Animate a Weight Shift with Monty

Monty Weight Shift

We've uploaded a new tutorial to our Vimeo Tutorial Channel - How to Animate a weight shift using the free character rig "Monty", which you can download from Creative Crash.   

One of the hardest things to achieve in 3D animation is the creation a sense of weight. Weight is hard to simulate because our characters are just pixels - they have no intrinsic weight, so we have to create the illusion of weight from scratch.  

This tutorial shows how to transfer weight so that the character does not appear floaty or weightless.

Weight Shift with Monty
To get started, take a look at the thumbnail sketches on the right.

This tutorial is especially useful for animating characters in a crowd. The trick is to make sure that the weight is safely transferred from one foot to another so that the character never appears weightless or floaty.

Tutorial at Vimeo
To find the tutorial at Vimeo, follow the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10024731

Monty

To find out how to use the "Monty" rig, read this blog post. 

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