Smooth Head and Body Turns

superanimatrix · Post by **superanimatrix** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:46 pm

Hi guys, How do I get those smooth head turns and body turns?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:21 pm

You animate them by hand. The more drawings, the smoother the movement will be. You could either pre-fabricate the phases of a head turn and put them into a switch layer, or you could do a frame-by-frame point aninmation, or you spend some time to build a rig as described elsewhere which could do a decent smooth head turn in a limited range but will only work for certain styles.

superanimatrix · Post by **superanimatrix** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:28 pm

slowtiger wrote:You animate them by hand. The more drawings, the smoother the movement will be. You could either pre-fabricate the phases of a head turn and put them into a switch layer, or you could do a frame-by-frame point aninmation, or you spend some time to build a rig as described elsewhere which could do a decent smooth head turn in a limited range but will only work for certain styles.

I have not learned what a switch layer is yet. I'm just starting out!

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:51 pm

For head turns also watch DarthFurby's video tutorials. There are tree videos and uses actions to perform head turn. (Tips and Techniques sub forum).
Also don't loose ***Resources*** sticky post in same sub forum. Lots of interesting threads there.
-G

superanimatrix · Post by **superanimatrix** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:24 pm

Genete wrote:For head turns also watch DarthFurby's video tutorials. There are tree videos and uses actions to perform head turn. (Tips and Techniques sub forum).
Also don't loose ***Resources*** sticky post in same sub forum. Lots of interesting threads there.
-G

Do you have the links to those? or did you already give em to me?

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:28 pm

viewtopic.php?t=8301
viewtopic.php?t=8525
viewtopic.php?t=8867
And ***Resources*** is a sticky thread at the beginning of Tips & Techniques sub forum.
Now you have a LOT to watch and read.

-G

superanimatrix · Post by **superanimatrix** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:43 pm

Genete wrote:viewtopic.php?t=8301
viewtopic.php?t=8525
viewtopic.php?t=8867
And ***Resources*** is a sticky thread at the beginning of Tips & Techniques sub forum.
Now you have a LOT to watch and read.
-G

Are you having any problems with the links to the lessons? When I click those links to the lessons the pages are blank!

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:50 pm

No. For me the links work perfectly.
Anyway all they are at Tips & Techniques sub forum as I said before. Just read the writer of the original post and search for DarthFurby.
-G

superanimatrix · Post by **superanimatrix** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:02 am

Genete wrote:No. For me the links work perfectly.
Anyway all they are at Tips & Techniques sub forum as I said before. Just read the writer of the original post and search for DarthFurby.
-G

Ok, I will do that. Maybe the video is taing a while to download. I have another question, I am woring on my first character (The Greek One) I made is head too big and need to make it smaller so I can draw in the torso, how do I do this? Also can I make the stage bigger?

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:21 am

Please don't post the same question in different places.