thank you for making it!

  • @kaipaschke7244
    @kaipaschke7244 5 лет назад +3

    This has helped so much! I really wish it was explained this way when I was first introduced to Maya animation

  • @aqualust5016
    @aqualust5016 Год назад

    Outstanding explanation, I needed to see this so much and will refer to it often!

  • @chandragarber3307
    @chandragarber3307 5 лет назад

    Wow this is very helpful. I'm more of a visual learner, and am taking computer animation for school. The one thing I have problems with is the Graph Editor. My teacher's are helpful to a point but they really don't go into too much detail on how the graph editor works. So I struggle a lot when I animate. But after watching your instructions and understanding of the graph editor it'll help my animations by a lot.

  • @inuyasha561
    @inuyasha561 Год назад

    Thanks Sir Wade! this was great. this gave me a whole new look on animation in it's entirety. i hope you do your class next summer. I won't be able to get into it this summer but next year definitely!

  • @mojito248
    @mojito248 5 лет назад

    I needed a tutorial on this so badly!! Thank you so much Sir Wade!! 💛💛☺️

  • @Loveisgrowthh
    @Loveisgrowthh 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for this! I loved the way you explained everything.

  • @samira.studio7032
    @samira.studio7032 4 года назад

    A good toturial,thank you so much. I always had struggle and confused by graph editor in maya.

  • @enderperez-lopezanimations4103
    @enderperez-lopezanimations4103 5 лет назад

    This is going to be a very usefull video, the graph editor makes a huge difference in my animations and in some situations saves me time.

  • @skywalker0794
    @skywalker0794 4 года назад

    Amazing video dude! I was struggling with that quite a bit, so thanks a lot! Learned a lot ;)

  • @yarugatyger1603
    @yarugatyger1603 3 года назад +1

    Came here from my animation teacher :D she went to the same animation school as you 2 yrs later and says your the boss when it comes to youtube tutorials...found quite a few helpful ones so far :D/

  • @orea104
    @orea104 2 месяца назад

    Amazing viedeo! I was really confused but this video helped me a lot!

  • @filipebefx4140
    @filipebefx4140 3 года назад

    You are really great at teaching. Congrats. Even though I do animation for a while, I have learnt a few things here. Thank you

  • @noahnoah5239
    @noahnoah5239 2 года назад

    this was an awesome video. thank you. your a good communicator - very patient and thorough.

  • @tonyOvarela
    @tonyOvarela 5 лет назад +1

    You really do a great job with this tutorial ! i gonna recommand your video !

  • @eiodelami
    @eiodelami 5 лет назад +2

    I love your tutorials, they keep me going

  • @urboyrachel8964
    @urboyrachel8964 5 лет назад +6

    Thank you so much for this video!! I’m learning 3D animation in school right now but they aren’t really teaching us the graph editor much yet so we do everything manually with linear. When they do bring up the graph editor from time to time without explaining it at all, I just get really confused. Thank you for posting this! I shared it to many of my classmates so we can understand what the curves actually mean!!

    • @yigu4017
      @yigu4017 Год назад

      Me too!The school didn't say the principle of the software, which made it very difficult for me when I first started working.

    • @vincenzo2634
      @vincenzo2634 3 месяца назад

      @@yigu4017 what school are you attending to?

  • @traceymuy1942
    @traceymuy1942 3 года назад

    Im learning 3D right now and when my prof showed us the graph editor, I had/ still have no idea what it meant/ how it worked but Sir you have shed some light into the situation! Im still a bit confused but Ill practice more and learn on the way. Ty!

  • @maikymadnesskreation8646
    @maikymadnesskreation8646 5 месяцев назад +1

    The first video I found that really explain the graph editor the way I needed 👍🙏

  • @HawaiianAnimator
    @HawaiianAnimator 5 лет назад

    thank you so much, for some reason the way you explain things are so clear.

  • @pixbstudios
    @pixbstudios 5 лет назад

    loved the way you explained it bro in a simplistic manner . Thanks

  • @virtual_intel
    @virtual_intel 2 года назад

    Wish I located this video 3 years ago when I first started with Blender Animation. Yikes you certainly know how to explain stuff really well. Nice tutorial on the subject thanks for sharing your wisdom with us all. It helps for sure!

  • @scremmy_draws
    @scremmy_draws Год назад +1

    i know this video is old, but i always come back to it. such an amazing explanation!

  • @abrahamwondafrash7549
    @abrahamwondafrash7549 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks,Sir Wade Neistadt! even though I use Blender I understand a lot of things and by the way for the blender users...to manipulate the curve you can press "T" for different type of interpolation and "V" for seting different handle types!

  • @cuppaint
    @cuppaint Год назад

    This was so so helpful, thank you! I was lost with my mid term animation and this put me in the right track.

