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character animation turning head
Hey Guys,
OK, In my character animation I am trying to get a left facing head to turn facing right. Now, in PS all I do is a horizontal flip so, I tried the same process here i.e. keyed in starting position facing left, moved my time indicator and did a horizontal flip, I then repositioned the head but, when I pulled back to opening key the head stayed in the right facing position, obviously I am doing something wrong, any idea’s?
Also, and it’s not a big file, every move I make I get the orange barbers pole, this is the first time I have had this situation. in my memory I have 12 out 16 gigs for adobe, also no other programs are running!!
Tks Gary
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I don’t know what you mean by “the orange barber’s pole”. But it sounds like you’re moving around in your timeline and it pauses to render. That makes sense if you have a 3d comp with lights, blur etc. and has nothing to do with your RAM. It has to do with your processing power.
And I’m not quite following what you did to turn your character’s head. How did you animate the flip? It sounds like you were messing with the scale, but didn’t set any scale keyframes.
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Hey Mike, the only thing I set was position key. Let ask u my guy see’s a pretty girl and turns his head from left to right, how would u do it?
Ref ram, yep it’s all 3d, I understand.
Tks
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If I were doing it, the guy wouldn’t turn his head, he would just fire of a snarky comment about how her shoes didn’t match her purse or something and then sashay away. 🙂
Keyframe the x scale. (You’ll have to unlink the x and y scale so that you can animate the x independently.)
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Won’t that just give the black back of the head?
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Do you have a 3D layer of the back of his head in your comp?
As Michael said, set a keyframe while he is facing left, then scale x to -100. Make it a hold keyframe so that his head just cuts from left to right.
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No, I don’t have a back, I think what I am going to do (unless Your idea works) is make another head in ps and face it the opposit way, then speed up my flip from 1 head to the other in ae
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whatever works for you.
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Unless you’ve created a black back of the head, there won’t be one. It’ll just be a flipped image of the head.
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Also, I wouldn’t actually flip it on the y axis. Just cut from one to the other.
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