Tips for Idle Animation Cycles

In AnimSchool's Introduction to Game Animation class, instructor Jarrod Showers talks about what makes a good idle animation as well as his own process from video reference to animation in Maya.
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[@AmazingAnimation]

Cycles have really evolved in games since the earlier years. Way more in depth and advanced thanks to animation layers.

[@MrDannyloco]

aw this is nice, the reference video is dope 👌

[@meghagurjar657]

MrDannyloco gaming idles are like this.. they always come back to the base pose for loop.. and idles are always kept simple

[@mysterious_monolith_]

Thanks for the examples!

[@fhinnr1499]

Excellent tips! Thx

[@MinussyChan]

great tutorial, i love the work

[@fashionbeard9731]

Ah shit im gonna be graded on this? man..
Great video

[@espiritualidadedesvendada]

You are awesome, thank you very much for the idle example, it helped me a lot !!

[@PearlyFostter]

laughed my ass off out of your acting xDDDDD so good, thanks for the advices!!!

[@bijoyp]

THIS IS JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR

[@milo20060]

Nice!

[@voidconcepts]

So. . .All of this could be handled with event notifiers in unreal. I am not familiar with Maya. However Unreals Blend Spaces.
Imagine you have just a breathing animation for you idle. Well the idea is you could make a series of random fidgets. Blink, Look around, weight shift, grip adjust, etc.
Well you can make a notifier in the keyframes of your breathing animation. That notifier can trigger your other random things on a mathmatically random basis. Those animations can be blended into your breathing animation.
I am not sure what Maya does, I've never used it but, I am sure the days of having to bake all of this in...are pretty much gone. You don't have to get it, JUST right. Coding meets art. Fun stuff.

[@khallkhall7237]

Thanks for the great video. Was very helpful. Do you have suggestions for an idle animation for say a robot or a zombie? Something that doesn't breathe or blink or need to move when idle?

[@TheBenWithTheBeard]

you could add like a hand spin or include the look left, look right, but just have it more sharp movements and make it as though it is searching for a target, or is doing it more so out of a humane curiosity

[@ILLRICARDO]

I really wish I joined animschool or animation mentor, instead of the crappy animation school I attended.

[@ubaidubai_]

and what school was that, friend

[@mushkage6428]

What school?

[@ranguy1379]

same :(

[@omgwat]

what school?

[@SalehGfx]

Good content but invest in a good camera and a pro mic

[@Murph2300]

Spider-man no way home

[@vsupremeog4521]

What was he looking at !?!?!?!?!?