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I have completed 'take a walk' and posted the render on the forums

Very true! I'm currently on tutorial 3

I know im going off on a bit of a tangent but... Here is proof that unicycling is easier than animation. (im the guy unicycling by the way) Uni_Will.mov

I guess i'll... um... i don't know. Anyway, to clear things up, unicyling took 1 week of 45 mins a day. This, as you can see from the length of this thread and the fact I have been trying on and off for a year, has been a lot longer.

no it's me, it doesnt work with me either

O.K, I shall take your advice and go through the tutorials. I have read them but I guess I was a little impatient, and I thought they were too specific. But I will give them a go. Thank you all for your help so far. I can assure you, 3D animation is significantly more difficult than unicycling! Oh by the way, that movie finally uploaded, here it is please watch + offer feedback sorry for the diabolical quality, it's the video capture software not AM. By the way how do you create a new project? I can create a new choreography, but that seems to create it within another project. Screen_Record.mov

O.K, I shall take your advice and go through the tutorials. I have read them but I guess I was a little impatient, and I thought they were too specific. But I will give them a go. Thank you all for your help so far. I can assure you, 3D animation is significantly more difficult than unicycling!

Hang on.. im trying to upload a movie of me attempting the animation

I am finally understanding the concept. However, i think I must be doing something wrong as it takes so long top do everything. E.g. when I start to move a bone, the keyframe starts at 0 when I don't want it to and I have to drag it across the line which takes ages. Eache individual bone has to be seperately catered for, I thought thers was a simple timeline which showed it all. Hmm... Im not giving up how ever, Im determnined!

I watched it again, and I have read the manual. I am so frustrated at the moment. I really thought that I had cracked it. I positioned the rabbit and ball in their correct places at frame 1, then positioned the ball on the head at frame 30. Then I made a keyframe at frame 30 so that I wouldn't get the 'all things move together syndrome'. I then made Mr. Rabbit bend his knees etc at frame 55. I really really really thought that I had sussed it. With anticipation, I dragged the timeline cursor to the front of the animation and lo and behold, the rabbit moved between frames 0 and 30. AARRRGGHH!!!!! I know I must see, really really thick, and I can assure you that I am actually moderately intelligent. I have read the manual, I have being trying to understand this way beyond joining the forums. I think I am so close, but I am annoyed that when I finally thought that I had it, when I thought I had done EVERYTHING correct, it didn't work. I haven't cracked this timeline business, but almost. It still feels like the timeline is trying to annoy me with constantly changing appearance etc... Am I right in saying that you have to make different keyframes for each part of the body? Please help me, i'm sorry to be such a pain, thank you so much for the help and support so far.

thank you so much everyone, this has really helped. However, just two points left that I am unclear on... How do you do that? You make a keyframe by moving the character but in this case I dont want the character to move. And also, why does the timeline keep changing? i prefer the simple lines to show where keyframes start. It keeps changing to thick red or blue bars

Aaah! im confused again! parts of the animation still all happen together. Aaaahhh!!!!!! This is all so complicated!!! Isn't there a really really simple video tutorial for young novice begginners like me?

Yeah one thing... I have only just realized that I need the timeline visable! The timeline is making it MUCH easier! Thanks a lot for the explanation anyway im starting slowly to get my head around it all!

Oh wait, hang on its working! Yay!

I have version 7 but its not working