Aniblock Tutorials?

Deke

Any good aniblock tutorials out there. I found an old video tutorial from 2010, but I'm using Animate2.

I've read the GoFigure documentation but still have problems applying secondary movements. Lets say I use an aniblock for walking. I can cycle that several times, but I get a little stutter glitch where one cycle meets the next.

Now lets say I want to have the character walk a few steps, then turn his head as he walks, then turn back ahead. I've found a way to apply that head move in a layer of the aniblock, but it somehow applies to every cycle. So now he's turning his head with head step. Basically I'm confused as to when to use layers in the main timeline and when to use a sub-track and when to use a "level" of the main track.

Thanks.

Jaderail

It sounds like you have not adjusted the Blend Mode for your walk Anblocks, I work in my AniMate timeline with it set to PACK mode so all blocks touch each other.
For Secondary movements it should always be a SubTrack of the figure as Adding to the Full AniBlock is adding to that same Aniblock for every use of it in use at the time it was edited.

Deke

Thanks. That is just what I was doing. So the adjustment to one block applied to all. I'll experiment with sub tracks. I did BTW find some video tutorials on the GoFigure website…all on Youtube and all brief on each aspect of Animate. Getting the hang on it better now.

Deke

And oddly enough, the little stutter between walk-cycle blocks is happening when I stretch out the first block so it repeats itself. So I'm not stacking separate blocks but just pulling the right arrow so the initial one repeats itself.

Jaderail

Opps, I should have said in AniMate Edit Mode One (There are two edit modes we can click through) you can extend or shorten the Blend mode, here is one set to a long blend...