  • @TetoTB
    @TetoTB 5 лет назад +1

    @Sir Wade
    Thank you too much for this video and for all videos
    you are really professional
    I like your videos and always waiting you next

  • @kingmurder8245
    @kingmurder8245 4 года назад

    thank you this was a big help!! I know I still have a long way to go but I'm sure this will help my animations a ton! thank you so much!!

  • @vaishnaviladdha6831
    @vaishnaviladdha6831 5 лет назад

    Thank you so much for this super informative and helpful vid!

  • @natattackz5939
    @natattackz5939 4 года назад

    God Bless You. You are a huge help. I am just starting to learn how to animate in Maya, and I really need to do well in this class. Thank you for your videos! ^-^

  • @roshnifernandes6811
    @roshnifernandes6811 5 лет назад

    Thanks a lot!! Graph editor is tricky to understand and your tutorial helps a lot...Thanks:-)

  • @sarasaga90
    @sarasaga90 3 года назад +1

    I know all the comments are basically the same, but: you just helped me a lot, and I think I'm learning more with you than with my actual college teachers... thank you so much. I'm just following you everywhere now. XD

  • @maikymadnesskreation8646
    @maikymadnesskreation8646 5 месяцев назад +1

    Been following for years this channel is underrated I blame the algorithm

  • @luckyenam6329
    @luckyenam6329 4 года назад

    Learning a lot from your channel Thanks a lot Sir Wade.

  • @maisurajariwala
    @maisurajariwala 2 года назад

    Thanks! This was so helpful. 😇

  • @salilphadnis4147
    @salilphadnis4147 2 года назад

    This is the best explanation of graph editor that I have seen.

  • @rishabhlaheja7689
    @rishabhlaheja7689 5 лет назад

    A graph editor tutorial very well explained...please make more teaching tutorials...you are really good at teaching to be honest

  • @alicecao8113
    @alicecao8113 5 лет назад

    This is really helpful. Thank you!

  • @dasorra
    @dasorra 5 лет назад

    Wonderful! Thank you so much Wade :)

  • @tomaszjagusiak9583
    @tomaszjagusiak9583 5 лет назад

    Thank You! And please make more of this tutorials. Next please explain how to add(in that particular case) squash and stretch.

  • @mauriciosevilla174
    @mauriciosevilla174 Год назад

    super helpful and detailed tutorial

  • @Snrub100
    @Snrub100 4 года назад

    Great tutorial, thanks very much!

  • @Yz_Shimrei
    @Yz_Shimrei 5 лет назад

    Thank you Sir.. Easy to learn & understand

  • @rammi_
    @rammi_ 5 лет назад +1

    I like the most of your tutorial that they are general for all software
    I use blender and that works just like maya

  • @sonianosfy3915
    @sonianosfy3915 Год назад

    Ottimo tutorial, grazie! Mi vedrò anche gli altri video. Mi piacerebbe un altro sul graph editor dove approfondisci i comandi :)

  • @K9Tvz
    @K9Tvz 4 года назад

    Super helpful my dude, thank ya much

  • @IncognitoSprax
    @IncognitoSprax 5 лет назад

    Took long enough but I found another YT channel to understand this stuff. Mission accomplished!

  • @the1trancedemon
    @the1trancedemon 4 года назад

    well explained. thanks!

  • @user-pt8nd8fx2u
    @user-pt8nd8fx2u 3 года назад

    thanks for great great tips!!!:)

  • @Sportsman134
    @Sportsman134 3 года назад

    Thank you for all the help! That took me pretty long to break down and take notes for some reason but was definitely a huge help. Do you by any chance make these concise tutorials because when you started using Maya, teachers or online tutorials weren't that helpful for you as a beginner?

  • @MantisDing
    @MantisDing 2 года назад

    thank you so much~ it is very useful ~

  • @LikeAwesome
    @LikeAwesome 2 года назад

    you are very good tutor, thank you!👍

  • @elkiechadwick2623
    @elkiechadwick2623 4 года назад

    Thank you so much this is great!

  • @tenzindala457
    @tenzindala457 3 года назад

    Been liking all ur vids and loving it even though I use Blender 💜.

  • @lessminuteAI
    @lessminuteAI 5 лет назад

    hello
    sir Wade u make super explanation for graph editor i never see like this ur super teacher really awesome thankssssssssssssss

  • @ShoaibKhan-ux8pd
    @ShoaibKhan-ux8pd 4 года назад +1

    Sir, your awesome tutorials really helped me a lot.Sir, could you make some tutorials on the bases of rigging I would like to learn it from tutorials.Thanking you!

