Animation Friendly Tips Part 3: Offsets

You Can Never Have Enough Offset Controls

Why Offsets?

It should pretty rudimentary but offset controls are not just for show they do serve a great purpose in a rig.

So imagine a situation you character needs to be constrained such as a surf or skate board, You constrained to the main foot control but then how do you counter that animation? Or a situation where the character needs to perform a particular action whilst using secondary over the top used heavily on creature animations.

This is where offset controls are extremely valuable it allows the animator to have a second tool available to offset that behaviour.

So don't be offset stingy. "Put them everywhere!" Dan the Animator

Jason