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3d Animation is not easy. Or put it this way, it's easy to make mistakes. In this series I look at typical mistakes and how to rectify them.
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3d Animation is not easy. Or put it this way, it's easy to make mistakes. In this series I look at typical mistakes and how to rectify them.
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In this episode I make a Carrara 3D Animation NLA Mistake. I would classify this as a beginers mistake. I am fairly new to NLA but not to keyframe animation, although the previous package I used (Animator for DAZ studio) was't as comprehensive as Carrara's built in animator.

The mistake in question is not looking after your grouping correctly and then going ahead and animating, such that the grouped (composite) object breaks up mid animation.

This can possibly occur when you are trying to test an animation and swtich elements of the group off (so that you dont notice the mistake), but it's easily fixed.

Of course if you had the grouping set up correctly in the first place this type of mess up is less likely to occur.

Better shot of the Taxi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10575359@N03/6726334691/in/photostream/lightbox/

Steve
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