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Hey guys,

I'm doing a lot of animating - using poser as a source of intentionally lo-fi comedy creation. (Link to latest video attached). But I keep running into this weird problem. I'll use the talk designer on a character, then want to go in and tweak face expressions. But when it do, things get Weird Town. If half way through the segment i hit a key frame on the characters head I would assume that anything I do after won't affect anything before. But then i run into situations where my dude is slowly lifting his eyebrows for 15 seconds. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

DOes this make sense? I apologize. It's a little hard to describe.

Poser uses spline interpolation by default. That means if say at frame 0 the eyebrow lift is 0 and then at frame 30 you set eyebrow lift to 1 the figure will raise the yebrow from frames 1 to 30.

You either need to specify a different interpolation for that parameter or add a couple other keyframes to control the movement . Use Break Spline for sudden changes of direction.

 

If you select the keyframe in the animation editor and click on the curve you will see a graph that may help you see whats going on.

read the manual for how to set interpolation types, break splines etc.

Cool! Thanks for the reply. I'll start playing around with that stuff. I didn't even know it existed.  The curves seem really helpful.