had a quick question about keyframing/animating in poser when dealing with 2 charecters, or just a string of movements. How do I make it so that when a charecter does a movement, such as a wave, and then say a head turn. That these movements appear to happen one after the other. Ive noticed that say i animated this in Poser, while the charecter waved his head would slowly be turning until it reached its final position on a later key frame. Ive also run in to troubles when trying to animate fight scenes. When a charecter dodges another persons kick he starts the dodge as the other charecter starts the kick etc. How do I un merge these actions so they happen in a sequence, rather then being molded together.

Hi You need to add additional keyframes between the start of the animation to the point where the character starts whatever action you want. The easiest way is to copy frame 1 of your animation and paste it into your animation before your character starts the desired action. You will probably need to change the interpolation of those frames too. Hope this helps Ed

1. Set your animation length to whatever you estimate it to be. 2. Make your figure do its first move. 3. Go to the "windows"-button and pull down. Open the first thingy on the pulldown menu (don't have Poser on this computer & forgot what it's called). There you find all your frames for all the bodyparts of all the figures. 4. Go to the last frame of the first movement and make it a "Keyframe" (the little square should be of bright green colour after you clicked on the button). 5. Then click the button in the upper right hand corner. Reads "break link" or "break chain" or something like that. Your little bright green square should now have a little black diagonal line in it. IMPORTANT: Do this for all bodyparts, for which you would like to start a new motion. Best is to click the button: "all Elements" first, then you've covered them all. 6. Close the window and do your figure's second movement, starting with the frame after the one, which you've just manipulated. 7. Go on like that until you're done with the complete series of movements.