Warren Leathem

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Senior Animator
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Since Jun 2021

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H20 APEX | Animation
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Character Animation Workflow
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Character Animation in H20.5

Recent Forum Posts

Exporting APEX animations into fbx, gltf etc. Nov. 21, 2024, 9:43 a.m.

What you can do is copy the anim from one sceneanimate to another using selection sets. Part 6 of the animation workshop goes over this. In it, you can see I have different names (Electra and electra), but if it's the same character then it will have the same controls, so you can just copy all the channels from the one with the bad name, to a new chain with the correct name.

Part 6 is what you want to look at

https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/animation-workshop/ [www.sidefx.com]

How to FK/IK switch Nov. 19, 2024, 7:20 a.m.

Currently, in h20.5, there is no ik/fk matching tool yet for animation, but it is on our list.

Rigging help Nov. 6, 2024, 9:51 a.m.

For the animation part, there is a 15 part workshop for animating characters here that includes files:

https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/animation-workshop/ [www.sidefx.com]

Part 8 goes into picking up objects, but if you are a new user, it's probably best to start at the beginning to get an overall understanding for animation using apex rigs