Daniel (ProRigs) - (paid) Maya Animation Rig - Review

[Music] welcome back to another R review and today we going to take a look at the rig called Daniel this is from Pro Rigs and pro rigs is a site where you can subscribe to a monthly character subscription package here you can see this here lots of awesome RS you got the kits got groups you got zoo family couples robots Basics there's more to come it's really awesome great support this is the latest version and by latest version I mean this is release 11 so for me this is the latest release I don't know by the time this comes out maybe there's a new one but that is the latest one for me head over to the site of course there's going to be a link in description where you can subscribe you can see all the information there about the rigs what is going on who screening them is a great team lots of support this is now also supporting Maya 2018 to 2023 I using Maya 22 at the moment and as always I'm going to put this on my animation p s side as well and if you check that out there are a bunch of rigs that I look at and go through and review so if you have anything you want me to look at send me an email and I will add that to my long list of rigs but it's going to be on there but make sure to check out Pro rig for all the direct information of those rigs now let's get to the rig this is the full thing in its Glory as always I'm going to start with the main controllers and then bottom to top so main control on the outside here you have main translate and rotate and that's it you cannot scale nothing else but if you select this one as always you can move that down and if you have an extra controller technically then it creates a new pivot point if you are now animating Superman flying around with a different Pito some rigs have also like manual piver Point changes but that's one way to about it now if you do select this you have a global scale control here this is not your scale as in your hot Keys here but this is the one to go with and of course you can translate and rotate and all that good stuff but on top of that you have all these controllers here let's do this here you can see them on and off what you have here you have gimbal controls body polish so you got your extra bbo stuff like that clothing extra which is also cool let's go back to here you can see this here belts and sleeves so if you get to this here you can move this around it doesn't move the the sleeve back there's no geometry underneath here that would reveal and the body underneath but you have that you have face polish on top of that so if you go in here you can see the difference face polish details on the lips and on the eyes I'm actually going to leave that on just for now actually why not leave everything on here right then you have geometry visibility so if you don't want to work like this you can say I want to turn this off because I know to just concentrated on the limbs why not you can also just take these off you have head and neck is this and then legs is that that's going to all make it bit FAS if you want but if you want to change that even more so you got this here the the geoc complexity so you can go to zero it's going to be like this or you can go like that you can see this goes up to two it's be a lot smoother you can see this here in the mesh how the mesh changes so I'm actually should I leave it this at one it's pretty fast like that it's definitely making a bit of a difference I my computer is getting old I'm going to blend in my stats at the end uh but for now just in terms of prettiness I shall leave it I don't want and if you want to select the geometry you can this is just controllers why because in here you can go into reference you can have the template like this or normal which means that you can now select this and go in there for uh any type of texture changes or whatever you want to do to uh modify that I'm going to leave that at reference all right that is that then you got this guy so you select this here and now you got skin Shader so this is set to original you can also go custom and then you can change that into whatever values you have into the craziness whatever it is here so that goes go back here for everything right Hair Skin shirts secondary shirt pants and so on and if I go here look at this so many options highlight Shader glow and accessory and accessory 1 12 3 45 pupil Shader and so on there's a ton of ways to customize the rig and on top of that of course you have your bbos right so if you do anything like this unfortunately you can't scale cuz that would be next level to then take this and make you know the legs bigger smaller take the Torso scale that is not there I would love to have that function to kind of reshape it as needed or even even like can polish face if a specific shape here and you want to move this out and just kind of extend it and make it a bit bigger sometimes it's kind of neat to be able to scale that that would be on my on my wish list here now going to the feet you got this controller here so with this you can translate all right can move it this around when you rotate this it's just a foot so what you can do is you can take that pull vector and move that to align it and if you select that pull Vector here you can see pin KNE so you can actually take this and then move that around like this and you got World pelvis and foot switch but if you don't like that right let's go back to your foot there you go so you have Ed pull Vector no if you say no now you can twist this with an attribute I'm actually a big fan of that one for some reason I kind of like having that in there but it's totally up to you sometimes when you animate and then you have a pull Vector that's you know somewhat hidden in there or you I know use some tumbling around it sometimes gets a bit odd to select so I'm glad that the foot has uh this option here now looking at the rest we have a foot roll classic nice shoes so you can see here out how the toes go down at the end but then they go into T toes like that you can go pretty far if you want to break this foot banking left and right which is awesome I use this is a lot for speciic like pushing and side steps like this is a bit underused thereare I say by students so if you're student watching this don't forget the