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Holding values

Holding values

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Holding values

A common mistake newbie animators make, is they tend to animate from one value to another without halting on a value, so you end up with this kind of continuous movement that looks a bit awkward. And that's what we've done here, we've just gone from one value to another. So the robot is continuously moving. What we want to do is put a couple of holds in there. So he maybe holds his head in position for a couple of seconds before he moves it. So if you want to follow along, I'm in chapter04_05.c4d, and I'm in the Standard layer at the moment, or the Start-up layer. Whichever, one of the two would be fine. And if you have a look down at the bottom of the screen, you'll see my main timeline is hidden. But I can see my kind of mini timeline here, and I can play this by hitting Play Forwards or hitting F8, making sure on the Mac you hold down the Function key when you hit F8. And then we'll just stop playback. Now, at the moment, we can't really see our animation. But if you select…

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