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Parenting child child child ..
Hi..
Parenting child child child etc…
I have an animation of the parts of the body of a very thin starving person i.e. head, body, thigh, shin, foot. er and walking!! lets forget the arms for the moment….
What ever I try,… I either get him “moon walking and I cant “pin his foot down and keep it there till the next step, that is if I use the body as the parent, thigh is child to the body, shin is child to the thigh, foot is child to the shin.
If I use the foot as a parent its great footwork but by the time he is linked to the body… the body becomes very uncontrolled and looks like a puppet swaying everywhere. If I set every keyframe individually he looks like he is wiggling terribly, and his thin bones sort of come apart!!! No parenting would also probably wiggle badly and have joint joining problems as he is so thin.
Virtually each part is needing keyframes as position and rotation. Its the rotation that makes the next body part seem even more out of control. Seems like I could do with a parent as the foot and a parent as the body, with some sort of hinge to keep the knees together as a hinge. Or if I can get his feet to stay in one place somehow..
Any ideas most welcome, please
Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha. -
2 Replies
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You might want to have a read around Inverse Kinematics. Dan Ebberts has a good piece here, which would be a good start.
If you want to go a bit deeper, then Google “inverse kinematics” “after effects” and there’s a script to help you out.
That should lead you in the right direction anyways.
Cheers,
Ben -
Thanks
I shall have a play with that code… At least I know now what it is called and can research a solution .. thanks.
Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.
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