Animating 1

How to preform animation tasks in StudioTools.

Create a turntable animation 24

How to animate an object or group of objects 360 degrees around a pivot point.

Create a turntable animation

Use keyframes

Edit a keyframe animation

Playback the animation

View individual frames of animation

Preview a rendered animation with FlipBook (UNIX only)

View images with fcheck (Windows only)

Use Auto keyframe

Create different segments of your animation

Use the Play Blast window

Edit the animation curve

Move keyframes on an animation curve

Create SGI and Apple format movie files (IRIX only)

Animate objects along a motion path

Set up a camera to travel along a motion path

Edit the timing curve of a motion path

Animate a camera on a motion path

Edit a motion path in the Action Window

Delete the animation for the object

Create an exploded view animation

Prevent collisions in your exploded view animation

Prepare to import or export 83

How to examine DAG node information before exporting or importing.

Preview an animation without reducing the scene

Expand a DAG node in the action lister

Export animation channels

Import animation

Create skeletons and inverse kinematics animation 89

How to draw a skeleton animation.

Overview on skeletons

Draw a skeleton

Display skeleton bones

Add IK handles to your skeleton

Creating a neutral pose for IK skeletons

Returning joints and IK skeletons to a rest pose

Find information on IK handles

Turn IK handle display on or off

Making a mirror copy

Run IK to render your animation

Work with IK chain solvers 117

How three types of IK chain solves are used to set up character motion: Single chain solver, Multi-chain solver and the Spline-chain solver.

Use the single-chain solver

Create a simple spine chain

Create a human-like character

Use the multi-handle solver

Overlap IK handles

Set the IK handle rotation behavior

Use the spline-handle solver

Bake animation and use Motion Blur compensation

Spline IK overview

Spline handle information

Work with constraints 138

Create any combination and number of point and orientation constraints on an object.

Create a constraint on an object

Constrain one object to another object

Edit UV constraints

Turn constraints on or off

Turn constraint display on and off

Delete constraints

Create animated deformed surfaces 151

How to deform surfaces in your animation.

Create clusters

Edit cluster attributes

Add selection handles

Change the form of original object in an animation

Create clusters with properties for deformation

Apply a time warp 203

How to modify the times of the animation curves.

Apply a time warp

Cycle sections of animation with a time warp

Scale animation timing with a time warp