I'm dabbling into the animation side of PP2012, and seem to be having problems sorting things out. I found a few tutorials online, and though they can get you started, they come short to explain how do most of I'm looking, and I'm ending up with some unusual results. Rendering one person isn't too bad but when you add an additional character to the scene, this is when things go goofy, for lack of a better word.

While I'm still searching for more tutorials online (suggestions welcomed), may I pose a few questions?

With character A is the principle in the scene and character B is the secondary, I'm trying to do a short anim where B stands still, and A is swinging an arm towards B.. obviously B won't move until shoved. While I can basically get A to do what needs to be done, it's the character B that is giving me problems. How can I get B to move just at the moment B gets shoved, and not before. I'm missing something obvious but inserting key frames isn't working for me. Eventually, B turns out reacting long before the shove (say at frame 30) and then turns out looking like something coming out of John Carpenter's The Thing (original version ;)

I checked out a tutorial about the sine wave in keyframe editor but I see no sine way to adjust or manipulate on anything or does that just work on the morphs (nostril flare tutorial)..

Also trying to find out how to get the anim to finish off to the start (frame 1) position so it would loop properly.

Thanks in advance.. hoping to find some tutorials and / or advice on this subject..  

 

Cheers