Good animation tutorials?

[ger4]

I have recently started learning to animate and I have a few useful tutorials out there. But when I create animations, they are often jerck around (I animate frame by frame).

 

Could someone give me some hints on how to animate smoothly or point me to a tutorial that shows how to animate smoothly?

 

Cheers

[gregathit]

Depending on the complexity of the motion you may need to do every 10 frames or so on things, but other than that 15-20 is normally how I do things.

Just depends on what you are doing.

 

Definitely frame by frame is a complete waste of your time.

[kasimir]

Also you could load some existing files into your animating program and look at the frames, delete some and see how things react, etc...

That´s what I did.

[D_ManXX2]

The way i do it now make beginning and middle the end is the same as beginning since it needs too complete the loop and ones that is done you can start adding new motions to pelvis and spine to make the motion less obvious.

 

So you get some variation when the animation is playing.

 

But don't rely solely on tutorials alone they are just pointers to get you started.

 

So if i make 30 frames animation i start with frame 1 the middle ends at frame 15 and the end at frame 30 + 1 so it will make 31 frames.

 

Then i start adding new motion to pelvis like frame 5 10 20 25 etc.. you will get more fluid motion then if you only make 3 frames animation at frame 31.

[ger4]

Thanks everyone.

 

I am now trying to animate an object in blender, but I can't find any tutorials at all on this. Does anyone know anything about this? 

 

Cheers.

[Vaelorian]

Animate as if you would a rig, then under scripts use deform mesh to rvk at each frame.

Under buttons, go to "Shapekeys" and define start\end frames for each motion.

 

Now I'll run before someone shouts at me for trying to help. PM if you want more detailed instructions.