foot bangs heel pivot so you got this from the side here toe pivot from here make sure that the pivot is back to zero so you can see this so that's your toe pivot like this you also have the toe spin or like the cigarette squashing thing if you're old and remember cigarettes don't smoke any M foot squash which is also not always on rigs I like that we have that and then scores the the follow world or pelvis then we have an extra controller here so here you can rotate these guys down you can't translate and you can't scale so that's just purely for rotation and then we have this here back there this is for a the switch so you got ik FK leg so we're switching into this so now we don't have the ik leg and it's a classic FK like this taada no weight shift and then we have the upper leg stretch so you got that option which every rake has it's always good for tweaking you have volume compensation so let's say I'm going to go back to ik here and have this right that's my foot posst for some reason it's all stretched you select that in the back and you go volume compensation you can see how well if you stretch something it should technically get skinnier well that's what it does that's your option there and you have Auto stretch on off so I can't overextend my ik but if you don't do that or if you have have that activated you get those leg extension pops so sometimes it's also okay to keep the stretchiness don't overdo it because then you will see the scale but sometimes it helps softening the ik pop you get a foot scale change that so my you know my hope to scale things like that sometimes you have the options in a foot separately sometimes I just like I just like it on something like this like this doesn't have any options here but like I said you can scale the foot using this controller now going down to here you have the pants so you can can go up pretty high actually got some socks down here but that could be fun to adjust can we scale we can I like this you can uh create some elephant pants as we used to call them trumpet pants elephant pants wherever you're from you probably have a different term for these kind of pants we have that and of course you got your Ben BOS here there you go here and here and then at the end you got this controller here where you can translate that out to kind of move things around like that of course given that this is a leg this is going to be on both sides now in order to minimize what's going on here again Bend bows everywhere for here including here that's the deal but I'm going to take these and actually turn them off so body polish gone and also gimbal you can see here there's are extra gimbal controls I'm going turn these off as well just to kind of simplify things a little bit going up we got pelvis select it there you go that that is how it moves sometimes with pelvis controls it gives you kind of an odd pivot where it moves things and translates around this is a nice pivot so you have this but you can also translate so you can do your whole dancing animation that never gets old if you ever watch Collins bear there is a a demo called uh I believe it's Collins bear uh there's a tribute called colins giraffe Colin's giraffe has an awesome dance it looks like this anyway is such an awesome d right thanks for nothing for any of those that that know are real here's your root you can't scale but you can translate and move this around as you can see we have arms in I then we going up to the chest so here you got your rotation like this no scale also no translate that's the option there and then we go up to here so now we have translate which I love a lot I like that you can do it like this it's much simpler than like 50,000 chest controls and spine controls I always like things that are just a bit more simple simplified in here you also have breathing so you got kind of a chest move rotation shoulder move for the breathing option here and then volume compensation so it's the same thing if I stretch this guy it should get skinnier you got this here that is that now just to go back down here since we have clothing controls this is for your Buckle move this out like that obviously this one too you got buttons that you can move go in here you can't scale but you know if they pop off or something you can have that animated and if you go around it these are the only controls there's nothing here in terms of belt control which could be kind of neat so if you have this here and you move that away it be kind of neats to have I it's getting into the weeds but imagine you could slide this control maybe off and then have that you know the rest of the um the belty the tongue whatever you want to call it could flip out and kind of rotate could be kind of neat kind of doing uh build putting pants on and off type of action somebody comes back to work or not back to but from work comes home on to change that go any need here is an extra control right select that and now what we have you can see this here here you can move that around this is your spine Bend you don't have translates uh rotates or scales as you can see in the channel control spoilers right there but you got these controls for here and down to here and looking around that wall we have for that then we're getting into this here you got your color controls which is cool which you can scale but nothing really happens so I if that's like a Remnant that needs to be hidden but that would be kind of neat as always like I just love being able to scale everything and kind of change the shape of rigs but you can see this goes all the way back so if you need to move the collar around this goes all the way back and then up here we have the shoulder so you can see here is your rotate you can also Translate out so if we have now you move FK style your arm up that's when you want to go up here and move the arm up not too far you can see given the cloth here it's a little a bit of a limit in terms of uh deformation which I would love to have a bit of a a softer Fallout here or fall off go back to this here I'm going to leave it just quickly back into uh ik just because here select this we have the pin elbow again super important once you have this you know set on a table or something which back in the day there was no pinning option I'm so old that I can say