You can press the "X" button next to the constraint's influence to set the it to 0 and apply an inverse transform and preform a seamless switch (like you did with "Apply Visual Transform to Pose", but quicker). It works with all constraints.

"Apply Visual Transform to Pose" is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I watched like 3 videos on this and they all showed how to pick somthing up, but not put it back down without it teliporting who knows where. thank you so much. I needed this so my character can take off there hat, when it starts parented.

thats what i was looking for. thanks!

Goddamn, I've been stuck for days trying to figure out how to get characters to hold objects with 2 hands, as well as pickup objects and place them at different locations from where they were picked up, and this video solved that instantly, so simple.

DAMN thats crazily easy and efficient

I never would have figured out the Apply Transform step without this video! (THANK YOU!!) x 1000

and, if u dont have a rig for the object ur character is picking...just use the same but with the "object" menu....and set "visual transform" , the rest its the same way as the video

Thank you! That "Set Inverse" tip is exactly what I needed. It seems the default behavior should be the "Set Inverse" option rather than the other way around. Also, the name is anything but intuitive. Thank goodness for KZfaq and helpful people like you.

This is great!!! This is super helpful!!! In the past I was using duplicate objects (one parented and one not) and would just alternate animating their visibility 😂

Currently working on some reload animations, this was really handy… no pun intended

Omg i was wondering soooo mutch about this and finally i found it

OMG thankyou ahaha finally now I know this trick😂

Wow I'm trying to apply all my rigging skills from Maya to Blender but since blender has modifiers and is quite different from Maya I was banging my head against the wall. But now I found a good channel thank you!

Helpful In A Huge Way

Woooo Thank you !! So helpfull, I struggle so many times fixing this behaviour manually ..

Very cool. Have not yet seen anyone use this (though just getting into animation side of things). Thanks for the share.

So useful....thank u

It's like God can hear me. Thank you!!!

Thank you so much, I was almost searching this for 2 years u finally you showed it, Thanks for Tutorials

This is the child of tutor I always wanted, helped me A LOT! Thanks for this vid, man!! :)

thank i didnt nowed this and make my mag on hand animations with my own hands great timesaver

omg i was searching an answer for months! thank you

THANK YOU SUO MUCH I USED TO MESS MY ANIMATIONS AND FIXED THEM FOR HOURS!!! SUBBED.

Thank you so much

Exactly what i needed

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

(Comment for myself to read later its 11 in the evening writing this) animate reload without magazine. When the hands grabbing the mag latet after finishing animating set influence of mag and hand to 1 SPECIFICALLY at the point where the hand is touching the mag as it is automatically 1. Set the influence to zero the frame earlier and keyframe it. This comments for me to read later so i dont forget anyone else reading this is probably really confused lol

Excellent. Thank you

Yas. Great Tutorial!

exceptionally useful many thanks for sharing your knowledge

Thank you this is what im looking for very helpful :)

thanks for tutorial, so helpful !

This was a lifesaver. Awesome video.

Actually my savior. Thank you!

Thank you so much. You solved a big problem i had :). I just found your channel and it's very interesting for learn animation. I'll follow it close

just what i need

Well explained! Thank you!

many thanks for this!

very useful man excellent job best video!

This is very useful, thank you very much for sharing.

Helpful and explained nicely.

Oh my god, major thanks.

Soooooo Helpful....

Thank you so much! This helped

Thank you so much, it helped a lot.

This is so useful!! thanks :D

Thanks! Very helpful

Repeatable reference for Switching Child of Constraints: 1) Keyframe the final motion transforms with the first child of constraint 2) Keyframe Influence at 1.0 for first child of constraint 3) Keyframe Influence at 0.0 for second child of constraint 4) Move forward 1 frame 5) Click “X” to clear the Influence of first child of constraint *Automatically applies Visual Transform 6) Keyframe Object AND Parent transforms 7) Keyframe Influence at 0.0 for first child of constraint 8) Keyframe Influence at 1.0 for second child of constraint 9) NOW move to next keyframe

Thank you so much very useful

Super helpful!

Thanks for this video. It helped me to come one step closer to my goal of doing almost the same thing in Blender. Only difference is that I'm not using a mug, but a beercan. And at the end of the animation I want the character to throw the can in a a bin. My animation is looking great so far, thanks to your video, except the ending, cause I still need to figure out how to add some velocity or whatever to the can when the character releases the can in mid-air somewhere. I'll figure it out eventually :-) Thanks again. Grtz

Wow. You safe my life bro. :)

I'm trying to import an animation using the technique into Unity, but it's not working. The mug moves in Blender but not in Unity.

THANK YOU

thank u very much!!

this is so amazing thank you!

