Advice on pose to pose animation?

[Punchy]

I'm still training in SFM, i was wondering of any advice.

i still struggle in making movements seem... not robot-y. as in it's obviously transitioning from one animation the the other.

any advice?

[OneFourth]

Use the graph editor!

[BART!]

Pose to pose sucks to me, as OneFourth said use the graph editor and as I told you before, keep the motion going, I saw you video and the medic moved then stopped, that doesn't happen in real life. Just try to do it and use the graph editor.

[Punchy]

[QUOTE=BART!;41977364]Pose to pose sucks to me, as OneFourth said use the graph editor and as I told you before, keep the motion going, I saw you video and the medic moved then stopped, that doesn't happen in real life. Just try to do it and use the graph editor.[/QUOTE]

yeah i asked what you meant by "keep the animation moving". i'm assuming you mean consistently make new frames instead of making 2 and smoothing them together?

[[Brn]]

I suggest watching a tutorial by Frank: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDa-I7dY11Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDa-I7dY11Y[/URL]

Pose to pose is long but rewarding method! The blocking stage is the most important. If your block animation seems to be right, and you can see the fluid animation happening in stepped mode, than it's the time to go into spline mode.

However if the animation seems robotic in block mode. Then the animation will also look robotic in spline.
You should readjust steps in the blocking stage or add steps in between.

Afterwards when you converted the animation into spline, you adjust the timing in the graph editor!

[editline]27th August 2013[/editline]

On top of that, the main problem of a robotic animation is because the animation doesn't follow an arc. Which makes the animation seems more natural and fluid.

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And maybe not accelerating correctly. Speeding in and out of a animation adds weight to the motions.
Select a piece of the timeline + body part to see the path of motion to justify the motion.

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