Hi, I'm trying to animate a scene with lots of people running, and I was wondering how to animated them so that they at not all in sync, like they're legs and arms move at the same time. Is there a way to make the running ans walking movements more random, so it will look convinsing in mass animations?

Hi You need to move your keyframes ahead or back so the characters don't all start moving at the same time. Also swap left to right or right to left on some of the characters, so they start moving on different steps, set different starting poses and vary the number of frames from the start pose to the walk cycle. Hope I didn't totally confuse you Ed

Thank you!

another tip is that if you are wanting to render a massive scene with hundreds of characters you will likely find that poser craters. you can composite several renders together in Premiere or better yet AfterEffects or Commotion. Another thing is that you can copy and paste keyframes if you didn't already know.

yes, I'll have to do some compositing, as I'm going to attempot battle scenes. eep