• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Making a tail’s motion seem fluid

  Posted by Stu Pond on February 9, 2007 at 7:49 am

  Hello,

  I’ve modelled a character that doesn’t move except for it’s tail, which does this complicated little flick motion.

  i’ve tried every way of animating it. Deformers don’t give me enough flexibility, with PLA it looks to rigid – I can’t get the frames to ease in and out, and I cannot get IK to work for love nor money (in at the deep end with this one – I’ve never used IK before).

  Anyone got any ideas?

  Cheers,

  stigWeard

  Stu Pond replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Stu Pond

  February 11, 2007 at 1:33 pm

  Nobody has any ideas then : (
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  Brian Jones

  February 11, 2007 at 9:30 pm

  Learn IK… try the Mocca tutorials (particularly if the dino tail is still on the distribution) other than that you might want to try using a spline to move the tail with MoGraph’s Spline Wrap (I think it’s called) or Renato’s Spline Deformer
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  Stu Pond

  February 12, 2007 at 11:51 am

  Thank’s Brian.

  I’m having a nightmare with one. The spline deformer twists the tail in all sorts of odd ways, and the IK stuff looks too angular.

  I’ll check out Renato’s Spline deformner though.

  Thanks for the help!

  stig

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