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  2D character animation with 3D features, how to approach visual shortening of the limbs

  Posted by Moniek Van adrichem on June 12, 2014 at 10:01 pm

  Hi,

  I´m animating 2D dancing characters, and I´ve run into the following challenge:

  As the character spins with the arms wide spread the arms will visually shorten when the character is rotated 90 degrees.

  I´ve set up the characters & limbs in illustrater and used DuiK to IK the motion of the limbs. As I´m quite new to AE I´m not really sure how to approach this. (currently the length of the upperarm and forearm stay the same, which makes for weird bends & twists in the arms when the character rotates)

  Hope anyone can help me.

  Thanks!

  Moniek

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  Moniek Van adrichem replied 11 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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