Animate on 3s without mismatched keys on cycles?

[slowtiger]

Yes, definitely. Getting a frame sequence numbered by actual frame numbers would be so great in every workflow.

Since we're at it: wouldn't it be nice if "import image sequence" would place images at the frame numbers the files have? Right now I do this by hand, importing PNGs from TVPaint into Moho.

[heyvern]

Awesome info Greenlaw thanks for the info and sorry I forgot who mentioned it before!
I ended up not doing anything fancy at all with keys in moho. Once I realized it was counter productive I just stopped and changed everything back to 1s and smooth keys and did the whole thing in post. I was adding a bunch of "noise" and hand drawn overlays in the animation and just dropped in a 12fps effect. It looked AWESOME and saved time.

Is it because of my age? Have I been trained from youth to prefer animation on 2s or 3s? Or does everyone feel the same about that style? I was quite surprised how much better it looked when rendered on 2s. It was like night and day. I keep thinking about how I grew up with that style of animation from my youth but it seems everyone still uses that technique.

[slowtiger]

I never subscribed to any school of a fixed frame interval. From my very beginnings on I used 1's for fast stuff, 2's for normal movement, 3's or 4's for slow, and a lot of holds. Later in the studio, in the olden analogue days, I learned to not mix intervals in a way to make the cameraman's life more miserable, that is, not 2's on one level and 3's on another, and always try to start intervals on the same frame so he has to change cels only once. Digital has no technical reasons to not mix everything, but I've found that some rules still apply.