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bobzilla

01-13-2003, 08:01 PM

Just getting into MOCCA and I was wondering if I could take a poll of sorts. Does anyone have a preference or feel strongly one way or the other on using regular IK over Soft IK for chatracter animation?

Your input would be greatly appretiated.

JoshM

01-13-2003, 10:44 PM

Are you refering to regular IK in Cinema 4D or in other apps?

If your refering to Cinema's old IK vs. Soft IK I would definately prefer Soft IK. Its a lot more stable for preventing gimble lock through UpVectors and Goals. But most of all there is a lot of control on how cartoonish or realistic you want a character to be animated. Like if your animating a cartoony type of character you can lower the Anchor strength and add Dynamics to give secondary animation. But if you want to animate a realistic type of character you can up the Anchor strength and the strength of all the goals. I don't think that there are other IK systems that allow that level of control.

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