It's not great but...

[gaetan]

It's not a great clip by any stretch of the imagination but I now have the dominique model boned - somewhat - and a few facial animations.

 

Now I've just got to figure out the million other things in A:M.

 

gatean

myfirstAM.mov

[entity]

Great so far! Your on your way! How about the movement of the hair (dynamics)-- is that one of the million things? It has some movement, but I can't tell if it's dynamics or just part of the rig?

[gaetan]

Thanks for the comment.

 

The hair is not moving using dynamics. It's moving using bones. I can see that there are many, many options available in this program. Unfortunately, A:M didn't put the same effort in the manual.

 

It's mostly trial and error and trolling through the lists to try and find the missing information.

 

gaetan

[Dalemation]

Well, you`ve obviously got the hang of rigging because the shoulders look great to me. Very nice movement there. Maybe the next step is to animate your character walking (very clearly illustrated in the A:M guide) or some such motion. Btw, don`t forget that you have the more detailed `online manual` on the A:M CD.

[gaetan]

Thanks, the shoulders weren't too much of a problem - yet. I still have to Smartsin the overhead position. The hips are mostly ok. as long as I don't want to make her an Olympic gymnast.

 

In both the biceps and the thighs I removed one ring of splines to see if that would make for a smoother transition. It helped in some positions but not in others.

 

I'm going to post a clip of the leg movement - walk - soon.

 

Gaetan