THANK YOU BRO

heyy i like this tutorial! thanks for the free content!

thx for help :D

Thank you!!!!!

thank you!!!

very help, ty

What to do if my object is not rigged like your mug...I tried but I doesn't work on direct objects

Thanks For tutorial

the downloaded project file has already been animated, I can't see what part did the "child of" constraint has been applied to even when I press alt+H

Tutorial on how to grab things with 2 hands like a broom stick?

Thanks, nicely explained as usual! But please show us the the CopyLocation way soon - having headaches right now with ChildOf-problems! :) (Basically: how would you set the pivot point of the "child" to follow the "parent" without using ChildOfConstraint or actual parenting?)

for this animation you did, it seems the cup is rigged that's why you can click on the pose option while the cup is selected, what if the cup isn't rigged how do i/we go about it, thanks.

hey man how do i do the inverse of that? like i grabbed something then i let off then i grabbed it again?

EXTREMELY helpful tutorial!! Thank you so much! By the way, where do you work as a Blender rigger?

I am animating my Katana moves, my character is already holding the Katana with 1.0 Influence but I want to make an animation that he throws his katana and catch it so whenever I did the first frame that he was holding it went out from his hand, how do I fix this and solve the constraint on this solution

Hello Level Pixel Level, thanks for all your tutorials, I see here that The Job Company talks about the X button (Disable and Keep Transform) of the Child Of constraint, I don't get how it is supposed to work, I guess if you could make a tutorial it would help greatly. Thanks for your attention!

Once you animate grabbing something to the second position, can you move it to a third position?

could you do the reverse of this where the hand_ik is contraint to and object? for example: a hand grabbing on to a moving object and the hand is following the moving object instead

What if I have a knife model and I want to animate hand movement with the knife? But for some reasons when I change the position of parent bones whole armature changes its position.

thanks!!!

As you said late in the video, why not just use Copy Transforms? What is the benefit of using Child Of? In what circumstances does Copy Transforms not do the job?

how could i unchild-of the hands if for example the right hand is childed of to the left hand ?

i have a problem where if i turn the influence back to 1 its in a different position and if i use inverse it fixes that problem, but causes another problem where earlier in the animation the position when the influence is at 1 is messed up instead. anyway to fix this?

So i'm setting up a scene with a character moving a staff then setting it in place proceeding to slide their hand up the staff to reposition. The issue i'm having is that after the initial setup i try to activate the influence of the Child of constraint again but the staff moves away, a fix was just to press inverse again BUT it ruins the earlier animation by making the staff be in a different position and when i try to restore it the staff starts to drag behind the hand. I have no idea what to do, and i can't really find a answer anywhere.

Hey, maybe somebody knows a way how to snap characters hand to handle and open the door?

Thanks

Can anyone help me out. How to make this work with two different actions on the same rig??? Like for eg: picking up the cup in 2 different styles. So the arm will have 2 different actions. The issue I'm facing currently is that it only works with one action. If I add the 2nd action to the arm the cup gets rotated in a weird way. Is there any fix to that?

also u can use the dynamic parent addon which is for free

please can you do a tutorial for copy transform please please please i'm really having issues getting my constraints right

Thanks for the tutorial. I was wondering if there's a way to place the object in a specific location.

please can you do a tutorial for copy transform please please please i'm really having issues getting my constraints right please ... thanks

What does the "Set Inverse" button do exactly? I get that it fixes the location and all but why? Is it setting the inverse of its current location or something?

cool ça fonctionne tres bien , merci ;)

Great

oh YES!

I didnt search enough but incase i cant find any solution I want to ask. I also made and animation with Child of Constraint but I am having problems while exporting to Unity.

thank

Instead of saying "Bone", my menu is saying "Vertex Group" rather. How do change that?

it's very late, but wanted to ask how would we use this to do the inverse, say we want a hand to stay on a box while the body moves around it (like parkour or simply pushing it)

Wow, thanks that was very helpful

And, how works with copy transforms? can u do a tutorial for it?

Hello! The tutorial is brilliant. But I have the question... is it possible to use this “Child of” for the object that is already attached with “child of” to your character. What do I mean? The cowboy has the gun on his belt and he wants to pick it. I don’t know what to use there: so basically the gun is attached to the belt of cowboy by the “child of” and I need to attach it to the hand of cowboy by “child of”. Can’t make that happen 😭 please help if you know the way.

Hey there I was wondering if you can explain the same tutorial but for unity

Ok, so. I if you do this more than one time around. Things get real ugly real quick. I've been trying to pick up, then put down, then pick up and then put down. That Really F**ks things up. And I can't figure out how to make it work.