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Foundation

Inverse Kinematics

We go over everything there is to know about IK in akeytsu from setting up a chain, switching from FK to IK and back in one click, Pole Vector controls and other useful tips to know when animating.
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.

Foundation

Skinning Workflow (2/7) - Selecting Joints & Vertices

Before we focus on weight editing, this tutorial video will help you get familiar selections in akeytsu which is an essential part of the workflow. Mastering selections will greatly improve your efficiency when skinning.
Foundation

Skinning Workflow (3/7) - Weight Editing with Duo Skin

This tutorial video demonstrates the easiest way to tweak your skinning weights in akeytsu using tools offered by our Duo Skin layers which let you easily edit rigid zones and recalculate smoothed influence accordingly.
Advanced

Skinning Workflow (4/7) - Weight Transfer and Locking Influences

This tutorial video details how skin weights are redistributed in akeytsu and how to effectively control weight transfer from one influence to another when working on very detailed character skinning.
Foundation

Skinning Workflow (5/7) - Skin Painting Tools

In this tutorial video the different brush tools and painting modes at your disposal are detailed with insight on how to use them efficiently for skin painting.
Expert

Skinning Workflow (6/7) - Weight Numeric Editing

In this tutorial video Addison explains how you can use the Skin Atelier to edit weights with extreme precision through the weight table.
Advanced

Skinning Workflow (7/7) - Mirror Skin Weights

In this tutorial video, Addison explains how to mirror weights from one side of your character to the other. The video explains different techniques to mirror half the body, a single part or certain vertex area only.
Expert

Blendshape Controls

In this video you'll learn how to set up and manipulate blendshape controls in akeytsu. Don't forget TURN ON English subtitles for the commented walkthrough.
Expert

Create a joint based face rig

With some tricks you can achieve a pretty decent facial rig with joints only in akeytsu. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to. Note that it is made for users who already have good knowledge of akeytsu's rigging and skinning tools.
Foundation

How To Set Up a Reverse Foot

If you don't want to lose ground, here is how to set a Reverse Foot in akeytsu (7 clicks total)