now back in the day but that was a pain to stabilize your elbows or knees obviously you have World chest and hand World space changes here this here like I said this is for your sleeve and then we have the ik hand like this here this is a sticky ik meaning that your wrist is not going to change orientation depending on where you move this around you got the auto stretch on off so as always I'm going to do this no stretch do this it's going to stretch and then the same thing as with the leg you have a pull Vector on off so if I say off I should probably go back into a Bend here you have the twist if I can select this what's going on there you go you can select that option for that going back to here you have the upper arm lower arm options Vol conversation just like with the leg on top of that you got your fingers so here you got your overall Translate or rotates I mean to different axes you have a playay you got the curl and you got the Sigh like this or slide which is really cool that's to quickly block out something like this like some tension or putting that on on a Surface so much faster than doing this you know one by one you got your scrunch and then your thumb curl as well and then you got Arch don't forget this especially when you make a fist or more relaxed pose that helps that as well cup and then you got that overall the pivot is higher here two rotations an overall relax pose for a quick blockouts which is great and then hand scale Hulk smash like that now if you don't want to do this and this is not detailed enough obviously you can see this here you can take that you can translate this you can rotate this you can take all these controllers and do this all by hand no pun intended manually with the fingers if you don't want to do like Global controls and sometimes it gets a bit messy I am not in the camp of let me just curl this into whatever pose and then on top of that change this unless it's like a quick added fix why not but then you got you know different controllers fatting each other not Super Fan so be careful when you do that and that is of course on both sides going back into the head we can select this here you can not translate not scale but you can rotate you can move this around there's also a align World chest option and a neck tense and I thought this was going to be a a shape as I remember for tensing the neck but right now it doesn't do anything I don't see any changes in the geometry either so I'll check that later maybe I'll put it in the comment section and pin it unless this was a bug that something got introduced in this latest release I will check you also have the actual upper neck or the head rotation so this is the lower part here you got the actual head but don't forget d make both if you I made so you can actually translate this and move this around you cannot scale but you have squash and stretch here and you have head size here as well to make it like a crazy bobble head and then go back so if you go here you got all these controls are on gimbal turn this all back on you got geometry visibility everything I can see extra stuff here is awesome in the hair right and then you got your hair top you can move it like this you can rotate as well you can also scale ah doesn't do anything on the hair that's a bummer but you got that you have this control here this is your head gimbal so extra controller on that on this even if you go on to the chin you can see here you can move this down you can rotate you can translate and you can also scale for a little puffy thing as well then let's go to ears so you got your overall ear shape so you can translate move this out and also scale so this is adjustable which I like again sort facial feature changes now looking at this here you wonder well I how do you open the eyes because if you select this you only have these options here and in this here that's when you don't forget you got to put on nerves surfaces as I was talking about for that squash and stretch that separate right you get the same thing here for the bottom part volume compensation effect nose which I like a lot actually that you can change that right so you move this you can say well I don't want it or I want more that's pretty cool the thing that I would probably tweak that might just be me is that once you select this here either this one which does obviously a bunch of stuff here in terms of the IE socket rotate translates squash stretch but I'm going to Open the Eyes First if you're for some reason maybe you don't want to do this you don't want to have surfaces on or you forgot whatever it is I would love to have controllers that Open the Eyes just in case I know it's kind of like well either you know or you don't but it would be great to have these controllers here and maybe this could be a controller here on this or this one or even here that says blink and you can do a quick blink cuz I like the idea of a quick curl for blocking but you want to go into detail with these controllers and the same thing for the eyes I would love on either one of these controllers if you look at this here right let me go back now that the eyes open you have this and this is your socket translation rotation like that you have squash and stretch you move this skew is like that you have a squint as well you can see how much moves here so you have attributes effect brow you also have ey scale like this here so it's cool to have all of this but I wish there was like a quick function of blinking but like I said this is this here controll is on off and this goes into all of these here you have bunch of extra shapes and this goes all the way to here I do love that we have something here and not just on the cheeks for the puff which is also a channel control to Puff it like that if you got stung by me but that extra little shape control here to get some exra movement I think that's definitely great also here eyebrows will be moved like that into all kind of directions and you can look at the channels there's nothing else there's basically just that here but you have extra controls now for nostrils which is interesting obviously this is on both sides you have this here in the Middle where you can get punched in the face and have that and this is uh left face and you have right face CU you have mid face