  • @chengzhang7687
    @chengzhang7687 4 года назад

    very useful tutorial!thank you~

  • @TheWaitingRoomTWR
    @TheWaitingRoomTWR 2 года назад +1

    as a professional editor who thought AVID was rough to learn, my head is gonna from MAYA, but it's worth it for my personal project I'm doing. Thankfully there are alot of similarities w AVID and MAYA so it's just learning where the buttons are. Great teaching job, you're def the teacher I've been looking for. By any chance do you have a video where you explain how to use controllers on a rig?

  • @rcp.illustrations
    @rcp.illustrations 4 года назад

    SUPER HELPFUL

  • @estephan90
    @estephan90 5 лет назад

    yup! this helped, thanks!

  • @G1assWater
    @G1assWater 3 года назад

    some of my classmate didn't even try when making bouncing ball for our assignment and its been going for almost a month now, i already got full mark the first submission so this is getting annoying when i want to learn a new stuff. My lecture had already shown pendulum animation but i'm still in trouble when correcting the graph to make it realistic, i already completed it but i just copy paste it from youtube so i feel like it was plagarism instead of my own work. This video make me realize some of my mistake when changing the graph so i will try it again later when i had time, thank you. Subscribe!

  • @sarazamora8059
    @sarazamora8059 3 года назад

    This is soooooo thankful!!!

  • @rapidicjr2556
    @rapidicjr2556 5 лет назад

    very helpful video thanks :)

  • @MrJJAbrans
    @MrJJAbrans 5 лет назад +1

    Sir, I was waiting for some like It😀😀😀😀

  • @eualvin
    @eualvin Год назад

    20:42 hell yeah, amazing video!

  • @midnightplum1760
    @midnightplum1760 9 месяцев назад

    thank you!

  • @jobsonchelsea6434
    @jobsonchelsea6434 3 года назад

    Thank you Sir

  • @flexmcpee
    @flexmcpee 3 года назад

    Awesome!

  • @wvovovw
    @wvovovw 4 года назад

    Thank you, you helped me understand graph editor! Haha!

  • @marcusk9483
    @marcusk9483 3 года назад

    Thank you. New sub.

  • @vamsikrishna6636
    @vamsikrishna6636 5 лет назад

    Great video...... please explain how to find a rotation order in a movement in Gimbal mode... and which rotation mode is easy for animating... Thank u ☺☺

  • @-youssefmobarak
    @-youssefmobarak Год назад

    Very helpful 🫡

  • @Medusa_2000
    @Medusa_2000 4 года назад

    this was helpful thanks man^¥^

  • @raol635
    @raol635 2 года назад

    Thank you.

  • @sohaibaljarih
    @sohaibaljarih 5 лет назад

    Thank you

  • @theloniuspoon
    @theloniuspoon 2 года назад +1

    man if this is the quality of instruction i get working at dreamworks for free i need to work at dreamworks just to have a teacher as good you

  • @mightyforce3753
    @mightyforce3753 3 года назад

    Cool thank you.

  • @eiodelami
    @eiodelami 5 лет назад +4

    13:49 - 14:26 Thanks for the hint!

    • @eiodelami
      @eiodelami 5 лет назад +1

      For me it wasn't the only important hint but the one I love the most. I also dig the horizontal, vertical curve part. And other hints. Maybe because I'm just starting out though

  • @kawaiidokidoki1764
    @kawaiidokidoki1764 3 года назад

    you are my hero, thankyou for saving me on my exam TT^TT *insert hallelujah gif*

  • @jamesprakashjc
    @jamesprakashjc 5 лет назад

    Have you ever tried blender? what do you think about it?
    This video was very helpful. An advanced video about this video would be nice but can you also make a video about what makes a motion natural, and what makes a motion look fake in different situations using examples?

  • @lurker784
    @lurker784 3 года назад +3

    You SAVED my ass from failing Ani II THANK YOU

  • @karrarhussain9109
    @karrarhussain9109 5 лет назад

    Great work man
    Can u plx make a video of an animation that u have made

  • @satsukisara
    @satsukisara 2 года назад

    Thank you Sir!
    I'll take a notes
    How to do it section
    12:58

  • @samuelsibal1188
    @samuelsibal1188 5 лет назад

    ooh thanks, this video is what am I looking for...

  • @demonhunter4709
    @demonhunter4709 5 лет назад

    Please make next tutorial on graph editor
    How to track
    attributes of facial rigs and others in graph editor ?

  • @-SyncedUp-
    @-SyncedUp- 5 лет назад

    This has been so helpful, thanks so much for the video! I'm very new to Maya, and the Step Tangent intrigues me, could it be used to make stop motion kind of animations?

    • @SirWade
      @SirWade  5 лет назад

      Yeah you could do that! You'd probably want to pair it with a different playback speed- like a 12 frames-per-second timeline or something to make it feel a bit more staccato