Forward Kinematic - Polyloop

mon_stdnt · 7th February 2006, 02:56

Does any one know how to do FK in Carrara for an animation of a closing hand?

Thomas · 7th February 2006, 10:36

Forward Kinematic, is only do an animation of your parent, which will make the children move, opposite to Inverse Kinematic, in which you move the children, and generate rotations/moves of the parents.

AWBenson · 8th February 2006, 16:52

Simply put, you will move each bone individually for every movement. This usually takes more time to use, but you gain specific control over how each bone moves, rather it is realistic or not. Also, FK adds alot of keyframes to the timeline, so re-editing yourself can assigning graph editor curves take more work.

But, I wouldn't worry about it. This is a basic lesson about animation for your school. You will learn when it is better to use FK over IK through practice and time. As for IK, your school will teach it to your probablly later this class or the next one.

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mon_stdnt Always learning Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York Posts: 437 Images: 15	Forward Kinematic Does any one know how to do FK in Carrara for an animation of a closing hand?

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Thomas Always learning new stuff Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Merignac, France Posts: 11,095 Images: 93	Forward Kinematic, is only do an animation of your parent, which will make the children move, opposite to Inverse Kinematic, in which you move the children, and generate rotations/moves of the parents. __________________ Polyloop owner & Administrator - no support by PM or email. Polyloop [EN/FR] - Meuuh [FR +16 ans] - Totyo [FR] - Pixologic [JOB] - Le ZBlog [JOB] - La3dpourlesnuls [FR]

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AWBenson Box modeling Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 292	Simply put, you will move each bone individually for every movement. This usually takes more time to use, but you gain specific control over how each bone moves, rather it is realistic or not. Also, FK adds alot of keyframes to the timeline, so re-editing yourself can assigning graph editor curves take more work. But, I wouldn't worry about it. This is a basic lesson about animation for your school. You will learn when it is better to use FK over IK through practice and time. As for IK, your school will teach it to your probablly later this class or the next one. __________________ Andrew Benson AKA: AWBenson www.awbenson.com andrew (at) awbenson (dot) com

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