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Daz Studio is for animation professional keyframe ?
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spearcarrier
Admirable
I would think it is - although I've only tried puppeteer once. I hated it with a passion.
I think it's really just knowing your tool... I know a lot of people use animate, but I rarely use that as well. I collect animated poses and do things myself bit by bit. I only have a couple of the plugins due to money, but I manage. Mind you I can barely animate. I do mean barely.
I think it's really just knowing your tool... I know a lot of people use animate, but I rarely use that as well. I collect animated poses and do things myself bit by bit. I only have a couple of the plugins due to money, but I manage. Mind you I can barely animate. I do mean barely.
Jay Versluis
Admirable
You can use keyframe animation for literally every parameter in DAZ Studio. This includes every generation of character, object, light, camera and parameter slider you can think of.
AniMate is a plugin that allows you to convert sequences of keyframes into non-linear clips that can then be played multiple times and overlaid and/or blended with each other to create easy sequences for your animations. It can also convert aniBlocks back into keyframe sequences.
Puppeteer is a posing palette inside DAZ Studio that allows for easy blending from one state of an object into another. Kind of an 'on the spot' pose/parameter blending tool.
If you want to do more with keyframe animation, look also into the KeyMate and GraphMate plugins, they help expose layers of keyframes better and make adjusting keyframes and several settings more easy. In fact, some settings like linear vs. ease-in/ease-out animation tweening is only accessible using these plugins.
However, even with all these tools at your fingertips, if in principle DAZ Studio is the professional's choice for animation is debatable. While it's certainly capable, other packages may be better suited for the task. Plus, rendering animations in DAZ Studio can take vast amount of time and can quickly take the fun out of the whole process.
AniMate is a plugin that allows you to convert sequences of keyframes into non-linear clips that can then be played multiple times and overlaid and/or blended with each other to create easy sequences for your animations. It can also convert aniBlocks back into keyframe sequences.
Puppeteer is a posing palette inside DAZ Studio that allows for easy blending from one state of an object into another. Kind of an 'on the spot' pose/parameter blending tool.
If you want to do more with keyframe animation, look also into the KeyMate and GraphMate plugins, they help expose layers of keyframes better and make adjusting keyframes and several settings more easy. In fact, some settings like linear vs. ease-in/ease-out animation tweening is only accessible using these plugins.
However, even with all these tools at your fingertips, if in principle DAZ Studio is the professional's choice for animation is debatable. While it's certainly capable, other packages may be better suited for the task. Plus, rendering animations in DAZ Studio can take vast amount of time and can quickly take the fun out of the whole process.
In my experience, Poser offers better animation tools than DS, but in my humble opinion, neither one is suited for professional work. Neither support feet contact with the ground, and the IK is flaky at best. This means there is be a pretty good chance of feet sliding, going through the ground, or floating around. Retargeting animation from one figure to another may or may not need tons of adjustments because it doesn't do a very good job converting the initial joint rotations and skeleton bones scale.
If you are looking for professional animation, you will be better suited with the likes of Autodesk MotionBuilder.
If you are looking for professional animation, you will be better suited with the likes of Autodesk MotionBuilder.
I came to think of using up my SoftImage 3d 3.9, Cinema 4d I think I would do well in what I want (animation of characters as if it were a series!) but I am in doubt, since "What matters is your work and not whether the software is original , because artist becomes anything. "
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
Can you share tips please with those of us who get feet going through the ground all the time?
Poser has a utility script that puts the figure on the ground in every frame. It's under Utilities-> DropFigToFloorAllFrames. Hope it helps.
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The problem is, sometimes a figure does not support IK...and this does not work. Sometimes, even with IK, if the movement is particularly complex and involves the feet moving, Poser's spline methods create unwanted wobbles and move throughs that then need to be fixed and accounted for.
Don't get me wrong, I still feel it is Loads better at Keyframing than DS, but as Ken said, I would not call it fully professional (but I have been spoiled by Lightwave).
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"yeah, yeah, yeah, patience...how long will that take?"The HiveWire figures don't come with IK chains. It just takes work and little sticky notes to mark the places where the feet land. Then adjustment. Lots of adjustment.
I just need to accept I don't have the patience for my chosen calling.
One thing I did in a recent animation using some of Sanctum Art's critters with No IK was to make a "dupe" figure set to outline only to use as reference. When I adjusted the animated figure, I would then put the new frames pose in a pose dot, go back to frame 1 and load it onto the wire frame dupe to try to make sure to keep the knew feet lined up... or relatively lined up. I am sure if I had more patience and took more time it would have worked better.
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
Nothing good Janet. From your amazing horse animation I thought you might have a magic lazy way of doing it.