mmoir posted at 2:38PM Sat, 20 February 2021 - #4413457

Hey LuxXeon, I looked at the Animation Layers add-on you mentioned, looks like what I expected an NLA system to do. Blender's NLA system seems clunky or counterintuitive, I hope blender gets this functionality soon.
I did some more animating to my little animation and I think it is getting better because I can really feel the heaviness of the ball he carries which is a good sign. Here is the animation.

Looks good. I like the timing for the jump motion and you gave it the illusion of weight/gravity, which works well. Yes, the Animation Layers addon, in my opinion, does a much better job at blending or tweaking motion than the NLA Editor. In fact, there's a video of someone showing the differences and how each system affects the motion curves in the graph editor. Animation Layers does a cleaner and more predictable job at layering motions, especially when you wish to combine keyframed motion with mocap, or clean up a bvh or fbx motion with manual keyframes. It really needs to be included into Blender as a native tool.

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