Animation Friendly Tips Part 1 Dynamic Pivot Controls

Pivot!!!

After working on my last project i was fortunate to design the rigging tools and framework . During this time i had the immense opportunity to work with some really great animators. They made me aware of the importance of having a pivot control for every control. So much in fact we put them everywhere. I would suggest using them if you would like to make your animators happy.

Above is a example for how an animator can use a dynamic pivot control to shift the weight of the characters centre of gravity.

Its pretty simple set up. have a guide control translate connect to the master controls rotatePivot, looks like this,

and you're done! Simple but so effective to animators.