Here are a bunch of the custom scripts I used as hotkeys in this video so that you don't have to hunt them down yourselves: docs.google.com/document/d/1bKxSdwUv2HPfTpOt4Np4Bdwk4zB2OwjTGh_aacqUHQk/edit?usp=sharing
My name is Chester Sampson and I am the fastest animator alive. To the outside world, I am an ordinary animator. But secretly (not really), with the help of my friends and a cat, I fight the lack of public animation knowledge and find other passionate animators like me. - The Animator (a The Flash monologue parody)
I think you made my day. I'm constantly in search for shortcuts and ways to improve workflows and I didn't know about that tips to create new hotkeys. Thanks!
My hotkey set is pretty straight forward I use hot keys for Copy keys Paste keys Delete keys Playblast Jumping from frame to frame / key to key Isolate And yes my tablet on right my hotkeys on left ..... looks easy and silly but saves a lot lot of time and speed
Great video Chester! I would love to see a video where the focus is on your most used hotkeys, how they ease your workflow, and how you implament them in your animating process. I see that this video has some of that. It's not the main focus, and towards the end, you give us some insight into some of the hotkeys you use but not exactly explaining how all can be used to their full potential. Thanks again for the informative video. Subscribing
@Chester Sampson O ok, I'm an old man when it comes to that lol I don't ever really jump on twitch. But if you make the video available on here, I'm all for it
Some really useful tips here. I've never even thought of reducing down to half a keyboard!! Might have to try something this drastic to force myself to work faster 🤣
I use a combination of a half keyboard and a Stream Deck. I like the Stream Deck for the things I don't use a bunch, but a hot key still speeds it up, that way I can have a label and don't have to memorize what the key does.
Did he say 6-8 sec per day! I'm barely able to do 4. Thanks for the video, I should totally add 4-5 more shortcuts that I've been thinking to add for years now
Super helpful! thank you. and i wanted to ask about how you did the Micro Manipulator in Maya? is it the same function as holding Shift+rotate-scale-grab in Blender, right?
I bought one of those programmable keypads BEFORE I even set my first key 'cause I was so particular about ergonomics. They thought I was mad, but now who's laughing!?
Love these tips! I'm also a one handed Maya animator (use left half of Kinesis Edge split keyboard). I'm really curious about two of the scripts you're using. The first one that crops and uncrops the timeline seen @5:04 - I did a search and can't find that on the web. Is that one of animBot's features? The second is the scaling keys based on neighoring keys function @5:48. Is that one of Aaron Koressel's scripts? Thanks for sharing your speed tricks! I just discovered you today and subbed, also subbed to your nemesis Owen Ferny :P
I realised after making this that the timeline cropping tool I use was made by a friend but not publicly released yet. I'll ask him if he has plans to release it soon! The scaling to neighboring keys is an animbot function, I have scale to neighbour left + / - 15% and also -100% (which flips the curve). Hope that helps. I also can't believe you subbed to such a terrible channel - I'm very disappointed
@@ChesterSampson Wow, I'd never tried animBot's Scale to Neighbor slider. I'm playing with it now and can't quite figure out what's happening. I use Blend to Neighbor constantly and Blend Infinity also. But this one is somehow different. I'll use it on my next shot and see if I can put it to use. Also noticed the "Gap Switcher" slider which I can never seen before. The hell is that? Fun to discover new tools. Thanks for introducing me to Scale to Neighbor! And yeah, horrible channel. CZcams should blacklist and offer a refund, hahaa.
Hi Chester, you are using tablet for animating, I get it is usefull for drawovers etc but is it really better for moving controls, keys than a standard mouse? what is the real advantage?
It's mostly for ergonomics. After animating for a few years using the mouse was causing some pretty bad carpal tunnel in my wrist so I switched over to using my Wacom intuos whilst animating instead of the mouse. I get significantly less issues with wrist pain now.
Editing goals
it's a lot of effort 😴- time to not make another video for 6 months
Here are a bunch of the custom scripts I used as hotkeys in this video so that you don't have to hunt them down yourselves: docs.google.com/document/d/1bKxSdwUv2HPfTpOt4Np4Bdwk4zB2OwjTGh_aacqUHQk/edit?usp=sharing
great video! we want to see more Hazel !
Great video please post more videos
thanks a lot Chester! I miss your live streams on twitch ! you are amazing ✌
haha thanks, Maybe one day I should livestream again :D
My name is Chester Sampson and I am the fastest animator alive. To the outside world, I am an ordinary animator. But secretly (not really), with the help of my friends and a cat, I fight the lack of public animation knowledge and find other passionate animators like me.
- The Animator (a The Flash monologue parody)
Also "cat views grabbing" 😼
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i immediately knew who u were parodying when i read and I am the fastest animator alive. i love the flash. amazing show
Thank you for informative video, Chester. Please, add some videos about your workflow (body mechanic)
Watched some of your videos, I wanted to say a huge thank you for the knowledge you share here. It's really helpful !🙏
thank you very much!
