Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: In the mood for making horse animation freebies- what d'you want?

HaiGan opened this issue on Nov 01, 2003 ยท 32 posts


HaiGan posted Sun, 02 November 2003 at 3:07 AM

Talent? Thanks :8} . I studied some animation at college, the drawn-cell-by-cell-by-hand stuff, which helps I think. Muybridge photos are good reference material as well, as is the slowmo button on the video recorder.

The trick with getting them to look as if they're travelling is to keep all the hoves moving backwards at the same speed when they're touching the ground. A useful trick in Poser for making looping animations is to add an extra frame onto the end of your final frame count and load up your first pose as that frame. Make it a keyframe, DON'T set your eventual final frame as a keyframe, and Poser will smooth everything out for you. Once you're done with the sequence, you can delete the extra frame (make your last true frame a keyframe to be on the safe side, I find Poser has a nasty habit of moving things you don't want it to), and it should loop smoothly.

I usually put in some work on the tails, Carolly, but haven't really done much on a couple of those walks. Easy enough to add. :)

Nice mane, Little_Dragon!

There's a trot in my 'Conversano' add-on set, by the way. I'll have a go at running and flat-foot walks (that palomino was something like an attempt, but there's room for improvement), but we don't get many Tenessee Walking Horses in Britain so I'm not very familiar with what it should look like. If I post what I do, can anyone comment on it to get it right? I'd love to get an amble and a foxtrot that look right too, but again I'm stuck for in-the-flesh examples, so advice would be very welcome.