CGTalk - clean animation

Antonio79

11-05-2004, 12:15 AM

hi, I'm trying to animate the legs of a character who stands and then it crouch down, my problem is that animating the legs (without IK), if I set the first key frame and the last one, the foot moves and it appears as if it is sliding on the ground, how can I make an animation to move things directly from a point to another without that they moves in other directions in the inbetweens? I added other keyframes in the inbetweens but it appears like it is shaking. Thank you!

bledsoed

11-05-2004, 01:52 AM

Check your curves on the feet, if they are set to spline then their may be a slight arc between the two keyframes. Also i assume your using FK legs in which case they will follow the movement of the hips, and will require more keyframes to keep firmly planted on the ground.

but i would check your curves in your curve editor. i dont know what program your using but in maya its the graph editor, and i bet 20 bucks that there is a arc in your keyframes. and by setting your curves to steped your linear should fix the problem.

Hope that helps a little

Derek

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