Animation

This is a sneak peak of one part of my final animation. note that the actual one looks better as it has not been compressed.


Animating using Lightwave 3D is very fiddly and tiresome especially for fingers. I used a tool called IK Boost which links the bones together however due to the vast amount of bones in the hands, animating was very time consuming and difficult just to get them in to position let alone animate.

unfortunatly due to time contraints animating my two chracters to their full potential was impossible even though both of the had a full Repertoire of Phonemes and expressions, enough for a feature film. as you can see circled by red the slider had a long way to go.


To help make the expressions e.g the blinks more accurate and on time i used the graph editor, which enabled me to precisely choose the time and amount of blink i required.