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From: Stephen Bailey <sbailey@Vinton.COM>
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Subject: Re: Gosh darn..connecting hands to arms??
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At 03:27 PM 12/19/95 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Adam Chrystie <adamchry@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>>1) I load the arm and the hand in layout.
>>2) I set the hands keyfrome at 0 to rest on the arms wrist area.
>>3) every 5 frames i keyframe the hand so that it lies on the wrist area. I
also
>adjust the rotation to match the pitch of wrist/arm.
>
> Depressing as it may be, I've found in doing similar projects it is
>really necessary to do every darn frame to make it look right. <sigh>
You should never key every frame. At the most, do every other and use a
tension value near 1.0 in the spline panel. Play with the spline values to
get rid of any dipping or straying. Use Null objects as guides for locking
things down.
If you key everyframe, you're going to see vibration. Count on it. It won't
