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Getting started

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Foundation

How To Switch to Screen Space

Locate how to Switch to Screen Space mode in our Spinner transformation hub, how to manipulate specific 3D gizmos and how you can quickly access and switch to Screen Space controls when editing Move and Rotation values in Local or World Space.
Foundation

User Interface Basics

Watch this tutorial to get an extensive tour of akeytsu viewport navigation systems, menus and preferences to acquire a general understanding of the program
Foundation

Rigging Overview

In this tutorial video we will cover everything that can be found in akeytsu Rigging mode. From Character Bank to the to the Rig Atelier through our Skinning brushes, you'll be able to locate useful tools to build rigs after watching this.

Rigging

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Advanced

How To Enable Sticky Aim For Orients

Finetuning orients can be a tedious task when working on a rig ! To save time-eating adjustements make sure you enable Sticky Aim. With Sticky Aim ON you can ensure orients are kept relevant locally when tweaking skeleton.
Foundation

How To Update Skinned Mesh

Here is a new magic button that will save you a lot of time when you want to update a 3D mesh that is already skinned. This also works with similar characters much like a Skin Unwrap.
Foundation

Skinning Workflow (1/7) - Skin Binding

This video focuses on how to Skin Bind your character in akeytsu. It also highlights good practices to prepare your imported model and quick cleaning. Demo model SkySurfer included in akeytsu installation package.

Animation

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Advanced

Retargeting Workflow

In this tutorial we show you how to transfer animations from one character to another using akeytsu Retargeting module. We also cover an additional use case to retarget BVH files..
Expert

Space Switching workflow

Learn how to add a Space Switching layer and dynamically change Space Origin / set a Parent Constraint for a given object across an animation
Foundation

How To Display Onion Skins

Learn how to activate onion skinning, access useful settings and how to make good use of it in combination with our Breakdown Pose Editor

Integrations

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Foundation

Integrating with UE4 - Mannequin Workflow

In this tutorial we'll cover how to import and prepare the UE4 Mannequin to animate in akeytsu. We'll then show you how to export it back into UE4 engine and preview your animations.
Advanced

Using Akeytsu together with Character Creator 3 and Marvelous Designer

For her 3rd place in Character Creator Digital Human Contest 2020, character artist & 3D fashion illustrator Andee Antillon used akeytsu as a bridge app together with CC3 and Marvelous Designer. She shares about her workflow.
Foundation

Integrating with Unity

With this tutorial learn how to export animations from akeytsu to Unity and preview them in the Unity viewport. Extra guidance is given to add/update assets.

Live streams

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Advanced

Rigging and Skinning Sky Surfer

This livestream session demonstrates how to effectively build a righ from scratch and skin the body of a bipede character using akeytsu. The Sky Surfer character used is provided as a Free Character in akeytsu.