animation ease

[H. Ikeda]

Visiting maxon site and reading r8 features, you could get that major addition to animation is MOCCA, tools for character animation (CA). With this, you can easily setup IK chains, bone skeleton, vertex maps and efficiently do morphing, posing, motion mixing, etc. Of course, these can be also done with r7, as pointed out by Kaiskai, using built-in tools, IK & COFFEE expressions, plugins for morphing, but in r8 very efficiently.
Other than CA, lots of parameters are animated in r8, e.g., the volume of a sound, the strength of polygon reduction..., which cannot be animated before. And through XPresso, you can easily animate parameters corresponding to other parameters (even those of post effects).

[AdamT]

And don't forget the addition of independent f-curves! Big addition....

[H. Ikeda]

I don't think so. It's not an addition but a separation from the old Timeline that has already included space and time curves. True additions may be curves in the new Timeline.

[AdamT]

I disagree. Before R8 you didn't have independent curves for x/y/z channels, and that is a major change.

[captain3d]

AdamT is right. Individual Fcurves are here for the first time. And now we have them in their own window or in and After Effects style drop down window in the time Line

Phil

[H. Ikeda]

I agree that each channel has independent curves and key frames in r8, and that f-curves window has its own functions.

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