Animation Friendly Tips Part 2: Control Visibility

Help is on the way!

I recently was asked for a really easy but extremely useful request from a senior animator. I would like to be able to see where the controls are after ik fk switching. This is very useful for things like pickers, ikfk matching setups, a sort of onion skinning...ect Here it is below.

Heres how we can set it up. If you think about it we need to override the visibility of the changed control. So for this is use a blendColor Node and a Reverse Node. if you look below ive taken the liberty in setting this up.

There you have it, simple enough and will make it easier for animators to plan there moves. If you need anything further explain, let me know. Jason