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Human Body Model — How to move body parts?
I have a human body model that I downloaded, and I brought it into Cinema. How do I move its body parts?
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The usual way to do it is to create a skeleton from joints and weight the skeleton to the model. If you just want to create static poses you don’t have to worry about IK rigging.
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Actually, I’m not just going to be making static poses; I want to make an animation of the human moving throughout a scene. So, what is IK rigging?
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IK stands for inverse kinematics. What it does, in a nutshell, is set up a relationship between a heirarchy of bones, or joints, so that you can move a hand or foot and pull the arm or leg with it. As mentioned this is much too big a subject to explain adequately in a forum post. I suggest you do a search for IK/rigging tutorials. You’ll probably find some at C4DCafe. There are some decent ones at Cineversity.com, but that’s a paid subscription service. For background knowledge you may also want to look at tutorials from other software as the concepts are generally the same.
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