I think you made my day. I'm constantly in search for shortcuts and ways to improve workflows and I didn't know about that tips to create new hotkeys. Thanks!
it still blows my mind to this day how you do it so quickly
My hotkey set is pretty straight forward
I use hot keys for
Copy keys
Paste keys
Delete keys
Playblast
Jumping from frame to frame / key to key
Isolate
And yes my tablet on right my hotkeys on left ..... looks easy and silly but saves a lot lot of time and speed
Great video Chester! I would love to see a video where the focus is on your most used hotkeys, how they ease your workflow, and how you implament them in your animating process. I see that this video has some of that. It's not the main focus, and towards the end, you give us some insight into some of the hotkeys you use but not exactly explaining how all can be used to their full potential. Thanks again for the informative video. Subscribing
I think this is something I could do on a livestream sometime as it'll be a lot easier to show them all off, lookout for that in the future :)
@Chester Sampson O ok, I'm an old man when it comes to that lol I don't ever really jump on twitch. But if you make the video available on here, I'm all for it
@@djhplaya117 Yep It would also be available on youtube :D
Some really useful tips here. I've never even thought of reducing down to half a keyboard!! Might have to try something this drastic to force myself to work faster 🤣
I use a combination of a half keyboard and a Stream Deck. I like the Stream Deck for the things I don't use a bunch, but a hot key still speeds it up, that way I can have a label and don't have to memorize what the key does.
Thankyou brother 👏👏✨
Did he say 6-8 sec per day!
I'm barely able to do 4.
Thanks for the video, I should totally add 4-5 more shortcuts that I've been thinking to add for years now
My face when blender already has almost all hotkeys already by default UwU
Brilliant
nice chester
damn! didn't know about this! 😄beautiful! following you!
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Super helpful! thank you.
and i wanted to ask about how you did the Micro Manipulator in Maya? is it the same function as holding Shift+rotate-scale-grab in Blender, right?
I bought one of those programmable keypads BEFORE I even set my first key 'cause I was so particular about ergonomics. They thought I was mad, but now who's laughing!?
You tell em! 🔥
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How would I go about making a hot hey to switch between my camera view and perspective view?
try this as MEL script -
//Switch Perspective Cameras
$currentCamera = `lookThru -q`;
string $allCameras[];
$allCameras = `listCameras -p`;// This will select perspective cameras only
int $nextCamera;
for($pos=0;$pos=size($allCameras)) $nextCamera = 0;
lookThru $allCameras[$nextCamera];
riot plushie cameo!
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Love these tips! I'm also a one handed Maya animator (use left half of Kinesis Edge split keyboard).
I'm really curious about two of the scripts you're using.
The first one that crops and uncrops the timeline seen @5:04 - I did a search and can't find that on the web. Is that one of animBot's features?
The second is the scaling keys based on neighoring keys function @5:48. Is that one of Aaron Koressel's scripts?
Thanks for sharing your speed tricks! I just discovered you today and subbed, also subbed to your nemesis Owen Ferny :P
I realised after making this that the timeline cropping tool I use was made by a friend but not publicly released yet. I'll ask him if he has plans to release it soon! The scaling to neighboring keys is an animbot function, I have scale to neighbour left + / - 15% and also -100% (which flips the curve). Hope that helps.
I also can't believe you subbed to such a terrible channel - I'm very disappointed
@@ChesterSampson Wow, I'd never tried animBot's Scale to Neighbor slider. I'm playing with it now and can't quite figure out what's happening. I use Blend to Neighbor constantly and Blend Infinity also. But this one is somehow different. I'll use it on my next shot and see if I can put it to use. Also noticed the "Gap Switcher" slider which I can never seen before. The hell is that? Fun to discover new tools.
Thanks for introducing me to Scale to Neighbor!
And yeah, horrible channel. CZcams should blacklist and offer a refund, hahaa.
HALF KEYBOARD GANG
Yes!! 🔥
Hi Chester, thanks for the video. One question, what is the script you use to crop the timeline and put it back as it was?
Hi Chester, you are using tablet for animating, I get it is usefull for drawovers etc but is it really better for moving controls, keys than a standard mouse? what is the real advantage?
It's mostly for ergonomics. After animating for a few years using the mouse was causing some pretty bad carpal tunnel in my wrist so I switched over to using my Wacom intuos whilst animating instead of the mouse. I get significantly less issues with wrist pain now.
@@ChesterSampson
Hi Chester Is your tablet a Wacom Intuos Pro Medium?
@@SupakAnimations yep thats the one :)
Thank you so much!
What is the scrip that swaps camera view and persp view?
try this as MEL script -
//Switch Perspective Cameras
$currentCamera = `lookThru -q`;
string $allCameras[];
$allCameras = `listCameras -p`;// This will select perspective cameras only
int $nextCamera;
for($pos=0;$pos=size($allCameras)) $nextCamera = 0;
lookThru $allCameras[$nextCamera];
@@ChesterSampson wow you really did sent😳
Hi Chester! How can I make the hotkey to clear the channel box selection?
Animbot has this and it’s super useful
@@ChesterSampson Thanks!!
Twitch streamer with canonically the most frames keyed
You know it 😎
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Nice video! I just made something similar on my channel :) Keep up the hard work!
6-8 seconds a day fully polished?
polished to the standard of the TV show, Which is usally not very polished. You often just press spline on your blocking and leave it there
@@ChesterSampson so you basically doing pretty detailed blocking, pressing spline and maybe minor tweeks and that's it?
@@Cadence24 that was my workflow in TV productions yes
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