and then face squash so there lots of options in there and then as you open here got a chin option here as you open the jaw then you can see here uh those controls like how far they go you can see like the corners are not affected because you don't want this to fight what you doing with the uh mouth controls which is great so mouth controls are back to regular nerves so you have to look at what you have here you can move it all the way like this you have also a pin you can pin this down youve got the zipper which is important for certain shapes here on the zipper fall off right so if you do this here you can decide how far we want to go and zip this and of course within all that you got extra fine-tuning controls where you can really shape all of this again an outer control and the inner control for all of this it's really detail it's very cool and if I open that here you can see this here you can move your lips like this but you can also translate if you want you have child control for curl like that or thickness there's a bunch of stuff so lots of cool controls and if I take the jaw open that just a bit more here you can see the tongue control so this is obviously here you can see that reveals this and then you can also see for the teeth this is more on the soft side but you can also grab this and move the whole set of teeth you can see this here and then if I go back here that's your uh first controller here for your tongue that moves everything around here then we got this one here this is for your your mouth so you take this and you got that whole shape here that you can scale if you want to and it holds a specific you know shape of muscles and functions here it's kind of neat but you can move this around and that's for like a quick asymmetrical change of to the side which again you have all those quick options which are awesome and I would love that for the uh again like the ey bling like I said there's a nose follow as well that's mainly that going through the nose here this is not your nose ring but you can move that down here you can also scale if you want your nose tip as well Pinocchio style move it like this I remember doing a demo for my my little son's class and I I had I think it was the Woody rig uh that you can get for free online and and I went through all controllers and did like animation demos and showed some shots and you know the kids were I don't know they were maybe nine at that time maybe eight not impressed whatsoever they didn't really care and then the moment you select this and you go well you can also just shape the character that set them off and they loved it they love that you can do that this cracks me up anyway you can move this here the full nose and you can have scale as well and translate and then you can also have this here so as you do your your line of action of your jaw you can technically go pretty far in resculpting and reshaping and removing whatever you want Until It Breaks of course that's just me adding all those controls look at that broken broken broken that is that obviously Left Right same side you got the ears that I talked about you got your hair control here like I said here this is your head Gimbal and I believe that is that talked about eyebrows here right you can move this you can select this main curve and move the whole thing around uh and obviously like the shapes in here but also shapes in here you can really resculpt this area so in terms of facial controls and facial detail there's a lot of really cool stuff and of course main eye controller that you can do this and as you move out here you can also move that eye separately and then if you move the head around that is going to follow but if you don't want to do this you can do what I want to follow the world and then it stays put so if you move the head around your eyes will be here and focused and if I go and undo all of this that is kind of that I don't think I left anything out that is the rig in its Glory now it is pretty fast for me to move things around and manipulate uh but this is an older machine as you can see my stats graphics card is getting old probably next year or so I'm going to update the PC but it's still good to move around and animate and don't forget again you have resolution control not here but here there you go where you can change the complexity as well but yeah super peeling rig I love the look of it I love the hair it's a fun look like the shoes it's such a kind of old schooly almost dad and if you look back at the website you can see here Dad and action with the kid it's super cute very appealing the whole set of uh rig selection the kids and the Animals is just such a great selection so highly recommend to check out Pro rigs all of them and I have been told that they are going to update and add things like flying creatures there's a bunch of stuff that's that's on the horizon so I'm super excited for that and that is that for the rig any concerns feel free to comment but I will know a lot less than the people who created the rig so feel free to uh comment and email them uh they're usually pretty fast in in returning you know any any F questions any concerns any bugs and they do update the rig frequently so this is not like hey we released this we're going to abandon this and you're on your own they do frequently update and listen to request and it's it's a really great team so that is that as always feel free to subscribe this is like the YouTube Pitch at the end if you don't want to miss any of my uploads I am back to uploading on a more regular basis so that is that like And subscribe for the algorithm as we all know and that's it so it feels like he got stung hold on hold on I can't stop the clip like this how about like that also by the way which I kind of skipped no one is watching this anymore but if I'm back here you got pupil changes I'm selecting these at the same time LDS follow eyes you got the iris like this here here this should have been shown at the very beginning that's kind of creepy and then all of this here in terms of changing the highlights and moving stuff it's really great again lots of details this should have been shown before but I am out I am ending this so feel free to watch more clips and watch out for upcoming Pro rig reviews thanks for watching