Newbie question, hopefully easy

[Steamingdisc]

Hello,

I have a weird issue, I think I might have changed a setting or something but I'm not sure. When I try to animate a character I created or one that is made by Anime Studio the whole character wiggles around wildly. For instance lets say I use the character creator and a sample walking action, the character distorts and wiggles around frantically. I have Anime Studio 9.5 and even using the walking action for the anime guy that appears when you first open the software, it goes nuts. I noticed in the key-frame area on the bottom it's red when I double click the walk action and then play it. If someone has a fix that would be great, I have searched prior to posting this and I have had no luck. I have even uninstalled and re-installed in hopes of setting everything back to default to no avail. This is a real bummer as I was just starting to get into a groove of learning / creating so hopefully one of you awesome animators out there has the solution. Thanks for your time.

[hayasidist]

things to check: did you set the camera to be "handheld" (Scripts / camera / handheld)? remedy - delete the keys for the camera track / roll / pan-tilt.

Have you defaulted to noisy keyframes (timeline drop-down just to the right of the "motion graph" tab)? remedy - reset the default to (say) smooth then select all the keys, right click and set to smooth interpolation.

if it isn't those -- ask again!! good luck.

[willf]

You might also check whether a major bone - the hip, say - has the bone dynamics turned on.

Or you might have set a cycle for every key frame, rather than just the final keyframe.

[Steamingdisc]

Thanks for the quick responses, I had already tried all the suggestions prior to posting the question. I did solve it though somehow while in actions menu I clicked all the tabs at the top and when I got to morph tab it seemed to reset the timeline and the pink color disappeared. Now when I use walk action or an action I created it works as it should. If you guy's know why that happened I would be happy to know so I can avoid that problem in the future. An explanation will also come in handy to anyone searching that runs into the same situation down the line. Thanks again to both of you that posted and to anyone who follows up. I am grateful that people take the time to help those of us that aren't to your level yet. Have a good one.

Best Wishes,
Jim