Week 8

In this weeks tutorial we were shown how to use the auto key, set key and key filters and bipeds. I've used these tools before but not quite understood them so i learnt alot from this tutorial, as i will need to know it to produce my animation.

Auto key

I firstly put my name across the plane and selected auto key the screen goes red, this indicates hat i am animating, i then moved the frames to 100 and moved the x axis across the plane, taking auto key off and pressing play i made the text move from left to right across the screen

Other techniques can also be applied when using auto key such as making the text spin across the x axis, this is done by rotating the text while auto key is on.


Walking Bipeds

I've never used bipeds in animation before but i found them very easy to use and to make the walk across plane. i firstly selecting systems and biped in order to make a simple person on the plane. Now i want to make him walk, this can be done by selecting motion and footstep mode, create multiple footsteps, i only put eight but can have any number. You can now see that there are footprints on the plane, this is the path your biped will follow. To make the biped walk along the footprints i pressed create keys to inactive footsteps which can be found under footsteps operation, i then pressed play and my biped walked along the footprints which can be seen in the image.