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Head turns and head motion

Head turns and head motion

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Head turns and head motion

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Let's take a look at how to animate the head of a character. We're going to start with a very simple animation. We're going to start with a head turn. Now a head turn is actually a little more complex than it may seem, because we have to account for the weight of the character as well as the character's intention, where his attention is focused and so on. So, I have a basic character here in a neutral pose. Let's start with a head turn. I'm going to select the character's head controller, and we're going to rotate him probably about to his right, about 20 degrees or so, and we're going to set a key. And now I'm going to scrub forward. In this case, we're going to do a one second head turn. So I'm starting at frame one. We're going to go 24 frames ahead of that, to frame 25. And then I'm going to rotate him pretty much the same amount in the opposite direction. Again, somewhere around 20 degrees. And I'm going to set a second key. And now we have the most basic head turn there is. And…

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