You must have heard me recommending this tutorial to a newbie yesterday!

Thank you for reposting this tutorial!

In case you were wondering ... ... about the maximum number of frames ... Here it is. cheers, dr geep ;=]

BTW - @ 30 FPS, that's a 20 minute movie. ;=]

Perhaps in Poser 6, CL will make a minor cosmetic modification to the frame counter UI and allow it to display up to five digits. Most beginning animators mistakenly believe that 999 frames is the limit. Thanks for reposting the tutorial, geep. Some people were asking for animation pointers recently.

Wow excellent tutorial as usual Geep. Keep it coming!

Now, what's the secret to making a pair of wings beat at a constant rate, especially if the wings are a CR2 parented to another CR2's chest?

Keyframe one animation cycle for the wings, then copy those keyframes on the animation palette and paste them repeatedly down the timeline.

This is great, I've actually been afraid of the animation feature!

Little_Dragon; last time I tried that for a baby angle (using Bushi's wings I think) I was trying to make the angle fly in from the left and forward, twords the camera, then in mid-screen turn and continue to fly off the right side of the screen. What happened was that the wings wanted to flap 'in place' while the poor little angel went wingless to his fate (good thing it was off camera for nobody would want to see that!) How to copy and paste the keyframes without breaking the parent/child relationship between the two CR2s? Keeping in mind that the parent CR2 is moving, turning, rising, lowering, etc and the child CR2 must follow but keep flapping...

Didn't have any wings handy to test this, so I parented one of my posable tail figures to Posette, created a 30-frame wag cycle, then selected its Side-Side dial from the animation palette and pasted it five times to have it wag repeatedly over a six-second period.

hmmm,I'll have to try it agin. Perhaps I did copy something from the wing's base section. I long deleted the attempt so I can't check it. I did eventually complete the animation; actually it was a cupid who flew into screen, aimed his bow & and arrow and shot it into the viewers, then flew off back off screen. It took so long posing each flap of both wings through out the whole animation that I just never tried it again... I've always wanted to do ani's of fairies but gave up after that frustrating attempt. Maybe now with this tute and your example I'll give it another go... ;p

Excellent tutorial, Dr. Geep. Very helpful. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for this tut. Hoping to see more in future. Cobus