Animating Insects. Need help!

[Dave_Hingley]

there are a number of ways to animate a six legged walk. there is a wave approach where pairs of lages move in a ripple from the back to the front. I would consider using a ripple approach for many limbed insects like millipedes or possible spiders . ths movemtns of the insect would be fairly fluid using this technique

the other approach would be to think of the legs as two tripods:
* -
- *
* -

and alternate moving the two tripods. an insect moving this was would move very quickly. I would recomend setting subframe keys . its more tricky to keep track of but at least wnen it renders you would get some motion blur to help sell the really fast movement

for winged insects I tied the unfolding of the wind to the opening of the carapace for beetles, that way i animate one control and the wings unfold really quickly. The flap is ties to a sine wave controll with a really high frequency , governec by Custom attributes. theis means you can set 2 frames to open the wings and 2 frames to make the wings flap

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Thank you so much for the reply.
Will dissect it as soon as i get the time!
Thx!

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